Absolute horseshit from our resident commie. The hippies, more correctly known these days as the boomers, were a feckless generation of wasteful, self indulgent idiots, and they still are. The only ideas they had that didn't come from a decade of drug use came from the KGB or the AARP, and regardless of the source their ideas destroyed the nation. They are THE worst generation.
Free tip to anyone reading. Any person who whines about "muh war on drugs" is a commie.
It's funny when hippies self-own, like in Easy Rider. The hippy commune is full of useful retards, in contrast to the farmer family, and that movie is the hippies' crown jewel.
That said, I caution against blaming them too much, despite their degeneracy. It was their parents that passed CRA and Heart-Cellar.
Kaarous, I know you've engaged with enough of my posts over the years to know that I'm a legalize everything libertarian, and against virtually all forms of social assistance.
I don't want to take us back to the 1970's, I want to take us back to the 1870's when education past 8th grade wasn't free and you could sell opium.
I'm not talking about prohibition. Prohibition of alcohol was stupid because it nationally criminalized something that was not only ubiquitous but also previously legal for two centuries, something that was only true at the time about powder cocaine.
And plenty of things have no such justification for their existence. You can't tell me that Crocodile should be legal.
Prohibition is a process and not unique to alcohol. Many other drugs were and are ubiquitous as well. Making them illegal has perhaps made it more so.
As for specific drugs...legal? Maybe, though probably with very strict use cases, controls, taxes, and education. Those have far better track records for reducing use than prohibition does. Generally speaking the more dangerous a drug is the greater the taxes and other controls should be in place. As it is a potential burden for society it should be taxed and controlled thusly.
I guess I'm saying examine the track record: ATF is worthless however the IRS has been consistently effective. Bet on the winning horse.
As for taxation ask Colorado and California how well that's gone. Their dispensaries do little business and legalization has served largely to provide a front for street dealers and increased crime statewide.
Or how anti-war was awesome during Ws admin but evil during the Obama admin but Trump was evil because he wasn’t pro-war enough and now we’re back to anti-war bad again.
Here's an evenbetter example. Dirty Laundry by Don Henley.
I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something
Something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry
Well, I coulda been an actor
But I wound up here
I just have to look good
I don't have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down
Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em all around
We got the bubble headed
Bleached blonde
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash
With a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation
Is the head dead yet
You know the boys in the newsroom
Got a running bet
Get the widow on the set
We need dirty laundry
You don't really need to find out
What's going on
You don't really want to know
Just how far it's gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
The hippies weren't completely stupid. They had some conception of the problems of modern society.
They were just naive, shortsighted, bad at planning, and worse at following through.
They could have been converted into libertarians if the GOP hadn't spent thirty years on the drug war.
Absolute horseshit from our resident commie. The hippies, more correctly known these days as the boomers, were a feckless generation of wasteful, self indulgent idiots, and they still are. The only ideas they had that didn't come from a decade of drug use came from the KGB or the AARP, and regardless of the source their ideas destroyed the nation. They are THE worst generation.
Free tip to anyone reading. Any person who whines about "muh war on drugs" is a commie.
It's funny when hippies self-own, like in Easy Rider. The hippy commune is full of useful retards, in contrast to the farmer family, and that movie is the hippies' crown jewel.
That said, I caution against blaming them too much, despite their degeneracy. It was their parents that passed CRA and Heart-Cellar.
Kaarous, I know you've engaged with enough of my posts over the years to know that I'm a legalize everything libertarian, and against virtually all forms of social assistance.
I don't want to take us back to the 1970's, I want to take us back to the 1870's when education past 8th grade wasn't free and you could sell opium.
I've seen you claim such if that's what you mean, but anyone who takes that as face value is an idiot.
Because prohibition is anti commie? Wut?
Agree on everything else about hippies tho.
Riddle me this. Of the two spectrums of politics, which contains the vast majority of drug addicts?
So yeah anti drug is anti communist.
Don't disagree there but prohibition of anything in the US has never worked. Americans are simply too ornery for better or for worse.
Being anti drug does not mean being for prohibition though. There are better ways to accomplish the goal.
I'm not talking about prohibition. Prohibition of alcohol was stupid because it nationally criminalized something that was not only ubiquitous but also previously legal for two centuries, something that was only true at the time about powder cocaine.
And plenty of things have no such justification for their existence. You can't tell me that Crocodile should be legal.
Prohibition is a process and not unique to alcohol. Many other drugs were and are ubiquitous as well. Making them illegal has perhaps made it more so.
As for specific drugs...legal? Maybe, though probably with very strict use cases, controls, taxes, and education. Those have far better track records for reducing use than prohibition does. Generally speaking the more dangerous a drug is the greater the taxes and other controls should be in place. As it is a potential burden for society it should be taxed and controlled thusly.
I guess I'm saying examine the track record: ATF is worthless however the IRS has been consistently effective. Bet on the winning horse.
No, prohibition is specific to alcohol.
As for taxation ask Colorado and California how well that's gone. Their dispensaries do little business and legalization has served largely to provide a front for street dealers and increased crime statewide.
As Hamlet says (and which features prominently in this song): "The rest is silence".
The scene will be pretty confusing, if you haven't seen the musical, but holy shit is the music powerful, if nothing else.
Thanks. I have some of the songs from the musical but I haven’t seen it yet
Or how anti-war was awesome during Ws admin but evil during the Obama admin but Trump was evil because he wasn’t pro-war enough and now we’re back to anti-war bad again.