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Cake day: September 14th, 2024

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  • Solution: legalize all drugs. Make it so you can buy them in pharmacies. Legalize production. Make Mexico the biggest goddamn coke producer on earth. And weed. And fentanyl. Legalize everything in the US as well. If people want to do drugs let them fucking do drugs.

    Suddenly, all the cartels become legit employers. They start paying taxes. Instead of shooting each other down cartels start suing each other. They are colluding to fixate prices? Let the antitrust authority deal with that.

    Let the narco bosses become CEOs and the employees become shareholders. Create a narcotics workers union and give workers favorable conditions. 30 days PTO, sick pay, 6 hour shifts, 4 day work week, night and weekend shift bonuses. Let the cartels hire marketing departments and let them compete through brand strategy and product quality. Give me that nose avalanche 100% purity coke and I’m happy to pay extra.

    We have the military industrial complex, nestle privatizing water wells in Africa and the tobacco and alcohol industry. What harm does it do to add another bunch of psychopaths that do whatever they have to anyway?







  • Because you genuinely seem to care I think 10 myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe would be a relevant resource. I think it’s a nice compromise between working scientifically (I.e. citing sources where necessary) and being accessible. It’s not a scientific book but it’s written by a credible Israeli researcher.

    I will be honest, it’s very biased in a sense that it’s anti-Zionist. But I think once you read about the history of Zionism it’s difficult to remain unbiased about it.

    That being said, a lot of damage has been done by the British before the establishment of Israel and a lot of damage has been done since it’s establishment, but the book also offers a perspective for moving on.

    This perspective would be the establishment of an actual democratic state with equal rights for everyone and an acknowledgment of the rights of Palestinians to their land, their culture, and their history. Such a democratic state is possible, and it would not favor any ethnicity or religion. And here’s the catch: it would go against the Zionist ideology because it wouldn’t be a „Jewish“ state anymore (more like ethno-supremacist).

    I hope that makes sense and I think other commenters may have snapped at you too fast .






  • Imagine this coming from Russia (which I’m sure they’d also do). I’ve always been very critical and oftentimes shocked by the atrocities that the west and western backed allies committed. But the Gaza genocide and everything around it, the gaslighting, the propaganda, the level of violence and the manufactured consent, we’re entering fascism.

    It’s not like Nazi Germany yet where randos like shaserlark will disappear for criticizing the government, but we already established that we’re willing to deny human rights to our enemies. We will kill them, all of them and all of their families without thinking twice.

    When it comes to our own, we will make them disappear if they’re important enough, see Assange or Snowden. Assange is out but he’s done. Snowden probably will die in exile. As for the normal people, they get denied their right to protest. Or they get beaten up and arrested on bogus charges. They get harassed at home. Climate / pro Palestine activists will end up in jail.

    We’re not there yet where I will disappear for saying this, but at the current pace we’re only a couple decades away from it, if even.