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It’s pandering and on the edge of buying votes. Unlike Student Loan “forgiveness” which was a direct purchase of a vote. And no I doubt this will rouse the pot
by vuln 2y ago
It’s pandering and on the edge of buying votes. Unlike Student Loan “forgiveness” which was a direct purchase of a vote.
And no I doubt this will rouse the pot smokers to vote, perhaps mail in, as they don’t have to do actually anything.
- flawsofar 2y agoIf everyone buys votes using one issue or another, using cannabis to buy votes should be the least concern of anyone. While you can make some amount of case that the timing makes it a manipulation, is this really the manipulation that bothers you? I would rather there be no manipulations. But in a country that divides itself on infantile identity politics, fight fire with fire. It is not a fair game. You can’t demand perfect intentions around this issue when politics is full of much worse actors.
- vuln 2y agoThe timing is complete bullshit. Politicians “pocket” issues like this and pull them out during an election year “look how much I care about you!!! Vote for me!!!” They could have and should have done this a very long time ago. It’s obvious to everyone that the democrats are losing their bread a butter voters, young people and black folks. This gets waved around for the nth time and everyone gets excited.
- flawsofar 2y agoare you really going on a downvote revenge spree? lol
- philipkglass 2y agoOn HN you can't downvote a direct reply to your own comment, so vuln did not downvote your reply.
- 7jjjjjjj 2y agoIt's wild to me that people think "buying votes" is a bad thing. The whole point of democracy is to align the interests of the state's leaders to its population. If anything, politicians don't buy votes often enough!
- cheeseomlit 2y agoPolitician runs on a platform of 'Hey 51% of the population, if you vote for me I'll take the other 49%'s money and give it to you!', proceeds to win by 2%. Democracy in action!