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Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants
and including their "ilk" makes your proposal untenable (and, at least here, illegal).
Since we both agree about these people, lets both agree to leave them out of the discussion from now on.
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Unless you get it through your head that "Right-wing" doesn't automatically mean evil, no more than Left-wing does, I don't believe there's any way you can come to a rational perspective regarding this.
You say I'm being irrational but perhaps you don't understand the rationale. Evil is often too strong a word but its a spectrum. The worst of the left are the ones who stray from intellectually preposterous ideas about equality over the lone to committing violence not in defence of those ideas but in the silencing of contradictory ones. I could start a whole other thread about some of those ideas in light of a disagreement I was involved in with a bunch of American lefties not long ago and I suspect you and I might be in agreement on a lot of what that discussion centred around.
The right though is a spectrum that ranges from the genuinely violent intolerant extremists down to those who simply fail to act against them in exchange for personal gain. I can totally understand voting for favourable tax or economic policies if you think it will benefit you or your family or better yet your local community, but when you have to ignore racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, religious intolerance and whatever else, sometimes to violent levels but often to very spiteful and vitriolic levels, well theres a famous quote that applies about all that is required for the triumph of evil.....
The irony of the side that is most strongly associated with intolerance of all kinds asking the other to see things from their POV is not lost.
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Ex. I may disagree with Antifa's message, but as long as they aren't violent or infringing someone else's liberties, I'll wholeheartedly defend their right to say what they want.
Its a pity that this sort of attitude can't win the Republicans enough voters to win elections without needing to pander to the extremists that will always prevent the left from "seeing things from their point of view".
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I see no proof that's the case at all. "Restriction" and free expression don't mix, ever, and adding qualifiers to it only creates loopholes to be exploited.
When I was young I spent plenty of time entertaining myself with my toys or books, or simply some blank sheets of paper and drawing implements. Nowadays parents seem to think their precious little bundles have to be fully entertained for every waking hour of the day. Typically this seems to involve being plonked in front of a Disney movie on repeat or being handed an iPad to button bash or slobber over. When I said I was bored, I was told to go and find something to do. I get a sense that doesn't often happen these days. Kids end up with stunted imaginations before they even get going.
Add in the 'every child gets a trophy for participation' policies, the health and safety overkill that means you can't eat mud or climb trees anymore and you have quickly raised young teenagers that don't know how to handle hardship, difficulty, boredom, rejection, losing and a raft of other everyday things that life will throw at you long before you are really equipped to deal with more complex political concepts and ideas.
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I'm not talking about children, these are adults in college.
These discussions would go a lot more smoothly if you didn't insist on abusing every shred of credit I give you. By 'kids' in this context, I meant college kids.
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Before then their parents or guardians are responsible for them, and as much as SJWs and Evangelicals want to make hay over "dangerous content" online, just like with violent video games, there is no proven connection between mere access to said content and negative behavior. Just like an entire generation wasn't "lost" due to exposure to rock-n-roll, despite Jerry Falwell's predictions.
I don't know why you might think I have a problem exposing anyone to such things. Most of that stemmed from absolute ignorance of the subject matter and the typical disingenuous abuse of the unknown-but-scary-looking/sounding to further someone else's agendas.
The one exception being that parents whether they like it or not are going to have to find ways of dealing with childhood exposure to pornography at much earlier ages than previous generations. In the 80s the closest we got to naked women was the top shelf in the newsagent, the odd flash if we stayed up past the TV watershed or builders leaving their copy of The Sun (is Page 3 something you guys are aware of?) in skips on rural building sites. Nowadays kids under 10 are easily exposed to all manner of hardcore video online without even trying to be and even the most puritanical parents need to have some constructive input instead of clamming up and getting furious or embarrassed about it. Its already warping teenaged minds about what is and isn't normal in bed.
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So, allegedly, Trump was so mean to Sessions he had to run out of the room, and Pence had to go calm him down.
I remember this from grade school.
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Not enough for him to resign, sadly.
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I'll take one "recused devil I know" please.
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I know. It's a fair point in uncertain times but I wouldn't hesitate to say we're better off if he resigned either.
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"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
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Can't know whose idea it was, but either Jeff Sessions or Georgetown law thought he needed a safe space
Also, irony
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Testifies in front of congress today; Democrats told him to bring a list of topics he will be invoking executive privilege on.
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Asked why Trump took so long to fire Comey giving his reasoning, Sessions literally froze for three seconds before asking for the question to be repeated.
...and we're still in the schroedingers executive privilege zone.
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Very odd exchange regarding whether Sessions has been contacted by Mueller. Went through some semantic lawyering before Sessions flatly denied it. Then Blumenthal implied he knew he was lying. Sessions followed up that's he'd ask for confirmation from his office then got a note later confirming he has not been contacted. What the hell was Blumenthal on about?
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Sessions being dragged in front of the House Judiciary the 14th. Stock up on popcorn as appropriate
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Sessions being dragged in front of the House Judiciary the 14th. Stock up on popcorn as appropriate
At this point I'm waiting for Sessions to assert executive privilege over exchanges he had with Trump during the campaign. Anyway will be listening to the last ve stream.
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Sessions is investigating appointing a special counsel to look into the pay to play scheme known as the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One deal.
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Three days after CA legalized recreational pot, DOJ is supposed to be rescinding it's policy of non interference
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Three days after CA legalized recreational pot, DOJ is supposed to be rescinding it's policy of non interference
Jeff Sessions has issued the memo. However, it doesn't do anything by itself.
Ken White, a lawyer and former federal prosecutor, has done a lawsplainer on this. Cliff notes: Congress has forbidden spending money on marijuana enforcement, if state laws are being complied with. And federal prosecutors don't have the resources to prosecute more than a handful of examples, even if Congress changed the law.
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The US prosecutor for Colorado has said Sessions' move will not change how his office approaches the issue.
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Originally Posted by reader50
Cliff notes: Congress has forbidden spending money on marijuana enforcement, if state laws are being complied with. And federal prosecutors don't have the resources to prosecute more than a handful of examples, even if Congress changed the law.
That leaves me scratching my head. Why do this? Is this something that can be overturned in the upcoming funding negotiations?
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
That leaves me scratching my head. Why do this? Is this something that can be overturned in the upcoming funding negotiations?
There's concern in the industry that, now that there are actually financial institutions beginning to pop-up that are willing to work with (i.e. take their deposits) marijuana producers/distributors/retailers, that gives Sessions an indirect, fully Federal, path to hurt the industry by seizing their financial assets. Even state-chartered credit unions and the like have to have a master account with the Federal Reserve (in order to tap into the nation's monetary stream.) Once they receive a master account, the banking institution would now be subject to Federal law which forbids financial institutions doing transactions with the industry due to MJ's Schedule 1 status.
It's possibly a sneaky back-door way to hurt the industry without directly running afoul of state laws or, it is hoped, the Congressional mandate not to spend money on marijuana enforcement. Tearing-up the memo just removes a possible impediment.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
That leaves me scratching my head. Why do this? Is this something that can be overturned in the upcoming funding negotiations?
Session's opinion on Mary Jane is well-known, I think it is just a boondoggle for his fans and himself. But more importantly, I think it points to the central problem, namely that federal and state laws as they are now are incompatible. Cannabis should IMHO be legalized and regulated, and that requires an act of Congress.
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So, Magoo has formally announced his federal lawsuit against California over the state’s stance on immigration, sanctuary areas, and the recently-enacted state law restricting law enforcement from helping the feds. Gov. Brown’s response is that the lawsuit will last longer than the Trump administration. I have to wonder if Sessions is jonesing for a ruling clearly finding that Federal law always has primacy over state law, no matter what. He might see that as a green light to go after the legal weed states, too.
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Originally Posted by Thorzdad
So, Magoo has formally announced his federal lawsuit against California over the state’s stance on immigration, sanctuary areas, and the recently-enacted state law restricting law enforcement from helping the feds. [...] I have to wonder if Sessions is jonesing for a ruling clearly finding that Federal law always has primacy over state law, no matter what. He might see that as a green light to go after the legal weed states, too.
Legally speaking, the situation on immigration is very different from that on weed: local law enforcement is not obliged to cooperate with ICE as immigration is a federal matter. And in the past the Supreme Court has placed limits on ways that the federal government can coerce or entice state governments to do act the way they want them to (by making federal funding contingent on compliance with other, perhaps unrelated federal policies). Have a listen to Episode 18 of What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law.
I'm very much in favor of the legalization of weed, but here the story is a lot more murky. I find it quite weird that there may be such a large rift (to put it mildly) between federal and state laws. Citizens aren't served by this, businesses aren't served by this and the faith in government suffers. As a matter of legal principle, I think that here federal laws should trump state laws. At the very least, Congress should delegate the authority to legalize weed completely to the states. Or better: legalize it outright everywhere. (Here, the fact that federal law should supersede state law works to the advantage of legalization advocates.)
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It would be nice if Congress did that. But ATM, the federal government is significantly out of step with the majority of voters. In general, states are seen as closer to the public (and local government closer still) allowing some relief from blanket federal policies.
I view the rift as a healthy response. The feds are ignoring the public, while state governments are somewhat more responsive. It's making it harder for the feds to ignore how far out of touch they are, while it gives some relief to the citizenry. If the states didn't have some degree of independence, ignored citizens would feel shut out of policy. Matters would stew, until civil disobedience turns into rebellion. Other countries have followed this route, while we have a safety valve.
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Originally Posted by reader50
It would be nice if Congress did that. But ATM, the federal government is significantly out of step with the majority of voters. In general, states are seen as closer to the public (and local government closer still) allowing some relief from blanket federal policies.
I view the rift as a healthy response. The feds are ignoring the public, while state governments are somewhat more responsive.
If we are on the subject of how things ought to be and how to best effect change, I'm on your side. But ultimately the problem is the broken political system, and this feels like an unstable loophole at best. What kind of protections can states afford to, say, people who run businesses to grow Mary Jane and are compliant with state law? It also prevents such business from trading across state lines. Operating under this, well, loophole seems more like jerry rigging the US's political system than finding a good solution to a political problem.
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It's making it harder for the feds to ignore how far out of touch they are, while it gives some relief to the citizenry. If the states didn't have some degree of independence, ignored citizens would feel shut out of policy. Matters would stew, until civil disobedience turns into rebellion. Other countries have followed this route, while we have a safety valve.
I'm all for federalism, I'm a big fan. (Germany has a very strong notion of federalism for historical reasons, but its political system is flexible enough to re-balance the responsibilities of federal governments and states.) But as far as I can tell drug laws are federal laws in the US, and I don't know under which constitutional or legal provision state laws would carve out exceptions here.
Overall, I think it is more important to be consistent here than convenient. A lot of other things that I agree with could be squashed if states carved out exceptions to counteract federal laws.
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Start the clock on shutting down Mueller?
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You'll be shocked to hear, but the acting AG is not a fan of the Mueller investigation.
But he won't fire him. Instead, he wrote an op-ed on CNN.com about how he'd neutralize it by cutting off all funding.
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Jeff Sessions wasn't just about the Mueller inquiry. There's also his yearning for 90s-style drug wars.
Matthew Whitaker is the new acting AG. Wonder if he also wants to resume a war on pot.
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Whitaker was Session's chief of staff at the DoJ, so I'd say he'll continue his war on pot.
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One last **** you to black people on his way out the door: https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1060733537572323329
Breaking News: In a last-minute act, Jeff Sessions drastically limited the Justice Dept.’s ability to initiate overhauls at police departments accused of abuse
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In this panel discussion from '14, Whitaker expresses his belief that federal judges should have a biblical world-view.
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LIndsay Graham 2017: "holy hell to pay" if Sessions is fired
LIndsay Graham 2018: Jeff Sessions who?
LIndsay is off the christmas card list.
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Originally Posted by OAW
The thing is ... for the vast majority of people to enjoy "recreational use" of marijuana that means somebody is involved in interstate "trafficking" to one degree or another.
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and what should do people who suffer? Their pain is impossible to overcome. Do you know how many people have a medical prescription? In the USA, cannabis is now legal for medicinal use in 31 states, and for recreational use in nine. A recent survey found that 62% of Americans think that weed should be legal, a percentage which has doubled since the year 2000 when just 31% of people supported cannabis. As of 2016, a massive 122 million Americans admitted to having used marijuana at some point during their lifetime. http://https://www.marijuanabreak.co...istorical-data
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