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some of you aren't tankie enough...

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Trump: The Irishman, Analyze This, Godfather 2, Raging Bull, Casino, Cop Land, not sure maybe Meet the Parents

Biden: King of Comedy, not sure, not sure, Killers of the Flower Moon, Cape Fear

Third Party: The Adventures of Rocky and Bulwinkle, Angel Heart, Stardust

Wouldn't Vote: Jackie Brown, Heat, Midnight Run, Goodfellas

[REDACTED]: Taxi Driver

But now that Summer Solstice is over it's gonna get darker again

I have a rechargeable handlebar-mounted LED headlight for my bike and one charge usually lasts me at least 4 months in the summer. Then in the winter I have to charge it every week

times Flies .. just as Prigo did..

Lol, lmao

(Initially posted in c/drugs but thought it would get more engagement here)

I was thinking about the way cannabis is increasingly legal in the US, and I'm starting to see it as a symptom of balkanization in this country that might start to become the model for the legalization of other drugs.

To explain: In most places in the US it is either legal or de facto legal despite the fact that until this year it was federally considered a schedule I controlled substance alongside Heroin, LSD, and many other widely known recreational drugs. For decades the federal government considered cannabis to be wholly unsuitable for all medical use and too dangerous for scientists to even research. They dedicated vast resources into destroying cannabis farms and putting cannabis users, dealers, and growers into prison. It was in a legal category more severe than fentanyl and many of its analogues.

Without even changing those laws, we got to a place where most states decided to just hand out licenses to businesses to grow and sell it, and allow anyone over the age of 21 to buy it.

I think the research chemical scene has by now made it clear that recreational drugs are not a finite group. New drugs are invented all the time. In the same way, new plants containing psychoactive compounds are either discovered or popularized all the time. They do not necessarily start their lives in the public consciousness with stigma, and they can be just as benign or deadly, euphoric or dysphoric, sedating or stimulating, psychedelic or inebriating as any classic, widely known drug.

The way the federal government categorized drugs and the way the DEA enforced drug law was never rational when you approach it from the goal of reducing the harm drugs cause socially. In actuality it was always about maintaining a legal and socially acceptable avenue for continuing this country's legacy of racism and slavery.

What this means is that which new drugs are to be banned, which are to be ignored, and which are to be accepted is an entirely local matter determined by which marginalized communities can be connected to each drug for purpose of stigmatization. With increasing social disunity across the states, we might begin to see certain drugs became wide spread and tolerated in certain states but treated with extreme hostility elsewhere. A situation like this would paralyze the ability of the DEA to gain enough cooperation from local law enforcement to curtail production and distribution, leading to decrease in stigmatization and eventually the relaxation in attitudes even in places where the stigmatization began.

"I didn't post this to start a debate about..."

You posted on a public forum, the other users are going to engage with it how they will within the rules of the forum. You don't have to engage them back but you don't really get to dictate how they engage initially.

If you just want a public digital space to post your thoughts without any feedback you can just start a Twitter and mute replies, or a blog.

that students name? Albert Einstein

City subreddits are pretty trash as is, unmasking just how unbelievably cruel and evil some people are whenever the topic of homeless people crops up. But of all the active subreddits for my city, the main one, /r/Portland, is tame. (/r/askportland is SURPRISINGLY kind, with the occasional evil piece of shit passing through.)

I thought /r/PortlandOR was evil—it’s all but an explicit hate sub—but I found an even worse one. Behold, a pale horse: /r/PortlandCriddlers.

(“Criddle” is a slang term in the meth community around here—it means stealing, or more specifically, at least how I understand it, rifling through someone’s shit with the intention of stealing, i.e. ”Someone criddled my tent”.)

I would not be surprised if someone has posted photos of me or my friends, and I’m honestly afraid to look. It would not surprise me either, if whoever tried to pepper spray me a couple months ago is subscribed to this sub. The language used to refer to homeless people is dehumanizing and disgusting and it borders on incitement. But what’s really funny is I distinctly remember getting someone permabanned by reporting a post that used very similar language. I know Reddit is a cesspool and you don’t care but it takes like a minute to report a couple posts for “hate” or “threatening violence.” And it will do something to curb the growing trend of violence committed against homeless people. A drop in the bucket, but still. It will also be kinda funny to own these motherfuckers.

I've noticed that whenever we get trolls, they uh, well... they're not great folks. They're not sending their best.

In order to help our struggling trolls, I have complied a list of things that make us angry, to give them a head start.

1. Claim to be a leftist and then insist Joe Biden is the lesser of two evils that we all need to vote for. Debate this topic calmly and confidently no matter how much you are proven wrong.

2. "Although it's a good thing that Thatcher/Kissanger/Regan is dead, I think it is poor taste to celebrate anyone dying. We are better than this and should respect the dead no matter who they are."

3. On a similar note, civility policing in general is a good way to piss off Hexbear. "Nobody is going to accept the left if we antagonise everyone. Let's at least try to get along with liberals and change their minds with kindness!"

4. Defend the Cybertruck. Defend Elon Musk in general.

5. Anything pro-capitalist tbh

6. I can't think of anything else, what do you guys think? Help our poor struggling trolls! (Or maybe that's just troll singular, we don't have many. Poor things are starving.)

It was a promo toy from burger king.

Rectangle CD. Anyone know of any other funny shaped cd's?

Now onto ze topic at hand, I know ze DeSadists make up a large portion of ze movement but zey are #notlikeus, ze patrons are giving zem tens of thousands of francs to build le torture sex dungeons in Haiti when zose francs would be much better spent building le torture sex dungeons here. We need Robespierrethougtism because when I get back from ze coffee house and abuse my maid and get in ze bubble bath and write my zeets on parchment paper about who’s a bad person and deserve ze guillotine, sometimes my hands are too moist and soft and get bruised easily when I try to implement ze means of torture production at home with my cat o’nine tail whip . I dream of a day when le patty burgercheese like us can all sit in le bathtubs with bubbles and fear not being stabbed in ze heart by our heavily abused maids who we may or may not have but definitely did kill ze close friends and relatives of. Viva La France! Downvote DeSade! Upvote and rezee- Charlotte vvhat are you doing with zat knife, ah no, me bubble bath!

this is me right now, anyways, i gotta go, see you all soon

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