@danfotoman1@TheGreenParty You're properly messed up in the head pal. Reform are funded by millionaires and billionaires, but you'll vote for them because they scapegoat brown people
@JosephClarkeNYC@TeamAOC@ZohranKMamdani How does that follow? Surely some rent controls would be better, by reducing the baseline, it would competitively persuade some landlords to also reduce?
@benseftonmusic@TooMuchLoveMag Just discovered your music - Harrison and Dark Dreams are wonderful tracks. Keep it going! Think you'll come out with an album?
@AlbertofNero@Harrythepaddy@ClarkeMicah@CosmicSkeptic You can't just ban drugs and expect the central ills to disappear.
Show me a society that has done it correctly, where fighting a war on drugs has actually helped a situation - it's extremely rare, if it exists at all
@AlbertofNero@Harrythepaddy@ClarkeMicah@CosmicSkeptic You're focussing on suicide, when the thrust of my original point was the level of workaholism.
My point is that drug misuse and the associated addictions are often not the cause, but are instead symptomatic of social unrest, depression and poor life satisfaction /1
@AlbertofNero@Harrythepaddy@ClarkeMicah@CosmicSkeptic It's not at all. One of Alex's major points was that banning or heavily restricting a drug very often comes with a trade-off in other areas - whether it's an alternative drug or another social ill