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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Good spot! I did in fact fail to mention that in addition to the federal marijuana legalization bill, and pardons for anyone in federal prison for possession, Biden did in fact do exactly what you're not holding your breath for, ordering a reevaluation of the scheduling of marijuana. It's a little bit of an empty priority, since just lowering its classification level would still leave it on the "illegal drug" list and doesn't do much for anyone who's in a state prison for breaking a state law, i.e. the DEA dragging its feet on actually doing it isn't enough of a priority to spend time and political capital on.

I could go on about how numbskulled it is to give the Biden administration a hard time for not doing enough to overcome Republican resistance to the big progressive steps they are taking, while simultaneously claiming that he's deliberately doing nothing and that he's functionally the same as the party that's fighting to obstruct him (with some level of success). But I already made that point.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's a funny way of spelling "Oh shit you're right, Republicans famously tried and failed to among other things withhold aid from Ukraine, repeal the ACA, prosecute their political opponents, have the military confiscate voting machines, have the National Guard shoot protestors, and lots of other terrifying things, but the top levels of government don't come with a magic wand that causes all the other levels to obey exactly the orders that come from above. And that's actually a good thing; you want to have a lot of apolitical machinery in the workings of government, not just an autocracy that immediately obeys any new orders that come from above whether good or bad or whether they fit the preexisting structures or not."

"However, the Republicans do have a detailed plan in place for undoing a lot of that machinery that's truly terrifying in its scope and thoroughness. If you're not happy about Joe Biden failing to do enough to take the unprecedented step of legalizing marijuana on a federal level, just wait until CBP agents are empowered to fire on protestors or detain them indefinitely, opposition-party politicians are on the receiving end of harassment from a corrupted justice department, and the power of the US military can be turned against any brown people anywhere in the world for any reason whatsoever on the whim of the world's most childish man, with no pushback from senior military leadership."

"Oops I mean both sides are the same, Joe didn't do a good enough job on my lengthy to-do list of progressive goals, I'm not voting, it doesn't matter."

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That’s a funny way of spelling “I cannot give you an answer to your question, because there is none.”

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

No answer on what you want him to do that he could do any time he's ready?

But... still going to leave the meme up? Even though you're clearly a person who cares about politics and political outcomes, and it's clear now that what it says is grossly misleading to people about the reality?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 67 points 2 years ago (17 children)

The decriminalization bill passed the house but the GOP killed it in the senate.

Which seems a little contradictory to both the statements (a) it's all Biden's fault and he could fix it if he wanted to, and (b) voting doesn't matter because both sides are pretty much the same.

My question was a little different from the one you answered -- what is the meme joking about him being easily able to do if he would only decide to? Actually I think you should call him and tell him, instead of me; it would have saved all the time and difficulty with the decriminalization bill, if he could have just done whatever you had in mind instead of bothering with it.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 51 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Didn't he do federal pardons a year ago? That didn't do all that much as it's mostly state laws+charges which he can't pardon, but it is the thing which is directly under his control for him to do already. What are you requesting for him to do here?

Seems like this is another of those things like climate change: The US policy was consistently and unanimously dogshit for however-many US presidents, and then in the last few years we started to try to address it, only to have Biden's "not as good as what we wanted" level of finally-measurable progress be used as a propaganda talking-point to say he's clearly bad because he's not doing enough.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He only got $199 for this so he'll have to make a few more

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did actually watch the paradox video just out of curiosity. Between the weird and offputting presentation and the first video which says literally nothing except "now that you've watched this video, click here, and watch the real video!" I decided it was safe to conclude it was bullshit.

I mean, I do know what the paradox of tolerance is. "You have to give me a full open hearing each and every time I come into your little space to broadcast propaganda, just in case this new thing is innocent and insightful and just happens to look like the rest of the propaganda purely by coincidence" is a pretty textbook example. If you feel differently, you're welcome to say why, but I don't feel I'm obligated to run around watching extra videos to help you in the effort.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm just gonna refer you to this thread; I had this conversation already today. Those comments rebut your claim that I'm "turning a blind eye" (at least as far as my comments on Lemmy, for whatever they're worth), and the links in them contain some rebuttals for your ideas about what's happening in Gaza being 100% Biden's fault. Some percent yes, on that we'll agree if on basically nothing else about this.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This looks like one of those weird kids' Youtube videos that has been in the uncanny valley for so long that it's gotten settled in and set up a thriving sustainable business for itself there

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Paradoxoftolerancesayswhat

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 27 points 2 years ago (18 children)

I'm not planning on watching the video, no. I don't want to give it views to push it up the algorithm, and I already know that if the conclusion is "voting is silly," then it's wrong and not worth watching.

You're free to feel that's unfair if you want, but it's not.

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