All of this crap stems from one individual named Nils Bejerot, who was the anti drug guy for the government back in the day (he also coined the term Stockholm Syndrome, and was against comic books because he thought they would make children grow up to become violent). He considered drug use to be an infection in society that could spread from person to person, and the only way to stop the infection is a zero tolerance policy and to make society fear drugs. And oh boy did all that propaganda work. Still today, 36 years after his death. Through that lense, the article you mention “makes sense”. It’s incredible the effects one person can have.
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As a swede: Word. It’s backwards as fuck here. The previous government didn’t even want to investigate whether or not to decriminalize, because doing so (investigate, mind you) would “send the wrong signals”. Yeeah fuck science and people’s lives when you have “signals” to worry about.
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World News@lemmy.world•Former model and Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic 'pureed' in blender by husband - reportsEnglish
69·1 year agoWhen you put it like that… Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to judge.
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World News@lemmy.world•Germany blames Russian GRU unit for EU, NATO cyberattacksEnglish
5·1 year agoSend a spy in to steal their floppy.
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World News@lemmy.world•Germany blames Russian GRU unit for EU, NATO cyberattacksEnglish
6·1 year agoSadly for us, they have the robustness of being perpetually offline due to being old and crappy. I’m sure even their internet is just standalone computers that you have to carry floppies between.
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World News@lemmy.world•UN Expert Warns Israel on Track to Exterminate Nearly Entire Gaza PopulationEnglish
2·1 year agoAnd when they are - it’s nothing to worry about since they’re not here anymore.
/s
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World News@lemmy.world•Rebecca Cheptegei: Olympic athlete dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend | BBCEnglish
12·1 year agoEverything has context, and context matters. Your can look at any issue from different perspectives and through different lenses. From different perspectives, different aspects of the context might be of different significance, etc. As such, there could very well be a perfectly fine reason to say “stop targeting women journalists”. But that doesn’t, at all, mean other perspectives are invalid.
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World News@lemmy.world•Rebecca Cheptegei: Olympic athlete dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend | BBCEnglish
11·1 year agoThe sex, gender, ethnicity etc of the victim, and the perpetrator, can give very important context that can point to very important issues that needs to be dealt with. If you’re alluding to the actual deaths of the victims being equally bad no matter their gender because they are all humans, then congratulations for passing the lowest threshold for human decency.
Wanting to end femicide doesn’t mean you value women more than men, it’s pointing to a specific issue. It also doesn’t mean that other issues doesn’t matter.
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World News@lemmy.world•Rebecca Cheptegei: Olympic athlete dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend | BBCEnglish
65·1 year agoI’ll just say this: End femicide.
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World News@lemmy.world•"Russian spy" beluga whale that was found dead "had multiple bullet wounds," animal rights group saysEnglish
14·1 year agoMost of us, actually.
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World News@lemmy.world•Connor McGregor Wants to Run for Irish PresidentEnglish
4·1 year agoEverything bad or inconvenient will be DOCTOR’S STOPPAGE!!
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?English
4·1 year agoI’m very well aware. I frequent that server.
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World News@lemmy.world•Rebecca Cheptegei: Olympic athlete dies days after being set alight by ex-boyfriend | BBCEnglish
446·1 year agoCurious downvotes on this one.
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World News@lemmy.world•A remote Indigenous tribe kills two loggers encroaching on their land in PeruEnglish
15·1 year agoYou could do that… But on the other hand… PROFITS!!1
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?English
5·1 year agoYeah, porn is the only reason I still visit Reddit from time to every day.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•type the distro you use and is and let your keyboard finish it
6·1 year agoSuch fake news media witch hunt! OK damn it but you won’t get my binders of women!
sudo dhclient -r
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•type the distro you use and is and let your keyboard finish it
11·1 year agoOpenSUSE Tumbleweed is among the most stable distros I’ve ever seen of her life and I have a list of addresses.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Openvibe combines Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr into one social app | TechCrunchEnglish
1·1 year agoMiranda IM was the best messaging software ever. Enormously configurable and super light weight. The installer was like 1Mb or something.
Apparently Miranda-NG (Next Gen) is a thing.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Openvibe combines Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr into one social app | TechCrunchEnglish
2·1 year agoPff, Pidgin, Trillian… The true master race was Miranda IM. Only the real pros remember.
I’ve got it. Since we’re worried about rising sea levels on earth, we can just pipe the excess water to the moon and flood the moon’s surface with water and use that for cooling.