Why does it always turn into personal attacks?
Is that really necessary?
I guess I am…WTF???
That is what I was saying, I am trying to pat myself on the back…right?
No, I am not, just so you you what I am saying here.
What I am saying is folks today don’t seem to stand up for what is right anymore.
They just go along with the crowd.
I take issue with that.
Why do you bust my balls for standing up and fighting when most will not?
Why do you bust my balls for trying to do the right thing?
If more folks stood up for what they believe the world would be a better place.
But here you are giving me shit for doing just that.
In 2013 I tried to tell folks to vote no to legalize or else.
I faced a lot of personal attacks saying this on the world’s largest cannabis site.
Did folks do that…no, they took the first deal offered and it blew up in their faces.
They could have voted for something better.
Why accept bullshit legalization?
Are you saying your vote and voice are meaningless?
Also, we have no solidarity anymore.
Folks go their own way, they don’t seem to support each other.
This is a perfect example.
I know, why even try, just throw your hands in the air and give up.
I am of the opposite mind, I would fight to the death for what I believe.
Hey @shag , for some personal attacks are necessary. It’s all some folks got. I’m not pointing any fingers, but it seems such a normal response for some. Too bad as they might have something positive if not on attack mode. Something to share and learn from.
Anyway, he has a point. On the federal level (US of A)mericans are likely going to get what we’re going to get.
Or more likely not get what we want, and not get this purported compromise situation we may or may not (fully) want. Inertia is on the side of no change at all.
Unless I missed something I don’t think drawing attention to the grandiosity of one’s words (by quoting an emphasizing what someone wrote) is much of a personal attack?
Back in 2013 folks said legaization would stop folks from being jailed for any thype of cannabis growing.
This turned out to be false.
Folks are stll going to jail for illegal gows in a legal state.
They also said legalization would mean safer weed for all.
This turned out to be false.
They are spraying shit on weed and selling it everywhere.
I think @sfzombie13 has experienced this first hand.
I could go on…
The point is, most of the reasons folks gave for wanting to legalize did not happen VIA pseudo legalization.
So why did they vote for pseudo-legalization?
Plant counts are not getting larger in fact they get smaller every year.
Some folks can’t grow, it is a felony.
How is that considered a form of legalization at all?
HidingInTheHaze said
I guess what we can take from this is that they have already lost their rights, and we stand to do the same if we do not learn from their mistakes. Maybe it’s not the best strategy to jump at the first deal that’s put on the table, they look at us like a bunch of stupid stoner’s, why prove them right.
But twisting my words around trying to make it sound like I am praising myself for what everyone should be doing just may be.
It completely changes the way the statement is viewed.
Instead of the focus being on what we should be doing…standing up for what we believe, it make it sound like I wish some kind of prize, I do not.
I am not praising myself, to be clear I am asking what the hell is wrong with people today.
Another statement that sounds like giving up.
What happened to writing you cogressman?
What happened to rallies?
What happened to sticking together?
There is power in numbers.
What happened to fighting for what is right against all odds.
This seems to have been replaced by hoplessly giving up.
Regulatory capture is an economic theory that says regulatory agencies may come to be dominated by the industries or interests they are charged with regulating. The result is that an agency, charged with acting in the public interest, instead acts in ways that benefit incumbent firms in the industry it is supposed to be regulating.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Regulatory capture is an economic theory that regulatory agencies may come to be dominated by the interests they regulate and not by the public interest.
The result is that the agency instead acts in ways that benefit the interests it is supposed to be regulating.
Industries devote large budgets to influencing regulators, while individual citizens spend only limited resources to advocate for their own rights.
I mean sure, he only excerpted a section of what you said, but he didn’t change anything, and you could jump up to your post with the click of a mouse. But thanks for making me follow that, because then I realized all of the emphasis was you, the only change was one line getting bumped down a touch.
I can’t say I’ve researched whether Bernie supports legalization, but I feel pretty safe presuming I know.
Some part of me wonders how likely this would be with the first round of MSOs? I could easily see even bigger conglomerates being able to flex influence, because the further you get from cannabis cultivation the cleaner it looks.
Funny I state exactly how I feel and some folks will say “no you don’t.”…LOL
That is what I am referring to.
I am not trying to make this about me, not at all, not one bit…
Folks try to make it sound like I am saying something I am not.
Maybe I am not the word smith you are but I think I have you beat in the comprehension department.
I get that you said you weren’t praising yourself, but the tone of what you were saying was that everyone else took a bad offer and you alone could fix things.
I am sorry if I offended you, that was not my intention here.
I am not trying to lob insults, not at all, but when I make a statement several times and I say it is not about me, folks will still say “yes it is”.
They seem to be not comprehending what I say, you included.
If folks are having trouble comprehending what I am saying…do they not have issues with comprehension?
It was not meant to be personal at all.
But if I repeat something several times and use words like to be clear and folks still cant comprehend what I am saying, what would you say this issue is if not comprehension?
