@jerrycurld@ArmedJ0y I’m an anarchist so I don’t really believe in any of this, but the romantic idea is that America was founded with a set of laws that codified the existing collective morality, not as an instrument to enforce behavioral controls on the citizens in order to socialize the population
@esaagar Absolutely, break out the empirical data! Like all other emperical data, it’s completely unbiased! It couldn’t not be! Marijuana, like “Actual medical science” shows about so many drugs before, just isn’t safe and effective!
@AuronMacintyre That’s how government works, politicians give you just enough to make you think they’re serving your interests while they perpetually fuck you for the benefit of the people who operate it
@JoelWebbon@SallyMayweather Buddy there’s always some scripture to justify whatever position you wanna take. The idea that God predestined a bunch of Christians to genocide a bunch of Indians to ultimately create America should make you wonder why you’re bothering with advocating for anything at all
@manhattanmaker I agree 100%, identitarianism of any kind is a flawed ideology, it’s a sloppy way to look at the world, fraught with contradictions. If someone’s individual identity is so deeply tied to their racial or religious one that it becomes inseparable, that’s the root of the problem.