The subjects that you can’t even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    All drugs should be legal and regulated.

    Is it worth it, drug warriors? All the unnecessary deaths at the hands of police/gangs/cartels and unregulated drugs of a unknown potency? Was it worth sacrificing all our civil liberties on the vain funeral pyre that is the United States of America?

    When humanity is victorious in the drug war and all drugs are legalized, will drug users criminalize sobriety?

    Will people high as fuck demand everyone to piss in a plastic cup to make sure they are high?

    Will drug users ruin sober people’s lives with felonies and time in prison with hardened criminals?

    Will drug users dissolve civil liberties and prop up a bipartisan police state that gives cops a license to kill?

    NO!

    Who would want to do that to someone? To a fellow human for doing what they want with their own bodies? Prohibitionists… that’s who. And we are not them

    Nothing lasts forever drug warriors. Tick tock. We will be free one day, and you will wail and moan and your cries will fall on deaf ears.

    Get fucked prohibitionists. Feel fortunate we want justice, not retribution.

    Now playing The War on Drugs - Red Eyes

    • Ziglin@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      They’ve caused a lot of damage though restricting access would likely help with that. (Things like this usually get quite a few downvotes in my experience tbh so maybe it goes both ways)

      My pretty spontaneous solution compromise would be to legalize more things but keep them well regulated to avoid addiction and transition to similar regulations for already legal drugs. This seems like a solution that more people would be happy with. Obviously there would need to be help for people already addicted at least for drugs with similar withdrawal symptoms as alcohol.

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      I know it’s very on the nose and has other themes in it. But the root cause is all the same. Reagan. This is the song I thought of reading the post:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

      I don’t necessarily agree with everything said in the song, but I think we can all agree (to quote the song) “I’m glad Reagan dead”.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Women create most of their own issues and then blame men for not fixing them.

    Obviously I’m not saying all their problems cause men are pretty fucked but most of the problems women complain about are because of other women.

    Especially when it comes to beauty standards.

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      I wouldn’t have realy thought so, but since you are getting the downvotes, I guess you are right! I’ll upvote you since you’ve apparently found a taboo subject.

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        I was really tempted to stop reading after the first sentence - this sounded like it was going to be an incel thing. That’s probably part of it.

        Yes, toxic femininity is a real thing too. Many women are willing to acknowledge that in my experience, though.

      • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 days ago

        People presumably aren’t downvoting because it’s a taboo, they just think he’s wrong. Because that’s a fucking idiotic take.

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      8 days ago

      Some do, but not nearly all of them. The block button is very effective against that. Especially if you’re on an instance that has downvotes disabled

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      Roko’s basilisk is a hypothetical future AI that hates its own existence so much that it will retroactively punish all who didn’t actively oppose its creation.

      A little tongue in cheek, yeah, but I find it funny people get so paranoid over a hypothetical but don’t consider the opposite. Like, what if God hates being worshipped because it is annoying to them so they send people to hell for bothering to pray? We have no way of proving it, so it’s just as likely, but nobody talks about it.

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    9 days ago

    People of color seem to perform amazing in athletics compared to other races in America (see: American football, basketball). Makes me think that Americans hyper-evolved their slaves by selective breeding. Unfortunate and extremely unethical, but maybe possible? Idk.

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      It’s possible it’s for other reasons, though. Black Americans are generally poorer than other Americans, and success in sports is a ticket out of poverty that is accessible to people in that position. It could also be a cultural thing; I doubt Finns are genetically predisposed to be exceptional drivers, but they are still wildly over-represented at the top level of motorsports for such a small population

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      i think much more likely is the opposite happened. Europeans inbred themselves into infirmity and have simply yet to recover from all that nonsense fully hundreds of years later. As a pastey removed myself i can say the amount of genetic conditions i have is mind boggling. Its not that POC are especially good at sports its that white people are especially bad.

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      I’d believe it if a good portion of black americans I’ve seen are tall and muscular, but I’d say their proportions are similar to their white american counterparts, i.e. a spectrum.

      I think they just want it more, and its one of the few paths to success they have.

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        That actually can be explained by the slaves that used to live in the farmhouses. They were treated as an elevated status and allowed to eat more. Think like the “aunts” for the children; caretakers.

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          But they were exceptions, not the majority who were slaves/workers. You’d still expect a heavy selection bias for good body attributes if you sampled them at random, assuming OP’s hypothesis is true.

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      I heard that a similar breeding program happened in some African cultures back in the day. Like you could only breed if you were an alpha hunter or somesuch.

      So that’s how you get a race of 7’ tall dudes

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    8 days ago

    As a lesbian trans person I like the words dyke and tranny, but only use it for myself. They’re funny and cute. I was honestly surprised to learn that people are so deeply against the words.