Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Armagedonus  
The problem is people deliberately ignoring and misrepresenting information, not whether the information agrees with them. It is highly destructive to debate to disregard information from experts when it is presented.

@Armagedonus  
Exactly. if you analyze the situation since the beginning, drug is control, drugs have always been a mean of control, in politics, just like in societies. That’s the #1 problem our countries have to deal with.
 
Here’s something I posted a while ago that explains the big difference in approach on drugs between Russia and the US : Russia’s Anti-Drug Crusade in Afghanistan  
Because what else funds better the terrorist organizations than drug revenues afterall.
 
 
@Princess Luna  
It’s not strawmaning, it’s just throwing away your argument of authority because you consider an inferior anchorman as an authority on the subject.
 
Are you seriously for legalizing meth and hard drugs knowing how destructive these are ? Do you know how horrible the lives of drug addicts are?
 
@Princess Luna  
No it’s not, it’s just accepting eachother’s opinion. Why whenever I post a link to PragerU or Breitbart you immediatedly claim this source is biased?
 
Allow me to dismiss your source is biased because I allow myself to guess your anchorman wrote that script between two lines of coke.

@WyrmSpawN
 
They’ve crossed the precipice into being completely functional and usable now.
 
@MagpulPony
 
Good for us obviously, not so much for the anti-gunners; hence the insinuation that gun control in America would mitigate the power of the cartels.
 
@Patachu
 
Aren’t you a muh licensing is good fudd though? Usually law-and-order types are extremely critical of what me and my friends do.
 
@Armagedonus
 
The war on drugs was and continues to be an epic failure. The only way to bring down the cartels is to break their economic backs, and how you do that is by legalising what they’re selling. Focus drug resources on harm reduction and rehabilitation, not continuing to fight a losing battle where the overwhelming majority of victims are poors and minorities in America, and Latin American countries.

@Ebalosus  
Which leave the question- Why focus on legal means to get a gun over illegal means?

@phoenixacezero
 
With regards to…?

@phoenixacezero  
For the average citizen?

@Ebalosus  
I’m just for at least a background check to at least limit the amount of loonies with rifles, but nope, i’m against the idea of complex paperworks for purchasing or possessing any weapon. Here you have to declare them to the prefecture, like, they don’t even do any in deep check so it’s really just a formality.
 
I gave my opinion on how to win the war on drugs but apparently I’m seen as too mean for it. Perhaps I’m on the wrong forum.

@Patachu  
because PragerU and Breitbart ARE biased sources with no worth to them. you may as well blind link to random fox news clips.

@Angrybrony  
No, you just disagree with their views.
 
@Princess Luna  
I still prefer the Dutertre’s method. You probably lived and grown on a place safe from all that, and that’s good for you. Don’t consider your views as being the norm though.

@Princess Luna  
Oh good grief.  
Weed is ok, but none of the other drugs should EVER be legal. They have zero benefit. All they do is destroy lives.

@Patachu  
They’re not just biased; they’ve proven themselves untrustworthy by regularly posting false info.  
[

](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/prageru/)
 
[

](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/breitbart/)

@Angrybrony  
Again, you simply disagree with what they say.

@Angrybrony  
Compared to most media, not that much. Some biases remains I agree, because every media is politically oriented and will make efforts, but all comparison, they aren’t TYT or some anchorman or popular star/musician’s opinion that please their userbase, vomiting conspiracy theories on their opponents.
 
Calling a media horseshit is really, just your opinion, just like the anchorman Princess Luna tried to introduce with his “most trusted man in america®”  
Allow me to tell you that’s got no value. I’m French, I have my dose of bullshit. Not gonna even have to grep all the shit made in USA.
 
@Vivace  
Another “factual research” from another site that claims to be factual is just no different as if my media has it bigger than yours and isn’t factual at all.

@MagpulPony  
No, they’re not credible.

@MagpulPony  
No, facts disagree with what they say, as stated above.
 
@Patachu  

 
Coming from someone who just dismissed legend of journalism Walter Cronkite as “an inferior anchorman”, your opinion is worth what it’s worth, i.e. not much.

@Ebalosus  

 
No, the only way to deal with cartels is to literally destroy them with all power you have.  
Look a countries who legalized drugs - cartels there simply diversified their reach and began doing more than dealing.  
Cartels are not some magical unicorns that when you “make drugs legal” they magically dissapear. They are organisations that bypass legal trappings of normal organisations, they require proper solutions.
 
@Princess Luna  

 
Everybody does that, especially when “uncomfortable informations” are posted here.  

 
Since fucking when? Experts are people with their own biases and agendas, not to mention that the whole title of “expert” is most often non-official one, chosen because the dude says what employer wants to hear.  
Why are you so trustworthy?

@Patachu  
Now you’re just bullshitting. I sincerely doubt you know what facts are. I know you don’t know what straw manning is.

Am I crazy for not backing drug legalisation* or Duterte-style total war?
 
*Most of them, at least - if we allow cigarettes and alcohol, banning pot is kind of cuckoo.

@Latecomer  
I get where the legalization is getting at, but I think the best solution is to just not make the mere act of drug possession a crime worthy of jail time(especially if it’s marijuana). Marijuana should be legalized while drugs should be dealt with rehab. People shouldn’t have their lives ruined and have a criminal records from just drug possession, they should go sober and get their lives back on track

@Kiryu-Chan  
Yeah, a rehab-focused strategy is best (although it will need to be integrated with prisons too, since many criminals will be drug users).

@Kiryu-Chan  
That’s great and all, but the person has to want to get sober.

@Ereiam  
«Coming from someone who just dismissed legend of journalism Walter Cronkite as “an inferior anchorman»  
You never heard of that guy ten minutes ago. Again, if Princess elaborated and explained his/her/its opinion on the subject, experience, cited sources, yes.
 
Considering that the guy who is on that TV show is as relevant as the documentary on bronies, or any kind of stories about ghosts or aliens of the pyramids. It’s as relevant if Hanouna made the same thing and claimed being credible because he’s got an audience. It’s got zero value.
 
 
@Vivace  
Source:yourself. OK>
 

 
@Kiryu-Chan  
Everyone is in control of their lives.  
I have seen however the disaster eve just weed does on many people, when you have brilliant friends who becomes just lost causes living in thrash and only think about smoking more. I assure you that’s depressing.
 
So when I hear idiots thinking harder drugs should be legalized, we are heading to a complete massacre. A genocide even. Is a liberal’s paradise to see people agonizing in the street with a needle on their arm, or completely lit on crack or coke. A population completely depending on the government on rehab and cures, and on drugs as a tool of absolute control.
 
That’s not the world we want to live in and we will fight it by all means. Because that’s disgusting, it’s not freedom whatever you pretend to call it.

@MagpulPony  
It’s still better than sending them to jail. Sending them to prison has proven repeatedly that it doesn’t work and just gonna repeat a cycle where they end up back in jail. Our justice system just punishes people for things they should be getting help with

@Kiryu-Chan  
Might that not be because the relevant prison system sucks, though?
 
And different drugs require dealing with differently - just dropping the pot front will allow much more focus on more serious ones.