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As usual, the answer is "It's more complicated than that."

This presumes that there is demand for Wendy's.

Get back to killing adult men like god intended.

Because for a criminal proceeding, the accused must appear. Can't be in two places at once.

Decriminalization, controlled access, and treating people like humans instead of criminals is an excellent idea.

Global complete legalization of all drugs is not.

All drugs should be completely legalized globally.

In case you weren't able to see OP's post.

I was talking to OP’s opinion, which is different from yours.

I was talking to OP’s opinion, which is different from yours.

Poisonings and overdoses skyrocket.

Edit: Not to mention antibiotic resistance.

globalization

You dropped these:

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The actual government has been railing against the service for being a national security threat. Donald Trump was railing against CHYNA for a moment, before he got a hankering for some of that Xi.

Ellen Pao.

That's so reddit.

I'm gonna go a different direction here.

Silencing propaganda is how it expands more.

You cannot stop propaganda. Some of it will always get in. Banning the position being propagandized demands that observers choose sides. Some portion of those people are going to actively seek out the propaganda message to "make an educated decision" (bOtH sIdEs) Some portion of those people are going to buy into the propaganda.

On the other hand, if propaganda is not silenced, the response will be one of showing it to be bunk. This would serve to make the propaganda less effective. Yes, some people will still buy into it, but fewer people than if it had been silenced.

Think about it like scam emails. You can see by the awful grammar and spelling and nonsense email address that it's bullshit. The people who respond don't. They are more likely to fall for it. Silencing propaganda in one place doesn't silence it everywhere, but it does focus its message to people who are more likely to fall for it. They can then strengthen each other's belief by association, and begin expanding on their own.

It's why the big picture is that it's one giant propaganda machine, but when you look closer, it's a bunch of loosely or unrelated local "cells," operating independently. Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, plenty of others nobody had heard of, and the (as yet) less violent collections like Tea Party, Freedom Caucus.

It is far better to answer propaganda than to silence it, but we do all have to agree, as individuals, that that's what we do. The far-right has already decentralized, and reasonable people need to do the same thing. You don't have to be a registered Democrat, you don't have to approve of Biden; you can still contribute to having decisions in government made on the basis of objective reality. You may still not like the decisions made, but your differences will be political ones, and not ones of fact (for the most part).

Luckily, all it takes is standing up for your principles.

The Republican Convention this year is going to make 1968 Chicago look like a quinceañera.

Edit: Oh god, it's in Milwaukee. That's like seceding from the Union and then putting your new capitol city 100 miles from Washington DC.

Our subdivision was built in about 2004. They didn't put dark fiber in the ground, for some reason. It took about fifteen years for a private company to come in and lay fiber. I had Comcast/Xfinity at the time (I think it was 250Mb, and definitely asynchronous), who had already started sending out their promotions for gigabit internet service, so I called them up to see if I could get that. "That's only available if you get internet and TV and phone."

Oh, so you can give me just gigabit internet, but you won't give me just gigabit internet.

It was another year before the fiber service was lit, I was the first person to get it in my neighborhood, and it is absolutely fantastic.

Sure, but they really should be describing it as 10Gb (gigabit). Even that could easily get confused with 10GB (gigabyte), which would be used for a file size.

Or his daughter Isuzu.

Hey, isn't that the horse from Horsin' Around?

Yes, Christianity is an apocalyptic death cult.