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this combined with them really pushing to make recording the police a felony

“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon

https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional

Ding

Not a full ding ding ding, but a bit of ding

It's definitely about the brown people, but it's also about religious control over people. Soon buggery will be prohibited for some bullshit reason, divorce will be outlawed again so that Texas finally finally can get back to its racist roots of the 1800's. All we need then is some good ol' slavery to finish it all off

It has been all along.

Texas has rich person freedom though

Given the Democrats' long history of picking the worst possible candidate at any given time, I'm genuinely confused as to how Harris landed on Waltz instead of Shapiro.

Alas, they don’t want to stop Trump or fascism.

Republicans move the country to the right. Democrats stop the county from rebounding left. A beautiful political ratchet that's been marching us further and further towards full blown fascism since the Nixon Era.

You ain't seen nothing yet!

- Reaches into pants and grabs a massive mound of turd and then rubs it all over own face -

Yeah, you're triggered now, you idiot. I'm so free!

- Coughs in sepsis -

THC can let people have introspection of themselves and the world around them.

Alcohol is a downer than dumbs you down. And a lot of it can weigh you down for if you need to fight against something.

Tobacco is an upper that you can do with other tasks, and is addictive. Tobacco is heavy in use in red states and the military.

Guns can be aimed at anyone for any reason no matter the justification.

So if you're a government wanting to keep the working class poor, dumb, distracted, and needing to work for their fixes along with rent, food, anything medical, why give them acess to something that could break this?

Maybe I'm thinking too much on this.

Joe Rogan is a piece of shit. He became a multi millionaire in California because of the infrastructure and people of California. Then instead of staying and playing taxes to give a bit back to the community, he took his money and ran to Texas.

A classic fuck you I got mine.

I don't want to be a part of a Lemmy where we can't call powerful celebrity fascist propagandists "dumbasses". Maybe this is my green and gold streak showing but honestly, dumbass is so tame.

Love your name dumbass

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Texas has been GOP governed for almost thirty years.

The town of Uvalde overwhelmingly voted Republican immediately following their tragedy.

This is what they want. And what they're getting.

The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.

Even the most vile Southerners are polite in the company of others.

A lot of people don't realize how rigged Texas is, or how recent it's redness is.

The Governor prior to Bush was a Democratic woman. Bush got elected off his name, then got the Presidency. In the Republican bump from that the Republicans got a majority in the Texas legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in 2003, which they used to massively gerrymander the state.

Prior to 2004, the majority of Texas reps.to Congress had never been Republican. Following the 2003 redistricting, it was over 2:1 Republican. They've locked down voting districts and attacked voting rights ever since to maintain their majority, while courting out-of-state conservatives to move to Texas and driving progressives away.

The reality is the Republicans got full control of the state government in a single legitimate election in 2002 and have spent the last 2 decades rigging the system to ensure they never lose that power.

The people of Texas are gerrymandered to oblivion and this is well documented. They didn't vote for this. Billionaires came to Tx and bought the politicians, maga spread through and removed the old style Rs.

Not that I think anyone should try to run from these problems. They should be faced head on. But, it's important to not blame the wrong people.

I have been doing everything reasonably possible to prevent and unfuck my local situation in Texas, but the state as a whole is absolutely screwed. I would argue that a very large minority is aggressively uninformed politically, and has no desire to educate themselves. They want to be sucked into the gravity well of their bigotry and hate and Christian window-dressing. It's disgusting and depressing and you would not believe the amount of people that I respected before all of this mess that I want nothing to do with anymore because of the ideologies they are willing to espouse. I barely interact with any of my family any more because most of them wanted this situation and still won't openly admit that they did this.

I feel completely powerless and like my only option is to run as far away from the place I have called home for my entire life.

Come to Michigan. Help us go from a swing state to a solid blue, and enjoy some of the cheapest high quality legal weed you can find.

make weed gas again

I can't figure out what this means