Spoilers… For a joke from a kid’s movie with the plot depth of a sidewalk rain pond from 13 years ago.

Some of the children obsessed with that movie when it came out are old enough to rent a car now.

The war on drugs was a dog whistle continuation of the Jim Crow era. Because it was now illegal to discriminate against black people simply for being black, new methods of oppression needed to be instituted. When Nixon announced the war on drugs, drug use was going down and was approaching it’s lowest point in decades. His hope was that by finding ways to continue to police black people, he’d win support of Southern Democrats who were largely at the time, pro labor but mad about the civil rights movement.

This strategy worked, and it was continued and expanded under Reagan. When Nancy Reagan pleaded with Americans to ‘just say no’ drug use was at about 3% nationwide.

American police were always a tool of oppression of black communities. They grew out of post civil war racist brotherhoods like the KKK. On multiple occasions, entire chapters of KKK members were deputized.

The narco trafficking the CIA did was a natural progression of this, and was used as an excuse to further militarize the police.

“Because they were black” is a simple answer. And it’s correct. But you could add “and black people are who we oppress in this country.”

A sizable chunk of lemmings are people banned from Reddit for one reason or another.

Because of the federated way lemmy works it’s incredibly easy for toxic users to migrate and continue being a nuisance.

You know what they say, nothing beats thirst like a cop beats black people like a crisp cold coca cola. The cops beating up innocent people of beverages.

Yes indeed coca cola loves to assault your thirst. The way cops assault their wives.

Coca cola and cops, two peas one pod. Like two girls one cup. Except instead of two girls eating shit it’s coca cola.

Mmm. Coke.

Sweety.

Optional sweaty is the perfect amount of perspiration to have upon one’s person.

We need some form of law enforcement.

We do not need a standing military with a license to kill any random citizen.

Long answer: deep breath NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo

It’s a luxury home, 5 bedrooms sure but it’s also a huge property in an area where property value is insane.

It also has a pool, hot tub, and tennis court with some yard left over. It’s not a boilerplate, built from catalog “McMansion” that are common in the US, but it’s bigger than most of those homes tend to be.

It’s a large luxury home, we call those mansions.

It’s just a little guy.

Almost everything about the situation you were born in to is an accident of birth.

As in, you had no hand in it. Your parents may or may not have had some say in the matter, but for the vast majority of Americans, they didn’t choose to be an American either. Any more than they chose the color of their skin or the texture of their hair.

If you’re the child of immigrants, or an immigrant yourself, then sure, be proud of the accomplishment. It was hard and they (or you) earned the right to be here. But for most of us, it’s just where we happened to be from.

Pride comes with accomplishment.

Being human, being American, being male, being white, these are all accidents of birth. There’s no reason to take pride in any of it.

Bring born in to a disaffected class of people, being gay, or a person of color, and overcoming that adversity to any measure of success, that merits some pride.

But just being human? Anybody can do that.

WELL I THINK YOUR BROWSER LIKES TO FELATIATE BIRDS!!

… YEAH! it sucks cloaca. How do you feel about THAT‽

Please, go on

Same principle as the weed doctor. You just need a therapist willing to sign off on whatever you tell them. Quite honestly it’s probably even easier than that, normal intake for drug abuse is a questionnaire about usage history.

So what all young men should be doing now is going to get drug abuse treatment just to get the intake paperwork done. Tell them you’ve been using since you were 13 and can’t stop. Give them a phone number one digit off from yours if you don’t want a phone call to remind you to come to treatment since you’re just trying to establish a history.

It’d be real cool if that could be made in to a mobile game. I’m so rarely at a desktop anymore

Babylon 5 too.

the secret service wants to know your location.

He’s in one of two cars, they’re easily identifiable. The rest are various security assets. Armed dudes, jamming suites, surveillance, etc.

They fly them in a few days in advance.

I… Do you often find yourself needing to schedule video uploads at 12:07?

They’re almost certainly one of the more profitable Google services or they’d have been cut loose by now.

Google serves ads, YouTube is a great platform for them to serve ads, and they don’t even have to pay content creators that much, because they serve their own ads. The biggest expense is probably bandwidth and memory, which Google owns enough of to sell off bits they aren’t using.