Mt Dew in the US ( AKA “Freedom Dew”) has caffeine and in a higher amount than in Coke or Pepsi.
Canada used to have a law that only caramel colored sodas could have caffeine. So nothing see through like Mt Dew would have caffeine. I remarked on this as a joke for a fun, unimportant difference to highlight.
Since then the law changed, but IIRC the regular Mt Dew still has no caffeine (though it could) but some of their other flavors do.
What exactly are we talking about then? For example, which law in Kansas is so close to fascism that it deserves to be written off?
Should we have written off California in 2008 when the PEOPLE voted on and passed Prop 8? A law that was in effect until 2015? This law is far more damaging than say the Kansas “religious liberty law” - which while bullshit, blocks cakes from being made, not same sex marriages.
Oh wait - they repealed the law! Only 2 short years ago! Well, shit, maybe we shouldn’t have created that dead zone in California after all. But hey, not this time. This time we got it right. Anyone not in line with California who changed their laws 2 years ago (19 days ago for the most recent law) is shit and deserves to be shunned and locked out lest their evil laws, which we had similar laws only 2 years ago) infect the rest of the US.
There are 12 states with anti-sodomy laws on the books still, even though they were struck down by the Supreme Court. Better rope them off too.
Alienation, and employing the general “us vs them” attitude is NOT the way to incite change and make things better. This way of thinking is EXACTLY like those people who are making the laws you don’t like in the first place.
Kansas and other areas are slower to shift as the social paradigm shifts (though Kansas was a head of the curve on slavery, voting to come in to the union as a Free State.) But they will get there eventually. Working with people who want to enact change is what is going to make it happen. Not building a metaphorical wall and writing off anyone on the other side as diseased.
Of the handful of Canadians I have on face book, half them them seem anti-Trudeau, and at least one has showed interest in O’Leary.
