Youre literally being a doomer right now and over something nobody is even saying here. How ironic.

Its an interesting abstract but unfortunately doesn’t include the data or breakdown of methodology without having Lancet access.

Members of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, including two invited specialists, met in a 1-day interactive workshop to score 20 drugs on 16 criteria: nine related to the harms that a drug produces in the individual and seven to the harms to others. Drugs were scored out of 100 points, and the criteria were weighted to indicate their relative importance.

Decriminalization isn’t anywhere near the same as legalization. One means you wont go to jail when you get caught with it despite it being illegal to sell, while the other means it’s legal to possess, buy, and sell.

I’m also curious about the rates of users to deaths and not just total number of deaths as most adults use alcohol at some point while only a tiny percent use stuff like meth or heroin.

Trump is like Bush Jr attacking Iraq over some nonexistent “WMDs.”

Meanwhile if I had 2g of weed concentrate, the same 2g I just bought at the local dispensary on my lunch break, I’d be looking at a felony with at least a year in prison and a minimum $20k fine.

Just as the parallels between ICE is unmistakable from the Gestapo

people need to stop counting on democrats to be against expanding government powers that curtail our freedoms.

You could have stopped right there.

I love how the ‘alienated’ group is both so large that they’re blamed for her loss even now a year later but also so small that you’re arguing they’re fringe beliefs that weren’t worth appealing to. This is a tactic straight out of the fascist playbook, but I’m not surprised to hear that from someone who refers to Gaza as a “terrorist shithole” as if all those innocent men, women, and children locked in a literal cage deserve to be blown into a red mist just for existing.

These are such radical fringe beliefs that governments around the world have been implementing laws banning support for Gaza. Trump cracked down on universities across the country because they’re so fringe. The UK banned clothing showing support for Palestine because so few people are doing it. The ICC released arrest warrants for Netanyahu because they’re a fringe organization. It all makes so much sense 🙄

Low voter participation was the real winner off the election, turns out more people don’t care to vote at all.

The turnout for the '24 election was the second highest in recorded history, so you’re just talking out of your ass here. Furthermore non-voters wouldn’t have swayed the outcome at all. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition

I just said I can’t understand given a binary outcome you chose the worst and most obvious one. Like it’s a really easy thought process.

There’s a lot you don’t seem to understand. Perhaps consider that it isn’t really a binary choice and both of the options were the worst ones. Maybe consider that we’re a nation with hundreds of millions of people and that two darlings dictated to us by two private organizations aren’t the extent of possibilities.

We’re confident in your Jill Stien Votes in 2028 as im as confident a non-voters not gonna vote.

Now the strawman argument? Who said anything about Jill Stein?

We’re all slaves to Russian sponsored partisanship. Yay

You say as you spew a bunch of propaganda.

Conclusion: GEONOCIDE JOES FAULT

But I thought these were just fringe beliefs from a tiny minority of people that had no effect on anything?

Wouldn’t be the first time. The one response that does grind my gears is the thought-terminating cliche that is “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” which is such a meaningless cop out that can be applied to literally anything and anyone at any time for any purpose.

Meanwhile Democratic governor Gavin Newsom wants cities to arrest people for being homeless.

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/05/newsom-encampment-sweep-ordinance/

If these people spent half as much time trying to end homelessness as they do trying to score brownie points and virtue signal with bills that effectively do nothing but keep these people on the street, perhaps none of this would be an issue.

Yeah the DNC chair Ken Martin recently stated as much:

"In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future,” Martin continued. “Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”

They only care about winning at this point not ideology or principles. If they think beating immigrants in the streets and backing ten more genocides will win them elections, then that’s exactly what they’ll do and they aren’t even ashamed to admit it.

to keep a coalition in congress?

A coalition with whom exactly? I suppose that since Trump also backed the genocide, these people are now in a coalition with him instead if we’re following this logic. That means both the Dems and Republicans are aligned with Trump and you don’t see the issue with this?

she wasn’t going to alienate herself politically to appease a few nut jobs who were not going to be convinced otherwise

And yet thats exactly what she did with this and several other aspects of her campaign.

Try being an appeasable voter base and you may be appeased at some point.

“Be happy with spoiled table scraps or you won’t receive any more spoiled table scraps” is all I hear from this. Since when is it the voter base that needs to appease their leaders in order for those leaders to win elections? That is insanity.

Just because it’s uncomfortable for you to hear doesn’t mean it’s nonsense. Willingly burying your head in the sand isn’t going to solve anything either.

You supported the genocide in Gaza and still lost, so who’s the real dumbass?

And only if you earn under $20k per year.

If the DNC wanted Trump to lose they wouldn’t have thrown the election yet again by choosing the worst possible candidates to back. Look at what they did in NYC in a race that had far fewer consequences. They wanted to back the Republican ally Adams and billionaire failed politician Cuomo before the voters made it clear they wanted Mamdani.

Just because the Republican party is dogshit doesn’t mean the DNC is the good guy. We don’t live in a comic-book movie.

Maybe at the start but not in the watered down, Republican created bill they passedwith zero Republican support. It just further cemented the private healthcare model into law and ensured nobody would revisit it for at least a generation.

Tell us again why she had to support Israel in spite of losing voters?

The DNC loves having people like Trump in office as it means they have to do even less for the people to get votes and power.

It’s possible to discharge student loans through bankruptcy or is this one of those shitty versions of bankruptcy where they just consolidate your debt and interest payments into something more manageable?