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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn
How bad is the war on drugs in California? In particular, IYE, how bad is the theatre directed towards cannabis users? Because don't mistake me: I'm all for legal weed. It's just that partially rolling back the restrictions on cannabis use in California is a ****ing pitiful TR for OWS, given its potential. Pitiful.
I think you might be confused. I was clowning on Fly for sounding like bahbahmickey with his hot take on OWS. Fly asked me for a goal we had accomplished. I gave him one. It's not a comprehensive list of all of the goals we are struggling towards, nor is it a comprehensive list all things that grew out of OWS.
I agree that OWS did not reach it's full potential. I was there on the ground, working with other members of my community to make it a success. It didn't end up becoming everything that we hoped it would be. The world, my nation, my state, and my community does not currently reflect my vision of a just world, por ahora.
I thought it would be apparently obvious, but I will clarify that when I say that people that would have never voted for Prop 64 were influenced to change their stance on cannabis prohibition, that wasn't a one way street. During OWS, people who had previously been only focused on cannabis legalization came into direct contact with activists involved in the struggle for workers rights, womens rights, immigrants rights, LGBTQ rights, etc. Those people are now far more aware of how those struggles are intimately intertwined. We now have a higher likelyhood of success in these struggles because of this solidarity that was experienced both at that time and moving forward.
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Originally Posted by All-In Flynn
I wasn't involved in OWS and I don't need to have been to legitimately criticise it. I was, modestly, active in successfully campaigning for Ireland to become the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by plebiscite. I am, modestly, active in presently campaigning for Ireland to exit the nineteenth century with regard to reproductive rights. None of which matters: I could secretly be a neo-Nazi and not a syllable of my critique would be invalidated.
I appreciate your efforts in activism. I consider your efforts to to legalize SS marriage and to increase reproductive rights to be worthy goals that I share with you. I've never been to Ireland, but if I can ever be of assistance from out here in CA, let me know.