• abraxas@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The Tea Party rode their way up on the coattails of classic Libertarians. The basically want to legalize everything from smoking weed to killing gays and owning people. “Freedom”

    When it looks like Republicans are confused and cannibalizing themselves, it’s because of the bloc that married Trump.

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      11 months ago

      At this point it’s probably helpful to appreciate that the only reason weed is federally illegal is that the Nixon administration needed a pretext to expand the police state so that it could go after the antiwar left and brown people.

      Since then, having drugs like weed be illegal gives cops discretion to target ‘likely suspects’, which basically can mean ‘brown people’ and anyone they don’t like the look of

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      11 months ago

      The basically want to legalize everything from smoking weed

      Yes

      killing gays and owning people.

      No

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        11 months ago

        killing gays and owning people. No

        The Tea Party has been rabidly anti-LGBTQ and historically pro-Confederate-Identity.

        Yeah, there was a little hyperbole there. But not by very much.