"You have to legalize drugs to win that war [on drugs]." - Trump

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Sun Oct 23 20:39:23 PDT 2016


> On Oct 23, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:00:16AM +0000, jim bell wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> From: Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>
>>> On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 10:15 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>> 
>>> A little search for e.g. "Trump marijuana" turns up some interesting
>>> articles and quotes. Left for the curious...
>>> Regardless of his position on drug prohibition, Rump is a terrible
>>> choice to lead this country. I wish Bernie was on the November ballot.
>>> Failing that, I wish Jill Stein had a realistic chance of winning the
>>> election; I really would prefer her over Hillary. The two-party system
>>> is broken. I don't really want Hillary, but I really, really, really
>>> don't want Rump, and a vote for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson (or for that
>>> matter, a vote for Charlie Brown or Santa Claus) could potentially help
>>> Rump win.
>>> Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com
>> 
>> Some of the first Green Parties were found in the 1970's, when
>> Communism was dying and a bunch of European nuts were embarrassed
>> about being seen as Communists.  So, they figured they would form a
>> crypto-Communist/Socialist party, pretend it focussed primarily on
>> environmental issues.
> 
>> The "Green Party" has been jokingly referred to as the "Watermelon
>> Party":   "Green on the outside, and Red on the inside".  
>>  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/05/green-party-conference-natalie-bennett
> 
> Funny, but sad in that it simply perpetuates the "communism is the great
> stupidity / evil / anti abundance" philosophy - and just as with
> democracy, we've rarely seen true communism (excepting perhaps the
> pre-Jesus Essenes).
> 
> 
> We need to bust the stereotypes and stigmas against personal political
> thought. We need to be proud to be whatever we see as uplifting and
> sane, be it aspects of "communism" or any particular political theory
> "wholus bolus"!
> 
> 
> When anyone saying something positive about some aspect of Communism,
> Stalinism, Anarchism, etc, gets shot down

So true. 

All the really nice aspects of Stalinism have just really been down played by western propaganda.


> in subtle flames unchallenged,
> sure our conversation, and our world, is just that little bit more dead.
> 
> Celebrate the positive, embrace one another's attempts to extract what
> might be of interest or utility or honour in not any conversation, but
> in every conversation.
> 
> 
> How else can we start? How else can we collectively improve/ grow?



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