Take their family with you as well, then. If the DPRK is as great as you think, I'm sure they'll be nothing but grateful.
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by Kragholm Free States » Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:52 am
by Western Vale Confederacy » Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:54 am
by Khataiy » Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:55 am
by The Conservative Union of B » Sat Apr 27, 2019 10:58 am
Socialist Workers Combine wrote:People ignore the war on black people, instead talking about North Korea’s problems. Everyone knows North Korea is a byproduct of Stalin. I of course want a democratic socialism, and would point out that there is now a more libertarian socialism in Kurdistan. Let us go boldly into the future, which belongs to the workers.
Anyway... do you support the war on drugs and black people? Do you support worker’s power? I say even those of you who are fascists and think blacks are inferior must realize that eventually we will just genetically modify ourselves, probably into furries.
Also, I do not think putting someone in jail for doing weed in the best way to handle such a situation. We must change the police into a well regulated people’s militia, as in the constitution, continue rehabilitating people and more properly (you don’t always have to do it for Jesus), and improve their lives so they do less drugs. In my view, this means establishing more of a community, such as through worker’s management, to work together on our common goals.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politi ... esUUmMIIEg
The "War on Drugs" was actually a political tool to crush leftist protesters and black people, a former Nixon White House adviser admitted in a decades-old interview published. John Ehrlichman, who served as President Richard Nixon's domestic policy chief, laid bare the sinister use of his boss' controversial policy in a 1994 interview with journalist Dan Baum that the writer revisited in a new article for Harper's magazine.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying," Ehrlichman continued.
"We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
In 1971, Nixon labeled drug abuse "Public Enemy No. 1" and signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, putting into place several new laws that cracked down on drug users. He also created the Drug Enforcement Administration. By 1973, about 300,000 people were being arrested every year under the law — the majority of whom were African-American.
The drug war was continued in various forms by every President since, including President Ronald Reagan, whose wife Nancy called for people to "Just say no."
Ehrlichman's 22-year-old comments resurfaced Tuesday after Baum wrote about them in a cover story for the April issue of Harper's, titled "Legalize It All," in which he argues in favor of legalizing hard drugs.
The original 1994 interview with Ehrlichman was part of Baum's research for his 1997 book, "Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure," in which Baum laid bare decades of unsuccessful drug policy.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said Ehrlichman's comments proved what black people had believed for decades. "This is a frightening confirmation of what many of us have been saying for years. That this was a real attempt by government to demonize and criminalize a race of people," Sharpton told the Daily News. "And when we would raise the questions over that targeting, we were accused of all kind of things, from harboring criminality to being un-American and trying to politicize a legitimate concern."
Sharpton said the damage done by the war on drugs' cruel policies doomed generations of black people. “Think of all the lives and families that were ruined and absolutely devastated only because they were caught in a racial net from the highest end reaches of government."
by Saiwania » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:00 am
by Greater La Habana Cuba and Miami Shores » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:11 am
by Cirnezvi » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:19 am
Saiwania wrote:Nobody is forcing Black people to do illegal drugs, so if they avoid that- they'll be fine. There is no problem with the status quo in my view, other than that maybe judges are giving Black people harsher sentences in general than White people, but that can be fixed. If the judicial system has any bias against them, it is probably because Blacks are still poorer on average. If they become rich like Asians, they'll be given a pass on more things.
by Arkhane » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:29 am
by Greater La Habana Cuba and Miami Shores » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:30 am
Cirnezvi wrote:...Y'all know it's completely possible to decry the DPRK's atrocities while not regarding them as representative of socialism as a concept, right?
Similarly, supporting a socialist economy is no excuse for dismissing the DPRK's atrocities.
This should really not be complicated.Saiwania wrote:Nobody is forcing Black people to do illegal drugs, so if they avoid that- they'll be fine. There is no problem with the status quo in my view, other than that maybe judges are giving Black people harsher sentences in general than White people, but that can be fixed. If the judicial system has any bias against them, it is probably because Blacks are still poorer on average. If they become rich like Asians, they'll be given a pass on more things.
You've missed the point, because the problem is exactly that black people are given vastly harsher sentences for the same or worse drug offenses for which white people get slaps on the wrist.
by Socialist Workers Combine » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:30 am
Arkhane wrote:Saying that I'm anti-black for supporting the war on drugs is so out of touch as saying I'm pro-Nazi because I believe in the freedom of speech, even hate speech.
by GlobalControl » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:34 am
by Socialist Workers Combine » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:38 am
GlobalControl wrote:What even is this poll
by Greater La Habana Cuba and Miami Shores » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:39 am
by Zizou » Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:51 am
Parxland wrote:It might somehow give me STDs through the computer screen with how often you hop between different groups of people.
by Slotted Floppies » Sat Apr 27, 2019 12:33 pm
Greater La Habana Cuba and Miami Shores wrote:Cirnezvi wrote:...Y'all know it's completely possible to decry the DPRK's atrocities while not regarding them as representative of socialism as a concept, right?
Similarly, supporting a socialist economy is no excuse for dismissing the DPRK's atrocities.
This should really not be complicated.
You've missed the point, because the problem is exactly that black people are given vastly harsher sentences for the same or worse drug offenses for which white people get slaps on the wrist.
The problem is most democratic communist socialist on NS and the world, support the DPRK, Cuba, China, Vietnam, the former Soviet Union and its former eastern European empire, which they should not support, as those regimes never practiced true democratic communist socialism, but that is their democratic right to do so and their democratic right to post it.
by Scomagia » Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:44 pm
by Western Vale Confederacy » Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:50 pm
Scomagia wrote:Dogmeat wrote:That's going to take a lot of weed...
About fifteen hundred pounds in fifteen minutes.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/heal ... 43856.html
by Internationalist Bastard » Sat Apr 27, 2019 1:53 pm
by Western Vale Confederacy » Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:09 pm
Internationalist Bastard wrote:Is every thing just inevitably communism to you?
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