free people from bondage to… astrology

Wow, didn’t realize the Chinese Communist Party hated women!

Why does the sun rise?

Why does this matter?

HOLY FUCKING HELL THAT STATUE IS NOT EXAGGERATING

Motherfucker looks like a Batman villain

Especially cuz he’s just pissed about being bald

China has anime?

Im officially revoking my support for the CCP.

Small kingdoms ruled over by petty hereditary rulers

Uh, have you considered that I spent the whole weekend gooning?

But then, shouldn’t we also do the same for alcohol and drugs

Thing is we kind of already do. There’s a ton of regulations regarding the sale and advertisement of alcohol and tobacco, many of which are the product of activism by anti-smoking and temperance movements.

Idk how I feel about gambling personally, but you don’t really have to take a hardline prohibitionist or libertarian stance on these things. I suppose one could make the argument that adults should have the right to gamble responsibly, but like you can also think regulations against problem gambling are good.

Edit: also…

on the other hand, I know of one case where the shuttering of a sex work website due to human trafficking charges (which Kamala Harris lead the charge on, as it happens) actually made a lot of sex workers feel less safe.

So I don’t really have time right now to delve deep into that article, but I kind of suspect they were interviewing adult, independent sex workers who are in the profession mostly voluntarily. Not that their experience and concerns aren’t valid but I do feel like I see a lot of pro-legalization arguments coming from that crowd and I think it’s worth considering their experiences as sex workers is nothing like most women in the industry. They’re independent and working in a lucrative industry on their own terms, often in semi-legal niches often for wealthier clientele. I think some people in that world fail to realize legalizing full service prostitution is essentially opening the doors for it to be industrialized which like likely lead to what is essentially sex-trafficking-in-all-but-name.

The opioid epidemic has made a lot of people, myself included, skeptical of anti-prohibition. Turns out pushing something underground often does have the effect of making it more expensive and inconvenient to access. There some study I can’t find now, but it claimed legalizing prostitution actually increased human trafficking because now traffickers could mask their operations as legal sex work opening them up to new clientele they normally wouldn’t have access to. I suspect there’s a lot of men who would be going to brothels regularly if it was as easy as going to 7/11 but don’t want to go to the bad side of town to pick up a sex workers who could be a cop doing a sting.

Same with drugs, going from a system where you had to import raw opium from Afghanistan or wherever to the west via camel and make shift submarine, then process and distribute it clandestinely, made being a heroin addict and expensive pain in the ass. Now you can buy pills made semi-legally in a factory in Mexico that some guy got prescribed to him by a shady Floridian doctor for a broken ankle he had 10 years ago.

Prohibition didn’t work for weed and booze cuz both of those are things easy to make and distribute even when they’re illegal, plus they’re both easier to consume, and even abuse, while being a functional member do society. I think there are vices thought where you could reduce the consumption and abuse of just by making it a big fucking pain in the ass to get access to and gambling I think is one of them.

Fentanyl and OxyContin seem to suggest otherwise

Bush didn’t have twitter. Also the neocons generally liked him. Plus he didn’t spawn a weird cult of people who dress up like Vikings and storm government buildings.

Donald posted too hard and attracted too many weirdos.

Nah, Trump stepped on to many establishment toes for that. He’s gonna be held up as the liberal world order bougie man for the rest of eternity.

Last night I got stoned and dreamed up a Warhammer 40kesk universe were the DNC has Trump in cryostasis and threatens to awake him if they ever lose and election, and all the fear mongering over him results in a one party state were the DNC gets 98% of the vote to prevent the rise of the sleeping Trump.

This may sound weird, but I had not idea he was a black dude. For some reason I visualized him as like a grizzled old white guy in a trench coat.

No the operator was being stupid.

Just saying this was a truck being used for what it’s actually intended for having an accident due to operator error.

FYI this was a commercial truck transporting gravel, yah know what trucks are meant for, not some burgerbrain compensating for something.

The capitalism is causing the lack of housing.

Part of the complaint was that he was rude to a slave who was made to travel really far to get a refund. Dude was so rude a SLAVE MASTER complained on behalf of his SLAVE, that’s pretty fucking rude.

Nice try FBI!

Are you playing on realistic mode?