Imma say it.

Drugs should be legalised. All of them.

People should be free to do as they want with their bodies so long as the substances are regulated. By legalising drugs, you accomplish endless positives:

• You ensure the product people buy is pure and not laced with unwanted substances (especially regarding heroin which is often laced with fentanyl)
• You take away demand from the black market, and thus also deal a blow to organised crime
• People that are curious in trying these drugs have the chance to do so with relative safety
• The government can regulate limits on how much can be sold at a time and the maximum quantities of packages/doses
• Additional cash flow in the economy much like we saw from legalising cannabis
• More direct assistance to those addicted to drugs by leading them to resources to kick their habits. A regulated market ensures those already under the influence can’t purchase until they’re sober, unlike the unregulated black market where addiction is seen as a positive due to repeat customers.
• Added freedom of bodily autonomy. If I want to try cocaine or heroin once assuming a relatively safe environment to do so, that should be my right.
• You can prevent the spread of bloodborne diseases by giving clean needles with the product for injected substances.

This is all a net positive. Where people see legalisation as the seeds of drug anarchy, it’d actually be the opposite, regulating the problem and thus decreasing the harms to the public caused by an unregulated market that faces a cruel cycle of addiction and incarceration.

Apparently they did some nerfing on Luna. I know she seemed OP, but I only just unlocked her getting credits from the dailies.

Ayyyy, based.

Thank fuck they’ll still have the stripes around.

Not to applaud corporations, but my biggest worry hearing about HBC shuttering was the point blankets. Those things are a cultural staple and afaik HBC was the only major place to get them.

“Guys, I just learned that the vegetables I eat are descendants of plants that grew on Pangaea. Can people help me distinguish what parts of Pangaea they grew on so I don’t support plants descended from modern American soil?”

Un-fucking-believable.

Man has a Minister of AI, but no Minister of Labour? This isn’t just bad for worker’s rights, it’s also terrible optics that Conservatives will be easily able to latch to in order to appeal more to the working class they regularly screw over.

Hey, putting everything else aside, just curious what you were trying to do with the <EDIT> stuff here. Is this some sort of feature I’m unaware of?

Genuine question, not trying to flare things up.

This just in, anybody I disagree with is a troll.

Look it’s clear that my take is unpopular, you don’t need to call me something I’m not as a result.

Okay but that 1.0 score in Quebec is fucking insane.

Funny you mention that. I’m down in Calgary now, but I was specifically thinking of how Millbourne Mall and other places would have the two publications next to one another with the newspaper boxes.

Think I remember hearing about that merge a while back, though that could be deja vu or whatnot as well. Was more than a few years ago now no?

Always hate how in many areas SUN is pretty much seen as a competitor to the bigger newspaper publications despite them being two of the same going back to the newspaper box days.

Makes me miss Metro and the Star Metro after that.

If I’m going to be completely fair, I’ve always mainly seen those as targeted for American audiences rather than towards Alberta.

Like you know what I mean, always thought of that as “oh, let’s make this out to be bigger than it is so we can sell it for a quick buck to the MAGA crowd” rather than as something they actually wanted to set a narrative on.

Guess those lines have kinda blurred since it’s become two of the same these days just about, so fair point.

Tell me you don’t know Alberta’s history of separatist sentiments without saying it explicitly.

Can we stop pretending this is a foreign astroturf? As someone living in Calgary, this is a very real thing here that people genuinely believe, with some having thought this for decades.

All the evidence is right in front of people’s eyes with Wexit parties being a not-so-distant memory to name the most recent example, and yet we jump to “Russia” or the U.S. as if they’re the main reasons these sentiments exist.

If someone talks about “foreign astroturfing” then give me evidence rather than hit me with this “hunch” people seem to purely base this off.

Continue going against Bernie. He still won’t call what’s happening in Palestine a genocide because he’s such a coward. Not that long ago he had pro-Palestine protestors removed from an event of his for unfurling the Palestinian flag, all this despite the crowd chanting “free Palestine”.

If you’re not calling it what it is, all you are is an enabler. I used to look up to the guy but his shameful unwillingness to use “the g word” only turns supporters away from him. Not calling it a genocide is a non-starter when every single fact points to that being the case. People aren’t blind, and this weakness from Bernie on this critical issue has made him lose countless supporters, of which who knows how many left politics altogether and stayed at home during the election as a result.

You either keep up the pressure, or find someone else willing to tell things as they are. If Bernie is so scared of stating facts on a human rights issue, then who’s to take his word that he’ll fight for anybody’s human rights if push truly comes to shove?

If Jamaal Bowman didn’t pull that damn fire alarm, he’d be a perfect example of someone (formerly) in office to look up to. In terms of commentators, been feeling homeless and left the U.S. sphere since Kyle Kulinski went radio silent in terms of a response to him saying it’s okay to deadname Caitlyn Jenner over her politics.

“in comparison to”, I’m not dismissing that this is still bad happening to Hasan.

And that wasn’t my point, I was using an over the top example to show where I’m coming from.

That’s not what I’m saying and you know you’re misconstruing what I’m saying here.

“Oh no, the economy’s in a downturn, thousands of people are losing their jobs, but let’s make an article about how that negatively affects Taylor Swift”

“New disease killing millions claims life of Ben Shapiro”

I’m not saying “this has happened to people before, suck it up buttercup”, I’m saying of all the people this is sadly happening to, this is the guy I care about the least. Replace Hasan with Alex Jones and tell me you’d give half a shit in comparison to anybody else facing this.

Just for convenience sake, this should help clarify my thoughts more: https://lemmy.ca/post/43998271/16513594

Long story short, nobody should be detained like this, but this has been happening for months now and I care more about things overall than Hasan specifically.

It’d be like if the government started arresting smaller newscasters and Alex Jones got caught up in the mix. Overall would care about this happening to people, not Alex Jones specifically.

Honestly? You make a good point.

Perhaps in regards to that I’ve misjudged him, but there’s still a number of things I think he’s said and done that have done more harm to left-wing politics in the states than good.

Not that it does anything, but I’ve gone ahead and downvoted myself on the initial comment. I don’t like deleting posts I’ve made, even if my mind has changed since making them.

I agree to an extent, but regardless, editing 7-8 videos taking hours of work should be paid. That this wasn’t until he went to the community’s subreddit about it is ridiculous. Video editors doing work for you is something that should by default be seen as paid work, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone to do it voluntarily.

The guy shouldn’t have made the assumption he had an editor position in the bag and that this was a guarantee, but Hasan having received and published this work shouldn’t have assumed it to be free cause nobody does that. It’d be a completely different story if Hasan never published the edited vids.

Hasan exploited my labour for YouTube videos

Hasan agrees to pay YouTube editor after “exploitation” accusations - Dexerto

Nobody edits multiple videos for a name as big as Hasan voluntarily, and if they do, good for them. With common sense this should have been interpreted as paid work.