Comments by "Ida Larsen" (@idalarsen2540) on "The Young Turks"
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Ana, leave this to the experts. You are not among them. People are also SO impatient. Tweeks ARE being made where leftist drug policies are in action. You just need time to allow for the actual experts to get numbers and data, so the policies can be tweeked the right ways. These new drug policies are a massive shift to what we´ve done for so, so long. We KNOW that criminalizing and penalizing does not work. Safety and humane treatment however, DOES work. We must also remember that the goal isn´t to get everyone to quit drugs completely, but rather delay the age people start using drugs, prevent the number of people using (especially hard drugs), prevent easily preventable diseases such as HEP A, B and C and HIV etc. The goal is HARM REDUCTION. That´s what truly matters.
Sobriety is an amazing goal for many people, but not for all. Sobriety is not always a choice for someone. The goal then is STILL harm reduction via safe injection sites, free clean needles etc., and DIGNITY.
Addiction is a disease, not a criminal act. Addicts deserve dignity and respect, just as much as everyone else. Drug addiction should never make you lose your human rights. Never.
Also, forcing people who are not ready to quit or seek sobriety in any shape or form ought not to be pressured. That is only increasing harm and loss of respect, dignity and bodily atonomy for said people. Sobriety comes from within. One must truly want and need sobriety for oneself in order to quit whatever drug they want to quit long term. It is literally impossible to force someone to get sober.. they´ll only resent you and go deeper into their addiction, because addiction is safe to them.. at least. it is what feels safest to them.
I know quite a lot about addiction on a deep level. I´ve dealt with and dealing with it personally, secondary, drugs have been a part of my whole life´s story. I sit in the board in one of Norway´s leading drug organisations. So I feel fairly qualified to speak on this issue. I´m extremely knowledgable on drugs and drug policies around the world; not that I would call myself an expert though. Yet still, I´m far more knowledgable than the average person, definitely including Ana. Ana is generally a smart woman, but is clueless when it comes to drugs and policies surrounding drugs and addicted people and their needs.
Sincerely, a norwegian progressive drug user and drug addict worker/volunteer who has died of an overdose before, been homeless and seen as nothing, but who have managed to rise up and fight for not just myself, but ALL who share my experience of addiction.
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Føler'n!
It's funny how Dump a while ago complained about how there weren't any "Norwegian immigrants" coming to the US.. like, bro. If you think Norway and Norwegians are so great, why won't you (as in America) not try to implement our kind of policies?
Like why tf would we move to HELLISH America when we have it so good here? It could CERTAINLY be WAY BETTER here, but hell, this is paradise, a real life utopia in comparison.
I mean, it's not like we don't have incredibly rich people here.. we most certainly do. It's just that they're not allowed to exploit the poor, middle, basically the working class anywhere close to the same extent. We could surely do better at evening the wage gap in Norway, but heck, even people who end up homeless here have it FAR BETTER than America's working class.
They also always talk about their supposed "freedoms" and "rights" in America.. you sure you're really that free? It doesn't seem like it. We have far greater rights and freedoms here in Norway. Our socialism have GIVEN us MORE rights and freedoms, not the opposite.
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It can't be too far in the future.. I mean.. he's not just old, especially considering the average low lifespan of American males compared to the rest of the developed world. He's also in terrible shape, including being obese. He's also said, stupidly enough that "excercise shortens your life span, because you use up your energy faster" (obvs paraphrazing here) - as if we only have a certain amount of breaths or something, and movement uses that up faster.. it's impossible to explain something so terribly illogical lol. Like, T-bag Dump, humans are not a jar of peanut butter or a can of diet pepsi that "dies" once it's empty. Humans don't work that way. I can't believe someone could be THAT stupid, but here we are.
He's also faced more and more stress due to losing the election and such, and high blood pressure for people like him is NOT good.
So, taking everything into account, it wouldn't surprise me if he were to drop dead soon - whatever "soon" means. It can't be many years at all.
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@rodneybever9583 You're still safer with a mask (for your own sake) than without one. Add a shield that covers at least the eyes as well, and you're even better protected. Even a pair of (big) glasses can help. Sure, it doesn't eliminate the risk entirely, BUT it ABSOLUTELY helps more than nothing.
We know this for a fact. That's why all kinds of coverings, including plexiglasses in stores etc. (the same way subway for instance uses sneeze quards over their sub ingrediens). Literally anything that covers you from breathing in all the particles that otherwise roams around in the air, or if anyone were to sneeze/cough close to you/in your direction helps. Does it provide 100% protection? No, you need a hazmat suit for that. COMPLETE medical grade covering. Still, just because it's not 100% effective (although it ABSOLUTELY works WONDERS like you sort of imply, if EVERYONE, or at least the very mast majority wears masks as well), doesn't mean it's not efficient. Same exact principle as wearing a seatbelt. Sure, it won't ever protect you 100%, the protection provided DEPENDS on circumstantial factors, but just because something is not a complete guarantee for total success, doesn't mean it's not incredibly valueable and don't work - because it does.
It all boils down to listening to the science and executing it, as a way to increase your chances at preventing as much injury/harm/sickness/death as possible.
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Jfc.
So if one person you like commits murder, you'll defend them by pointing at someone you don't like claiming they committed murder, regardless if that other person you don't like did it or not, you're saying the person you like who committed murder shouldn't face any consequences simply because someone else did it? You don't even care about the truth or any facts, you just deflect, and conveniently accuse those people you don't like of doing the exact same thing as someone you do like, despite the tons upon tons of evidence proving that the person you like committed murder, and the absolute zero evidence of the person you happen to not like committing murder..?¿ It just doesn't make ANY sense. That's not how it works. Whatabout-ism is such a stupid right wing-talking point, thinking you're sooo clever. Gosh, NO.
So you're saying it's terrible if your "enemy" does it, but it's toooootally fine if your daddy did it.. because... logic. Got it. Get lost, fool.
Someone else's state of criminality or non-criminality have nothing to do with the person in focus of one case, you nutjob.
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He's just a fraud. "He can handle money".. lol what? Someone going BANKRUPT 6 TIMES IS NOT GOOD WITH MONEY. He's just a scammy grifter. ALL he did as "prez" was give a tax cut to the richest and put in corporate goons wanting to end democracy and bow down to corporate overlords, as well as killing over half a million people with his complete negliegence. He tried to overthrow democracy- THANKFULLY he's too dumb to actually do so, or anything else. He's not even literate. Can't read. He's a failed traitor and scam artist.
Getting money OUT of politics is the way forward, that's essential. Politicians speak for their corporate donors, not the people.. just true progressives who refuse those big donors, like Bernie, Bowman and The Squad speak for the people, as they are not bought by corporations.
We don't need even more, fake or not, millionaires or billionaires in public office, OF COURSE they'll only serve their own wealth interests, not the people. Get it in your head, ignorant fool.
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This somehow never seizes to amaze me..
As a Norwegian (hell yeah, democratic socialism providing free healthcare and bans guns/heavily regulate other potential weapons to actually protect each citizen.. yet somehow we are not "pro-life", but corporate bought politicians refusing to even offer practically any basic care towards children, who likely was unplanned, thus not recieving of proper measures to optimalize it's health, being born into a system that charges your literal birth and everything else insane amounts, whilst ending up food insecure/homeless/worse, those people causing that.. are the "pro-life" ones? Shhhhhesh, gtfo, nonsensical.. people (monsters or smthn sounds more correct tbh).
I've been following American politics and state of affairs in general for a fair amount of years now (because unlike many/most americans.. the rest of us actually acknowledge the importance of staying at least generally updated on other countries, esp in a global pandemic, where soooo much craziness is going on, knowing far too well the massive influence America have internationally.. I've figured caring about anyone outside "their own" isn't really of any importance at all, and that it's a miracle if they know what's going on nationally, or even state-wise/locally at all, so..yup. There's been far too many times where americans have been outraged at me or other non-americans for that matter, simply for weighing in on american politics - despite just how much America LOVES to mess around in and with other countries, lol. America surely is the land of hypocracy, NOT the free! Unless you're a massive corporation tho, then you're certainly both hypocritical AND free, because "yay, hurray for corruption!!", smfh).
It's just crazy to me just the level of corruption taking place, barely facing any scrutony at all. I'm certainly aware that as a Norwegian I'm incredibly lucky and privileged simply by virtue of me randomly being born and raised here, but.. everything you guys view as "extremist, radical, progressive leftist" or whatever is just a given here.. like healthcare, abortion rights/atonomy rights in general, wellfare programs to anyone in need, no matter employment history, background etc., as well as housing benefits being incredibly common and considered yet another basic necessity met for those in need of rental help, how few homeless people we actually have, and those among us who've faced homelessness usually easily gets aid and a spot at high standard shelters, given help to get into actual properties as actual renters, whether we rent communal/from the state, the same state that gives us money for rent, food, bills, etc., or by private lenders, tho still funded/aided by the state as much as necessary, the list goes on and on.
No, we're far from "lazy", we just believe in both that all people matter and deserves at least having their basic needs met, as well as believing in investing in the people, instead of corporations and such, being the most valueable investment we make. By investing in even the most poor, the economy will be stimulated anyway as those funds will go back into society.. because.. of course it does (sure, some tiny fraction might be lost by dealing in the black market, like with drugs for instance, but that percentage is really insignificant, and we end up boosting our overall economy anyway), so that's a simple win-win for both people and the government and businesses, and we hold the same kind of principle when it comes to both education and healthcare, making it (almost enitrely) free and accessable to everyone is something we all benefit from. It's not about "handouts" and all that stupid stuff made as ignorant "arguments" from people blinded by capitalism and corruption, socialistic democracy truly works in PEOPLE'S favour, it's also ofc a good and extremely important point to male that it's by far the most humanitarian way of governence thus far, it just simply works as intended.
Sure, there are tons of things we can improve, not everything works wonders, which is just a reality and fact that can be applied to most things, but c'mon. That's just a caviat to democracy, nothing will ever be "perfect" as it's run by people, and no person is "perfect", and that's just the way it naturally works. What's good for us tho, an actual democracy that's not corrupt and bought, will constantly improve as both the world and people evolve, so naturally our democracy evolves with us. Our politicians have to do actual hard work and legitimately and noticeably improve our policies, as several parties have to work together, and we have many parties competing for their seats, it's not just a given that you'll keep your seat, due to a failed two-party system, rigging and gerrymandering like you guys have in America.
Nope, compared to American standards, even our most right leaning politicians are progressive, because they have to in order to stay in the game.
Look.. I know I'm really praising our system as if it was some kind of utopia, which it most certainly isn't - there's always tons to be done, and there's always loads of policies and such that are flat out bad and all that. Absolutely. It's just.. listening to just how corrupt, damaged and ineffective American "democracy" is, I just can't help but really appreciate how we do things, our values and principles. It's just not right at all when you're among the richest of the richest countries. It's in no way right or okay, and it certainly isn't a truly free or democratic country at all. There are several third world/developing countries I'd want to go to before America. America simply isn't safe enough.
My goodness.. I can't say I have much hope, but I certainly wish that the US will severly change, and actually live up to it's so-called "ideals" you claim to live and stand by. It's not like you haven't got the means and resources, 'cuz you really do have plenty. That's partly why it's so frustrating, I guess. Knowing how great America actually could be, but have had that opportunity denied due to greedy politicians and corporations.
It's one thing to not have the resources and not being able, it's just so different when the resources are in fact there, just not at all in the right hands of anyone.
Your greed isn't just ruining you either.. many of your actions have global effects, like easily seen with global warming and the management of covid (and it's vaccines, ffs). You could've been a world ideal, an actual "superpower"-natiom, but you chose evil instead, bringing rest of the entire globe down with you. Ughh. Be better, please.
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@showmytime9177 It's better to have a system that guarantees health care for everyone. Same access and quality for everyone, regardless of social and work-status. I mean, it's not like Americans don't pay taxes. So.. what's your point?
It costs us all who do have universal healthcare LESS than it does for Americans who have to rely on a complicated, money-grabbing system, where your insurance (which millions don't even have) is HELLA EXPENSIVE, same with your drugs.
Your statement that in countries with universal healthcare, that you have to work in order to get said healthcare is NOT TRUE. Stop being ignorant. EVERYONE, EXCEPT THE WEALTHIEST CORPORATIONS SAVE TONS UPON TONS OF MONEY BY HAVING UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.
Having basic human needs met is a human right, and that includes healthcare.
America just prioritize giving massive tax cuts and benefits to the wealthiest people and corporations, while absolutely CRUSHING the workers who get paid far too little. America would rather tax the most poor, and make sure to keep them poor, make them even more poor and ensure that as many people as possible both become and stay poor.
You could EASILY have GREAT HEALTHCARE, infrastructure +++++ by JUST TAXING THE WEALTHY PEOPLE, instead of allowing them to pay ZERO, or close to zero. It's inhumane and makes NO SENSE that someone who WORKS, yet barely can afford rent and food pay MORE in taxes that only benefit the rich anyway, while the most wealthy who have too much money to even be able to spend in a lifetime, contribute NOTHING to taxes. YOU don't make any sense, smh.
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Uhhmm.. that's absolutely offensive, your example for instance is just.. effing weird tbh. Then you're using the term explicitly to needlessly stereotype some people, knowingly using it as a slur, since you're only using that word to referr to people who behaves in "certain ways".. it's just. Nah. I mean, why the need to judge people for such anyway? We have way bigger issues to focus on.
But, now knowing that it's just offensive, why not just stop using it to tear people down, or do we just feel some kind of hard need to judge anything, anyone, everything, everyone consistently for whatever reason? Idk.
It's unnessecary and unconstructive, and when you know better you should do better, especially instead of continuing to use and defend what you know is derogatory.
Then there's just this endless culture war-thing that gets pinned on mostly progressive democrats by the opposition as the only thing we care about, instead of focusing on all kinds of other real, pressing issues that people actually care about, decieving voters to think that progressive dems/libs won't focus on the typical, tho obivious substances like creating jobs + better wages, healthcare, housing, while that's actually exactly what truly drives the progressive movement. Actual substances that really make huge differences in our day to day-life.
So focus on the important matters, but realize that it's super easy to not degrade people as well. It's not hard.
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@Brian Shoo Since you wanna play whatabout-ism, how about all the people police ENTIRELY UNJUSTLY MURDER ALL THE TIME? The actual CAUSE of PEACEFUL PROTESTS by BLM, which is their FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT? Yet police and moronically racist, hypocritical and blood thirsty red wingers see absolutely no problem with DRIVING OVER PEACEFUL PROTESTORS, shooting them, beating them up, brutalizing them in all kinds of ways?
Stfu. There is NO comparison between BLM's JUSTIFIED AND EXTREMELY LEGAL protests and the Jan. 6th INSURRECTION. ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON AT ALL.
You simply "support" the police when it's CONVENIENT to your hatred bubble. When it's not, all of a sudden you don't support the police, despite getting crushed, killed and brutalized by right wingers who couldn't accept THAT THEY LOST AN ELECTION FAIR AND SQUARE. THAT'S IT.
So just stop it, idiot.
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