• nthavoc@lemmy.today
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    Don’t know why the media keeps using words like “allegedly” and “reportedly” when there’s plenty of photographic evidence to eliminate the doubt. It’s no secret this moron is a junkie.

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      “Allegedly” and “reportedly” are magic words that keeps the lawyers away, since no media company actually wants the liability of being an authoritative source of information.

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      Isn’t there also photographic evidence of cocaine use by world leaders? The very idea in an age of cheap-as-dirt fake AI “photographs” is hilarious to me.

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      Because it’s standard

      None of this shit is new, Biden had them ignore it, and so did trump the first time.

      Biden should have yanked every single contract, instead he made multiple and constant exceptions for Musk’s companies.

      The CEO of a company with government contracts blatantly spiraling into drug induced psychosis did nothing but normalize it.

      Like, why do people honestly expect trump to be better than Biden? Why would you ever think trump might possibly do the right thing after Biden wouldn’t?

      trump and Biden might both be bad in the same areas, but Trump’s admin will always be worse.

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        I hope you are using “you” in the general sense. I never for a second believed the Donvict would ever do the right thing even from when he was a coke head in 80’s. He always has and always will do the wrong thing and keep landing ass backwards in cash doing it.

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    The sad thing is, I think his sentences are a little more complete and coherent than Trumps’ even in his drugged out state.

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    I wish Trump would take some shrooms. It might make him more human.

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    When people do stupid things you might ask them “are you on drugs?” Sarcastically. In this case it was a serious question. At the highest level.

    Has anyone else noticed that we don’t have many dystopian/apocalyptic movies but way more documentaries these days?

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    You know, this is the libertarian argument for drugs and hookers for me. This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough. I just want it to be legal for everyone regardless of whether they’re billionaires.

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      Cannabis is the stupidest example imo, it’s criminalisation causes more harm than good, it’s the kingpins and people profiting off of prisoners, pushing and advocating for continued criminalisation.

      Private prisons are one of the worse outcomes of austerity, it encourages laws like this just to send as many poor people to prison as possible just so they can line their pockets, the most braindead one being the conjoined enterprise laws in the UK, which is a perfect case study as to why austerity which is musks entire strategy for economic prosperity, is a grift which is only ever capable of working for your government if there’s a scapegoat which you can blame your economic strategy failing on.

      The only real issue I have with smoking weed is the lung cancer bit, but cigs apparently are perfectly fine 🤷‍♂️

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      This stuff is already legal in the US, but only if you’re rich enough

      YES! However, EVERYTHING is legal in the US, if you’re rich enough or have some sort of connection to the rich - see Jan 6 folks.

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        And yet, when is Elon’s court date?

        If a law isn’t enforced, then it functionally doesn’t exist. If the law only exists for some of the population, then it’s a tool of oppression.

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          It’s actually pretty hard, unless you’re like Matthew Perry and you’ve got a doctor administering it to you in the bathtub (while on a cocktail of other substances). You’re going to become incapacitated long before you can administer enough to yourself to end your life… It will fuck up your bladder if you abuse it long term though (and apparently he’s having these issues).

          The LD50 for ketamine is very high, which is why it’s used as anesthesia for toddlers.

          The real move would be for his provider to just slip a tiny amount of fentanyl in there…