Man... reading through this thread was fucking BRUTAL.
Honestly can't remember the last time I've felt as hopeless and disillusioned about the future of the USA. Looks like literally 95+% of the people posting replies in this thread actually think it's a GOOD idea to give the DEA more power and control over what we're allowed to put into our own bodies. WOW. Welp... fuck freedom I guess. Better feel safely controlled by people who get to tell us what we are and aren't allowed to put into OUR OWN FUCKING BODIES. Literally our own bodies. And get to throw you in prison if what you decide, on what should be your own personal choice/freedom since it's your own body, doesn't line up with with they decide on your behalf.
I knew it wasn't impossible to get a population that actually understands and cares about the importance of freedom to just toss their rights in the trash can and jog merrily off into some 1984-esque dystopian ultra-powerful-gov't hellhole. We've witnessed it happen to other seemingly intelligent populations in recent history, with almost unfathomably horrific results. But still... the nearly unanimous glee and utter ease with which the youth of America, as evidenced by this thread, seem to be just SPRINTING towards that scenario actually genuinely surprised me. I thought at least, oh, I dunno, maybe 10-20% of the people on here would've been capable of seeing how this shit works one or two moves ahead, rather than ZERO moves ahead.
I guess you can literally just take any scary/bad thing (personal baggage after a hotel shooting, shoes after a shoe bombing, buttholes after a butthole smuggling, etc etc) and be like ______ is BAD therefore hand over xyz freedoms, and HURRAY!!! we will solve all your problems FOR YOU if you just grant us nearly infinite power over you and throw away all your rights and freedoms. Awesome deal, right!? Any takers!? And WHOOOOOSH, 3478923742390489208 fucking redditors all sprint up like "YAYYY!!! DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!! There's no wayyyyyyyy this same organization that showed a GIGANTIC propensity to lock everyone the fuck up for EONS of time in prison for smoking a joint will possibly ABUSE any new powers we give them over us. There's no way this'll come back to bite us in the ass TEN TIMES, or a THOUSAND TIMES as bad as whatever we naively think we're about to "fix" by tossing them more power. EVEN THOUGH we've seen that exact scenario happen OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again for the past century EVERY SINGLE TIME we've tried it in the past. NOPE! This time will clearly be different. This time when we give them gigantic amounts of power to control your personal choices of what to put into your own body, they'll just be totally reasonable and not jump off a shit ton of slippery slopes and imprison the fuck out of everyone at their whim for the next x years/decades to come, once they are done with dealing with the bait-issue, and move on to all the shit Americans DON'T want them overreaching into.
Yea. I'm sure it'll work out super great.
MAN this shit pisses me the fuck off. So much naive crap going on in here that's gonna come back to bite us SOOOOO hard when the DEA and the other hugely powerful nanny-state types of depts get more power thrown their way by people who ALWAYS manage to fall for the "think of the kiiiids"/"but 0.00001% of ______ terrorism thingie happening is SCARY so toss away all your freedom it's totes worth it!!!" lines. EVERY FUCKING TIME.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
I'd recommend thinking very seriously, and deeply about both of those quotes, before you guys cheerfully toss all your rights and freedoms into the trash bin.
Welp, that was exhausting. Guess I'm gonna smoke a bowl and go jack off to some Ayn Rand n00dz to chill my harshified nerves. ; p
(J/k j/k lol, I'm actually not an Ayn Rand fan, believe it or not) (I was serious about the pro Freedom/anti-giving-more-power-to-the-DEA/anti-nannystating stuff though)