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@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:
Why would the number of addicts increase?
Probably for the same reason shoplifting exploded in California and businesses closed when stealing less than £1,000 of goods was made a misdemeanour rather than a felony - the police don't investigate.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:
Why would the number of addicts increase?
Probably for the same reason shoplifting exploded in California and businesses closed when stealing less than £1,000 of goods was made a misdemeanour rather than a felony - the police don't investigate.
Shoplifting I understand, that seems a very predictable result. But becoming addicted to drugs is a very different kind of crime. Would be surprising if addiction went up after decriminalisation, normally goes the other way
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There's a difference between de-criminalising possession (sensible and shown to work as part of an anti-drugs policy) and making possession of drugs legal. If a substance is addictive and it becomes de facto legal, addiction will go up as usage increases.
Similar thing happened with Prohibition. Even though alcohol consumption only fell by 30%, there was a big drop in alcohol cirrhosis rates. That was reversed when prohibition ended.
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Registered.
“[N]owhere is the shift more pronounced — and dangerous for Democrats — than in the suburbs, where well-educated swing voters who turned against Trump’s Republican Party in recent years appear to be swinging back. Over the last year, far more people are switching to the GOP across suburban counties from Denver to Atlanta and Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Republicans also gained ground in counties around medium-size cities such as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Augusta, Georgia; and Des Moines, Iowa.”
Last month:
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Honeymoon is over?
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The Savior.
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Hilary Clinton v Trump in 2024? FFS.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
Hilary Clinton v Trump in 2024? FFS.
If that’s the case they should replace the ballot with ducking stools. Televised live.
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@JC said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
Hilary Clinton v Trump in 2024? FFS.
If that’s the case they should replace the ballot with ducking stools. Televised live.
Metamucil can sponsor (I don't think they drink Horlicks in the US)
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@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:
Honeymoon is over?
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Just incredible. You're in a two-party state where the other mob tried to commit a coup less than 18 months ago, how crap have you got to be to get ratings like that? The Dems are an absolute shambles.
The Savior.
But they could get worse.
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@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:
The Savior.
How airbrushed is that photo? Pretending she’s not a doddery old coot too.
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@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:
mob tried to commit a coup less than 18 months ago, how crap have you got to be to get ratings like that?
Committing a coup 🤣 armed to the teeth with plastic water bottles. Ratings, indeed.
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Juan Williams would be the diversity hire by Fox News to add comedy and colour, and to dumb it down for their compulsory viewer component of intellectual donkeys.
"restore wymminses rights"? Eh? More and more the Disintegrating States of America are making stuff up on the run.
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@Kid-Chocolate said in US Politics:
@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:
mob tried to commit a coup less than 18 months ago, how crap have you got to be to get ratings like that?
Committing a coup 🤣 armed to the teeth with plastic water bottles. Ratings, indeed.
I'm sure you folks did this one to death last year, so no need to revisit it unless anyone really feels the urge. If you don't like the c word we can just say "attempted to overturn the election result" instead. The point still stands, Biden is a dismal failure and the Dems are shapeless
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@gibbon-rib said in US Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
@chimoaus said in US Politics:
Again, not a popular idea but making all drugs legal and available to addicts means the quality is guaranteed and if they have safe places to use, they are far less likely to die. They are also far less likely to commit property crime to support the habit if the drug is supplied.
The "war on drugs" is/was daft, but are you talking about making all drugs legal or only legal for addicts?
Decriminalised, rather than legalised. So they're still restricted / prohibited, you just don't end up with a criminal record for them.
A couple of decades ago I argued on 60mins for decriminalisation to remove the market incentive to produce and associated crime to procure. Frustrating to see it's still treated overwhelmingly as a criminal matter than a health one after all this time.
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All that Dems and news media wants to talk about is the single issue that American voters care about the least. CBS poll yesterday:
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@Victor-Meldrew said in US Politics:
Hilary Clinton v Trump in 2024? FFS.
There’s a SAS straw poll for young conservatives in Tampa next month to see whether their support is for Donald or DeSantis. That should open a few eyes.
Fwiw, I agree completely with what Scott Adams is tweeting:
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Another one
In 10 days they've overturned Roe, struck down state gun control laws, ruled in favour of govt school teachers praying with students and against EPA action on climate change. That's a hell of a shift for a week and a half, reckon they're in a rush to get it all done before the rapture.
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