It's accepted as common wisdom that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in history. This kind of comparative genocide analysis is totally normalized, but acknowledment that slavery was objectively more destructive in duration and scale seems to cause people to short-circuit
Texas just made weed a felony after over 70% of voters voted to legalize it. Is this what we call a democracy when the representatives of a state will openly defy the will of voters because incarceration rates went down so much and prisons lost money? Texas is a fucking republican-ran hellhole.