US Politics: Bike tricks

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rietrot said:
Little bit ass backwards. You would think you change the legal status of weed first and then pardon everyone. At least this way he can pardon all the new jail inmates for the next presidential elections aswell.
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The law relates to simple possession of a controlled substance and not necessarily marijuana. Although not legalization or decriminalization it would be difficult ignoring any argument of equal treatment under the law to avoid prosecution for anyone charged for the exact same at least in the short term and with no extenuating or alternative charges.
 
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quovadis said:
The law relates to simple possession of a controlled substance and not necessarily marijuana. Although not legalization or decriminalization it would be difficult ignoring any argument of equal treatment under the law to avoid prosecution for anyone charged for the exact same at least in the short term and with no extenuating or alternative charges.
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cerebus said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/xz0d7c
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AMA, AAP and "evidence based" w.r.t. this topic :ROFL:

There's no rival organisation to the AMA and many doctors have no other option as they provide accreditation to hospitals. They can essentially end your career if you go against them. There's a reason doctors are trying to establish an alternative organisation.
Their letter to Merrick Garland is forcing down their ideology and clamping down on dissent.

But suuuuure lets listen to Jon Steward...

Oh and never forget the history.
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Remember when @greg0205 was posting every Twitter thread from the Lincoln Project? Good times. I'm downloading the documentary based on this article.

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A New Documentary Gives Us a Glimpse Into the Lincoln Project’s Hypocrisy

Like many ends-driven Trump voters, the Lincoln Project head honchos have made moral compromises, too.
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Worrying about the future of democracy is a luxury, after all — something you can dwell on when you’re not driven by religious mission or worried about the source of your next paycheck. That’s a dividing line in American politics, too. And as “The Lincoln Project” shows us, political consultants can forget which side of the divide they’re on. As the series follows the leaders of the Super PAC, on Zoom and at their headquarters in the ski resort town of Park City, Utah, we see glorious vistas, an impressive array of Patagonia jackets, and a series of home interiors worthy of spreads in Dwell. But the Lincoln Project founders also remember the days, as they were building their careers, when they made moral calculations of their own.
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And the series suggests one reason those battles over money and power seem inevitable: Success in this arena has made some people very, very rich. Some Lincoln Project founders seem at least mildly conflicted that the work that brought them so much material wealth also laid the foundation for Trump’s rise. “Is making money out of an outrage machine helping democracy or is it hurting it? And after 30 years, does it wear on your soul? ****, yeah,” co-founder Mike Madrid says as he paints what looks like a fresco in his Sacramento home.

But wealth does more than just weigh on these people’s consciences. It creates a blind spot, a disconnect between the heady thinking of the political elite and the way many voters actually behave. Many accounts of Red State America — including Farah Stockman’s recent book American Made, about Indiana workers displaced when their bearing factory moves to Mexico — show how macro-level political and economic decisions, abstractions for people with graduate degrees, can be real-life catastrophes for workers on the frontlines. And people will vote for their own survival before they vote for the nation’s.
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