• candyman337@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Convenient timing given everything else going on. You know they’re really scrambling to get the youth vote when they start talking about nationwide marijuana legalization.

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        8 months ago

        The DEA is currently investigating rescheduling marijuana which was prompted by Biden’s HHS doing the preliminary lab work to present to them.

        Then Biden has pardoned everyone who was charged federally for possession of marijuana.

        And then he urged states to consider doing the same. Just this week, Massachusetts followed through with that.

        Obviously he’s doing this to get more voters, but there’s real progress happening and it’s not a reaction to anything recent. This was all indicated during his campaigning.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah, like, what do people expect? Of course they’ll do good things to get re-elected. That’s literally how this works! I don’t get the people who argue “it’s just for getting votes”. Yes, that’s how it works.

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            8 months ago

            Motherfucker did this in 2020. Yeah, it’s cool, but as a former president said, fool me once, can’t fool me again

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            8 months ago

            People want leaders who give a damn about them not lying charlatans who use them. It isn’t that hard to understand.

            Cynics like you are the reason we keep electing neoliberal trash who fuck workers over. All you do is make excuses for them.

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            8 months ago

            Because they hold things until election years, they also do performative bills that look good, or wait to progress good bills until a bill that hurts the working class comes up so that it’ll be more palatable in the short term even though we’re getting screwed in the long term.

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          8 months ago

          Isn’t “doing this to get more votes” what politicians are supposed to be doing, though? They are supposed to be responsive to people’s concerns, so those people prefer them to the other alternatives when it comes time to vote?