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Do you feel the same way about states that don’t enforce federal laws against weed and actively endorse it?
by raw_anon_1111 1y ago
Do you feel the same way about states that don’t enforce federal laws against weed and actively endorse it?
- scoofy 1y agoIf by “feel the same way” you mean “wouldn’t be surprised if random folks start getting charged with marijuana possession if the administration starts enforcing the laws on the books,” then yes. I don’t “support” what the administration is doing, I’m just saying we’re actually on the losing side of the argument… and we’re actually flirting with real political violence with a losing argument. If the states that have legalized some kind of marijuana uses wanted to (40 of 50 states), they could trivially actually legalize it.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoThere was “real political violence” because people wanted Trump to be president in 2020 and more recently a state lawmaker was swatted in Indiana because he didn’t go along with Trump’s redistributing demands. In fact Romney said that some lawmakers were afraid to go against Trump because they were afraid for their families and they couldn’t afford armed security like he could. Is that really how we want to make decisions in this country?
- scoofy 1y agoAgain, I agree with this sentiment. Unfortunately whataboutism isn’t an argument.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoThere is no whatsboutism. Refusing to act is not “violence”.
- scoofy 1y agoI never suggested it was… which is exactly why pointing to unrelated political violence is whataboutism.
- raw_anon_1111 1y agoYou claimed that not acting or helping the federal government to enforce federal laws that in this case the Supreme Court has said is none of the states business would increase political violence. My contention is that anything the right doesn’t like will escalate to political violence if it is scene to go against Whsfs desr leader wants.