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The terms right and left wing originated as a shorthand due describing monarchists and anti-monarchists. Authoritarianism is THE defining characteristic of the right. Things like economic policies only come into it because authoritarians prefer economic policies that give more power to economic elites.

It's not the plant, it's what it reveals about the people using scare tactics. Cannabis makes you question authority when it's illegal and you see how people in power have been lying to you about how dangerous it is. Legal, socially acceptable cannabis just makes you goofy.

By all the accounts I've read, he was a pretty exceptional person. "Exceptional" in the sense that there are very few people like him, especially in positions of power.

I had no end up trouble with my Litter Robot 3. So much I ended up just throwing the whole thing away.

I know a colorblind XX person. But he's a trans man, so make of that what you will.

Sounds like you're using a phone that doesn't meet the requirements specified by your employer. Might I suggest asking them for a company phone?

When you make drug use easier, there is less incentive for that person to want to get clean.

You seem to have some very naive ideas about drug abuse. Drug addicts always have problems that caused them to become drug addicts. For someone without underlying problems, getting clean is its own reward and requires no extra incentives. If you truly care about getting people off drugs, you have to fix the problems that caused them to become addicts in the first place, but that's difficult and expensive so nobody wants to talk about it.

Wut.

I know people in tech who use iPhones. But they're definitely the exception.

You could just as well ask why people assign weight to Trump's perspective, but instead you're asking about Taylor Swift.

It's almost like people have attributes other than their net worth.

They're capable of feeling shame, just not for good reasons. Like, they can feel ashamed of thinking a trans person is hot.