Can we at least get cocaine back in the soft drinks?

  • wakko@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Just remember - we’ll get out of this the same way we got out of it the last time.

    We’ll do it just as soon as enough folks realize last time wasn’t resolved peacefully.

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      6 hours ago

      The saddest thing, and excuse me if I’m sounding blunt or flippant. But as I shake my head, what low levels of ok’ness so many American people have been conditioned & duped into believing that “as long as I’m not bothered” then it’s all good mentality. Given the current & recent optics, gas prices are getting some a little worked up about stuff. But sadly I digress.

    • Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      If last time’s violence was so great, why did we still get this time? And every other time before that where violence bought a reprieve during which evil was given every advantage to regain what it lost and more? It has never solved anything for longer than a generation, and even then deals were being made in secret to preserve the evil, by the very champions of “good”.

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        No solution is permanent. And violence isn’t technically the fix either.

        The problem is you can’t solve certain problems from within the broken system. It’s possible to go outside the system but without violence but it’s rare. The violence is what enables outside system fixes to be possible and those have been of varied quality.

        It’s not what we do when we’re violent, it’s what we do immediately afterwards that matters.

        Nonviolence often just means you don’t get to make any meaningful changes at all, because they aren’t going to just let you vote them out of power and into to jail.

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        6 hours ago

        Because people stopped doing violence and said “violence is wrong, we can resolve the system through the system” except the system was captured by the rulers.

  • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    We’ve got some new options in loosely regulated pharmaceutical beverages. It’s no cocaine, but I do really love THC infused tea, hop the wave makes some great shit.