• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    too bad both presidential candidates are old and conservative

    and Biden is Religious with a prosecutor for a vice president to boot who has backtracked on most of his campaign promises including his ones on cannabis which he did on day one of his presidency

    legalization is decades away and with states and Native Americans legalizing the trouble for citizens will only get worse

    there are already border patrol style policing going on at the borders of legal states, cities that are half recreational and or medical and half illegal, and thousands left imprisoned

    that is yet another failed promise wrangling in the police even going as far as turning a blind eye to cop city

    already a shit show and just going to get worse

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      8 months ago

      How is trouble for states and reservations going to get worse? Every year more nonviolent drug offenders are released. Not enough of them are being released but a token amount. There’s no legislation coming down the pipe to increase penalties for minor users and already delta-9 is legal and freely sold. Where are you getting your data?

      https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12270

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          8 months ago

          That does not qualify for the modifier worse. It’s still bad. But it’s not yet getting worse.

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            8 months ago

            Cop City

            Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops

            Corporations using prison labor

            More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people’s social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs

            Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public’s (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?)

            a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues

            the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more

            barely leave just for the grocery store anymore

            it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads

            fucking dystopian horror show like out there

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              8 months ago

              Yes policing in this country in general is getting worse. The school to prison pipeline using SROs to imprison children is abhorrent and you didn’t even mention it.

              However your initial argument is that weed convictions are getting worse. And there’s nothing to support that claim.

              What you are mentioning are general broad stroke ills that we have to, as Americans address by holding our leaders accountable, voting in local elections and uplifting marginalized intersectional voices to the national level.

              Shit is dire, but we have to be specific and precise in our criticism or we’ll be discounted outright.

              Leftists have to work so much harder to even be heard let alone change anything, and we cannot do that without precise irrefutable positions and easily understood and concise points.