i often say every day i become more maoist lol
i often say every day i become more maoist lol
it will never happen. most european states’ “sovereignty” is not real and they are more or less de facto vassals of the empire. the idea that a state like NL could “pivot to china” just isn’t feasible. quick way to get US marines running up your beaches.
yeah the story and characters in 5 pale in comparison to 4
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ive seen people say most country subreddits are just full of racist Canadians lol
fair enough lol i did spend a few minutes deciding
it’s so prevalent in american leftists lol
yeah sorry I didn’t think that was your intention but others in the thread are doing it from what’s clearly a latent libertarian mindset.
making gambling illegal is harm reduction.
i have to say i get the urge cause I’m an alcoholic and a smoker but I recognise in a utopian view of the future those things are hopefully going away lol. it’s a knee jerk reactionary urge that ppl need to learn to recognise and fight in themselves
it’s driving me nuts lol. sorry to debatelord but clearly people learned that drug prohibition doesn’t work (true) and are drawing a complete false equivalency here.
making gambling illegal is harm reduction actually. it’s not a direct equivalency with drugs. you can make moonshine in your bathtub without detection, the govt has the power to shut down corporate gambling operations and I would bet ;) that most customers won’t bother moving to the underground option. (which can also be shut down much more easily than a drug ring) it is harm reduction. I don’t know why so many people feel the need to defend its existence here.
4 replies taking this obvious joke at least semi seriously lol i love this website
i know of people who have moved to Cuba I assume it’s a no Americans deal though lol
i agree its a total false equivalence here drugs and gambling are in fact different and one is a lot easier to stop people doing in harmful ways
it’s the same thing as prison abolition where secretly it’s not really that. I consider myself a drug liberationist but you can’t just let people kill themselves with heroin or take antibiotics whenever. there would still need to be mechanisms of control oversight and intervention. ultimately the goal is to transcend the need for these vices of course.
in a true utopian vision there would be little to no want for any of these things. I agree drug prohibition sucks but prohibition of drugs is different to prohibition of gambling. it’s hard to stop people making bathtub moonshine. gambling prohibition is harm reduction if done right because a small wager between friends is relatively harmless + ideally in socialism or whatever your buddy won’t be set up to take 10 grand bets off you and all your friends on the game. I’m largely a drug liberationist too but you need some control or at least oversight + intervention mechanisms. and I still believe in a utopian vision where all those vices will be more or less transcended. in end stage communism there will not be liquor stores where you can buy 2 litres of vodka at 4am, that’s harmful. I’m an alcoholic so maybe I do have contradictory views on this but I just deeply believe it’s a societal ill same as gambling. other drugs it’s more of a case by case basis. largely they are still bad, this is a lesson the left should have learned since the 1960s. but again in communism ideally people aren’t feeling the need to get strung out on heroin that shit is a palliative for living in capitalism. so when it comes to drugs it’s more of a utopian transcending the thing but gambling could be effectively tamped down under socialism. even under capitalism it’s probs better if it’s outlawed tbh. sorry it’s unstructured and probably repeated myself just typed my thoughts up very fast.
there’s a good (extremely bleak) trueanon on this ep 209 , also they recommended a book that sounds great addiction by design haven’t read but on my list a while
alcohol and gambling are indisputable societal ills and should be phased out in any kind of utopian vision. this is just libertarianism
too real lol