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I saw cocaine destroy a lot of lives, including my own parents and family and connected people.

It is not a "safe" drug in the same way that caffeine or cannabis are.

I agree that it's "as safe as alcohol" because the people who's lives were destroyed by cocaine were also deeply addicted to alcohol and alcohol alone kills more people than "regular" drug overdoses every year and climbing.

As a species we're not capable of handling responsibility in the face of addictive substances. We're just not. We can't handle marketing and politics, how are we supposed to make better decisions about substances that make us feel pleasure?

I don't think that means prohibition and drug wars are the better alternative, but we can't just give everyone whatever they want without some kind of barrier or they will literally destroy themselves.

If you don't combine this with massive efforts to set up mandatory education on addiction and health, and create the same resources that other countries have who have decriminalized drugs, such as rehab centers and single-payer healthcare so people can get treatment immediately and without question, we're just going to see them used as another addictive tool to acquire and consolidate capital, and with lethal impact.

In the US particularly, people are too dumb, numb and tuned-out to handle pretty much anything responsibly. We already have tens to hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths a year, (not counting alcohol) so I could easily see that spiraling out of control if people had access to even more ways to harm themselves while feeling pleasure.

The entire criminal justice system needs a revolutionary overhaul, drugs are just one part of it. If we remove one thing without checking all the other things, we tend to just make pocket-vacuums that other horrible things fill.

While I don't care about people who want to do drugs, I don't believe for a moment that if cocaine didn't become legalized for recreational use that it wouldn't cause massive amounts of harm.

Speaking as someone who saw his father snort millions of dollars up his nose so he could appear functional while drinking like a fish all day, every day, and the damage it did on his family and future and prospects.

Our species isn't ready for responsibility. When left to their own choices, people do not make good choices for themselves or others. We absolutely need shepherding by organized institutions and groups of thinking people who can make plans for our continued function and growth.

I don't know if prohibition at all works for saving people from themselves, but I think we need a much larger effort broadly to get people to understand how their own minds and bodies work if nothing else. People still broadly have no clue how addiction works because they have no idea how their own brain works and the difference between feelings and facts. We're dumber than ever as a species, and getting dumber. We are too easily compromised by outside influence to make good decisions for ourselves or our communities. It's not going to get better. Nobody is coming.

Watch his messaging when he tours FOX and other right-wing podcasts and youtube channels. He talks to the right without without resistance or pushback from the hosts because he's advocating preservation of existing systems instead of actual overhaul to our nation's policies and financial systems.

He is likely going to be our next Obama. Charming and beloved by many, but secretly propped up by the billionaire class who want to keep feasting from the table of status-quo. Obama was a great leader, but as a president, he passed on very real opportunities to make lasting change over and over. He didn't exercise his power in any remotely overreaching way even when he had house and senate. He didn't pack the Supreme Court and didn't enshrine rights in any way that would protect people. He could have rammed single-payer healthcare through and been hated and loved by many, probably impeached, but we would have had something great from it.

We really need to do better as a nation understanding the different between leadership and management. And we need to pick people for our local and community elections that have these qualities. They are the ones who prop up the larger system and the ones who largely run unopposed because people are far more fascinated with Buttigieg's dazzling blue eyes than what their local comptroller believes.

Buttigieg is establishment democrat. Actually listen to him instead of doing what most people do, which is stare at him and wait for him to "say something gay" and then be impressed that he's such a great orator. He's never advocated for the social and financial overhaul that the US needs. He's argued that the system is sufficient for our best outcomes, the same system that is currently on fire.

This reminds me of Obama so much. On one hand it would be nice to have another leader who unites the country, but Obama wasn't necessarily good for our nation's long-term future. He was not a leftist or advocate for the poor, he was also establishment Dem/Liberal who passed every opportunity to create real and lasting change in the country.

Buttigieg is currently touring the right-wing spaces and dropping his messages there without resistance because he's advocating for preserving the wealth in the country. He's tacitly being endorsed by the billionaire class. They want a return to normalcy, and Buttigieg may have exactly what the country needs to get there, which is clear messaging, hypnotic blue eyes and an appeal to many men's latent curiosity about what what a strong homosexual male even looks like... or if nothing else, an avenue for libs and neo-libs to feel performatively progressive by dropping his name. It's enthralling to the masses and we should all be terrified.

He is going to be a strong candidate if we have elections again, and I would take him over Trump, but we need to understand what he is. He is NOT our leftist savior, he's barely more progressive than a liberal savior.

I want to make it clear, if he's the final candidate against like, Mecha Trump or Don JR or Vance or someone equally absurd, we all better push Buttigieg's booty up that hill and I will wave that rainbow flag along with everyone else. But we have to understand that it's a band-aid on a massive infected wound that's bleeding out.

Hey now, he didn't say he was working close with Trump, he said he was working closing with Trump.

I'm sure there's a distinct difference.

To stop insisting upon itself for like, five fucking minutes.

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer”.

Bruh, it's not game of thrones. People just need to work.

Burn all your tracking cookies associated with reddit, kill all your browsing history, then reset your router for a minute, then use a fresh e-mail and not a disposable one to register a new account. Using a VPN will also get you insta-flagged.

Keep in mind most subs will not let you comment or post without a karma history, find some large meme subs that let new accounts post and just say bland shit for a day.

I've been treated the same way, lost about 7 accounts each over 12 years old because some mod didn't like me telling off an incel and from there sent it to admins and from there it's been repeated bans and shadowbans.

I am done with reddit, I've seen behind the curtain in my time there, I know how bad it really is. The whole platform is now an AI training-bed and in some communities more than half the users appear to be bots. Very clever, very well-disguised, but you can tell if you check their history. They want to be able to control large-scale narratives and it's working.

But if anyone wants to try to keep fighting the bot army, you can create a new account by deleting all your reddit cookies and browsing history, resetting your modem for a minute, then making a new account with a new email. (Use Gmail or another name-brand on, they now shadowban accounts made from disposable emails.)

Also, do not use a VPN ever. Instant permanent shadowban, and you have to start all over.

From there you just need to establish some karma history so you can post. Memes and other content-grind subreddits let even new accounts last I checked.

If you don't want your account banned immediately, do not make political opinions, do not argue with anyone, do not sass reddit even through they deserve far worse. Don't reply to yourself or your alt accounts, they can now tell immediately. Do not report anyone, they now will use reporting as an excuse to ban you if they decide they don't like you.

Sometimes my ramen is a mosaic of everything I've ever forgotten about. In the back of the refrigerator.

Ideally, #3’s head on #1’s handle

This is the way.

This lemmy forum is far more about kids crying about authority existing than it is about actual structured critique of the business world and processes. It is absolutely exhausting hiring, and sadly most of the people here will never know that stress, and will hold onto these cartoonish notions that only elite, wealthy, privileged cartoon villains are the ones who make decisions who to hire and how.

Meanwhile, people like us have to somehow dance around pleasing both bosses and employees and potential employees without making mistakes that everyone seems to be looking for you to make with a hunger.

To bother you in particular.

China, now the leading global super-power, took drastic measures decades ago to make sure their population wasn't getting indoctrinated by outside influences.

They also used this power to cover up genocides and such, but I feel like a healthier balance could be maintained if we could just get our population to understand that their unfettered access to literally anything is like opening up a wound to the world's bacteria.

I love me a really well-made grilled-cheese sandwich, like with all the fixings and fancy bread. Truly one of life's pleasures.

But if gets moldy, even if it's no fault of my own, I will probably throw that shit away and pick another option. (This also kills the spread of the mold.)

Sure, and my point is maybe we all need to put away the internet entirely a little more often, it's literally killing us and the world.

Having been on every side of this issue, I can agree 100% that our current state of employment/job-hunting is abysmal, and this has everything to do with the claws of capitalism just sinking into our very souls every day and clawing out anything and everything that isn't the constant pursuit of wealth.

It shouldn't be this stressful to find a place where you can do something you don't hate for 8 hours. But our very lives depend on it, healthcare attached to it, our social value hinging on saying you have a job. It's really bad.

You're also right, something has changed. I'm old enough to have seen it on a much larger scale than most who use these sites. I remember before the internet, people were engaged and focused on issues, families gathered around the nightly news and presidential debates and then discussed them with their peers.

What we're seeing now is the result of America (and other nations) opening up an unchecked access-point for enemies, foreign and domestic, to subvert our very identity as a people. They (being a mixture of forces who want to slice off a piece of America's pie) used the KGB handbook word-for-word for years to amplify both sides of every discussion, every social issue and every political debate to absurd levels. Online allowed this to happen without any resistance and it's so easy to do that with a tiny amount of funding anyone can set it in action. There is no point or goal other than making online discourse so incredibly vitriolic, absurd, unreal, and disconnected from reality that people gradually tune out and stop caring about the actual issues that impact us all.

You saw this happen slowly and ramp up in the last several years, so we now have a population who do not trust science, do not trust their political representatives, they do not trust what they see online, they don't trust what they see on television, and they don't trust their neighbors. While at the same time, feeling that it's so inconsequential that there's no point in being involved anyway. If everything is bullshit and nonsense, why not just watch the latest Netflix series, browse facebook and laugh at everyone you don't agree with and go to bed.

The carnage is all people tune in for.

I do not see how Lemmy helps with anything other than allowing people another excuse for escapism and scrolling on the internet over actually developing life skills, seeing new sights, socializing with humans, getting better at understanding people, and actually making an effort to communicate with others, doing some small part to make the world better.