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117th Congress: DEMS IN DISARRAY!!!111!!

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French Rage said:
I mean, I probably believed it all at the time. Granted it's been nearly 30 years, but I don't remember anything in it being particularly ridiculous. It was mostly "here's what different types of drugs are and here's how they can physically affect you"; I don't recall it being fire and brimstone about how a single joint would kill you or something like that; maybe that was just my area? I also can't claim to know if it had any notable affect on drug use either.
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It wasn't that it was fire and brimstone but it was stuff like "marijuana is a gateway to heroin."

The problem with which was it was 1975 and we all knew our older sisters' friends who smoked marijuana and our older sisters' friends who did heroin and we already knew these were completely different people with completely different life arcs, and the fact that the adults didn't know this made us pity them.

In 1975 a 14-year old had a more sophisticated understanding of drugs than a 40-year old. This was Perry Como trying to explain Patty Smythe (ed. per rufus: Patti Smith). It was just fucking embarrassing.

It's the equivalent of technology today. It was "OK Boomer," Ford Administration Edition.
 
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Kepler said:
It wasn't that it was fire and bristone but it was stuff like "marijuana is a gateway to heroin."

The problem with which was it was 1975 and we all knew our older sisters' friends who did marijuana and our older sisters' friends who did heroin and we already knew these were completely different people with completely different life arcs, and the fact that the adults didn't know this made us pity them.

In 1975 a 14-year old had a more sophisticated understanding of dugs than a 40-year old. This was Perry Como trying to explain Patty Smythe. It was just fucking embarrassing.
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Maybe they mellowed it over time. For me this was early 90s; by then the adults in charge were likely Boomers who had done a lot of it and maybe knew more than the Silent Generation running things when you were in high school. For mine it was more like science class, going over the different categories (including alcohol and caffeine) and how they could affect you. I mean, I suppose it was done in the context how they could affect you in a bad way, but less trying to scare you, but then again maybe I'm forgetting parts of it.
 
French Rage said:
Maybe they mellowed it over time. For me this was early 90s; by then the adults in charge were likely Boomers who had done a lot of it and maybe knew more than the Silent Generation running things when you were in high school. For mine it was more like science class, going over the different categories (including alcohol and caffeine) and how they could affect you. I mean, I suppose it was done in the context how they could affect you in a bad way, but less trying to scare you, but then again maybe I'm forgetting parts of it.
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Yea, the science part of it was cool. Our chemistry teacher brought in the PDR to illustrate and it was stolen from his class room before the end of the first day. The school actually freaked out about that -- it's the only time I can remember the school threatening kids with jail and this was in an age when kids would light the American flag on fire* before hoisting it up the flagpole in the morning, and when two kids from another school pulled up in a truck one day, threw an entire loaded bike rack in the back, and hauled as-s.

Junior High School was fun back then.


* This happened while one our of our student' fathers was being held hostage in Iran and the school administration was still able to distinguish between an act of political protest and an act of disloyalty. Imagine that now with the Nazis who run schools and school boards.
 
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French Rage said:
Maybe they mellowed it over time. For me this was early 90s; by then the adults in charge were likely Boomers who had done a lot of it and maybe knew more than the Silent Generation running things when you were in high school. For mine it was more like science class, going over the different categories (including alcohol and caffeine) and how they could affect you. I mean, I suppose it was done in the context how they could affect you in a bad way, but less trying to scare you, but then again maybe I'm forgetting parts of it.
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I took it in the late 80s/early 90s and they still were doing the "Dont do weed cause you will end up strung sucking dick for coke!"*

Honestly most of the kids wore the shirts but changed the acronym.

Drugs
Are
Really
Excellent

*That is obvious hyperbole but basically they did say if you smoke you will likely get hooked on something else.
 
For a time around 1970 or so, Reefer Madness was a big hit wherever kids were getting high, with weed or whatever. Always seemed fitting.
 
Btw for all the teeth gnashing about the Senate Dems they seem to have finally got the hint and are going for it. Even the "moderates" seem to finally be getting in line including Manchin. (Sinema is a wild card still)

[Puts on optimistic hat for first time in months]

Maybe the theory was true and Mitch really did overplay his hand by crushing voter rights when Manchin and others were working for bipartisanship and stuck their necks out. A boy can dream...
 
Just put EVERYTHING on God's Green Earth in the reconciliation. EVERYTHING. And ignore the Parliamentarians the way the Nazis did.

Make it a 30 trillion dollar bill, with a wealth tax of 99% over $10M. One shot to undo the last half century of conservative derp.
 
Kepler said:
Just put EVERYTHING on God's Green Earth in the reconciliation. EVERYTHING. And ignore the Parliamentarians the way the Nazis did.

Make it a 30 trillion dollar bill, with a wealth tax of 99% over $10M. One shot to undo the last half century of conservative derp.
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I would love that.
 
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