21 Jun 2021 3:32 pm
Which sustains my argument - and waives your own - that popular support means **** at this point. It'll get you fiery rhetoric, "thwarted" by "gridlock."SJConspirator » 21 Jun 2021, 10:01 am » wrote: ↑ Now THIS is a good rebuttal... it’s anecdotal, but shows a good example that counters my point.
Popular support for marijuana leads to a lot of people smoking it, but not legalizing it. This is because the repeal of drug prohibition would leave many, many people without a job. Many functions in the justice system would be decimated.. how many less prison guards would be needed, less public defenders, judges, cops, prosecutors, court clerks, wardens, not to mention the contractors who supply the prisons with food, blankets, clothes, etc..
Locking up ppl is big business. There is a good chunk of the economy riding on it. Legalization would even harm the drug dealers as it would become much less profitable if it were not black market stuff. So you have wide support, but you also have this massive invisible opposition that is powerful.
Which brings us back to gridlock being a puppet show - which is where you and Po!arity BEGAN the dance I've butted in on.
As an aside, an "economy" that runs on prisons is no economy at all - it's smoke and mirrors. When the music stops, tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, will be without chairs.
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"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?