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[โ€“] popcap200@lemmy.ml 131 points 2 weeks ago (33 children)

I literally don't care about the Hunter pardon. Trump pardoned Russian spies. I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 weeks ago

Forty-five years of neoliberal salami slicing via lesser-evilism is how we got to this place.

[โ€“] Chulk@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

His son is hardly a child at 54 years old. Biden is also responsible for thousands of people behind bars because of "a dumb drug offense".

I don't think that Trump should be the bar for morality and ethics in this country. It's lazy to bring him into this conversation.

[โ€“] popcap200@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

You're right. I should have said "his son" instead.

[โ€“] uranibaba@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

His son is hardly a child at 54 years old.

I'm sure parents always will see their children as children, no matter their age.

[โ€“] Chulk@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm specifically talking about the silly framing of "a child" rather than "his child"

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

And America has proven nobody cares except the Democrats who don't vote for high horse reasons son who cares.

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[โ€“] nialv7@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there are so many other people's children in jail for dumb drug offences...

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[โ€“] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

All drugs should be legal.

We all know humanity will refuse to unclench our collective butthole regarding capitalism during our lives. At least let us get high as fuck on whatever we want while we wage slave to barely make it.

Perhaps it's more about the working class suffering then it is about money and power. Remarkable if that's true.

[โ€“] Grapho@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

Tell Biden drugs should be legal to his face he'd have you enslaved at your nearest private prison. This is how little of a shit he gives about criminals and their upbringing. He should have kept that same energy, but as always, rules are for the poors.

[โ€“] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes.

Making drugs illegal doesn't stop use. It just makes it essentially impossible to know you're getting a clean supply that isn't laced with something else, or accidentally 100x as strong and it kills you. Plus it does nothing to address why these people felt the need to turn to these highly addictive and deadly drugs. If anything it makes the problem worse.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes you need the support in place also otherwise it just gets worse.

[โ€“] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

Drugs should be legal, driving recklessly with guns while high should definitely not be legal. I don't think Americans deserve to die for walking around despite how much I hate their country.

[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

No they should not be without the other support networks in place. BC in Canada decimalized and it made shit worse. You need the support infrastructure in place to help people with addiction also.

[โ€“] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[โ€“] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Does "an offspring" sound better? A "progeny"!?

If you can't deduct that they mean HIS child then I'm sorry but you're why disinformation is so effective.

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[โ€“] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean yes he is Joes child no matter how old he is.

[โ€“] Aqarius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

...Wait, is Joe then also a child? Good grief, no wonder America went to shit, they let a fucking child be president!

[โ€“] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It does seem pretty banana republic-y

[โ€“] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

If the peel fits, join the bunch.

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