Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill

Post by ahmeneeroe-v2 » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 6:50 PM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #161

ahmeneeroe-v2 wrote: post #152

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This idea that there's just left and right is very quaint. The bigger divide today is pro- and anti-establishment, plenty of the 'right-wing' Trump voters were also celebrating what happened to Brian Thompson. Meanwhile, the ACA was quite frankly a love letter to conservatives. It kept the US profit-driven system on life support, and it's a form of the same system proposed by Nixon, and again by republicans during th…

Post by jdc0589 » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 4:02 PM UTC

QuercusMax wrote: post #346

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I agree. I don't, and never will, trust politicians (of any party) to actually represent their constituents accurately. I understand everything can't be a direct democracy, but we need some sort of a middle ground. It's really weird to think about. I am a straight white CIS male, with no extreme political or social views, my family has been in the US for 150 years, im financially well off, and I don't feel like I hav…

why do you write 'cis' in all caps? It's not any kind of acronym, initialism, or otherwise; it's a Latinate prefix.