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“The war on drugs was . . . based on faulty reasoning and faulty science, and it hurt communities that definitely didn’t deserve it.”
How is this guy still calling himself a Republican?
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I mean, at the end he does talk about making this bill more pro-business by allowing vertical integration (which can lead to monopolistic behavior), and decries social equity parts of the bill as “woke,” saying it’s “unfair,” but yeah.
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Because the very next words out of his mouth were, “We fixed a lot of those problems over the years,” which is completely delusional.
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Because the communities that were hurt were white male college students that got caught. And they definitely didn’t deserve (checks notes) community service.
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Because he still didn’t say the real reasons, which were racism, cultural control and to create a political weapon. “Faulty” implies that there was a genuine effort to treat a social issue, but they just didn’t have the correct information. They knew everything they needed to and Nixon literally threw it in the trash can.
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ppffft.
You really wanna appeal to the Republicans?
Two words: “Tax. Revenue”
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Yup. I was all surprised and delighted til we got to the ‘well, obviously very rich white people should run it’ subtext at the end there.
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Wat? The war on drugs keeps police and private prisons in business. Is this guy anti-police and anti-business?
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