Excellent summary.

And indeed even for a pendulum swing, it hasn’t been anywhere near as dramatic as the anti-legalization moral panic discourse would suggest.

I think it’s such an important issue that the implementation of the law should be delayed until a consensus opinion is reached.

So you mean the state will make a decision about …dogma? 😈

Ask very innocently: which version.

Prohibition just gives power to the smugglers and the enforcers. Imagine if all consumer drugs and related shit was just legalized across the hemisphere. No more chartels, drug war, drug running, drug police. Just taxes, public health interventions and regulatory enforcement. Canada took the first step with cannabis and guess what, society hasn’t collapsed.

The problem with this framing is that it still places Israeli authorities at the position of arbiter of truth.

I didn’t write “common sense” to imply it doesn’t need to be explained.

I wrote it to mean that once explained, it clearly is impossible to refute because it’s common sense.

My comment was not adversarial.

We don’t need the Euro and we don’t need the European Stability and Growth Pact. Both are hazardous straightjakets that we really don’t have a need for.

We can and should be friends but we don’t need to join.

As a dual European Canadian citizen: no. Bad idea. We don’t need the Euro an we don’t need the Stability and Growth Pact.

We do need a closer relationship but we don’t need to become members.

Common sense.

That’s what you get for not giving him the Nobel Peace prize. He no longer feels an obligation to think purely of Peace, godammit!

Here: https://huggingface.co/common-pile

Technofeudalism.

That’s a very European mindset.

Rural areas, sure. Suburban and urban where the majority of humans live, no.

I’m being speculative, right?

In a political climate where you could actually implement UBI, you would also be able to …

Which is why UBI should be coupled with UBS (universal basic services). In this context, at the very least there would exist also a rental board (like Quebec’s existing Regie du Logement). If you’re more ambitious, housing would be a universal service and taken out of the market altogether. And don’t forget that that 1600E income of the landlord would be also taxed.

More generally: https://ubiadvocates.org/inflation-and-ubi-separating-fact-from-fiction/

If UBI is financed through measures that inject new money into the economy, such as deficit spending or monetary expansion, the risk of inflation may be heightened. This is because the increase in the money supply outpaces the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services, leading to a general rise in prices.

Conversely, if UBI is funded through redistributive measures, such as progressive taxation or cuts in inefficient spending, the inflationary pressures can be mitigated. By targeting resources from high-income individuals or unproductive sectors of the economy, such funding mechanisms redistribute existing wealth rather than injecting new money into circulation.

This ensures that the overall level of demand remains relatively stable, thereby limiting the potential for inflationary spirals.

In a political climate where you could actually implement UBI, you would also be able to implement walkability policies.

Also, e-bikes. E-bikes is where it’s at.

Nah, it needs you.

This dude has no credibility left since he publicly called Trump daddy.