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bird food bathtub posted:What the gently caress even is reality anymore? I don't know. I guess all that's left is to laugh at this insane asylum we live in, so here, have some lols from another thread. Lmao
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Would it be accurate to say a huge reason pot isn’t legal yet is lobbying from industries that would be negatively impacted, like why they still make pennies? In WA a few years back when there was voting on letting grocery stores sell liquor there were tv ads from Very Concerned Firefighters about easier access for kids, but for the actual spending it was nearly 100% Costco on one side & the other was beer companies as I guess liquor on the shelves hurts their sales. It was my understanding that the biggest opponent to legal cannabis came from the cotton industry, who didn't give any actual fucks about its use as a drug, but about industrial hemp cutting into their market.
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bird food bathtub posted:What the gently caress even is reality anymore? I don't know. I guess all that's left is to laugh at this insane asylum we live in, so here, have some lols from another thread. ![]()
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Madurai posted:It was my understanding that the biggest opponent to legal cannabis came from the cotton industry, who didn't give any actual fucks about its use as a drug, but about industrial hemp cutting into their market. Public disclosures on lobbying and candidate contributions seems to point more at industries making other painkillers (alcohol and pharma) and law enforcement (police unions and private prisons).
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The thing is, before weed was legal anywhere, the pharma, alcohol, and tobacco industries could out spend the weed industry with ease in regards to lobbying. Once that dam cracked in California, Colorado, and Nevada? It literally went from "we can't come close to matching that." to "Anheisuer Busch offered you how much? Yeah we can double that." Federal legalization will happen, it's only a question of when not if at this point.
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"My beautiful blue eyes". And here I was thinking I was being hyperbolic when I suggested he spanked it to himself.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Public disclosures on lobbying and candidate contributions seems to point more at industries making other painkillers (alcohol and pharma) and law enforcement (police unions and private prisons). I'd like to look at that, do you have a link?
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Madurai posted:It was my understanding that the biggest opponent to legal cannabis came from the cotton industry, who didn't give any actual fucks about its use as a drug, but about industrial hemp cutting into their market. The one good thing that Mitch McConnell did was push through all the hemp stuff 10 years ago. Cotton cannot profitably be grown in Kentucky. Hemp however is a reasonable enough replacement for tobacco as a cash crop.
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Thats every thing mcconnel has ever done. Push for something to help kentucky while oppossing it to his last breath for the rest of the country. Sometimes strokes hit the right rear end in a top hat
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Speaking as a Kentuckian, he didn't do anything good for Kentucky that didn't specifically enrich him or his family more either
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Soul Dentist posted:Speaking as a Kentuckian, he didn't do anything good for Kentucky that didn't specifically enrich him or his family more either IIRC he earmarked a major Ohio river project into one of the government shutdown agreements that only extremely indirectly helps his in-laws’ shipping business.
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Hannibal Rex posted:The entire world has to deal with the consequences of your election, and we don't get a vote. So those of you who can vote better make drat sure you do.
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Hannibal Rex posted:
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Appropos to last page's election discussion and this being raw since we spent all day at the hospital consulting specialists: Next week, at 21 weeks gestation, we will be terminating my girlfriend's pregnancy due to our son's hydrocephalus being so severe he has a sub-40% chance of surviving to term, to experience a life which the doctors described using the term vegetable more than once. So, you know, that sure fuckin sucks. Thankfully we live in a state where Trump and his party aren't legally forcing us to carry this pregnancy out to the bitter end. I've always voted Democrat even though my personal politics lean a good deal left of their platform and you can bet your rear end I will be doing so again in November.
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Arrath posted:Appropos to last page's election discussion and this being raw since we spent all day at the hospital consulting specialists: Next week, at 21 weeks gestation, we will be terminating my girlfriend's pregnancy due to our son's hydrocephalus being so severe he has a sub-40% chance of surviving to term, to experience a life which the doctors described using the term vegetable more than once. So, you know, that sure fuckin sucks. My condolences.
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Arrath posted:Appropos to last page's election discussion and this being raw since we spent all day at the hospital consulting specialists: Next week, at 21 weeks gestation, we will be terminating my girlfriend's pregnancy due to our son's hydrocephalus being so severe he has a sub-40% chance of surviving to term, to experience a life which the doctors described using the term vegetable more than once. So, you know, that sure fuckin sucks. I'm sorry. I had multiple miscarriages last year, and I wouldn't wish that kind of pain on anyone. Feel free to drop me a line if you need.
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https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1786343737741766682?t=455XuI7hrS4BfXY2Po55IA&s=19 Darn those pesky facts.
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Menendez looking in on this thinking Cuellar is a real amateur for laundering the money instead of outright accepting it in gold https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1786457430353756394?t=Splso1cNG_AJvzKQj8S2JQ&s=19
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Huh, still not nearly as high as it should be but at least he got a respectably high six figures for selling out the government. Reading about bribes of ten thousand or something just blows my mind. Rookie mistakes made taking it directly though. The "campaign donation" and Super PAC poo poo is so effective I don't get why anyone takes the risk.
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facialimpediment posted:Menendez looking in on this thinking Cuellar is a real amateur for laundering the money instead of outright accepting it in gold Lol this is the same pro life dipshit that Pelosi and Hoyer were stumping for (vs a pro choice progressive younger latina woman) on the day the Roe v Wade arguments leaked. Get hosed.
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Arrath posted:Appropos to last page's election discussion and this being raw since we spent all day at the hospital consulting specialists: Next week, at 21 weeks gestation, we will be terminating my girlfriend's pregnancy due to our son's hydrocephalus being so severe he has a sub-40% chance of surviving to term, to experience a life which the doctors described using the term vegetable more than once. So, you know, that sure fuckin sucks. Sorry for your loss. My wife and I lost two pregnancies, one in the second trimester. I’ll echo Two Fingers, if you need to talk I’m another person willing to listen.
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windshipper posted:JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US was a loving common chant in a specific moment of pro-Trump voters, and yet… how did we get here? Fascists believe in ethno homelands. “Jews will not replace us” and “Israelis should genocide/enslave the Palestinians, over there” are not mutually conflicting.
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Arrath posted:Appropos to last page's election discussion and this being raw since we spent all day at the hospital consulting specialists: Next week, at 21 weeks gestation, we will be terminating my girlfriend's pregnancy due to our son's hydrocephalus being so severe he has a sub-40% chance of surviving to term, to experience a life which the doctors described using the term vegetable more than once. So, you know, that sure fuckin sucks. I’m so sorry my friend. I know words can’t take away your pain, but just know we care for you and love you like a brother in arms. I’m one PM away if you ever want to talk. -Shim
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Soul Dentist posted:Speaking as a Kentuckian, he didn't do anything good for Kentucky that didn't specifically enrich him or his family more either Mitch is the platonic ideal of a self centered loving ghoul/turtle, sustains himself on spite, and has almost single-handedly completely hosed this country. I hope his grave ends up as an eternally full piss-puddle. And I will gladly contribute.
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Elviscat posted:Mitch is the platonic ideal of a self centered loving ghoul/turtle, sustains himself on spite, and has almost single-handedly completely hosed this country. I hope his grave ends up as an eternally full piss-puddle. And I will gladly contribute. ![]()
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Elviscat posted:Mitch is the platonic ideal of a self centered loving ghoul/turtle, sustains himself on spite, and has almost single-handedly completely hosed this country. I hope his grave ends up as an eternally full piss-puddle. And I will gladly contribute. It is rather astonishing, in a history book perspective, the moments of power he found himself in during the Obama years. Mitch McConnell will get to be one of the very few of us who had a choice. Who indisputably got agency. He got to singularly sabotage so many and so much and empower the lunatics, all as a crude tool to benefit his tribe and his own wealth. He is the one who organised the supreme court and the revolt against reform
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:It is rather astonishing, in a history book perspective, the moments of power he found himself in during the Obama years. Mitch McConnell will get to be one of the very few of us who had a choice. Who indisputably got agency. You know if you subscribe to the strict form of Catholic doctrine that's espoused in Dante's divine comedy his soul has been occupying a hole in hell for at least a decade while his body is piloted by a demon who hates all of humanity because he the worst kind of sinner, an unrepentant betrayer. Maybe the times he's frozen its been because he passed a holy symbol is all I'm suggesting.
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I read the worst political article of all time. I am only posting the lead. You will never, in a million years, guess the two sentences following this excerpt. quote:I first started reading the Dune novels in my teens. The amazing works by Frank Herbert had the most profound effect of any work of fiction on my nascent, developing brain. https://www.tampafp.com/weller-the-woman-who-may-have-saved-the-republic/
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Goes to show no matter how loathsome you are, everybody's got fans. I think I might have more respect for hillary obsessives
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GD_American posted:I read the worst political article of all time. Can confirm, would never have guessed ![]()
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GD_American posted:I read the worst political article of all time. If we’re just saying random poo poo related to Dune about Sinema, she probably looks up to the political cunning displayed by the Corrino sisters.
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Senators are processed in the thigh pads
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I did not know krysten sinema read dune, must be a recent development. The totally-not-her-or-manchin saying it isn't convinced me
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GD_American posted:I read the worst political article of all time. I clicked, saw the picture, and said "gently caress" out loud Arrath posted:Appropos to last page's election discussion and this being raw since we spent all day at the hospital consulting specialists: Next week, at 21 weeks gestation, we will be terminating my girlfriend's pregnancy due to our son's hydrocephalus being so severe he has a sub-40% chance of surviving to term, to experience a life which the doctors described using the term vegetable more than once. So, you know, that sure fuckin sucks. I'm sorry. We had 2, both first trimester, and I can't imagine how much worse this is. Conservative folks say having a baby will make you anti-abortion but honestly everything we went through just solidified how unqualified anyone is to judge anyone else's decisions.
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That's gotta be one of the dumbest things I've read in a while. Sinema ran as a democrat, got elected as one, and then proceeded to vote against the things her voters wanted. Which, surprise, happened to align with a lot of stuff the democrats wanted. Our options in 2018 were her or Martha McSally, so we definitely chose the lesser of two evils, but it was still pretty bad. Here's to hoping Gallego wins the senate seat against Kari Lake. I'm hoping it will be easy given how much Lake has been flip-flopping on the 1864 abortion ban, but I'm worried a lot of voters will forget by the time the election rolls around, since we just repealed it.
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GD_American posted:I read the worst political article of all time. I am very upset that the comments post box doesn't work The very, very overdue Butlerian Jihad would have spared me from having to read this
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Can confirm, would never have guessed I was suspicious but now I firmly believe this person hasn't read any of the novels. They completely missed any of the points Herbert makes about power structures attracting the corruptable and the dangers of zealotry and rampant capitalist control by the spice guilds.. The iduot who wrote that article looked up a few terns and maybe watched a scene from one of the movies. It'd be like someone claiming to have read Heinlen and saying space sex is gross and genocide is cool.
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Discussion Quorum posted:I clicked, saw the picture, and said "gently caress" out loud ![]()
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