things you're secretly kinda fascisty about

I don't know much in the way of babbies but I do know that 6 week old ones are still very very small.

that is small, ime many of them can't even use simple survival tools like i dunno can openers or microwaves til at least a year

FMLA

seriously don't know, hard to imagine this is not fuck my life, america

back to spirit of thread and points previously touched upon:-

Murderers, rapists, child abusers and ppl driving slowly in the fast lane would be dealt with a minimum of expense to the public purse

just as jesus would have wanted it

nice to see deems expanding on those progressive views he trailed before

jesus hadn't the troika to placate iirc

the other 67%?

Schlump - Family and Medical Leave Act

this isn't the 'expand upon yr progressive views' thread tbf- i di bleev that's all the other threads

This is a fascist safe thread imo

otm this is where facists come together and express themselves openly, and nobody judges them, it's a liberating and accepting environment

I mean, not that liberating, I guess

yeah i mean obv if you say the wrong thing itt the secret police are gonna have a field day, it's not 'safe' safe

ppl driving slowly in the fast lane

o god yes! this probably belongs more in the "things that make you irrationally angry" thread, but there should be signs on every public arterial explaining that when traffic is heavy you should not be in the leftmost laneS unless you are passing someone and/or travelling faster than the general speed of traffic.

also there should be signs on every smaller road explaining that you MUST stop for ALL pedestrians, even at unmarked intersections, even if they're just waiting to cross. i fantasize about suddenly having untold riches and being able fund PSAs to this effect.

Schlump - Family and Medical Leave Act

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 February 2012 00:25 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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i have a lot of rules abt driving, but max has already outlawed cars, so

is it fascisty in this context to say i don't support legalizing hard drugs? i'm never sure if the status quo is just pro-marijuana or pro-legalizing everything. idc about pot but i don't like hard drugs and would fear a world where corporations would be able to advertise them.

ya pretty fascisty

also rich people should be illegal

to clarify i am against the drug war and the way it's been executed but i'm not willing to swing in the other direction, personal experience w/things sort of trumps s3 of the wire for me

*swing entirely in the other direction

yeah i'm not in favor of legalizing drugs either

well duh, cause nobody would need a pharmacist

you wanna be the only oxy dealer in town

I've secretly wanted everybody that disagrees w/ me to be dead

then usually i wake up in a cold sweat many miles away from home

i am not in favor of legalizing all drugs. only certain drugs. and i'm totally cool with them turning into profitable industries as a result. look forward to the day when "big buzz" has lobbyists defending the placement of weed vending machines in school lunchrooms.

oxy and prostitutes, see your friendly druggist xxxp

i'm honestly cool with all drugs being legal just cuz i'll be loling when drug dealers move onto other product like kazoos

zachylon, legalization of a drug doesn't require it to be unregulated. I imagine that heroin, if it became legal, would be treated more as a state monopoly than as an ordinary consumer product, with colorful packaging, a dozen flavors, and glossy full-page brand-driven magazine ads.

i don't really support state monopolization either

and i'm talking abt amurrca here -- anything that is regulated can quickly become unregulated given the right congress/potus.

http://i.imgur.com/vSLmq.jpg

I dunno I can imagine some interest groups that would be against heroin being legally purchased at a gas station

by interest groups I mean 'basically everyone in america'

true. but i'm still going to be fascisty about it.

i don't really support state monopolization either

well, wishing real hard that it will all go away on its own doesn't exactly work, you know.

there are more than two options available. there are plenty of countries with fewer drug-death rates than the US that got there without legalizing everything.

tell me more

people who die from use of the drug are just a small piece of the problem

i'm all for legalizing drugs and using tax proceeds to fund free rehab for anyone who wants it. which sounds crazy but its better than the body count/generations in prison/corrupt for-profit jail/police seizure racket going on now.

FYI, FMLA leave only applies to companies with over 50 employees and to employees who have worked a certain number of hours in the past 12 months (works out as roughly part time). So no dice if you work for a small company or if you can't get enough hours or got pregnant right after you started working. And as it's for all medical leave, if a woman has a complicated pregnancy and needs bed rest for the last month, for example, she's already used up 1/3 of it before that baby is even born.

yes if drugs were legalized free rehab would have to be a big part of it, but again, american govt -- there is too massive a section of our political spectrum who would demand that free rehab be cut in favor of tax cuts to the rich. nothing is set in stone.

xp Despite all that, it's still one of our better employment laws because a employee can sue for triple damages of she can show that an employer willfully violated the act. :|

close every single wal-mart forever

i'd be willing to support a flag burning amendment if it included a proviso that all confederate flags must be forcibly confiscated and publicly burned

xp

just need to be sure you understand that people will continue to use drugs of all sorts, regardless of legality or not, ease of access or not, free rehab or no rehab, or whatever song and dance society attempts to use to control drug use. people have always used drugs. every culture has its approved or tolerated drugs. whenever new drugs become available in a culture, no matter how dangerous, that drug finds new users. the only relevant question is not how to stop people from killing or harming themselves with drugs, because you can't do that (except as a goal you will often fail to achieve) but how do you keep the damage down to the smallest social cost.

hating that drugs foul people up and ruin their health and dull their minds is not a position on what to do about that. Legalizing, at its very root, means you stop regulating drug use by treating users as criminals and locking them in prisons. After you accept that idea as sensible, then you can try to construct a different approach to minimizing the social cost of drugs... or else you can stick with making criminals out of users.

as i said, i am against the drug war. i don't believe in the lock-everyone-up philosophy. i don't think that that is the answer. i also don't think that full legalization, even well-regulated legalization is the answer. i don't know the answer. policy isn't something i think about, i only think about where drugs are in my life and the part they play. we disagree, but can we at least agree that there are more than these two black and white options you're assuming i consider?

i'm just sick of industry and government making money off of misery. billions spent on keeping the drug war alive. in my fascist state the government doesn't make money off of addicts or dealers or cartels or the mob. it can take the revenue generated from taxed legal product though.

banning the lottery too.