• nthavoc@lemmy.today
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    Don’t know why the media keeps using words like “allegedly” and “reportedly” when there’s plenty of photographic evidence to eliminate the doubt. It’s no secret this moron is a junkie.

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      “Allegedly” and “reportedly” are magic words that keeps the lawyers away, since no media company actually wants the liability of being an authoritative source of information.

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      Isn’t there also photographic evidence of cocaine use by world leaders? The very idea in an age of cheap-as-dirt fake AI “photographs” is hilarious to me.

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      Because it’s standard

      None of this shit is new, Biden had them ignore it, and so did trump the first time.

      Biden should have yanked every single contract, instead he made multiple and constant exceptions for Musk’s companies.

      The CEO of a company with government contracts blatantly spiraling into drug induced psychosis did nothing but normalize it.

      Like, why do people honestly expect trump to be better than Biden? Why would you ever think trump might possibly do the right thing after Biden wouldn’t?

      trump and Biden might both be bad in the same areas, but Trump’s admin will always be worse.

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        I hope you are using “you” in the general sense. I never for a second believed the Donvict would ever do the right thing even from when he was a coke head in 80’s. He always has and always will do the wrong thing and keep landing ass backwards in cash doing it.

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    The sad thing is, I think his sentences are a little more complete and coherent than Trumps’ even in his drugged out state.

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    I wish Trump would take some shrooms. It might make him more human.

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    When people do stupid things you might ask them “are you on drugs?” Sarcastically. In this case it was a serious question. At the highest level.

    Has anyone else noticed that we don’t have many dystopian/apocalyptic movies but way more documentaries these days?

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    You know, this is the libertarian argument for drugs and hookers for me. This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough. I just want it to be legal for everyone regardless of whether they’re billionaires.

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      Cannabis is the stupidest example imo, it’s criminalisation causes more harm than good, it’s the kingpins and people profiting off of prisoners, pushing and advocating for continued criminalisation.

      Private prisons are one of the worse outcomes of austerity, it encourages laws like this just to send as many poor people to prison as possible just so they can line their pockets, the most braindead one being the conjoined enterprise laws in the UK, which is a perfect case study as to why austerity which is musks entire strategy for economic prosperity, is a grift which is only ever capable of working for your government if there’s a scapegoat which you can blame your economic strategy failing on.

      The only real issue I have with smoking weed is the lung cancer bit, but cigs apparently are perfectly fine 🤷‍♂️

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      This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough

      YES! However, EVERYTHING is legal in the US, if you’re rich enough or have some sort of connection to the rich - see Jan 6 folks.

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        And yet, when is Elon’s court date?

        If a law isn’t enforced, then it functionally doesn’t exist. If the law only exists for some of the population, then it’s a tool of oppression.

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      To be fair we all love our drugs. Unless you like to be sober, that’s cool too.

      Edit: Musk is a piece of shit either way, no excuses there.

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        I’m pretty sure the problem is they’re so quick to throw someone in prison for doing the same thing and regulate what poor people are allowed to take whilst taking it themselves.

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        Yeah but there’s a difference between smoking a bowl in the comfort and safety of your home versus taking mind altering substances while making major economic and policy decisions for a country…

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          I agree. He’s a major problem, no question about it. Not only because of the drugs either, but in general. The damage he’s done to your country is measured in lives lost, not money, in my opinion. The money part is just the tip of the iceberg in his case.

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            That particular expression doesn’t quite work so well in written form

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          I’d like to see more decision makers be under the influence to be honest. Musk is just getting hate because he’s “on the wrong side” against the hippies who at one point loved the guy a few years back. Societal consensus is fickle muse and sheep jump on the latest fad of hating someone prominent.

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      Well. I would argue that drug use is all about hammering reality into a tolerable/enjoyable shape. Fascists by definition also transform through force. The key distinction seems to be a drug user themselves become transformed through chemical force, where as the fascist forces others to change using violence/threat of violence. In both cases though, there exists a certain egomaniacal reluctance to meet the terms of reality, and instead attempt to change the terms through force. There is a very consistent common bond between the hyper wealthy, the tyrannical, and the drug dependant, to be very stubborn and narcissistic. In all three, the ego is driving the bus, and there is some corruption with self esteem. In all three there is a fundamental inability to accurately assign value. A lot of money/power/release is never enough. The only acceptable amount is “more”. And the compulsion to find more: wealth, or power, or opportunity to use substances, becomes the whole point of waking life. Until it’s just you and the compulsion in the world alone, and every thing and every one else is just a puzzle you solve to get more like a rat in an experiment. Long story short, people at odds with reality tend to use similar and often overlapping tactics to get by. What do the tyrant, the drug addict, and the billionaire all have in common? A singular focus to fill an unfillable hole.

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      Everyone loves drugs regardless of political leanings. Everyone is just hypocritical when it comes to the one they like, even you I bet :)