The first thing that went through my head upon reading the title was 'your plastic pal who's fun to play with!', followed, for whatever reason, by 'a bunch of mindless jerks, who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!'.
This reminds me of the joke about the wild rabbit and the one born in captivity, sharing the same cage in the lab. The wild one convinces the "old dog" to escape with him (cause he knows the inns and outs in the lab), promising to show him the best three things in a wild rabbit's life.
First, they go to a cabbage filed. "That's number one", says the wild one. They eat to bursting. Then, they go to a carrot field. "That's number two, see how great it is" intones the wild rabbit. They eat more. Three, they go to the rabbit holes. Bunnies! Lots of them! Sex all night!! "That's the best part, number three" says the wild one. "What do you think". " I don't know man", replies the lab rabbit, "It's all pretty good, but I am going back". "Why!!!". "Well, mate, I am just dying for a cigarette!".
Situation was not better with only 13 channels....
I've got a little black book with my poems in Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in When I'm a good dog, they sometimes throw me a bone in
I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes on Got those swollen-hand blues I got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from I've got electric light And I've got second sight I got amazing powers of observation And that is how I know When I try to get through On the telephone to you There'll be nobody home
I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm And the inevitable pinhole burns All down the front of my favorite satin shirt I've got nicotine stains on my fingers I've got a silver spoon on a chain Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains
I've got wild staring eyes And I've got a strong urge to fly But I got nowhere to fly to Ooh, babe when I pick up the phone
there's still nobody home
I've got a pair of Gohills boots But I got fading roots
The Pascal wager is logically inconsistent. That's not only my opinion either. In the premise of the argument he says "we do not know if god exists or not" but in the body of the argument he uses "a priori" a feature of god - that he likes believers. How do you know that considering the premise?
So, the argument is in fact "If god exists and he is as described by chistianity then you are better off as a believer". Well, duh!
Not many people think, you know! Not really think. They just think they do. (old Nawi, the Nation, Southern Pelagic Ocean; circa 19th century).
I have read claims that battles were won by people who knew an eclipse would occur and scare the enemies who did not know what's going on...though how reliable such accounts are is impossible to say..
Then you have the sacrifice of consistency (ramming at light speed) simply to redeem admiral purple hair for her incredible stupidity and lack of viable strategy that left the rebels with a handful of people in one ship. But it was much more important to shame the men than to make sense or save lives. Utter desecration of Carry Fisher’s memory with that space Marry Poppins shite. Vile, deliberate, nasty, revolting assassination of the male’s archetypes – Solo and Skywalker. Nothing here is by accident. Nothing is “courageous filmmaking subverting audience’s expectations”.
Then trolls number two are the media. Obviously, the axes were already grinded and ready to swing when the reactions started coming in. Critics lied to all of us out of fear, conformism or being paid; the people did not take that shit and voted the movie down; immediate reaction – RT is highjack by bots, trolls, armies of alt-right, Russiansblah, blah, blah. The press is trolling us ALL THE TIME.
Trolls number three are the/. editors who would scour the net for click baits and present to our attention the opinions of absolute nobodies, if it guarantees an outrage that would rile us.
You see, the original archetypal story of SW does not belong to the West; it belongs to all humanity (that was the intention of George, right, consulting Campbell and so on..). Therefore, the reactions of outrage from China, Russia, East Europe etc.. have nothing to do with anti-west sentiments. Instead what is obvious to non-westerners is that most of the political discourse as well as the media in the West is highjacked by the PC, SJW, neo-Marxists scum who’s trying to replace the archetypes that are older than humanity itself with their murderous, racists, sexist, bigoted “point of view”. So, the push back is not against westerners as a whole but against the above mentioned plague that threatens to destroy the fairest and most humane societies on earth (they have flows, of course, but show me someone better and someone who is constantly improving themselves, I’ll wait).
/. does not allow me to post my full story which I prepared in word and checked many times for errors. I get the lameness filter detected.
Then we have the baddies which are portrayed as angry, half-psychotic Nazis. Onlyone of the most dangerous things you can do is to dismiss the evil as lunatics and misattribute their evilness to fear and/or anger. Whereas the real Nazis were anything like that (disgust motherfuckers, not fear or anger). You don’t make them look like buffoons, because that diminishes the warning message to the viewer that such things should never occur again. And you never, ever portray them as incompetent, because real life evil men are always competent and intelligent. After all, if the real Nazis were so incompetent how come they almost conquered the world? Also, if the baddies are incompetent what is the challenge for the protagonists (none; that is why I repeat, it does not make sense as storytelling or a movie, only as propaganda)?
OK, let’s see who the real trolls are. First and foremost, Disney/Hollywood themselves. Just like the banking crisis of 2009 does not make sense from economy point of view but makes perfect sense when viewed as a deliberate crime, TLJ makes no sense as a movie (since it breaks/ignores/shits on just about every rule of filmmaking/storytelling) but it makes perfect sense as a cultural subversion propaganda. They had a checklist of politically motivated issues they wanted to see in, and to hell with logic, reason, consistency, universe building, military strategy or basic common sense.
Now, the first mistake they make is to assume that the classical archetypal story of the hero on a journey has anything to do with the “patriarchy”. Unless you extend the patriarchy all the way back to lobsters.
So, in desire to demolish the oppressive (in their view) human mythology they offered new archetypes for the new millennium. Which they perfectly have the right to do. And we have the right to judge this new mythology and either accept it or reject it. Alas, Darth Kennedy does not offer viable alternative at all. Their version is: have pussy, will travel. That’s it. The female protagonists are perfect beings by inception, no needing hardship, training, education, struggle or any adversity whatsoever. Perfect.
Why are the Russians successful then (in sowing discord in the West)? This really bugs me....
Could it be (in part) a result of the informational blackout in the West regarding the crimes of communism? How could it be that while Putin is revitalizing the nostalgia for the old regime and ramping up patriotic, religious and totalitarian schemes that are 1:1 copy of the methods used by the communists (sans religion), in the West people can declare themselves commies and Marxists without being punched in the face, something that would happen immediately to anyone wearing a swastika or proudly proclaiming they are Nazis?
It is beyond imagination that westerners blame the Poles and the Hungarians for being "Putin's stooges" because of the resistance to illegal immigration, while during communism when I went to Hungary (I am 1/4 Hungarian) I did not speak Bulgarian in public for the fear of being mistaken for Russian (they are close for the untrained ear). Hungarians and Poles hate Russians in their guts!
But look what happens. Say, Orban is against illegal immigration. The West calls him names (archaic, barbaric, despot, old-fashioned patriarch) but Putin supports his stance. And gains support, despite the bad memories (did you, Westerners, forget which countries rebelled during the cold war and had to be invaded by Russia and the rest of us - Hungary and Czechoslovakia). Putin is filling the vacuum left between the Western leaders and their constituents. The same vacuum that brought us Brexit and Trump.
I told a friend of mine many years ago "The Russians will beat the West in its own game". Once they learn how easily people are manipulated by both a carrot and a stick rather than just a stick (communism) they will find a way to spread poison in the West. Once they learn the latest developments in "big data" they will use it. While at the same time their own citizens would be much less susceptible to propaganda from the West. Sad but true -- closed, totalitarian societies are more monolithic and not easy to stir to change. It eventually happens but it can be very slow process.
When you play Alpha Centauri with the University or Peacekeeper factions you have inherited disadvantage in spying and civil unrest. The game designer got that nailed down. Open, creative, free societies also mean that people are allowed to be bloody idiots without challenge or oppression. On the positive site you get highly dynamic society where good ideas can flourish. On the negative site you get dynamic society where terrible ideas can flourish.
Again, to ask the "progressives" of the West - how can you be against Russian meddling and sport the hammer and sickle at the same time?
A personal note. Would you, or anyone here approach a Jew and express admiration and support of the Nazi regime, deny the Holocaust and shout Nazi slogans in their face? If you answer firmly "no" to those question then why would you approach East European and deny the Gulags, support the commies and shout Marxists slogans? This has happened to me once and since then I vowed that if it ever happens again (any person of my age or older has had a friend or relative prosecuted by the communists; it is very personal to us and the amount of people killed exceeds the Holocaust many times over) in the case of woman she would be called the worst names I can come up with and if it is a man I'll kick his fucking head.
Summary: westerners, you are very, very, very confused in this day and age. Your dear progressives are the "useful idiots" propagating the very ideology that led to the Gulags, your mainstream media is consulting daily the "manual of the agitprop (agitation + propaganda)". You insult your allies and friends (East Europe) while you pander to truly horrific regimes (e.g. China, SA). You reject and insult the legal immigrants like me who jumped endless amount of hoops to be here (for the first 5 years in NL if I had one, just one day unemployment I would have to start the process again) while supporting illegals. You trum
I was in France in 1998. At tgat time the national French TV was obliged to show certain percentage of local programs.
They did. After 12 pm. Prime time was occupied by mostly American shows.
Also, because if their language shovinism to always dub a movie rather than subtitling means they could hardly speak English. Most traumatic experience in my life was watching the original SW trilogy dubbed in French!
Oh, and the radio also had similar restrictions. So I heard Welcome to the jungle in French. Only slightly less traumatic than SW.
I remember reading about the marking on a ship's hull that indicate the maximum load you should carry in different seas. The reserve floatability should be larger the rougher the seas. Thus NA meaning North Atlantic is the roughest, FT meaning Fresh Tropical is easiest (you can load the ship to maximum). Now what was really interesting was how long it took for the British parliament to pass the law. Decades. And the merchants tried everything to stop it up to attempts to discredit the politician that proposed it (name sounds like Plinsmall, read the story in my native tongue so no guarantee. The markings were called "the disc of Plin...." At that time more than 2000 vessels were lost per year!!! And still the merchants did not care....neither did the captains who would try to squeeze just a bit more cargo to increase their own profit. Utter hell! On a related note, how long it took to get rid of Pb in fuell and pesticides in the soil? Decades. And in both cases there was an attept to ruin the scientists, activists and politicians involved. Far be it from me to declare the dead of capitalism but some aspects of it can really get put of hand....not that the communists were any better in protecting the lives of employees or soldiers....my father was killed by his job just like half the men in the apartments block we lived (belonged to the construction company so every man was employed there). Well, life sucks!
Using the opportunity to reply to others. It was quite a scandal when he said it. Even moderate autocrats among my peers from both sides of the political axis thought he went too far...
This guy is universally despised, cause after Brexit he said that referenda should never be held because people can't take the right decisions! He truly is the poster boy for undemocratic euro autocrat.
Oooh, so that was the reason....people got wind of the uselessness of (most of) those degrees (especially the WAY they are taught), enrolment decreased, and the response of the humanities was.....the insane politicking and the march against logic, reason, knowledge, discipline, learning, critical thinking, diversity of opinion, open mindedness, freedom of thought and speech....etc.
Me too. I read the story in an excellent book called "Etymologicon" by Marc Forsyth. Strongly recommended read, you will be interesting at parties.
Is there connection between testicles and Testament (yes!) with added avocado and orchid (those mean testicle in Aztec and Greek).
When you say for a scientists that he/she "knows his/her shit" are you etymologically correct (yes!).
Why the old brits adopted the Viking word for cloud, i.e. "sky" to mean, well...sky in English? Obviously on that wretched island there is no difference between the two concepts!
And then there was the list of words that John Milton single handedly invented which boggled my mind. So many words we take for granted and imagine that people have been using for millennia are invented yesterday.
And the interesting trivia that the founders of Starbucks at first choose Pekuod as a brand name. Now, having a name for a coffee shop chain that sounds like pee on reflection was not a wise idea. So they went with Starbuck (one of the sailors).
Funny you should mention that. Considering alcohol is the only known drug that increases aggression (not in every user though). My dad was a drinker. I'm a smoker and living in NL gives me direct observations of people smoking pot. I'd take the pot any day. Of all the drugs in this world tobacco is the greatest killer and alcohol incures the greatest harm to society. This is not an oppinion but facts. Funny how the two most damaging drugs are legal...
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The first thing that went through my head upon reading the title was 'your plastic pal who's fun to play with!', followed, for whatever reason, by 'a bunch of mindless jerks, who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes!'.
This reminds me of the joke about the wild rabbit and the one born in captivity, sharing the same cage in the lab. The wild one convinces the "old dog" to escape with him (cause he knows the inns and outs in the lab), promising to show him the best three things in a wild rabbit's life.
First, they go to a cabbage filed. "That's number one", says the wild one. They eat to bursting. Then, they go to a carrot field. "That's number two, see how great it is" intones the wild rabbit. They eat more. Three, they go to the rabbit holes. Bunnies! Lots of them! Sex all night!! "That's the best part, number three" says the wild one. "What do you think". " I don't know man", replies the lab rabbit, "It's all pretty good, but I am going back". "Why!!!". "Well, mate, I am just dying for a cigarette!".
Situation was not better with only 13 channels....
I've got a little black book with my poems in
Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in
When I'm a good dog, they sometimes throw me a bone in
I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes on
Got those swollen-hand blues
I got thirteen channels of shit on the T.V. to choose from
I've got electric light
And I've got second sight
I got amazing powers of observation
And that is how I know
When I try to get through
On the telephone to you
There'll be nobody home
I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm
And the inevitable pinhole burns
All down the front of my favorite satin shirt
I've got nicotine stains on my fingers
I've got a silver spoon on a chain
Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains
I've got wild staring eyes
And I've got a strong urge to fly
But I got nowhere to fly to
Ooh, babe when I pick up the phone
there's still nobody home
I've got a pair of Gohills boots
But I got fading roots
Songwriters: Roger Waters
Nobody Home lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
Way ahead of his time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh, that again?
The Pascal wager is logically inconsistent. That's not only my opinion either. In the premise of the argument he says "we do not know if god exists or not" but in the body of the argument he uses "a priori" a feature of god - that he likes believers. How do you know that considering the premise?
So, the argument is in fact "If god exists and he is as described by chistianity then you are better off as a believer". Well, duh!
Not many people think, you know! Not really think. They just think they do. (old Nawi, the Nation, Southern Pelagic Ocean; circa 19th century).
What history? The one that excludes the Gulags?
No thanks.
I have read claims that battles were won by people who knew an eclipse would occur and scare the enemies who did not know what's going on...though how reliable such accounts are is impossible to say..
Maybe the phage treatment will get the attention it deserves as a viable alternative to antibiotics!
Then you have the sacrifice of consistency (ramming at light speed) simply to redeem admiral purple hair for her incredible stupidity and lack of viable strategy that left the rebels with a handful of people in one ship. But it was much more important to shame the men than to make sense or save lives. Utter desecration of Carry Fisher’s memory with that space Marry Poppins shite. Vile, deliberate, nasty, revolting assassination of the male’s archetypes – Solo and Skywalker. Nothing here is by accident. Nothing is “courageous filmmaking subverting audience’s expectations”.
Then trolls number two are the media. Obviously, the axes were already grinded and ready to swing when the reactions started coming in. Critics lied to all of us out of fear, conformism or being paid; the people did not take that shit and voted the movie down; immediate reaction – RT is highjack by bots, trolls, armies of alt-right, Russiansblah, blah, blah. The press is trolling us ALL THE TIME.
Trolls number three are the /. editors who would scour the net for click baits and present to our attention the opinions of absolute nobodies, if it guarantees an outrage that would rile us.
You see, the original archetypal story of SW does not belong to the West; it belongs to all humanity (that was the intention of George, right, consulting Campbell and so on..). Therefore, the reactions of outrage from China, Russia, East Europe etc.. have nothing to do with anti-west sentiments. Instead what is obvious to non-westerners is that most of the political discourse as well as the media in the West is highjacked by the PC, SJW, neo-Marxists scum who’s trying to replace the archetypes that are older than humanity itself with their murderous, racists, sexist, bigoted “point of view”. So, the push back is not against westerners as a whole but against the above mentioned plague that threatens to destroy the fairest and most humane societies on earth (they have flows, of course, but show me someone better and someone who is constantly improving themselves, I’ll wait).
/. does not allow me to post my full story which I prepared in word and checked many times for errors. I get the lameness filter detected.
Then we have the baddies which are portrayed as angry, half-psychotic Nazis. Onlyone of the most dangerous things you can do is to dismiss the evil as lunatics and misattribute their evilness to fear and/or anger. Whereas the real Nazis were anything like that (disgust motherfuckers, not fear or anger). You don’t make them look like buffoons, because that diminishes the warning message to the viewer that such things should never occur again. And you never, ever portray them as incompetent, because real life evil men are always competent and intelligent. After all, if the real Nazis were so incompetent how come they almost conquered the world? Also, if the baddies are incompetent what is the challenge for the protagonists (none; that is why I repeat, it does not make sense as storytelling or a movie, only as propaganda)?
OK, let’s see who the real trolls are.
First and foremost, Disney/Hollywood themselves. Just like the banking crisis of 2009 does not make sense from economy point of view but makes perfect sense when viewed as a deliberate crime, TLJ makes no sense as a movie (since it breaks/ignores/shits on just about every rule of filmmaking/storytelling) but it makes perfect sense as a cultural subversion propaganda. They had a checklist of politically motivated issues they wanted to see in, and to hell with logic, reason, consistency, universe building, military strategy or basic common sense.
Now, the first mistake they make is to assume that the classical archetypal story of the hero on a journey has anything to do with the “patriarchy”. Unless you extend the patriarchy all the way back to lobsters.
So, in desire to demolish the oppressive (in their view) human mythology they offered new archetypes for the new millennium. Which they perfectly have the right to do. And we have the right to judge this new mythology and either accept it or reject it. Alas, Darth Kennedy does not offer viable alternative at all. Their version is: have pussy, will travel. That’s it. The female protagonists are perfect beings by inception, no needing hardship, training, education, struggle or any adversity whatsoever. Perfect.
Sorry, typo... remove one zero...
Safely. I have 450000 km on a bike and I always listen to music.
It's not that hard to be responsible...
The moon is the harshest mistress
Ale? I was thinking more about green-skinned pole dancers :)
Why are the Russians successful then (in sowing discord in the West)? This really bugs me....
Could it be (in part) a result of the informational blackout in the West regarding the crimes of communism? How could it be that while Putin is revitalizing the nostalgia for the old regime and ramping up patriotic, religious and totalitarian schemes that are 1:1 copy of the methods used by the communists (sans religion), in the West people can declare themselves commies and Marxists without being punched in the face, something that would happen immediately to anyone wearing a swastika or proudly proclaiming they are Nazis?
It is beyond imagination that westerners blame the Poles and the Hungarians for being "Putin's stooges" because of the resistance to illegal immigration, while during communism when I went to Hungary (I am 1/4 Hungarian) I did not speak Bulgarian in public for the fear of being mistaken for Russian (they are close for the untrained ear). Hungarians and Poles hate Russians in their guts!
But look what happens. Say, Orban is against illegal immigration. The West calls him names (archaic, barbaric, despot, old-fashioned patriarch) but Putin supports his stance. And gains support, despite the bad memories (did you, Westerners, forget which countries rebelled during the cold war and had to be invaded by Russia and the rest of us - Hungary and Czechoslovakia). Putin is filling the vacuum left between the Western leaders and their constituents. The same vacuum that brought us Brexit and Trump.
I told a friend of mine many years ago "The Russians will beat the West in its own game". Once they learn how easily people are manipulated by both a carrot and a stick rather than just a stick (communism) they will find a way to spread poison in the West. Once they learn the latest developments in "big data" they will use it. While at the same time their own citizens would be much less susceptible to propaganda from the West. Sad but true -- closed, totalitarian societies are more monolithic and not easy to stir to change. It eventually happens but it can be very slow process.
When you play Alpha Centauri with the University or Peacekeeper factions you have inherited disadvantage in spying and civil unrest. The game designer got that nailed down. Open, creative, free societies also mean that people are allowed to be bloody idiots without challenge or oppression. On the positive site you get highly dynamic society where good ideas can flourish. On the negative site you get dynamic society where terrible ideas can flourish.
Again, to ask the "progressives" of the West - how can you be against Russian meddling and sport the hammer and sickle at the same time?
A personal note. Would you, or anyone here approach a Jew and express admiration and support of the Nazi regime, deny the Holocaust and shout Nazi slogans in their face? If you answer firmly "no" to those question then why would you approach East European and deny the Gulags, support the commies and shout Marxists slogans? This has happened to me once and since then I vowed that if it ever happens again (any person of my age or older has had a friend or relative prosecuted by the communists; it is very personal to us and the amount of people killed exceeds the Holocaust many times over) in the case of woman she would be called the worst names I can come up with and if it is a man I'll kick his fucking head.
Summary: westerners, you are very, very, very confused in this day and age. Your dear progressives are the "useful idiots" propagating the very ideology that led to the Gulags, your mainstream media is consulting daily the "manual of the agitprop (agitation + propaganda)". You insult your allies and friends (East Europe) while you pander to truly horrific regimes (e.g. China, SA). You reject and insult the legal immigrants like me who jumped endless amount of hoops to be here (for the first 5 years in NL if I had one, just one day unemployment I would have to start the process again) while supporting illegals. You trum
I was in France in 1998. At tgat time the national French TV was obliged to show certain percentage of local programs.
They did. After 12 pm. Prime time was occupied by mostly American shows.
Also, because if their language shovinism to always dub a movie rather than subtitling means they could hardly speak English. Most traumatic experience in my life was watching the original SW trilogy dubbed in French!
Oh, and the radio also had similar restrictions. So I heard Welcome to the jungle in French. Only slightly less traumatic than SW.
Wonderful country. Only problem is the Frenchman.
I remember reading about the marking on a ship's hull that indicate the maximum load you should carry in different seas. The reserve floatability should be larger the rougher the seas. Thus NA meaning North Atlantic is the roughest, FT meaning Fresh Tropical is easiest (you can load the ship to maximum).
Now what was really interesting was how long it took for the British parliament to pass the law. Decades. And the merchants tried everything to stop it up to attempts to discredit the politician that proposed it (name sounds like Plinsmall, read the story in my native tongue so no guarantee. The markings were called "the disc of Plin...."
At that time more than 2000 vessels were lost per year!!! And still the merchants did not care....neither did the captains who would try to squeeze just a bit more cargo to increase their own profit. Utter hell!
On a related note, how long it took to get rid of Pb in fuell and pesticides in the soil? Decades. And in both cases there was an attept to ruin the scientists, activists and politicians involved.
Far be it from me to declare the dead of capitalism but some aspects of it can really get put of hand....not that the communists were any better in protecting the lives of employees or soldiers....my father was killed by his job just like half the men in the apartments block we lived (belonged to the construction company so every man was employed there).
Well, life sucks!
Thanks, I did not know that. Figures.
Using the opportunity to reply to others. It was quite a scandal when he said it. Even moderate autocrats among my peers from both sides of the political axis thought he went too far...
He really said that? Wow!
This guy is universally despised, cause after Brexit he said that referenda should never be held because people can't take the right decisions! He truly is the poster boy for undemocratic euro autocrat.
Oooh, so that was the reason....people got wind of the uselessness of (most of) those degrees (especially the WAY they are taught), enrolment decreased, and the response of the humanities was.....the insane politicking and the march against logic, reason, knowledge, discipline, learning, critical thinking, diversity of opinion, open mindedness, freedom of thought and speech....etc.
Figures!
Yep! Welcome to the race.. to the bottom.
Me too. I read the story in an excellent book called "Etymologicon" by Marc Forsyth. Strongly recommended read, you will be interesting at parties.
Is there connection between testicles and Testament (yes!) with added avocado and orchid (those mean testicle in Aztec and Greek).
When you say for a scientists that he/she "knows his/her shit" are you etymologically correct (yes!).
Why the old brits adopted the Viking word for cloud, i.e. "sky" to mean, well...sky in English? Obviously on that wretched island there is no difference between the two concepts!
And then there was the list of words that John Milton single handedly invented which boggled my mind. So many words we take for granted and imagine that people have been using for millennia are invented yesterday.
Great stuff!
And the interesting trivia that the founders of Starbucks at first choose Pekuod as a brand name. Now, having a name for a coffee shop chain that sounds like pee on reflection was not a wise idea.
So they went with Starbuck (one of the sailors).
Funny you should mention that.
Considering alcohol is the only known drug that increases aggression (not in every user though).
My dad was a drinker. I'm a smoker and living in NL gives me direct observations of people smoking pot. I'd take the pot any day.
Of all the drugs in this world tobacco is the greatest killer and alcohol incures the greatest harm to society. This is not an oppinion but facts.
Funny how the two most damaging drugs are legal...