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Comment Re:Ban caffeine! (Score 1) 511

Citation needed. Just 'cause something has been "known for decades" doesn't make it so. For reference, see geocentric model.

The main reason something is a "gateway drug" is that you get all the drugs with the same guy and hard drugs mean more profit, so it is in his interest to get you to try something "better".

A lot of states legalized MJ. And? Did H use spike?

Comment Re:What's it going to take? (Score 1) 120

Well, the 10 commandments aren't that far away from "universal", timeless principles and rules as well. Don't lie. Don't steal. Don't kill. Somehow I don't think that will ever go out of fashion in a civilized world. There are a few dated ones, and that's actually where the constitution and most other "normal" (as compared to divine) laws have a huge advantage: They can be adapted to reality.

The problem is that the ones that could adapt them are too adept at circumventing them, and they sure as HELL won't do anything to plug the loopholes they themselves are abusing.

Comment Re:maybe (Score 2) 512

Actually, to be blunt, it is less "truly" fascist and resembles closer the German Nazism, complete with the ideal of the superiority of the own race, its right to rule over the lands it claims to "always have been" part of their "home land", the need for "Lebensraum", which has to be taken from others, preferably a group of people you can use as a scapegoat for all the ill that befalls your country and its people, a full blown paranoia over the (perceived or real) threat its neighbors present that can best be countered by preemptive strikes, along with pushing the "enemy people" in the own country in sub-prime areas ... I don't want to say ghettos, we're not getting THAT far just yet, but when you look around between Israel and Palestine, you can't help but ponder the parallels to what happened to the Native Americans when the White Man needed more space and what space was left for the Natives, i.e. mostly desert and crap nobody wants. And so on.

Personally, I consider it incredibly sad that of all the people on the planet, of all the countries and governments on this planet... Hell, if there was ONE people, one government, one country that should KNOW for a fact that the whole crap doesn't work out and that it can only lead to destruction...

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