immuredanchorite

This seems like a bad idea. Like, the US will try to find a way to send empty tankers over land

RAND already wrote up a paper explaining that: they won’t

you weren’t rude at all, and I both appreciate the info and also enjoy infodumping. It just also made me realize I am relatively ignorant in a literal sense, which I am not ashamed to admit

Were they not already in wartime protocols?

I didn’t mean to be ignorant, and thank you. I meant it more like, out of spite, give it to the victims of morocco’s own colonial project

I agree that neonazi rhetoric should never be normalized… but in your opinion, who in this hypothetical is normalizing neo-nazi rehtoric? what exactly is the implication here?

imo, when people conflate Israel with judaism, that is deeply anti-semitic. The corporate media and western politicians (among others) have normalized that for decades.

That, “loving the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor” sounds like liberal pablum that will never directly challenge oppression. You can do both and they aren’t comparable or incompatible. it is a false choice meant to disarm you. Besides all that, you shouldn’t have to love someone for you to want for them dignity or justice, if you have a moral compass. if you are only concerned with being a good ally, i guess that stuff sounds fine, but it doesn’t do anything except make you feel good. if both of you want an end to oppression you can work as comrades towards that shared goal together. you don’t need to be friends to be comrades.

its absolutely some le redditor level boardroom shit that I remember hegseth giving speeches about during his first few appearances as sec of war crimes. Its objectively stupid, probably resonates with absolutely nobody except for a few musk-brained officers and officials, and I bet it will never go away now

they are… bragging? … about the bloated pentagon budget? I didn’t even consider that they would look to the pentagon budget as something to brag about- like I am pretty sure most normal people think its disgusting and the fact that they are losing so badly in iran… and have lost every war since ww2 despite such a bloated military budget… should make a regular person irate. $1.5 trillion for what?

This is more fucked up than I imagined, eco-fascism is truly here. The exact people that are stirring up immigration-based racial animosity are literally using refugees like a cudgel… and like chattel. Disgusting.

Spain should hand over their enclaves to the Polisario Front and arm them to the teeth

Yeah, I think this really just feeds into my point. People aren’t even always wrong to withhold drug use from doctors/health care workers because so many of them are judgmental freaks- that is another layer of the problem in itself. That is why the attitude towards drugs are so irrational here

On top of that, cannabis hyperemsis is something that is poorly understood and poorly researched. It was sort of fringe even less than years ago, with only one or two good papers coming from outside the US… And no research at all in the US is generally conducted because of federal issues with legality- historically, the vast majority of research in the UA is usually stuff that is incredibly biased

From what I can gather, it seems like the party made an effort to professionalize it because 1) there were deleterious social aspects to it (poaching, illegal markets) that could be controlled by licensing and 2) it preserves an element of traditional culture while also attempting to glean benefit from it 3) introducing scientific review may eventually merge it with allopathic medicine the way osteopathic medicine has essentially become the same in regions of the US edit: 4) by professionalizing it and having TCM doctors constantly refer to it as adjunctive, more traditional folks who are skeptical of modern medicine will be more open to medical treatment and TCM practitioners will be professionally liable against telling their patients to avoid scientific medical treatments in lieu of TCM

I think it makes perfect sense.

The “war on drugs” is class war in the US waged on the working class. People are immiserated from capitalism, and even ostracized from social production entirely -with a health care system that also exploits them and alienates providers from the work of helping others. Then, after allowing these condition, and even importing drugs directly into the streets, the US government uses the pretext of drugs to abrogate their rights and create a permanent underclass. The US govt can even get to conduct military operations nearly anywhere in the world, including in their own borders, under the guise of fighting drugs.

But this also causes another issue, where working class people in the US live with the hypocrisy and then it creates its own sort of inertia. People often have totally unrealistic ideas about cannabis and drugs in the US because their first lesson was that anyone with any sort of authority is lying about them (absolutely true) so they say things like, “weed is harmless, actually” or “weed is good for you, actually” (not true). Weed is just relatively harmless, but it does have its own deleterious health and social effects. But its hard to even study them because of the climate. For instance, for years as a health care worker I would see a few patients every day who had “cyclic vomiting” or “abdominal migraines ” and they would ask for opioids, antiemetics, IV fluids etc. They would get subjected to tests and scans that would cost tens of thousands and then labeled drug-seeking. Some would even get exploratory surgery which would cause adhesions and other post-surgical complications that caused even more problems … but imo, often these issues were more likely caused by cannabis hyperemesis syndrome, but they couldn’t be honest about their cannabis use without reinforcing the “drug seeking” label and also they often dont even believe the things health care providers tell them about cannabis.