Not gonna lie... he is not wrong... because broken homes are the source of super predators.... but then he went on to write a law that busted college kids for fucking weed with minimal sentencing of several years.
How hard is it for these kids to just not smoke shit.
I never understood when I was that age, I thought my peers were the bottom of the barrel stupid, turns out, they are, 30 years old and still working as a line cook at McDonald's.
Don't wanna be busted with weed, then don't have weed. It's really that simple. And kids don't need it for medical purposes.
Now grandpa going through chemo? He needs the stuff for sure.
No, booze is the same category for me. I don't understand why anyone wants to drink that nasty shit, and why they want to consume mind altering liquids that make them stupid. I guess they are stupid in the first place for putting such crap in their bodies, so now they are just extra stupid.
I'd support outlawing booze too, but we know how that went... Although I'm sure we have better tracking technology these days to fight it.
I would even extend this to caffeine. It's a stim that prevents people from even being normal without having a daily cup of joe.
Also add corn syrup to the list, it's causing americans to be fat and crave and be addicted to high doses of sugar. We would all be better off if at least sugar was regulated in quantity and only real sugar was allowed and corn syrups outlawed.
I could go on but you get the drift. Mind altering substances outside of medical reasons should be outlawed or extremely regulated more than they already are.
If we outlaw one substance, we should outlaw them all, or we should allow them all. It's this grey area where some drugs are okay but others aren't that is the issue.
It should be handled the same as alcohol or any other drug...set a strict age limit and tax the hell out of it. Half the people who smoke weed were kids who thought they were doing something cool and "rebellious" (even though almost everyone tried it - funny how these days "rebellious" means you go with the hivemind.)
Then they got hooked.
If weed is just another one of those things like cigarettes that gross old people buy at the gas station...well, a lot less people are going to smoke it.
I agree! But don't drink either. Don't smoke. Don't have extramarital sex. Don't overeat. Don't gamble. Don't do a lot of things... but why do I get to decide how you live?
If you want to smoke weed in your home with your friends and bother nobody why shouldn't you be able to? Now you get in a car and you're going to fucking jail. But there is nothing in it for me to outlaw the mere use of a drug.
Keep your vice in your home. Do it in public? Off to jail.
Do you have extramarital sex out in public for everyone to watch? Yeah, I am going to tell you how to live and say you can't do that.
If you believe in the concept of criminal law, you adhere to the concept of telling people how to live on some level. Therefore you cannot defer to what you consider moral as a shield from criticism.
So the question is really where we draw moral lines. Lots of people view drugs as immoral, lots don't.
So a drink in front of your home or in your yard is not punishable but if you step on the sidewalk you get 20 years?
Not very logical is it?
Drugs are immoral. There is no question about it. Drugs, smoking, alcohol, it's all immoral. But people are allowed to engage in it's consumption granted they pose no danger to others.
Which is why you can drink a beer walking down the road but if you get drunk you get in trouble. Cause now you are a public nuisance.
You don't get to use your AR in criminal ways just because you have a right to own it. Same thing with drugs. Keep them exclusive to your home and there's no issue. Do it in public? Off to jail.
His law created more predators by making more minor crimes heavily punished/felony crimes and once you have a prison record it fucks with your career mightily
It’s not black fathers in prison that was the problem, it was black fathers that didn’t want anything to do with their kids.
Prison was not the only denominator.
As anthony cumia said long ago - You can't blame an absentee for a problem.
Young black men didn't learn violence from a person who was never there. They learn it from their mothers. The female household young black males are raised in is where they learn all of these behaviors.
Black women have very serious anger problems and for decades nobody is allowed to call them out. Even when their own kids kill other people, these women are given a pass.
at least they're killing one another. the only saving grace.
Not only that, but sending young people (who would otherwise be law-abiding outside of drug use) to prison to intermingle with actual, fucked-in-the-head criminals where they're able to learn the "tricks of the trade" so to speak --not a good idea.
I agree. He identified the problem and instead of solving it by refusing to give divorced women and men child benefits to encourage the formation of stable families he focused on locking up people with weed for a decade.
Not wrong about the predators, but wrong to write off so many human beings. There's got to be a better way than locking them in a hellhole for 40 years. Only a true racist can talk like that.
Since when is "breaking the law" a function of race? There's nothing 'racist' about arresting people who break the law. The only racist here is you, for assuming that black people are inherently somehow more criminal.
Not gonna lie... he is not wrong... because broken homes are the source of super predators.... but then he went on to write a law that busted college kids for fucking weed with minimal sentencing of several years.
Easy, don't smoke weed.
This.
How hard is it for these kids to just not smoke shit.
I never understood when I was that age, I thought my peers were the bottom of the barrel stupid, turns out, they are, 30 years old and still working as a line cook at McDonald's.
Don't wanna be busted with weed, then don't have weed. It's really that simple. And kids don't need it for medical purposes.
Now grandpa going through chemo? He needs the stuff for sure.
But booze is totally fine? lol
No, booze is the same category for me. I don't understand why anyone wants to drink that nasty shit, and why they want to consume mind altering liquids that make them stupid. I guess they are stupid in the first place for putting such crap in their bodies, so now they are just extra stupid.
I'd support outlawing booze too, but we know how that went... Although I'm sure we have better tracking technology these days to fight it.
I would even extend this to caffeine. It's a stim that prevents people from even being normal without having a daily cup of joe.
Also add corn syrup to the list, it's causing americans to be fat and crave and be addicted to high doses of sugar. We would all be better off if at least sugar was regulated in quantity and only real sugar was allowed and corn syrups outlawed.
I could go on but you get the drift. Mind altering substances outside of medical reasons should be outlawed or extremely regulated more than they already are.
If we outlaw one substance, we should outlaw them all, or we should allow them all. It's this grey area where some drugs are okay but others aren't that is the issue.
Exactly.
It should be handled the same as alcohol or any other drug...set a strict age limit and tax the hell out of it. Half the people who smoke weed were kids who thought they were doing something cool and "rebellious" (even though almost everyone tried it - funny how these days "rebellious" means you go with the hivemind.)
Then they got hooked.
If weed is just another one of those things like cigarettes that gross old people buy at the gas station...well, a lot less people are going to smoke it.
I agree! But don't drink either. Don't smoke. Don't have extramarital sex. Don't overeat. Don't gamble. Don't do a lot of things... but why do I get to decide how you live?
If you want to smoke weed in your home with your friends and bother nobody why shouldn't you be able to? Now you get in a car and you're going to fucking jail. But there is nothing in it for me to outlaw the mere use of a drug.
Keep your vice in your home. Do it in public? Off to jail.
Do you have extramarital sex out in public for everyone to watch? Yeah, I am going to tell you how to live and say you can't do that.
If you believe in the concept of criminal law, you adhere to the concept of telling people how to live on some level. Therefore you cannot defer to what you consider moral as a shield from criticism.
So the question is really where we draw moral lines. Lots of people view drugs as immoral, lots don't.
So a drink in front of your home or in your yard is not punishable but if you step on the sidewalk you get 20 years?
Not very logical is it?
Drugs are immoral. There is no question about it. Drugs, smoking, alcohol, it's all immoral. But people are allowed to engage in it's consumption granted they pose no danger to others.
Which is why you can drink a beer walking down the road but if you get drunk you get in trouble. Cause now you are a public nuisance.
I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't and I don't.
Do you sometimes watch TV instead of working hard? Use the internet in a non-productive way?
Making something illegal - with life-shattering consequences - doesn't make it bad.
"Easy, don't build an AR" strike you the same way?
You don't get to use your AR in criminal ways just because you have a right to own it. Same thing with drugs. Keep them exclusive to your home and there's no issue. Do it in public? Off to jail.
But if the simple act of owning an AR is criminalized, are you giving it up?
"You don't get to use it in criminal ways" right?
His law created more predators by making more minor crimes heavily punished/felony crimes and once you have a prison record it fucks with your career mightily
It’s not black fathers in prison that was the problem, it was black fathers that didn’t want anything to do with their kids. Prison was not the only denominator.
As anthony cumia said long ago - You can't blame an absentee for a problem.
Young black men didn't learn violence from a person who was never there. They learn it from their mothers. The female household young black males are raised in is where they learn all of these behaviors.
Black women have very serious anger problems and for decades nobody is allowed to call them out. Even when their own kids kill other people, these women are given a pass.
at least they're killing one another. the only saving grace.
Not only that, but sending young people (who would otherwise be law-abiding outside of drug use) to prison to intermingle with actual, fucked-in-the-head criminals where they're able to learn the "tricks of the trade" so to speak --not a good idea.
I agree. He identified the problem and instead of solving it by refusing to give divorced women and men child benefits to encourage the formation of stable families he focused on locking up people with weed for a decade.
Not wrong about the predators, but wrong to write off so many human beings. There's got to be a better way than locking them in a hellhole for 40 years. Only a true racist can talk like that.
Since when is "breaking the law" a function of race? There's nothing 'racist' about arresting people who break the law. The only racist here is you, for assuming that black people are inherently somehow more criminal.
Their own actions landed them in the position. Nobody scooped up a pack of blacks and said "these ones are going to prison".
something something systemic racism
much lulz
Same with our school systems. I miss the days when a politician would call a spade a spade.