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TooMuchMajicBuss Franchise Player
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Sentient Meat wrote: |
Wait, so if wealthy people buy elections and manufacture laws that benefit them, this somehow makes them morally right?
It used to be the law that women couldn't vote, that blacks were 3/5ths of a human, that human could own other humans, that a man could rape his wife and beat his children...
Watch old films from the forties and see how many rich people are constantly drinking alcohol.
I think we all know people who were victimized by drinkers, whether by someone getting violent while they were drunk, forcing themselves on women, operating a motor vehicle.
Way more people have been injured or hurt by people drinking alcohol vs. smoking weed... yet because the alcohol is sanctioned by the power structure... drunks are more socially acceptable than weed smokers.
Stop being a sheep and think for yourself.
Every developed nation other than our country has free healthcare.
To a Swede what you are saying is as absurd as us paying for police or teachers.
A Harvard study estimated 45,000 Americans die annually from lack of healthcare.
Meanwhile we spend trillions on war to avenge 3,000 people who died 18 years ago.
Wouldn't it have been better to spend those trillions on healthcare and saved 810,000 American lives... instead of bombing children that grow up to hate our country because well, they were bombed?
Our nation was built on revolution not subservience.
If we just agreed with King George we'd still be British subjects right now. | Again - I couldn't agree more. As for the whole 'socialism' stigma - I spent a week working at a Canadian subsidiary of my company a few years back, and had a chance to sit in a room full of Canadians at a time when, in the U.S., certain politicians and their media puppets were making a huge deal out of Canadians 'hating' their health care system. I was feeling a bit mischievous, and the topic of a hospital visit came up. So I played the innocent stooge and asked them about how they had to wait for medical care, how they had no choice of doctors, how they spent so much... WOW did I get a reaction! They loved their health care system, and couldn't understand how Americans could be so stupid to let for-profit insurance companies dictate our health care. I just wish I'd recorded it. Some of them did apologize for claiming we're stupid, and instead turned to criticism of American media for brainwashing us. Point is, they unanimously debunked every right wing piece of propaganda I threw at them. About 'waiting lists', about 'choice of doctors', comparing their tax burden to what we pay for insurance, about the quality of care, you name it. When you walk in, the topic of conversation is your medical concern, not your insurance company. They consider health care a basic human right, not some privilege you have to earn. There was no ambivalence. I got a very clear, unambiguous answer to my unspoken question - the criticisms of socialized medicine put forth by the right in America are complete and utter Bull (bleep).
But yeah Kwame had a small amount weed on him, in the form of edibles. Too bad he wasn't visiting Oregon instead of Georgia. |
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TooMuchMajicBuss Franchise Player
Joined: 17 Sep 2008 Posts: 21092 Location: In a white room, with black curtains near the station
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Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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VicXLakers wrote: | TooMuchMajicBuss wrote: | So... just how stoned was Kwame when he was behind the wheel? |
google this...
Brown, who lasted in the NBA until the 2012-13 season and last played with Philadelphia, was a passenger in a van |
Thus the driving stoned criticism of Kwame is BS. |
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VicXLakers Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:44 am Post subject: |
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TooMuchMajicBuss wrote: | VicXLakers wrote: | TooMuchMajicBuss wrote: | So... just how stoned was Kwame when he was behind the wheel? |
google this...
Brown, who lasted in the NBA until the 2012-13 season and last played with Philadelphia, was a passenger in a van |
Thus the driving stoned criticism of Kwame is BS. | |
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VicXLakers Franchise Player
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AFireInside619 Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 2:06 am Post subject: |
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This is too much. I’m gonna go smoke some right now. |
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Sentient Meat Franchise Player
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Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 5:42 am Post subject: |
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TooMuchMajicBuss wrote: | Sentient Meat wrote: |
Wait, so if wealthy people buy elections and manufacture laws that benefit them, this somehow makes them morally right?
It used to be the law that women couldn't vote, that blacks were 3/5ths of a human, that human could own other humans, that a man could rape his wife and beat his children...
Watch old films from the forties and see how many rich people are constantly drinking alcohol.
I think we all know people who were victimized by drinkers, whether by someone getting violent while they were drunk, forcing themselves on women, operating a motor vehicle.
Way more people have been injured or hurt by people drinking alcohol vs. smoking weed... yet because the alcohol is sanctioned by the power structure... drunks are more socially acceptable than weed smokers.
Stop being a sheep and think for yourself.
Every developed nation other than our country has free healthcare.
To a Swede what you are saying is as absurd as us paying for police or teachers.
A Harvard study estimated 45,000 Americans die annually from lack of healthcare.
Meanwhile we spend trillions on war to avenge 3,000 people who died 18 years ago.
Wouldn't it have been better to spend those trillions on healthcare and saved 810,000 American lives... instead of bombing children that grow up to hate our country because well, they were bombed?
Our nation was built on revolution not subservience.
If we just agreed with King George we'd still be British subjects right now. | Again - I couldn't agree more. As for the whole 'socialism' stigma - I spent a week working at a Canadian subsidiary of my company a few years back, and had a chance to sit in a room full of Canadians at a time when, in the U.S., certain politicians and their media puppets were making a huge deal out of Canadians 'hating' their health care system. I was feeling a bit mischievous, and the topic of a hospital visit came up. So I played the innocent stooge and asked them about how they had to wait for medical care, how they had no choice of doctors, how they spent so much... WOW did I get a reaction! They loved their health care system, and couldn't understand how Americans could be so stupid to let for-profit insurance companies dictate our health care. I just wish I'd recorded it. Some of them did apologize for claiming we're stupid, and instead turned to criticism of American media for brainwashing us. Point is, they unanimously debunked every right wing piece of propaganda I threw at them. About 'waiting lists', about 'choice of doctors', comparing their tax burden to what we pay for insurance, about the quality of care, you name it. When you walk in, the topic of conversation is your medical concern, not your insurance company. They consider health care a basic human right, not some privilege you have to earn. There was no ambivalence. I got a very clear, unambiguous answer to my unspoken question - the criticisms of socialized medicine put forth by the right in America are complete and utter Bull (bleep).
But yeah Kwame had a small amount weed on him, in the form of edibles. Too bad he wasn't visiting Oregon instead of Georgia. |
Thanks... the pharmaceutical companies, medical lobbies, insurance companies pay millions to convince poor people that we need to cut benefits... and also that billionaires like Bezos actually earned their 170 billion dollars, and should keep it because they actually work harder and smarter than the average joe on the street.
Does Bezos deserve to be rich? Of course... he outsmarted everyone... figured out a way to corner the market on book retailing... then leverage his monopoly to nearly every other retail sector, even managing to evade paying sales tax for years because the laws hadn't caught up with the concept of online sales.
But that's why we made antitrust laws, so one person or family like the Walton's wouldn't use their superior resources to purchase wholesale goods cheaper than everyone else and drive everyone else out of business.
When someone is smart they should be rewarded, but we have taken it to an extreme where the three richest people earn more than the bottom 50%. What did we used to do in this situation? Tax them. But now that the wealthy own most of the media outlets, they control the message, so they tell us that everything is fine and people deserve to keep their money from those money grubbing illegals who are responsible for plotting against us while they work around the clock picking strawberries and selling us McDonalds.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/11/09/the-3-richest-americans-hold-more-wealth-than-bottom-50-of-country-study-finds/#24d511d33cf8
Never mind it's the wealthy who brought them over here to increase their profit margins.
Eisenhower used to tax us up to 90% and he was far from a liberal.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/15/bernie-s/income-tax-rates-were-90-percent-under-eisenhower-/
We can afford medical care for everyone... but because we are effectively brainwashed... half of America now believes we should continue to enrich big business lobbies and let them profit off of war and illness instead. |
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ContagiousInspiration Franchise Player
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Sentient Meat Franchise Player
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VicXLakers Franchise Player
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Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2019 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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RETIRED NBA VETS ARE MAKING LEGAL MARIJUANA THE NEW PICK AND ROLL
The blunt reality behind the big business of Mary Jane
Quote: | The next day Grandma Harrington was back at the kitchen table, her face again buried in her hands. The pain was nearly nauseating. Her grandson had done the research. There was a strain of cannabis called “Vietnam Kush” that reportedly helped with vision issues. Al Harrington explained the benefits. Viola Harrington expressed her concerns.
Viola Harrington smoked it in her grandson’s garage. Afterward, he walked her back to her room and let her lie down. An hour-and-a-half later, he checked on her. “I haven’t,” she said, “been able to read the words in my Bible in over three years.” Her tears of joy became his. Her eye pain, according to Al Harrington and his grandmother, greatly subsided. From that moment, he began an even deeper dive into the medical benefits of marijuana................
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BadGuy Star Player
Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 3629
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 6:15 am Post subject: |
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Fortysixn2 wrote: | Sentient Meat wrote: | This country is constantly bombing innocents and killing our own citizens by prioritizing military spending over medical care, and yet they jail people for possession of weed.
It's truly f*cking tragic and ridiculous. |
Lol, there are things called laws. They are not all correct In my opinion either, but as a citizen it is your duty to understand them and follow them.
If this country and it’s laws are not to your liking
1) overthrow the government and install your own
2) vote and hope things change over a long period of time
3) Leave
If socialism is your thing, pick #3 and move...despite all of the noise from the left wing most Americans aren’t with you. I’m a proud American and Kwame broke a law, sorry if you aren’t proud of our country and what it’s afforded you. Nobody is forcing you to stay. |
Take your own advice and follow option #3 to the political thread, so we can be spared of your (bleep). |
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governator Retired Number
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Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:00 am Post subject: |
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AFireInside619 wrote: | This is too much. I’m gonna go smoke some right now. |
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PaleShade Rookie
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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Lol. These guys should know better or at least consume it in different ways.The cannabis oil or the thc cbd, is a really great thing! I have also suffered of prostate cancer, and it actually helped me a lot in order to fight this disease. You have to understand, that it does not treat you, it just makes you general state a bit better so the basic treatment would be going well and would be even more effective. Since then, I am a great fan of cbd and cannabis butter. Recently, after reading some reviews on topgrows.com I have bought a really great weed butter maker, it is really awesome! |
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LakerDynasty6.0 Star Player
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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Its 2021 and we're still talking "arrest for weed"? _________________ Starting Lakers Dynasty6.0! NOW!!
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