Riccosuave @ Riccosuave @lemmy.world

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You fail to take into account that basically 90% of the cannabis industry is owned by white people, many of whom are alt-right counterculturists, and more of them than you'd think are pro-Trump.

It turns out that an industry built around people with a tenuous appreciation for the law are often easily coopted by a demagogue who constantly threatens to overthrow the government.

They serve the same masters, and are on the same team. It doesn't matter what all of the 2025'ers think they are going to get. Trump is going to do what is good for him to remain in power, and removing other white people from positions of ownership in a sin-taxed industry that is coopted by the government isn't one of those things.

What you believe is irrelevant. I have seen the beast from the inside, and I can tell you for a fact that cannabis is staying legal as long as it is profitable for the white robber barons.

It is billions in taxes per year.

That is already happening. They don't need to make cannabis illegal again in order to monopolize the industry. All that takes is time, money, and effective lobbyists.

You clearly don't know shit about legal cannabis. This will never happen in a million fucking years regardless of who is in office.

There is too much economic infrastructure built out around the industry now, and the states & federal government make a fortune in tax revenue. There is literally a zero percent chance cannabis legalization is rolled back further than where it is today.

Source: worked in the cannabis industry for almost 15 years.

Also: actual fucking traitor.

I ain't going out without a fight. I guaran-fucking-tee you that.

There's nothing more dangerous than a cornered animal as they say...

Fair.

Not to be pedantic, but aren't those two things intrinsically connected at some level?

Even if they learned exactly like humans do, like so fucking what, right!? Humans have to pay EXORBITANT fees for higher education in this country. Arguing that your bot gets socialized education before the people do is fucking absurd.

Nice, uhhh....username ya got there....I think....

I was here for the beans and the jeans, but what's this about weird wizard spells?

That was a good read. Definitely worthy of a save. Thanks for sharing fellow Lemming!

I don't have any skin in the game as I am allergic to both cats and vegans.

However, I think this is kind of interesting because it is going to be one of the first major pieces of Lemmy Lore that a large amount of the userbase is aware of.

In a weird way it means we are forming the bonds of a real community, and even though this is clearly an antagonistic topic it is going to be a lasting piece of history that for better or worse defines our culture.

I don't understand why you are getting downvoted. This was an incredibly salient point.

What we are observing is that regardless of our vast technological progression, a statistically significant percentage of the population continues to suffer from a clinical form of emotional retardation that has severely stunted their ability to think rationally, to feel empathy, or in many cases both.

At some point our species is going to have to learn how to correct for this aberration, or we will reach an untimely evolutionary dead end.

I think you mean teXas 😂

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself...