• misterdoctor
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          I’m not OP but I think they’re talking about how the war on drugs was always about entrapping good people

          • Pasta Dental
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            Must be why weed is legalized and most drugs have been decriminalized (in many provinces) in personal consumption quantities then. The war on drugs has ALWAYS been about entrapping the good people who are dependent or take in recreationally, and NEVER been about shutting down murderous organized crime networks. Never.

            • @KittyKalledKarma@slrpnk.net
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              You think it was police who helped push for legalization lol?

              You’re also having a laugh if you think it’s this black and white. Cops and politicians get high as shit too. They need their fixes as well.

              The war on drugs has always been about controlling the poors and justifying expanding police budgets while social programs and schos get cut down.

              Rob Ford was a literal Crack fiend that had protection at a high level. The police damn well knew what was going on, but how many of the people who enabled this were ever punished?

              If you’re a part of the ruling class then designer drugs are part and parcel but for poor people even just buying becomes incredibly risky as the market isint properly regulated.

            • @Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Must be why weed is legalized and most drugs have been decriminalized (in many provinces) in personal consumption quantities then.

              Are you confused?

              This is what great grandparent post said and you response indicated this was strongly doubted by you.

            • @some_designer_dude@lemmy.world
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              Drugs were criminalized in response to increased freedoms of black people. Make their drug of choice illegal, and now you’ve got free access to slaves again!

    • Carl
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      What is ACAB? Also, weed is legal, unless you are driving. Just like beer is legal, unless you are driving. Being behind a steering wheel while being intoxicated is illegal is every country I thought?

  • Pasta Dental
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    Omg the comments on here are pathetic

    Can’t y’all have fun or laugh for once??

    • yeehaw
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      It’s not funny and actually cringe because what point is it proving? It’s kind of like sticking beer cans under there and asking if you’re thirsty…

    • @Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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      Fucking eh. Admittedly the joke is low hanging fruit, but still worth a chuckle for the effort.

    • yeehaw
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      It’s not funny and actually cringe because what point is it proving? It’s kind of like sticking beer cans under there and asking if you’re thirsty…

      • @d3lta19@lemmy.ca
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        I agree, it’s not that funny. Who cares? I don’t imagine they were trying to make a point. A police officer is just about the most stressful job someone can have. Maybe they were just trying to have a little harmless fun. People are so uptight.

        • @BlackJerseyGiant@beehaw.org
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          Most years police officers don’t even rank in the top 20 most deadly jobs. Pretty much anyone in construction, logging, mining, agriculture, or fishing has much more reason to be stressed than cops, certainly more worried about dying at work. In America, they might be pretty worried because technically a state of civil war has existed for many years now with the cops killing more than 1000 civilians (over 1300 people in 2024) every year, but they made that bed, and they can lay in it. This is a picture of tax dollars at work. I don’t think it’s funny at all; to me, it’s a repulsive reminder that they want as many people in jail, for any and all reasons they can come up with. “To Serve and Protect.” I urge everyone to think hard about who they serve and protect , and why. Perhaps a more accurate slogan would be “Generating Revenue for the State”, or thinking about the fact that only about 7% of officers time is spent investigating serious crime maybe just “Wasting Time on the Backs of the Taxpayers”

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            I disagree. Police go into unknown situations everyday. Potentially deadly situations. Farmers, tradesman, logging deaths are largely accidents. I am a tradesman and am not stressed out in the least about the potential of an accident. My opinion though.

            Also, you’ve never goofed off on the job and had a little fun? They are in Canada. It’s not a police state. People are allowed to have fun at work.

            • @BlackJerseyGiant@beehaw.org
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              Point taken.

              I’m a woodworker. I’ve got a bandsaw that makes the one the meatman uses look like a toy, a 9 horse 3 phase shaper capable of detonating any unsecured piece of wood that comes within reach of it’s spinning head, and a tablesaw just like thousands of others that kill or maim my fellow woodworker every year. Every piece of wood is an unknown situation. Was it dried too quickly, and then case hardened, or did it just grow with the internal stress that’s going to lead me to be pulled into a machine, or hurt or killed as part of it comes flying out of a machine? Just because the machines don’t have awareness or intent doesn’t make them less dangerous. Kudos to you for not being stressed. It seems to me that if more cops had your attitude about facing death every day, more if us civilians would survive every year.

              I still think the folks more likely to die just trying to make ends meet have every right to be more scared and stressed than those of us who get to live safer lives. It rankles me when I hear folks refer to how stressful cops jobs are, whilst not paying homage to to the men and women who literally build our homes and feed our hungry mouths, especially when I know they’re killing a few of us every day. Don’t get me talking about the dogs they kill, either. What goes around comes around. Mahaps my job is so dangerous because I kill trees? I’d accept that. I’d rather be killing trees than people, or dogs, for that matter.

              Insofar as my police state, well I think Canadians better think seriously about the police state to the south. Especially since we’ve gone and reelected the nutter in chief, and the days of resource wars are here (read Ukraine). I believe there’s been some commentary from the man in charge of the world’s most advanced military about a 51st state. Fuck around and find out is fully in play across the globe. The police state coming for an extended visit might seem unthinkable. I’ll bet they felt the same way in Ukraine 3 years ago, in Poland back in the '30s, and even here in America just a few hundred years back. I’ve got my bugout bag, and my family knows the plan. They also know not to talk to people who’s main interest is detaining people, people who’s main catchphrase is “Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” Ot still amazes me every day that most folks think of cops as on their side, as buddies almost. What was it the scorpion said? You knew what I was when you picked me up.

              Damn straight I’ve fucked off on the job, just never on the Taxpayers back. I’m self employed nowadays, so I only get to fuck around on my own dime. This may have colored my opinion.

    • Carl
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      So is beer, but the context is don’t do it while behind the wheel of a vehicle.