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Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by themitigating on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:07PM (#36639456)
The republican cycle. It's how they slowly plan to privatize as much as possible.

"This government thing sucks"

cuts funding

quality doesn't improve or more likely gets worse

"This government thing sucks"

[Repeat as many times as needed to make the majority of the public hate the thing in question]

"This is so bad we need to offload it"

Large company that most likely donates to Republicans takes over

Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by cudgy on Friday July 07, 2023 @07:58PM (#36639839)
You forgot:

Large company complains that costs are rising for the services they are providing.

“We need to give more money to large company because they cannot make a reasonable profit and the company is funding my reelection campaign.”

Large company sells personal data gathered from citizens to other private companies, homeland security, and whoever else wants to pay the toll.

“What a sweet deal! The citizens are paying out of their wallets and their personal privacy.”

Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by themitigating on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:05PM (#36639886)
I didn't forget that, I didn't mention it because we're discussing the government of Portugal, California, and government services being cut.

I can't tell if this is some weird whataboutism like "yeah maybe the republicans but how about them companies, since they're also bad that kinda shows that everyone is, really no point in getting mad at Republicans right?"

Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by cudgy on Saturday July 08, 2023 @07:48PM (#36649909)
I guess your not used to people agreeing with you.
Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by themitigating on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @12:22AM (#36676391)
You're not agreeing with me, you're offering up another opinion unrelated to what I said.
Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by ROTMetro on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:12PM (#36640354)
I'm hoping this new court ruling that the Government can't go directly to companies and must go through the process if it involves civil rights (in the current case the Biden admin talking to social media sites about removing content is a violation of the first amendment) gos through and some lawyer get's it applied to all rights (in the case of your example to government going to companies to get around people's right to privacy).
Re:Once hailed for decriminalizing drugs, Portugal is now ha... by themitigating on Friday July 07, 2023 @11:30PM (#36641115)
I'm hoping that Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and every member of the Republican party elected to office who lied/is lying about election fraud faces justice.

18 U.S.C. § 2384 - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 2384. Seditious conspiracy

"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to...or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States....

they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."