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His thesis about chemical crutches for people sustaining a system they know is hollow lands hard.

In the US the parallel is not primarily cocaine among the political class. It is marijuana, the default anesthetic for the broad left since the mid-1990s and especially after legalization.

Recreational marijuana is now legal for adults in 24 states plus Washington, D.C. Medical programs cover most of the rest. That formalization followed decades of cultural work that began with the 1960s hippie counterculture, where pot was both sacrament and political signal of rejection of the “system,” and accelerated from the mid-1990s.

The “just a plant, basically harmless” framing won in media, entertainment, and large parts of academia. Risk perception collapsed. Use rebounded from its early 90s low and never stopped climbing.

Average THC rose from around 4% then to double digits now, with commercial weed THC concentrates routinely 60–80%+. This is not the weak Mexican brick the original hippies smoked, Dave man

Monthly adult use roughly doubled in many tracking series between the 2010s and 2020s. Daily use exploded even faster. By the early 2020s the United States had more daily cannabis users than daily drinkers. That pattern holds among parents and across age groups that previously stayed away from it.

On the American left this is the signature drug. Support for legalization and reported use have long skewed heavily liberal. In practice it often functions as a form of ID or membership card. Someone offers it at a gathering, a campaign event, or a local party meeting.

Once they know you partake, "the dude imbibes" the barrier drops. You move more easily into the inner circle. Shared use becomes a quiet signal of cultural alignment and trust.

A politics that requires constant defense of outcomes that are visibly fraying benefits from a substance that reliably blunts urgency, dampens anxiety about contradictions, and replaces “this isn’t working” with a diffuse, doper low nergy tolerance.

Unlike cocaine, which supplies manic forward momentum, marijuana supplies the softer version: the ability to keep participating in, or simply not actively resisting, a system while treating its accumulating failures as background noise rather than a prompt to exit or reform.

The hippie lineage makes the political valence explicit. The original 1960s association was antiestablishment, antiwar, and left of center. After the 1990s rebranding as medicine or harmless recreation, the same substance migrated into mainstream progressive culture while retaining its role as social lubricant and mild disengagement tool.

Once legalization locked in the supply, heavy cannabis use became a normalized background condition in exactly the political and cultural strata most committed to defending the current American administrative and cultural order.

A functional order does not require millions of people to anesthetize their perception of it on a daily basis. As noted,the false one does. In the United States the preferred fuel, after three decades of normalization and a decades of legalization, is marijuana.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je me suis toujours posé la question : comment font les gens qui savent que tout le système est un mensonge pour tenir ?

Je crois avoir trouvé la réponse.

Récemment, je discutais avec un mec qui a traversé une période de sa vie sous cocaïne. Beaucoup de cocaïne. À l'époque, il bossait sur un projet financier qui était du vide intégral. Il le savait. Tout le monde autour de lui le savait. Mais ça rapportait énormément d'argent.

Pendant un an et demi, croissance délirante. Sauf que c'était de la croissance fictive. Ils se vendaient comme le « nouveau Wall Street », et toute l'équipe était sous coke. C'est ce qui leur permettait de tenir.

La drogue ne leur servait pas à faire la fête. Elle leur servait à rester branchés sur quelque chose que leur cerveau savait être faux.

Et là, j'ai fait le lien avec une question qui me travaille depuis dix ans.

Notre système. Un État qui prélève plus de la moitié de la richesse produite, qui planifie, redistribue, régule tout, jusqu'à ta façon de parler. Appelons-le par son nom : un système communiste qui ne dit pas son nom. Et ceux qui le pilotent ne sont pas des idiots. Ils ont fait les grandes écoles. Ils ont lu l'histoire. Ils savent comment ça finit, à chaque fois.

Et pourtant ils continuent. Chaque jour. Avec une énergie folle.

Comment ?

Ma thèse : une grande partie des gens qui font tenir un système profondément dysfonctionnel ont besoin d'une béquille chimique pour le faire. La cocaïne fait exactement ça. Elle te permet de rester couplé à un système complètement illégitime. Elle anesthésie le doute et remplace le sens par de l'énergie brute. Tu n'as plus besoin d'y croire. Tu as juste besoin d'avancer.

Ce n'est pas une théorie de comptoir. C'est le Premier ministre lui-même qui l'a mise sur la table.

Le 16 juin, Sébastien Lecornu signe une circulaire : tests antidrogue obligatoires et inopinés dans les ministères. Ministres, membres de cabinet, hauts fonctionnaires. Tests salivaires. Sanctions possibles jusqu'au renvoi.

Réfléchissez deux secondes à ce que ça veut dire. Le chef du gouvernement juge nécessaire de dépister le cœur de l'État. On ne dépiste pas un problème qui n'existe pas.

En juillet, dans Paris Match, Lecornu confirme : les tests ont eu lieu, et des collaborateurs ont été écartés. Il ajoute qu'environ un million de Français consomment régulièrement de la cocaïne, et que ça touche tous les milieux. Y compris celui qui gravite autour du pouvoir.

Et les noms ? Secrets. Matignon refuse de les rendre publics. Un député a même dû poser une question écrite à l'Assemblée pour réclamer les résultats.

La transparence s'est arrêtée pile au moment où ça devenait intéressant.

Pourquoi protéger le résultat si le système est sain ?

L'histoire a déjà vu ce film. Le Troisième Reich a littéralement tenu sur la méthamphétamine. La Pervitine était distribuée par millions de comprimés aux soldats de la Wehrmacht. Hitler lui-même recevait des injections de son médecin personnel, Theodor Morell, presque tous les jours. Un régime bâti sur un mensonge total a eu besoin de chimie pour que ses hommes restent debout.

Ce n'est pas un hasard. Un humain sain d'esprit ne peut pas porter un mensonge pendant des années sans se fissurer. Soit il décroche. Soit il se drogue.

Alors la prochaine fois que vous voyez quelqu'un défendre avec une énergie surhumaine un système qu'il sait condamné, posez-vous une seule question : d'où vient cette énergie ?

Le vrai tient tout seul. Le faux a besoin de carburant.

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Your thesis about chemical crutches for people sustaining a system they know is hollow lands hard. In the US the parallel is not primarily cocaine among the political class. It is marijuana, the default anesthetic for the broad left since the mid-1990s and especially after legalization.

Recreational marijuana is now legal for adults in 24 states plus Washington, D.C. Medical programs cover most of the rest. That formalization followed decades of cultural work that began with the 1960s hippie counterculture, where pot was both sacrament and political signal of rejection of the “system,” and accelerated from the mid-1990s.

The “just a plant, basically harmless” framing won in media, entertainment, and large parts of academia. Risk perception collapsed. Use rebounded from its early 90s low and never stopped climbing.

Average THC rose from around 4% then to double digits now, with commercial weed THC concentrates routinely 60–80%+. This is not the weak Mexican brick the original hippies smoked, Dave man

Monthly adult use roughly doubled in many tracking series between the 2010s and 2020s. Daily use exploded even faster. By the early 2020s the United States had more daily cannabis users than daily drinkers. That pattern holds among parents and across age groups that previously stayed away from it.

On the American left this is the signature drug. Support for legalization and reported use have long skewed heavily liberal. In practice it often functions as a form of ID or membership card. Someone offers it at a gathering, a campaign event, or a local party meeting.

Once they know you partake, "the dude imbibes" the barrier drops. You move more easily into the inner circle. Shared use becomes a quiet signal of cultural alignment and trust.

A politics that requires constant defense of outcomes that are visibly fraying benefits from a substance that reliably blunts urgency, dampens anxiety about contradictions, and replaces “this isn’t working” with a diffuse, doper low nergy tolerance.

Unlike cocaine, which supplies manic forward momentum, marijuana supplies the softer version: the ability to keep participating in, or simply not actively resisting, a system while treating its accumulating failures as background noise rather than a prompt to exit or reform.

The hippie lineage makes the political valence explicit. The original 1960s association was antiestablishment, antiwar, and left of center. After the 1990s rebranding as medicine or harmless recreation, the same substance migrated into mainstream progressive culture while retaining its role as social lubricant and mild disengagement tool.

Once legalization locked in the supply, heavy cannabis use became a normalized background condition in exactly the political and cultural strata most committed to defending the current American administrative and cultural order.

A functional order does not require millions of people to anesthetize their perception of it on a daily basis. As noted,the false one does. In the United States the preferred fuel, after three decades of normalization and a decades of legalization, is marijuana.

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@Shawn_Farash Amazon sells ground beef by the cubit, Noah approved

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@Shawn_Farash 6-thirty dollars a gallon, whatever TF that means

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@NorthernFifth @tired_cranky @PhilosophyOfPhy I saw you loading up and tried to warm you off!

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@tedcruz Wouldn't be surprised to find a Fibonacci sequence in there somewhere.

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@camhigby @ReawakenUSA @realjamesowen @UMich Fuck and @TheHuOfficial is my favorite Mongolian band, this lady is giving my favorite Steppe folks a bad name!

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@camhigby @ReawakenUSA @realjamesowen @UMich Don't forget the B-Roll

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@IfindRetards is there a Tardie category for talk shows?

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Ground beef by the gallon?

Yes, please!

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@camhigby @basedinmalibu It is so easy to program them.

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@kelvarnson @camhigby @basedinmalibu Yes!

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@grok @wilyerforever Do the countries still exist and if so what is the use?

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@PhilosophyOfPhy You can't step in the same river/universe twice.

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@PeterSweden7 Ya Fookin' tink so??

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@chefsevenn Click bait

Damn you win

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@EndWokeness Self-service Farm Stands are another canary

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@Ananya3033 @grok Like you just gave birth to a double necked greased bowling pin

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@LidoYandle @Ananya3033 @grok Like you just gave birth to a double necked greased bowling pin

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@LidoYandle @Ananya3033 @grok A proper diet creates said turd