NoneOfUrBusiness

Well that just got a lot less coherent. Mind rewording the first half so I can understand what you’re talking about?

Alcohol is much more damaging on the brain. Look it up!

What makes you think I have anything other than disdain for alcohol?

Are you saying that it’s worth it for the anti-smoking angle, like for health benefits?

I’m trying to say that if there turn out to be significant health issues caused by cannabis (which seems likely given the data in the article), then an anti-cannabis campaign should be viable and at least partially successful, in the same way anti-tobacco campaigns have been successful in reducing tobacco use. Drug use isn’t some force of nature that can’t be stopped if we have a good reason to stop it; the war on drugs failed to stop it because the war on drugs was stupid.

Okay let’s be clear that no matter where you ultimately stand on abstinence the war on drugs was a massively idiotic affair. Also given global downward trends in smoking I’d say there’s merit to the idea of anti-drug education/propaganda, with hopefully fewer bullets than the war on drugs.

I mean part of that was because of how idiotic the application of prohibition was, because on the other hand I can think of one very successful prohibition campaign.

Uh… What?

I mean (most) humans are naturally driven to have sex, but no such instinct exists for weed.

asking people to just not use it isn’t realistic.

Why though?

You can spread the word. Conveniently, the site has a lot of information about things average people can do to oppose Israel’s genocide and horrific acts in general beyond just boycotting, divestment and sanctions.

We’re all busy fighting the fascists from our own throats.

If there’s fighting then I’m sure as hell not seeing it.

I don’t need any credibility to say that Kamala border wall/fracking/“most lethal army in the world”/“Nothing comes to mind” Harris was anything short of absolutely terrible.

K.

I mean, putting a world famous influencer on a humanitarian mission to a place where the aggressors want as little attention as possible isn’t really a sound strategy.

How? If anything it is sound strategy because it puts the media’s eyes on the event. It’s one thing to kill a bunch of nameless activists, but it’s another to kill Greta Thunberg, or at least I’d like to believe it is.

One is that Greta is the hero of the leftists, but she’s unable to engage with the right - the people who really need to alter their behavior.

They’re never gonna change their behavior, or at least not due to messaging from the left. The right will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to civilization by the sane two thirds of society. Trying to get the right on board with good things is a fool’s errand. In general, the role of leftwing activists is to either promote their own politicians or force neoliberals’ hands, not persuade the right.

During the US campaign she was pushing the “both sides bad” narrative.

I mean she’s right. We can argue about the tactical merits and demerits of endorsing Harris all day but the fact of the matter is that she was an absolutely terrible candidate and “What the shit? You want me to endorse that‽” is a valid position to take no matter how you personally feel about it. Greta didn’t get where she is now by compromising with neoliberals and there’s no reason to expect her to start now.

Uh… What the fuck man? This woman was going to an active warzone to deliver aid to genocide victims. Let me repeat, she was headed to an active warzone where aid workers have routinely been targeted and murdered. If you think that’s making a career out of a viral moment then you need to fuck off.

This. There always needs to be someone spreading the word. See if there are anti-Zionist organizations where you live.

the other side has been marginalised by the whole Europe and the whole Arab world for a millennia.

What the fuck? The Arab world until about a century ago was the best place in the world for a Jew to be by far.

Good question, in that case I’m not 100% sure myself, but note that while the EU doesn’t have much of a focus on shared foreign policy,it does set and enforce sanctions, set trade standards, etc, so EU-wide leadership does have enough leverage to use against Israel that pushing for business as usual is complicity.

Because the EU is Israel’s biggest trade partner and claim to represent democracy, humanity and all that.

PP is a populist conservative politician so he’s not actively fascist, but do you know what happens when your society has a fascism-shaped hole? Politicians like PP expand to fill that hole.

It’s not even an argument anymore it’s a circlejerk.

In that case basically all groups currently engaged in armed conflict are terrorists and we still need words to distinguish between them.