Pot was criminalized in many states staring in the 1920s along with cocaine and heroin. It was taxed in 1937 as a commodity crop (hemp) and used in ropemaking for the Second World War… At the state levels, (esp. in the south) because it was well known as being used in the Jazz commmunity and “jazz cigarettes” represented moral peril to the innocent white women who’d smoke it and get hooked and end up fucking the black men. (And oh God no… we can’t have that!)

By 1970, it was fully criminalized nationally esp. because of the whole drug culture of the late 60’s and the Vietnam anti-war protest movement. It wasn’t just pot, but LSD, speed, quaaludes… all of it.

Huey Long’s politics and the Black Panthers were one part of it, but the entire thing was in response to the boomers finally shaking off the post-war straitjackets they’d been raised in…

If you want a good look at the culture of those fucked up years and the ideation of the times that MAGA is pretending they want to “get back to” check out David Hoffman’s youtube channel

It’s amazing stuff.

You are correct.

PREACH!

I work with an Alex Jones fan… He went batshit a few years ago when up in Michigan, black men with semi-automatic rifles were seen publicly protecting their representatives after the whole MAGA kidnapping thing unfolded.

His line was “The blacks are being trained for the race war!” And I scoffed and asked him if he remembered the video I showed him of the gang bangers in Chicago having a running gun battle as they tore up the streets in their cars… I was like, “Dude, the brothers already know how to use guns… What do you think the metal detectors in high schools in the inner cities for the last few decades has been about?”

Oh yeah… the penny dropped and he went quiet about it pretty quick.

Which was amazing because at the time the guy never shut up about all the MAGA conspiracies. Drove me up a tree.

I like enough to move the characters forward in their story. If it’s gratuitous, it makes me go “meh!”

Just watched Pillion a few days ago and it was fairly steamy and funnier than hell in some points… it was odd, as a dom/sub story it somewhat fell flat at the end for me. The guy I was watching it with was likewise disappointed as he’s gay and said that most gay-centered stories rarely have a happy ending.

The sex scenes were okay and both of us ooohed and ahhed over seeing Alexander Skarsgard’s ass… which was quite delightful, but the sex scenes were… meh! Honestly the sex scenes in the John Cameron Mitchell film, Shortbus, did more for me.

Hmmm. I think I won’t be reinstaling the Epic Games Store app on my gaming PC any time soon. (My old drive failed December of '23…) I’m only playing two games anyhow - Horizon Zero Dawn and No Man’s Sky and both I got through GOG.

NGL, I only tried the Epic Store to get Bioshock on one of their free giveaways… and it turned out to be a bit much.

Really not into body horror games… Or people that make excuses for maintaining platforms that enable the creation, and distribution, of CSAM.

See ya later, Tim.

Oh, Columbus.

Rats!

I was hoping it was some cool hithero unknown historical fact regarding the English Civil War you knew of.

Well yeah. That.

LOL!

Indeed.

That’s a typical conservative, religious viewpoint that sees women and children as property to be used by men.

It’s a man’s prerogatvie, after all to put his dick wherever he wants. Whenever he wants. It’s a potent heady power trip for men that are single and lonely and feel powerless.

Vile nonetheless, lest you think I make excuses for it.

Suspending elections? Yep. That is EXACTLY the agenda, which is why cooler heads on the street need to be the rule and really, REALLY folks instead need lean into a Democratic wave at every level of government come the mid-terms.

The biggest rebuke will be undermining his authority by removing those who are appeasing his increasingly erratic EO’s. Businesses are pulling back from investing in US factories because EO’s aren’t LAW so much as any given President’s whims, and they can be swept away by the next adminsitration. This is something business understands with crystalline clarity. And they’re not wrong about it. Shit’s slowing down in the economy and all the gaslighting coming from the government won’t stop it.

I mean already the govermnet is looking at temporarily reinstating the ACA subsidies (likely for a year or two - just long enough to keep the GOP in power through the mid-terms) because not having them… well it’s in the process of fucking over meemaw and pawpaw and the kids as we speak…

FFS, even that gorgon, Marjorie Taylor Greene saw the writing on the wall once her kids lost their affordable coverage. Maybe she can give them money from the millions she already has? It’s not like she can’t swing their insurance costs.

But she doesn’t want to, I’ll bet.

Fun times ahead.

1642?

Charles the First Attacked Parliament?

No one except law enforcement would know Trump’s name outside of New York if Mark Burnett hadn’t put him on TV.

I blame that prick.

There was a real reason that Trump picked his skirts up and left for California to get on TV after he lost the Resorts Internation Hotel and Casino to Merv Griffin in the late 80’s. The Trump Taj left a ton of people holding the bag and he had to leave. Got himself TV famous so as to make sure no one - least of all the gangsters of the Philly mob he stiffed - could touch him.

(he owed Nicky Scarfo a lot of money…)

As LBJ famously stated back in the 60’s to his then-press secretary Bill Moyers: “If you can convince the lowest white man, that he’s better than the best black man, he won’t notice that your picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll open his pocket for you…”

This is exactly the classism couched in racism that took our erstwile Mr. Rural for a ride. All them “blacks” on welfare taking their tax dollars… (because the unspoken bit is, ONLY blacks and minorities and uppity unwed women that breed like rabbits - the welfare “queens” don’tcha know… are on welfare…)

Every goddamn decade these poorly educated idiots fall for it.

My bet is that Trump will throw the biggest fascist - Steven Miller - under the bus at the point another suburban soccer mom gets killed, or some ICE agent with a hardon to be John Wayne loses it like the Minneapolis jackass did and shoots into a car with small children in the back seat and kills one or two.

Trump cares only about Trump (fuck America, the US is filled with rubes and marks perfect for his con-man ass to scam) and whoever he can use to make himself even bigger, he will.

The dude is massively insecure but knows how to sell and market his “brand”. And he did and the weak minds in the conservitve, poorly educated corners of the country bought the slick sales pitch.

The rest of us are fucked, but at least seeing the pricks in Washington DC for what they honestly are.

Oh, the shit the country’s got to endure because a child fucker is willing to burn the nation to the ground so as to stay out of jail.

honestly, what I hear when these nitwits say this is “I spent all my time being told what to think by people on TV (famous celebrities! Ooooo!) in the media that I was easily impressed by…”

It’s the full flower of the Southern Strategy that Lee Atwater leveraged in 1980 to help Reagan take the election. The early 80’s was also when Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater - broke into politics in the biggest way and cemented lying and couched racism as right wing political tools…

https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/75/creatures-of-the-swamp/

It’s been all downhill for the US since then.

Attention seeking. Saw it on usenet back in the day, then later on Reddit when people would get into contests for downvote farming.

It’s a ton of loneliness, pain, rage and boredom.

I loved when Q gave him shit for growing it…

I’d choose Johnny Depp’s moustache, gouche and chin beard…

Cause if i’m gonna be a chick with facial hair, let’s make it not overly thick, and yet stylish.

(I honestly could swing it, I do have a wider jawline…)

Art and Physics by Leonard F Schlain.

It was his thesis on the advancement of artistic expression and that of hard science and scientific discovery and their seemingly parallel discoveries, as an expression of how intelligence grows across two separate disciplines.

Some of the write-ups and reviews paint it as fairly plebian, but the entire read is really good.

It’s online.

https://www.artandphysics.com/

Sister, actually… :)

I’m pleased to be here and glad you are too… Thank you for the kindness and you are most very welcome my friend!

I did. Mostly because at my age and with my shit eyesight, I was looking for something I was familiar with layout wise.

Old lemmy to the rescue! It’s nice here, like Reddit was many, many years ago. Small, community-based and not rage-bot driven.

My word, as I look back on how Reddt pivoted in the last 5 years, I really can see it now.

This is really like the nice parts of Jersey. It’s lovely compared to the fiasco I left.

NGL, there’s parts of Jersey that are lovely.