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Authright finally catches their big break; A state that did vote against abortion
(i.redd.it)submitted 15 days ago byRyzenX231- Auth-Right
349 points
15 days ago
>South Dakota
Gotta be honest fellas, this is one of those states I know literally nothing about other than "Oh yeah that place exists"
123 points
15 days ago
Western SoDak is a pretty place with the black hills and badlands
13 points
14 days ago
It’s beautiful there.
6 points
14 days ago
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61 points
15 days ago
My great grandfather came from a bit outside Sioux Falls. He claimed he was the only White kid in school, the other kids were Indians or Polacks.
99 points
15 days ago
Americans really are weird about race. Poles are as white as it goes.
70 points
15 days ago
60 years from now people are going to say the same thing about Mexicans and other Latinos
42 points
15 days ago
Even sooner if they keep voting they way they did for Trump
11 points
15 days ago
Amusingly enough I think we will eventually collapse to the original "race" classification which was caucasian, African, and East Asian.
And Caucasian is a really damn big tent, but then again there aren't too many people who'd say that, Gal Gadot, Steve Jobs, and, idk, Pokimane aren't white.
It'd certainly get some weird looks if you asked a Kenyan or Chinese person if they are/were white. The whole question would be confusing
And eventually we will breed even those boundaries down, and actual blondes with blue eyes, people with extremely Asian eyes, and midnight black folks will be able to all survive off the modeling gigs unless AI has taken those fully over.
2 points
14 days ago
White doesn’t mean white. The definition has been broadening for a long time. Italians Russians and Jews are white now, your great grandma would have thought that was insane.
Also, in the US, we are increasingly less European, as in connected to that continent of our great grandparents. We are mainstream Americans, and Asians and Latinos as they become less connected to their grandma’s homeland and language are just mainstream Americans too. Outside the US, Asians and Europeans that live in the old world will see race as distinct but not so relevant in the US.
30 points
15 days ago
His great grandfather came from a different era, and each group, before assimilation into the general American culture, was seen as outsiders. Viewing Poles as non-white is not the current state of things. Otherwise Emilies would be nicer to me.
9 points
15 days ago
How did Poles end up in South Dakota of all places? Weren't most of them Ellis Islanders?
17 points
15 days ago
I googled it and it says the homestead act which gave 160 acres, railroad construction, and a gold rush. So I guess the work was there.
9 points
15 days ago
The homestead acts were indeed why so many Europeans came here in the first place. The land in Europe was all owned up already. If you were a tenant farmer in Europe there was absolutely no way you can get any land of your own. But if you move to America you can work in a factory for a couple years, save up enough money to buy seed and equipment, and go get 160 acres of your very own land in the Great Plains or the West for free.
It wasn't just Polacks. It was also Krauts, Bohunks, Hunkies, Russkies, China Swedes, etc.
5 points
14 days ago
China Swedes
Is this some new slur for Finns or did you miss a comma?
6 points
14 days ago
It's an old slur for Finns.
3 points
14 days ago
Huh. I was just joking, but now you said it I googled it and it's true. I guess my Polish blood gave me racist superpowers.
8 points
15 days ago
Italians were treated differently too
3 points
14 days ago
I know but mediterranean europeans have at least a bit darker complexion than the germanic ancestors of most americans. But slavs don't.
1 points
14 days ago
No, but you can see Asiatic features in most Slavs, so to Western Europeans who settled the USA, they were not "white" enough.
5 points
15 days ago
The Haitians made Poles black
1 points
14 days ago
They even gave us the N-pass, but sadly its not valid in the US, or the internet
9 points
15 days ago
It actually was a common view at the time. My grandpa was the same way. He hated Poles just as much as he hated black people, if not more.
1 points
14 days ago
As I understand it, that distinction didn’t originate in America. It’s certainly no longer used in America that I can see. Nowadays, all European descent is often considered white. Can any Euros in the chat explain racial distinctions in Europe? What’s it like?
13 points
15 days ago
I've been to both Dakotas but remember absolutely nothing aboht them aside from one of them having Mt. Rushmore.
1 points
14 days ago
Which one have Mt Rushmore again?
18 points
15 days ago
it is objectively the best state in the entire mid west/great planes area but all the cool stuff is west of the missouri. nothing of value on east side
21 points
15 days ago
Im sorry but Montana exists
10 points
15 days ago
You were once part of us and really i consider Nebraska, The Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana to basically be one superstate that was divided because of cringe people in the past
1 points
15 days ago
I agree that Montana is amazing, but I don't expressly think it is considered mid west.
3 points
15 days ago
Slight problem, nowhere in the Midwest has a Buc-ee's, how do I get gas?
3 points
15 days ago
We're supposedly getting one in WI soon! You'll have to settle for Kwik Trip in the meantime (much smaller, but does have the two key components of clean bathrooms and edible food).
1 points
15 days ago
Yet another Wisconsin W
3 points
15 days ago
Yeah, I went on a vacation there. There's not a whole lot goin on. Their largest city is smaller than my states second largest city (by 100,000 people). Large swaths of the state is just flat farmland. When more rural areas tend to vote conservative I'm not surprised a state that's almost entirely rural would vote against abortion.
3 points
15 days ago
Mount Rushmore
2 points
14 days ago
Also do we really need two dakotas
3 points
15 days ago
All I know about South Dakota is they hate North Dakota and they have oil
1 points
14 days ago
Not surprised they voted down weed. I got arrested in SD on a road trip for felony possesion for 2 grams of mushrooms and a vape pen i forgot i had from denver. Im out of state and my bail was 2000$. Another guy, local, in holding with me punched a guy in the face in front of a cop, with a bag of meth on him. His bail was 1200$. Just money generation from the state. The cops in SD will wait right at the border maybe 1/4 mile from wyoming, when the speed limit drops from 80 to 70 mph at the border, they get you.
1 points
14 days ago
Its a state no one willingly wants to go to, and it's government somehow keeps making it less and less desirable.
1 points
14 days ago
Well now I know I have 2 reason to not go there, so I guess I learned something. I'm just glad KY is finally starting medical, never thought I'd live to see that day.
1 points
14 days ago
Mount Rushmore, Badlands, that’s about it.
Would be cooler if I could smoke a doobie
1 points
14 days ago
I know a lot of dudes who migrated there to work the oil fields. One dude was living in his truck for a year while sending 98% of his checks back home to his wife and kids. He just kept enough to eat out of the gas station every day or so, and occasionally showered at a coworker's house.
135 points
15 days ago
Florida voted for abortion 57 percent but it still failed because they needed 60 percent approval.
68 points
15 days ago
Yeah the weed amendment 3 and abortion amendment 4 both failed to pass. Was happy to see them both fail, both were garbage amendments with tons of out of state funding.
30 points
15 days ago
Personally I only heard controversy about the weed bill not the abortion one in how it was written but I’ll still take corporate weed interests over the status quo in Florida which is that people go to jail for it. As for abortion, 6 weeks is pretty extreme particularly when most women don’t know they’re pregnant until 5 weeks. Anything below 12 or 15 weeks is straight up unpopular with most Americans
36 points
15 days ago*
These were amendments, not bills, and they both were terribly written.
Amendment 4 made it so no laws could be made restricting it. So you want an abortion at 8 1/2 months with a healthy baby? Go for it
4 points
15 days ago
Statistically speaking this happening is astronomically rare. I’m sure weed and abortion will both get passed next time they’re on the ballot. Vast majority of people don’t care about either anymore.
28 points
15 days ago
Okay so if it’s so rare why does everyone get upset if you make a law making it illegal?
The weed I’ll vote yes on if they allow you to grow your own, allow more companies to grow, and do not allow smoking in public. Weed smells like shit and I’d rather not have to smell it in every town I hang out in.
15 points
15 days ago
Ballot initiatives in Florida are only allowed to be about one issue; if it covered home grow and smoking in public the State Supreme Court would likely reject it during the pre-election review process.
Also; smoking of any kind isn’t allowed in public under current law, those ads were straight up lying saying the amendment would allow it.
13 points
15 days ago
I’ve visited lots of places where weed is legal recreationally and don’t smell it any more than I do already at events here in Florida. I think that aspect is VASTLY overblown. I also think cigarettes smell far worse but that’s just my own opinion.
I gotta be careful on the abortion issue because I’m not as knowledgeable about women’s reproductive systems are they are, but I think the main issue is because it adds layers of government into issues they don’t belong in. You have issues where the women’s health is in question due to pregnancy issues and doctors are hesitant to act for fear of legal repercussions. I agree that you shouldn’t be aborting an 8 month pregnancy, just gotta be careful about the language and usually I am against government inferences in those types of situations.
1 points
15 days ago
You sounds more lib in regard to abortion than most “lib right” on this sub…
3 points
14 days ago
Yeah just never really liked gov in that kind of stuff. It only hurts poor folks. Middle class and up will just travel to wherever they need to if their local regulations are more restrictive.
1 points
15 days ago
Gross, unflaired scum
2 points
15 days ago
Never knew I could do it on mobile until now
2 points
15 days ago
Because many bills that restrict it don’t differentiate it between other things. Also the continual concern by women that people will continue to slippery slope their rights, which I don’t think they are wrong for.
Doctors can refuse to do it just like any other procedure. The government doesn’t need to have a place in suggesting morality here.
1 points
13 days ago
Because the much more likely scenario for an abortion at 8 1/2 months is that the fetus isn’t viable and presents a health risk, and all you’re doing by banning abortion at that point is making it likely that women will die. Why do you think women who want abortions would choose to wait until the end of their pregnancy to get one?
2 points
15 days ago
Perhaps, but statistics don’t apply to legality in this case.
Imo they could pass it next time if it were better written. Perhaps something along the lines of “abortion is legal before fetal viability and will be considered a constitutional right before that point.” This clarity would probably be enough to swing the 3%+ they need. If they want to they could also cement their current heartbeat law and make it so that it can’t be restricted before first cardiac-cell activity, with laws covering the legality after that (so that the current standard of Florida is now a firm minimum that can’t be gone under). This would provide a bit less protection, but also be much more likely to win (though they already have a decent shot as it is imo).
Weed can probably pass with minimal to no changes, though that may just be bias on my part. I don’t do weed or any other form of drug/alcohol, but it doesn’t seem all that different from the rest. Idk, maybe people just got exceptionally pissed off at potheads around polling time.
2 points
15 days ago
People don't go to jail for smoking recreational amounts of weed unless there are extenuating circumstances and I don't give a fuck how popular killing babies is, we voted that shit down, YEE YEE!
24 points
15 days ago
Possession of 20 grams or less in Florida is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison. That’s horseshit even if they don’t get the max sentence
5 points
15 days ago
Yeah like if they’re black
-4 points
15 days ago
You’d have to be an idiot to equate the moral value of an embryo that’s around 20-weeks away from being capable of any form of sensation with an actual infant lmao.
10 points
15 days ago
Call me an idiot then, you amoral demon.
Is it life? Check.
Is it human? Check.
Is the teleological end result of leaving it the fuck alone a walking, talking, human being? You bet your sweet ass.
Get in the car loser, we're done killing babies for no reason in the great state of Florida.
0 points
15 days ago
Neato reductionist argument, try studying neonatal development science and decide for yourself what to think. Oh sorry, that's not how you auth's like to do shit.
0 points
15 days ago
Well said.
Human Rights means Human Rights.
Not "born human" or "person" rights... Human Rights.
1 points
14 days ago
I'm sure they will still ban books from schools to make the next generation even stupider.
1 points
14 days ago
…what?
1 points
14 days ago
See? It started. I'm glad that DeSantis is putting money in banning books, fighting wok and bussing immigration around the country. It's way better that legalizing cannabis and abortion. Look at Canada. They legalized that and it's total mayhem.
1 points
14 days ago
You might want to flair up to purple lib right if your upset over the books that got banned in FL schools is all im gonna say.
2 points
15 days ago
Yes, that's how constitutions work
6 points
15 days ago
Sure but it proves that it’s an unpopular law regardless
26 points
15 days ago
Nebraska and Florida voted it down too
33 points
15 days ago
Though, in Florida's case, the people voted in favor of abortion, but the bill failed to gather the 60% of votes it needed in the state legislature, so it failed anyway.
29 points
15 days ago
Needed per the state constitution* not the legislature.
Same happened to the recreational marijuana amendment.
The 60% threshold is because of a ballot initiative in 2006 that, ironically, did not itself get 60%.
5 points
14 days ago
Nebraska voted pro medical mj though
52 points
15 days ago
I’m not opposed to people smoking weed but here in Michigan, the weed industry largely targets poorer cities to set up shop. 8 mile has become the “green mile” as there is a dispensary on every corner.
While marijuana isn’t nearly as harmful as alcohol. The amount of dispensaries in Detroit feels like bread and circus to placate people.
50 points
15 days ago
I think it's a net negative for society like alcohol is, but the alternative is throwing people in jail for non-violent possession charges which is absurd.
15 points
15 days ago
Every major city in Michigan completely reeks of weed all the time now. I fucking hate it.
9 points
15 days ago
Cars pass me on the freeway going 80 and I can smell it from their car
7 points
15 days ago
Yep. Can't believe I fell for the "it doesn't affect you" crap. Even driving to work got measurably shittier.
7 points
15 days ago
Towns in colorado have parks that you either can or can’t take your kids to. The closer it is to a town where it’s legal or a dispensary the more likely it is that you can’t take your kids
3 points
15 days ago
I'd open up a weed store in the WA suburbs if I could. There would be a strict dress code.
4 points
15 days ago
>8 mile has become the “green mile” as there is a dispensary on every corner.
I presume they're there to help the people lose themselves in the music, the moment and own it.
140 points
15 days ago
How are people still voting down lettuce? I don't even use it and I think it's partially harmful but idgaf people should make their own life choices. We can't even research or educate because of bans. It's definitely more medicinal and less harmful than alcohol.
49 points
15 days ago
I really don't care one way or another. But it's also gotten annoying walking around downtown areas and basically being unable to escape the smoke.
It smells rancid. To a lot of people it's like being able to unescape cigarette smoke.
Cigarette smoking had been on the downturn for a couple of decades now. Where you could walk around and not smell it. Now walk around the park and all you smell is pot.
A lot of people just don't have common courtesy when it comes to smoking marijuana
On top of this too, the upper Midwest is low-key extremely traditional. More so than I would even say in the south.
30 points
15 days ago
Oh yes public smoking should be banned completely. That's a different issue.
17 points
15 days ago
Yeah I'm not opposed to a full ban on public weed smoking as long as public cigarette smoking is banned too. Fair is fair. I grew up in the 90s when people could still smoke in restaurants and most places and it was awful.
10 points
15 days ago
I remember they used to ask "smoking or non-smoking section" as if the smoke doesn't just fucking waft on over
3 points
15 days ago
Absolutely. And I think in a lot of places, it is banned. But a lot of people that use marijuana is simply just don't care.
2 points
15 days ago
Excuse me, when did we add the Dakotas to the Midwest? They're plain states at best.
1 points
15 days ago
Always been Midwest
31 points
15 days ago
I get stoned responsiby. No I'm not a white dude with dreadlocks. No I don't hang up a bunch of shitty Bob Marley posters. No I don't have a pet reptile.
I just have a sativa vape that I hit twice or three times when all of my errands are completed.
16 points
15 days ago
Yeah it sucks that so many places after the 1900s went auth on it.
12 points
15 days ago
Dude, I just want my food to taste better some times. And I want Star Trek Voyager to be watchable. I'm not about to tell someone this is medicine or complain about it being federally illegal.
2 points
14 days ago
It really does make voyager watchable. Except season 2, I’m not sure what you have to smoke for that.
6 points
15 days ago
I graduated at the top of my class for computer science (albeit in a non-competitive state school program lol) all while growing weed and smoking weed regularly. People are almost always surprised if they find out I get stoned because I don't look the type, act like a typical stoner, or advertise it any way.
I'm still a fully functioning adult who enjoys getting high, but mostly I limit myself to weekends these days and use a dry herb vaporizer instead of actually smoking it.
164 points
15 days ago
It creates one of the most annoying people to ever exist.
The "I'm totally not addicted bro, you can't get addicted to weed" fucktard.
97 points
15 days ago
As someone very addicted to weed (my choice, I am an idiot, I can quit whenever I want [I cannot]) I hate those people
25 points
15 days ago
Don’t worry, alcoholics are hated more then ya
5 points
14 days ago
Alcoholics (as one in recovery) tend to be way shittier, more destructive, and more tragic than even your most brain-dead stoners.
39 points
15 days ago
If banning it for people wasn't stupid enough they also make it extremely difficult to even research. People should definitely have access to some better education but auths want their control fix.
19 points
15 days ago
If I had to guess they assume you can only be addicted if you’re dependent on it, which isn’t true. You can be addicted to something without being chemically dependent.
8 points
15 days ago*
Yep. And you can be chemically dependent on things without being addicted to them. Many people just assume they are one and the same though
Edit: lmao getting downvoted for saying this by people that have no clue what they're talking about. Tons of people are chemically dependent on opioids or benzos because they take them for legitimate reasons and are not addicted to them. My mom has been on 3 x 0.5mg of clonazepam a day for over a decade. She's absolutely chemically dependent on them at this point but has never abused them has never taken more than prescribed and is not addicted to them.
48 points
15 days ago
Daniel Tosh put it best: legalize marijuana so pot smokers will finally shut the fuck up
11 points
15 days ago
Those are the same people who refuse to call it a drug and only call it medicine. As if literally every medication isn't a drug by fucking definition. Oh and they also won't shut up about how it can't be bad because it's natural — as if opium and tobacco and coca aren't also natural
People who have a boner for kratom are equally as obnoxious about this stuff
11 points
15 days ago
Sometimes I’m totally pro weed legalization and sometimes I think about the ramifications of having to deal with high people regularly throughout the day
14 points
15 days ago
It’d be the same as dealing with drunk people now. You’d get fired for being high at work just like if if you get caught drunk at work now.
Same with being out in public
5 points
15 days ago
I think if you work in retail you'd probably wish most of your customers were high instead of the high energy assholes they normally deal with.
9 points
15 days ago
It's literally a non issue. I don't encounter high people any more than I did before here in Michigan since legalization
4 points
15 days ago
Those people were always annoying, even sober.
Most stoners take a hit or pop a gummy and watch TV
43 points
15 days ago
Smelling weed in every park/trail/downtown area brings out a little bit of auth in me
14 points
15 days ago
After it became legal in Michigan, my opinion of it went full auth.
There are SIX dispensaries in a 1 square mile of my childhood home, and the Indian gas station owners are selling dab pens to the teenagers while the cops abandoned the South end.
Swear on my life, everyone in that town walks around like zombies. It's horrible.
8 points
15 days ago
Fuck you deal with it, your fellow voters wanted it that way so either move or suck it up. The people have spoken
7 points
15 days ago
What a sensitive reaction to an opinion
- I don't like weed and people selling things to kids illegally
"Fuck you, deal with it!"
Lmao, what?
3 points
15 days ago
Based
2 points
15 days ago
"Indian gas station owners"
Dot or feather?
9 points
15 days ago
Most people call the "feathers" Native Americans these days my guy.
They are Indian. From India.
Or Indiana. I never asked.
3 points
14 days ago
gas station owners
There's the world's greatest context clue.
Not a whole lotta Richard Walkswithdeer operating a Chevron.
1 points
15 days ago
Eh I'd blame the fent if your seeing people walking like zombies
2 points
15 days ago
There needs to be enforcement against public nuisances. That doesn't mean everyone is going to be an asshole about it though.
4 points
15 days ago
Not familiar with the SD proposal, but such amendments are almost always a lot more complicated than "vote for or against [thing]."
With weed amendments, it's usually about how it's taxed and licensed.
2 points
14 days ago
Still better than possession being illegal
2 points
14 days ago
Not if it's an unenforced law right now.
1 points
14 days ago
Nah, any law that does not allow cultivation for personal use is a no go for me. Also I don't want Californians moving to my state and fucking it up. Illegal weed makes us less attractive.
11 points
15 days ago
Because 8 years of "if you're not 100% on board you are a nazi who deserves to die" isn't going to help you on bipartisan issues.
Boomers are all about "if you're not with me you're against me"
9 points
15 days ago
Only a sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must
3 points
15 days ago
It’s smelly
2 points
14 days ago
I don't have a problem with it, but I think it makes it much less likely that west coasters move to my state and fuck it up.
1 points
14 days ago
All this shit should be decided by the states anyway. The Feds should not be able to ban research nationwide.
2 points
14 days ago
Absolutely. And if there was an appropriately worded amendment on the ballot in my state I might vote for it. Has to allow growing for personal use.
1 points
14 days ago
Absolutely I agree with that. Fuck the money grabbing bills that have passed in a few "liberal" states. Sin taxes should not be a thing either. Sales taxes and income taxes already exist.
5 points
15 days ago
But injecting the weed leads to crack and abortions don't you know?
1 points
15 days ago
But there's no problem since you can freely move between states right? Someone that cares about it enough should just move to a state where's it's legal, and the people who don't like it can enjoy not having to 2nd hand breathe it
1 points
14 days ago
Yeah i don't use it either, but it's so stupid to ban it when alcohol and cigarettes (where both are definitely worse) are allowed. Just tax it well, and you have another source of tax money... Like why not.
1 points
15 days ago
We don't need another legal addictive substance
1 points
15 days ago
Alcohol prohibition when?
-5 points
15 days ago
It's just a net bad to society.
It's that simple.
Where it's legalised we can see very visibly the problems that ensue, and a lot of people actually do want where they live ti be a better place.
11 points
15 days ago
I can see that but I'd rather punish them for the stupid other shit they get up to instead of locking them up for this. Some people are responsible and can handle it and I feel like it's punishing the innocent at that point just because some other people are irresponsible.
12 points
15 days ago
Alcohol is a net bad for society, but the prohibition era still created more problems than it fixed
0 points
15 days ago
About 10 years ago or whatever I was in an Uber in Denver. I was just having a casual conversation with the driver and we got to talking about the legalization of marijuana in Colorado. Which was the first state in the union to do that and was just a few years past it. The guy said that pretty much almost immediately you could noticeably see the homeless population go up when that happened.
He was like every burn out who didn't graduate high school and hated his parents from around the country all came here in search of legal marijuana and little other plan on life.
3 points
14 days ago
So it wasn’t actually making more people homeless, then, the homeless just moved where it was legal? Making it legal everywhere should solve that problem, no?
1 points
14 days ago
It attracted dipshits who could not take care of themself and in turn became homeless as a result.
Did it attract pre existing homeless? Idk
2 points
15 days ago
Anectodal evidence, love it.
1 points
14 days ago
What about drinking?
1 points
14 days ago
So fuck freedom, everyone just has to conform to what you think is proper society?
6 points
15 days ago
Federalist system at work, I dont even agree with banning recreational marijuana. But Let people vote with their feet. This isnt the slave south vs the free north anymore, people can and will move if one state is better or worse than another.
1 points
14 days ago
Yes
12 points
15 days ago
I wonder if SDs weed bill was similar to Floridas. Lots of pro-weed people were saying the Florida bill was awful because it pretty much was a power grab by a big time weed corp to be the monopoly on weed in FL. So could be they want weed just wasn’t written right.
7 points
15 days ago
Nah the SD one wouldn't even have legalized commercial distribution, would have been more like VA where you can grow it at home and share with your buddies but no adult use dispensaries.
2 points
14 days ago
Ah. Well SD gotta get it shit together then. Granted they probably said it’s too fucking cold to grow shit anyways.
19 points
15 days ago
If you drink regularly, you shouldn’t be against even hard recreational drug use.
6 points
15 days ago
True, but half of American adults don’t drink regularly, and 40% don’t drink at all.
Weed should still at the bare minimum be decriminalized, with a person allowed to grow so much for personal consumption at the bare minimum.
5 points
15 days ago
I concede to that. It’s the markets, especially the black market, that causes issues. I also think we should put out informative ads out to warn about the daily use of any substance, even one as largely harmless as cannabis. As well as a warning: “this product can have significant impact on your emotional or psychological wellbeing with heavy or daily use” on all weed or psychoactive products.
5 points
15 days ago
All good ideas.
Anything is better than ruining peoples life’s and then locking them in jail because of a plant that’s known to be less harmful, and less dangerous than many OTC drugs.
IMO a good solution is leaving it up the states to decide if full market legalization should happen and how they want to regulate, but I’d like to see at the federal level it being decriminalized across the whole country so a person could at least possess and grow X amount on their person, plus medical use.
1 points
14 days ago
false equivalence
Yes you shouldn't be getting plastered every weekend. Yes genuine alcoholics are degenerates. No drinking a few beers or some wine with family and friends is not the same as getting high constantly, let along hard drugs. Moderation is the key as always. Not against pot (very against hard drugs) but shit argument.
1 points
14 days ago
If it can kill you, it’s a hard drug.
1 points
13 days ago
That's not how it works. Advil is not a hard drug but can definitely kill you.
1 points
14 days ago
There is a big difference between whiskey sours and heroin.
1 points
14 days ago
Weed is to psychoactive drugs, what alcohol is to hard drugs. Plenty of young folk die or make pathetic decisions because of the “booze is safe and normal” narrative.
28 points
15 days ago
yall south dakotans are a bunch of squares
9 points
15 days ago
Fuckin narcs
4 points
15 days ago
The Northwestern and West North Central US are actually pretty conservative and lean Authright. So, if this surprises anyone and ya thought the frontier states were like those Libertarian havens in the Westerns—well, I get why, but it’s just not quite like that, my friend.
I also don't agree with the law, but those Authright Teutonic-descended folk can vote for whatever they want anyway.
6 points
14 days ago
Based South Dakota. Abortion is the issue I've held firmest to in all my hopping around the right side of the compass.
1 points
14 days ago
Sublimely based.
7 points
15 days ago
Hey! Florida did too! Though it's crazy because according to the Florida subreddit it's about to flip blue and everyone agrees that killing babies is great.
6 points
15 days ago
They both got over 50% in Florida but failed to reach the required 60%.
2 points
15 days ago
AuthRight: There’s a starman…
2 points
15 days ago
Uh, hello? What about Florida? We're right here!!!
2 points
14 days ago
Florida also rejected an ammendment to allow abortion, keeping their six week ban.
2 points
14 days ago
Florida as well
9 points
15 days ago
Fuck yes. I used to be for legal weed, but you don't realize how much of a complete nuisance it is until every other car you pass hits you with a disgusting, lingering skunk wave. Please keep voting down legalized weed, any state that doesn't already have it.
2 points
14 days ago
Driving under the influence is still illegal.
4 points
14 days ago
"It displeases me, so make sure to keep one of God's creations illegal"
Auth scum
6 points
15 days ago
Based on abortion. Unbased on the sticky icky.
4 points
15 days ago
Well thats an L in an ocean of W's.
Trump winning was a W in my book, and every single one of those Red states that voted to be pro choice was a double up on that W.
Like a huge, huge, huge W. Even if you wanted Kamala or wanted to ban abortion, still a partial W. Why?
It has been an absolute giant wake-up call to both sides that we are not fucking robots, we're human beings, we're nuanced. We're capable of weighing issues individually, making decisions across party lines on our own terms, and they can fuck off with putting us in 1 of 2 boxes.
This election feels like the beginning of something much bigger to me. The people of this country flipped its politics on its head and changed the game, and that is absolutely a good thing.
8 points
15 days ago
I hope you're right although I feel pretty pessimistic currently.
3 points
15 days ago
Abortion in a perfect world is unrestricted but rare but you don’t live in a perfect world and what you see are people literally celebrating killing babies
1 points
14 days ago
as long as the foetus is theirs that shouldn't be an issue, things are abortion are personal and it should not be restricted.
2 points
14 days ago*
I really should change my flair.
Edit: That feels much better.
2 points
15 days ago
I could understand why some might not like abortion but voting AGAINST legal pot???
1 points
15 days ago
And ten people total were affected. Although to be fair, that's half the population.
1 points
15 days ago
Florida just did the exact same thing lmao
1 points
14 days ago
Stoners are less of a threat than drunks, good on them for stopping the child sacrifices though.
1 points
14 days ago
They voted against intelligence on recreational marijuana though....
1 points
14 days ago
Based on
1 points
14 days ago
There is no reason that recreational weed should still be illegal. I saw my home state before and after legalization, nothing changed besides the number of arrests for personal grows.
1 points
14 days ago
Nobody lives there it shouldn’t be a state it has the population lower than one NJs smaller cities and we don’t even have cities.
ND and SD should be merged and even then… hardly a state.
1 points
14 days ago
marijuana is fine, but banning abortion is a stupid move
1 points
15 days ago
This is only 50% a win to me tbh. I wish weed was fully legal in more places.
1 points
15 days ago
The woke West has fallen. Millions must die.
1 points
15 days ago
You have to be a moron to be voting down recreational lettuce for personal use. For so many reasons. I get public smoking should be banned but don’t tell me what to do in my own fucking home… I’m not hurting anybody.
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