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It's funny that marijuana advocates wasted decades pleading their case under the guise of personal freedom, social equity, compassionate use, and the like. Tur

It's funny that marijuana advocates wasted decades pleading their case under the guise of personal freedom, social equity, compassionate use, and the like. Turns out all it took to convince the right was showing them the money.

binvlad 4y ago
Is that more of a "hahaha" funny or a "my head feels funny" funny?
zxcvbn4038 4y ago
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- hilbertseries 4y ago
  > There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable - they are just misunderstood people that see beyond age or something like that There have been people floating these ideas for decades. It’s not catching on now.
  - raspberry1337 4y ago
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    - denkmoon 4y ago
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      - vendingd 4y ago
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        denkmoon 4y ago
        I'm honoured you created an account just to post these for me.
        bigbillheck 4y ago
        Looks like moral panic bullshit to me.
        raspberry1337 4y ago
        Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
        vendingd 4y ago
        Do you think what these tweets revealed is acceptable behavior then? You don't have a problem with children in drag (where the 'drag mother' is a sex offender), or children being taken to venues to watch sexual performances and interact with the performers?
        bigbillheck 4y ago
        The lady in the first one is wearing a bikini (you can see it when she turns around) and (presumably) pasties, it's a little risque but not really much more so then a kid would see at the beach. The second has a fully-clothed lady in makeup and headdress doing a dance that involves flashes of her underskirt, and is far less sexed up than, say, a can-can dancer, of which I personally saw plenty growing up watching old cartoons and TV shows (and have since ended up posting on the Hacker News forum which I guess is not necessarily the best endorsement). For example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_gKenzXMAUOs2W?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_gKenzXMAUOs2W?format=jpg&name=... As for the third link, I've personally found Andy Ngo to be a completely unreliable source. That said, I do believe sex offenders should not be around children, but maybe let's start with places where they're a bit thicker on the ground.
      - LanceH 4y ago
        I'm just worried they never caught those clowns roaming the forest. Or the satan worshippers from the 80's. They're still out there!! Or maybe they ran into each other and the problem is solved...
    - encryptluks2 4y ago
      I'd be willing to bet there are a lot more pedo preachers saying this than drag/trans child strip parties.
- lelanthran 4y ago
  > There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same? Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.
  - kybernetyk 4y ago
    Being a pedo is not a sexual orientation. It’s something went really wrong with you territory.
    - Retric 4y ago
      Seems like it would fall under the same heading. Attraction to male sexual characteristics, female sexual characteristics, either, both, nothing, or neither? I am not saying it fits, but the edge cases in biology get really strange and eventually you need new terms for clarity. Chimera for example can contain one set of male cells and one set of female cells. So you start off with clear separation XX, XY then notice an outlier XXY etc, and suddenly need a new notation XX:XY.
    - lelanthran 4y ago
      > Being a pedo is not a sexual orientation. It’s something went really wrong with you territory. Regardless of what you think, society has already decided that one can't help who they are attracted to. We, collectively, have already decided that a person cannot choose who they are attracted to.
      - kybernetyk 4y ago
        Yeah, I'd like to see what happens when you go out and tell society that pedophilia is completely normal and fine...
olivermarks 4y ago
@ramesh31 my take on the California commercial weed disaster is the opposite: the greedy supermajority progressives legalized to get more tax revenue to spend on their various pet projects, but their crushing bureaucracy quickly killed the golden goose. The various libertarian weed growers either went back to the black market or left the state.

binvlad 4y ago

Is that more of a "hahaha" funny or a "my head feels funny" funny?

zxcvbn4038 4y ago

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hilbertseries 4y ago
> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable - they are just misunderstood people that see beyond age or something like that There have been people floating these ideas for decades. It’s not catching on now.
- raspberry1337 4y ago
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  - denkmoon 4y ago
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    - vendingd 4y ago
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      - denkmoon 4y ago
        I'm honoured you created an account just to post these for me.
      - bigbillheck 4y ago
        Looks like moral panic bullshit to me.
        raspberry1337 4y ago
        Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. Doublethink is related to, but differs from, hypocrisy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
        vendingd 4y ago
        Do you think what these tweets revealed is acceptable behavior then? You don't have a problem with children in drag (where the 'drag mother' is a sex offender), or children being taken to venues to watch sexual performances and interact with the performers?
        bigbillheck 4y ago
        The lady in the first one is wearing a bikini (you can see it when she turns around) and (presumably) pasties, it's a little risque but not really much more so then a kid would see at the beach. The second has a fully-clothed lady in makeup and headdress doing a dance that involves flashes of her underskirt, and is far less sexed up than, say, a can-can dancer, of which I personally saw plenty growing up watching old cartoons and TV shows (and have since ended up posting on the Hacker News forum which I guess is not necessarily the best endorsement). For example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_gKenzXMAUOs2W?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_gKenzXMAUOs2W?format=jpg&name=... As for the third link, I've personally found Andy Ngo to be a completely unreliable source. That said, I do believe sex offenders should not be around children, but maybe let's start with places where they're a bit thicker on the ground.
    - LanceH 4y ago
      I'm just worried they never caught those clowns roaming the forest. Or the satan worshippers from the 80's. They're still out there!! Or maybe they ran into each other and the problem is solved...
  - encryptluks2 4y ago
    I'd be willing to bet there are a lot more pedo preachers saying this than drag/trans child strip parties.
lelanthran 4y ago
> There are now college professors floating the idea that pedophilia ought to be socially acceptable There might be a nuance that I'm missing; are they talking about the physical act (which should remain as illegal and socially unacceptable as it now is), or the sexual orientation which is typically also labelled the same? Because society has already decided that who a person is sexually attracted to is not a choice, so it's a dangerous path to be on if we are going to punish people for something that we already decided that they have no control over.
- kybernetyk 4y ago
  Being a pedo is not a sexual orientation. It’s something went really wrong with you territory.
  - Retric 4y ago
    Seems like it would fall under the same heading. Attraction to male sexual characteristics, female sexual characteristics, either, both, nothing, or neither? I am not saying it fits, but the edge cases in biology get really strange and eventually you need new terms for clarity. Chimera for example can contain one set of male cells and one set of female cells. So you start off with clear separation XX, XY then notice an outlier XXY etc, and suddenly need a new notation XX:XY.
  - lelanthran 4y ago
    > Being a pedo is not a sexual orientation. It’s something went really wrong with you territory. Regardless of what you think, society has already decided that one can't help who they are attracted to. We, collectively, have already decided that a person cannot choose who they are attracted to.
    - kybernetyk 4y ago
      Yeah, I'd like to see what happens when you go out and tell society that pedophilia is completely normal and fine...

olivermarks 4y ago

@ramesh31 my take on the California commercial weed disaster is the opposite: the greedy supermajority progressives legalized to get more tax revenue to spend on their various pet projects, but their crushing bureaucracy quickly killed the golden goose. The various libertarian weed growers either went back to the black market or left the state.