America, we had a similar surprise once.

Our reaction did not give us the assurance we desired.

Bibi is a corrupt tool, he incited the assassination of Rabin and he’s basically a far smarter Trump.

Israel is doomed because of him, because for such an ideologue security is fuel and he won’t let you stop until greater Israel or it’s complete destruction, there is no middle ground.

Let me explain how we can prove you’re 100% full of bullshit.

If this had anything to do with security, bibi would resign, hand over reins to someone who didn’t fuck up and let the hostages be taken in the first place, and Israel could come up with plans slightly more nuanced and thought through than ‘Wauuugghh!!!’

He’s desperate to keep power because hes Bibi, he’d use Iran getting nukes under his watch as an excuse for why he had to keep power, every failure from incompetence is just another argument for why he can’t possibly be replaced.

You have a dictator, and it would be hilarious if it weren’t so tragic.

I’m worried about dolphin’s kpart.

Msft under W for instance.

We have that with alcohol, it’s barely controlled.

I’m fine with decriminalizing, but legalizing will just make it everyone’s problem.

Oh, and for an even better example:

The number of people dying everywhere from lung cancer in America has plummeted, exactly because tobacco is FAR harder to get ahold of compared to before when we handed it out casually.

That also had collateral damage.

But no, we should rely on everyone’s self-control and nothing else.

Jesus fucking christ dude, you have problems.

You literally asked me a question, then gave a 4 page thesis on why my personal answer was wrong.

Alcohol is incredibly destructive, and on a wider scale, because it’s legal and available, heroin and/or cocaine would be worse.

Congratulations on not getting your ass kicked by cocaine, you seem very proud. It has destroyed a lot more lives, and I’d argue the number of victims are proportionately higher than for alcohol.

But you could resist it, therefore everyone else who can’t is what, weaker? Inferior? Not worthy? I suppose people who couldn’t survive covid also shouldn’t be counted because most people survived?

I am not arguing against medicalized mdma, and as I said, I’m fine with decriminalizing cocaine because there’s no reason to send people to jail for something like that, but because of your religious “Drugs are just a way to open your mind, man!” bs you can’t breathe for a second and think “hey, maybe there’s this middle ground, drugs have positive uses, but also negative factors and a responsible person should be wary of both”.

You’re like an ammosexual who doesn’t understand why 5-year olds shouldn’t open carry.

Chill, I’m worried the drugs have left some damage on you.

Here’s a question for you. Is the reason you don’t shoot up opiate that they’re illegal? If you could legally get them, you’d shoot up?

Honestly, I’d absolutely do coke if it were legal, and it would almost surely fuck me up.

I might not do opiates, but honestly, if I had back pain or surgery and they gave me opiates, I probably would take it up after.

Because that’s how a LOT of people take up drugs.

Drugs aren’t good, you just like them, they’re nasty because they break assumptions evolution made, and we’re not quite ready for that yet.

If nukes were legal, do you think everyone could be trusted with them? Because most people have self-control, but not all, and before you say “Drugs don’t hurt other people!”, yes, they absolutely do, you just don’t give a shit about them.

lemmy.ml: But how dare you call China an open-air prison!!!

I’m American so for here I’m super loud, obnoxious, awkward and even rude, but that’s because we’re conditioned to be outgoing and friendly, while Swedes are far more reserved and communicate in subtlety.

Also there’s a “right way” to do everything, and you just need to know it, I’m still learning.

I’m really feeling my autism here.

They’ve done that, a few times now.

Then, in the power vacuum, another group sprouts up that is disciplined and operates with minimal violence. It even recruits the same soldiers that were chasing them.

For a while, then there’s a power shift and a schism, then they go to war with themselves, and the circle of hell continues.

They are unfortunate to live next to a trust-fund baby with a massive coke habit.

Agreed, and there’s a lot of that.

It does go a bit far and cause tall-poppy syndrome.

But it’s not too bad, and America has something similar, personally I love my daughter being brought up here because you see young girls walking around almost alone, and they’re not afraid, you don’t see that in America because obviously they’d be terrified of being attacked. Here the fear is just gone, they feel safe to be independent.

They have actual scandals, but they are meticulous at cleaning them up and their journalism rarely exposes them fully.

But this one is adorable, and extremely Japanese in nature.

As an Californian/Swede, it’s bizarro-land where people are nice to you, the exchange rate is almost hilariously good (if you work for dollars) and people don’t seem to want to take your money nearly as much.

Also the people are gorgeous and friendly, though the extreme politeness takes a lot of getting used to.

The whole argument for legalizing weed was that it would cripple the cartels.

That doesn’t seem like it’s worked so much.

So again, we have to legalize cocaine before the cartels are weakened?

Then we have to legalize heroin? Fentanyl? Anything else?

I’m in favor of legalizing weed, but this seems a lot like it’s actually not helping.

So, I don’t disagree, but we legalized weed in the civilized parts of the country and it had little effect, I’m not sure I want to legalize cocaine, it’s much better at killing people.