“peace and diplomacy” AND “national defense”? they do know that maintaining and “defending” american hegemony requires constant violence right?

carbs are non essential

carbs are literally necessary for all life, i don’t know which pseudoscience nutritionist told you this but it’s blatantly false

ну, погоди! was so good. i had the little game version where you collected the eggs and i played it more than anything else lol

i grew up on gena the crocodile and cheburashka. i still think its the best and cutest.

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the well-built hammer and sickle being replaced by the shitty off-center trident is pretty ironic

yup. those times the cop would come to school and talk about drugs made drugs sound so awesome.

but don’t look up what the “free world” did in africa!

wow, i had no idea the majority of americans were ruzzian kremlin hired operatives

im curious what the definition of harm in this study is because cannabis causing almost as much harm to the user as benzodiazepines and mephedrone is a little bit strange to me.

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i’m a regular user and have also struggled with dependency of it, i believe it should be completely legal and available to the same degree alcohol is. additionally, all people with criminal charges relating to it should be released from prison and have those charges removed. it can absolutely be used responsibly such as alcohol can be, and it is significantly less harmful than alcohol and other vices commonly found in society. if someone is allowed to have a drink at the end of the day or at a gathering with others, i don’t see a reason why they shouldn’t be allowed to also smoke at the end of the day or with others. obviously it can also be used irresponsibly, and i know what that’s like personally. but i also know that irresponsible use is almost always a symptom of a greater issue in someones life (unmitigated health issues, anxiety, depression, etc) that can be solved. i honestly have yet to hear a reason why cannabis should be criminalized that isn’t about overuse or about children using it way too early in their lives (which is harmful but can be avoided with ACTUAL education that isn’t just drug war propaganda from the DEA). also, it should be properly regulated in terms of production to maintain certain standards of quality (e.g keeping dangerous additives out of vape cartridges).

solving the reason of why someone is relying on cannabis all day every day is a way more efficient way of handling it than just cutting them off. there is almost always a reason why someone ends up using it that much.

oh my bad, this is what i was thinking of and it was iran, thanks

china. wasn’t there a war game simulation run by the US military against hypothetical chinese military where they literally had to change the rules because the US kept losing or something?

just more evidence of all those tankies in the pentagon

yeah, how dare china mediate a conflict instead of blindly throwing expensive weapons at ukraine no matter what they’re being used for and who they’re being used by.

yes because the last time free market privatization was introduced in large amounts in eastern europe, it turned out great and now the post soviet countries are all free market utopias!!

While Xi Jinping likely spends little time reading Marx’s “Grundrisse” or debating the labor theory of value with his comrades

this is such a stupid mischaracterization. xi literally has a doctorate in marxism from tsinghua university, he’s definitely read more of marx than the author of this bullshit. this whole thing reeks of having zero understanding of marxism or leninism.

i know there’s kinda a meme around it but psilocybin mushrooms genuinely changed the way i see myself and those around me. i’ve only done “heavier” doses at more pivotal moments in my life and in those moments i have been able to navigate a lot of difficult stuff with their guidance.

tough breakups, depressive and anxious episodes, these are things i would normally struggle with navigating but the kind of paradigm shift that comes with psychs has helped show me the errors in my ways or what i should do more of. recently i’ve been a lot more sociable than i ever have been in my entire life and i think a part of that is because of a trip i had earlier this year. in my journey of exploring gender expression as well, they have helped me realize i can be as masculine as i want while still identifying as a woman. they are an incredibly effective introspective and self-analysis tool and i really can’t underestimate how much they’ve benefitted me personally.

also, tripping and thinking about marxism has shown me more of the inherent flaws of capitalism and sometimes has given me optimism for socialism in the future.