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1 year agoDoggy style?
Doggy style?
Whenever I see these headlines I no longer see the Trump as stupid … nor do I see Biden as equally dumb.
I see the whole American system of government as stupid and non functioning … American government is basically a glorified old age home at this point.
The dumb part is the whole country accepting that.
Nobody is woke in America … they're living the American dream, which you have to be asleep in order to enjoy.
Says man who leads an organization that hasn’t changed in 2000 years.
I agree … Prohibition doesn't work.
But making it very difficult and expensive to maintain an addictive habit would much better.
The same would go for alcohol. If alcohol was more regulated, more controlled, not sold in public houses or businesses (including bars) and the price increased, taxed more with taxes going towards addiction treatment, education and medical assistance for those affected by alcohol … less people would drink alcohol.
If you have a culture where you freely allow businesses to promote, sell and provide an addictive substance that provides little to no health benefit … especially if it makes high profits … companies will want to encourage a culture of making their substance widely acceptable.
Alcohol looks acceptable because it's promoted, advertised and normalized everywhere. If it weren't, less people would be drinking.
Advertising of smoking is highly regulated and discouraged now … smoking is no longer normalized … which is why people smoke less.