But in the meantime it is still a law and breaking that law for recreational use is a choice.

You do realize you don’t have to actually consume drugs to be arrested? Brown kid sells someone weed to some prep school kids so he can help at home - guess who’s going to jail? Before decriminalization in DC which Jason “the quitter” Chafftez from Utah tried to derail) the rate of routine pot use amongst whites and…

I would say not sending people to prison for recreational drug use helps them more than one iota. There is a lot wrong with the illicit drug industry, but sending people who aren’t “criminal scumbags” to prison doesn’t magically solve the problem. People who misuse and abuse drugs need TREATMENT, not prison.

Yes, but one point is it’s not an equal choice for all groups of people. Many people use substances as self-medication because they’ve been traumatized, for example. And who is more likely to be traumatized? People who are poor and live in dense, urban housing. It’s interesting that you say people can just move to a…

A majority of Americans at some point use illegal drugs, though. “Move somewhere it is already in use” is what rich people do already do. And if you’re referring to weed, that would be out of the country from a federal perspective which isn’t feasible to some of the most vulnerable populations not to mention many sick…

I did retail part-time and then full-time for 7 years. It made me hate humanity, no joke.  

It’s a form of attrition, as I understand it. The employee is constantly interacting customers, one after the other, while the customer is only interacting with that employee once, or maybe a few more times. From the employee’s perspective, it’s a nonstop barrage of bullshit, while from the customer’s perspective,…

Nah in this case it actually helps. The fact that someone would be willing to do that even if its a act of macho bravery makes it more legit in the sense that this isnt just a crazy woman crying hysteria while the attendant was just “doing his job”. (huge run on sentence, i know)

Any customer service job in this day and age has the potential to reduce even the most gentle, empathetic, calm and composed individual into a raving lunatic in about fifteen minutes. Everyone is so damn self-interested. No one gives a crap if they inconvenience or even endanger another. Look at how many people still…

I like how he started shit because a baby was ... not injured? and then said he didn’t want to make a big deal of it... while talking to a fucking news crew. Yeah okay broseph, you’re a real hero

She won more votes than many recent presidents. She only lost because of poorly distributed ballots based on an archaic system that favours rural voters over urban (i.e. the majority). And I’m not even mentioning the possibility of Russian interference and/or rigging on behalf of Trump.

“on one issue”

Trump has golfed basically every third day he’s in office. At places he owns of course, so the government is paying his businesses on a nearly constant basis.

ok turnout in NYC and DC but I was really hoping for more. I think next weekend, Earth Day, is an even more appropriate day to march given the war on the environment 45 has unleashed.

This, a million times, this! Where are the corporations, the gay men, the religious groups that will agitate for normal human rights for gay people, but not for women? I feel like we are back in the early 1960's anti-war movement, when the head of the SNCC claimed proudly that, “the only position for women in the…

There’s also another part to it. The oldest way to spred a religion is by having lots of babies. An abortion or birth control means one less voter, one less potential Christian, one less ally to Republican Christians. They want to make sure their wives can’t avoid having children, so they can brainwash the child into…

Ask any “pro-lifer” how many kids they’ve adopted. Ask them how much they’re willing to put out for the women who are forced to give birth to unwanted children—will they pay for the childcare, the healthcare, food, shelter, schooling. Pretty much shuts down the entire argument.

The fact that women have voluntarily had sex with men throughout time despite all the ways that men shit on them and all the consequences that women bear from sex with men goes a long way to disprove any stereotype about women not having a sex drive etc. When I read the news and see what is happening, it makes me want…

I’ve really crossed over in the last few years between thinking that these attacks were about abortion to realizing that it’s really just an expression of their hatred of women and the poor. Closing low income clinics and restricting access to cheap birth control is a way to get them both at once. Then when you…

The best response would be for women to stop having sex with men, just to be safe.