About “the mentality of the general society” (‘the’ society?, of what?):

OppressedBread@lemmy.ml probably meant the propaganda of a feudalist monopolist network of a very few real addresses near your residence.

About “break out of the norm” (‘the’ norm?, of what?):

OppressedBread@lemmy.ml probably meant: break out of their discursive shackles and traps. In any case where some ‘person’ has the indecency of regurgitation of the sewer content trope “they have something to hide”, an appropriate response should probably look like: “oh, if you don’t have ANYthing to hide, then I would like to review the contents of your bank accounts, credit cards, all of your passwords, all of your work files, etc.”, pursuing after a confused reply with: "so YOU too DO HAVE THINGS TO HIDE, and a short list of serial multiple HOMICIDERS HAVE BILLIONS more THINGS TO HIDE, INCLUDING BODIES, in addresses in cities with names that rhyme with San Francisco, Houston, and Florida, for example, not to mention other rotten illegitimate jurisdictions of the likes of London, Paris, Panama, Moscow, Luxembourg, Beijing, etc.

A sensible norm would have at least incarcerationed those repeat armed robbery and homicide law offenders a long time ago for a long time, with harsh conditions of labor until reintegration at the cheapest level of wage labour. A sensible norm would also have reviewed methods of application of collectively democratically deliberationed norms developed in France circa 1789, for example, where 3% of the population (mostly capital owners and members of clergy) owned more than 90% of national capital, and near 97% of the population had no significant ability to read basic texts.

A SENSIBLE NORM would express DISSATISFACTION ABOUT NOT FIGHTING FEUDALIST MONOPOLISM BACK TO GROUND AND UNDER, decomposing that matter until re-usable in the form of compost for feeding plants for food.

You sound like you think people have significant ‘control’ over ‘kids’ buying and consuming cannabis, alcohol, and cigarettes, etc. … Kids already consume cannabis and alcohol and cigarettes etc. even though you pretend you ‘don’t let them’ (threaten them) and harrass them. Prohibition from alcohol to cannabis, for example, has not reduced consumption, but rather reduced supply, increased prices, and decreased quality. Repression tells consumers you hide value on the other side of your unilateral decree. On the other hand, instead of a facsist authoritarian totalitarian approach of repression, in comparison, an approach with education, legalization and decriminalization has reduced prevalence of consumption of drugs, including amongst kids; for example, Portugal has decriminalized all drugs (in ~2001); they offer drug consumers education and treatment instead of incarceration and difficult to verify products from difficult to verify producers and sellers in dark places. But the big billionaire homicidal dealers (Merck, Pfizer, United Health Care, etc.) have a lot of monetary incentive of polluting media messaging with muddy murky moral panics like the ones you just put your discursive hands in today. That being said, kids should indeed get education on things like the importance of paying attention in lectures, doing their homework on schedule, secure use of technology, blockading attempts of the feudalist advertising industry of manipulating their opinions, blockading big tech from literally spying on them and selling their opinions and bodies left and right, etc. Fun fact: that problem (cell phone use in course rooms where course work (e.g. lectures and note writing) should occur) has also been having widespread occurence among ‘adult’ students in university courses.

“The Art of the Steal” now available in all banks of the US of A.

Did you even hear about America’s Apple’s Foxconn factory in China where the factory has nets on the windows to stop the frequent ‘inconvenient’ problem of cheap labor workers attempts of window jump suicides, for example? Co-operative structure (worker-owned) companies have more likelihood to have more human policies to, uh, themselves, than ponzi scheme corporations. Despite a fancy socialist (‘communist’) sounding title of government structure, Russia and China both took International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans, with their conditions of worker rights suffocation policies and market concentration monopolization policies. America’s and China’s feudalist monopolist billionaires have a lot more proximity of ideology than either of their propaganda machines has acknowledged so far.

About illegal U.S. Command operations in the global south: That does not seem surprising with America’s (and Canada’s) CIA illegal covert war operations of multiple homicides (more than hundreds, plausibly more than thousands per year going on for decades now (2026)) of gunning down and of bombing peasants in lands with concentrations of petroleum and gold and silver (e.g. Mexico, Columbia, and very recently Venezuelan parliament, and Nigerian peasant village). Even a brief surface review of a Netflix show like ‘Narcos’ shows viewers America’s CIA actually have been running south american drug cartels themselves, choosing a new dictator of a corporation bigger than many countries, in batches of approximately 2 years, based on levels of fascist servitude of their discursive positions. In the collusive monopolist tv news, they have been describing their actions using smokescreens of the likes of “The War On Drugs!”, “protecting kids from drugs” (instead of actually funding education about drugs for informed healthy use of healthy drugs), and “spreading democracy” using guns and bombs like poison on a toast. Concurrently, their collusive monopolist corporations have been selling cocaine, opioids and benzodiazepines, in collusive monopolist hospitals of the likes of United Health Care Corp, the likes of which have been killing patients for profit by refusing to honor insurance and hospital care contracts, under an extensively documenting surveillance apparatus of their collusive monopolist corporations of the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Palantir.

What do we recommend then? Progressive taxation campaigns, funding education, paying university-level student work of studies, decomposition of monopolies through application of the actual law (e.g. anti-trust law, armed robbery and homicide law, etc.). Like Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, despite their plans of robbery of collective capital (privatization), there are many alternatives!

Or else what? Piketty (2013) argued that inequalities of the sort that such atrocities have emerged from have historically only come back down to normal levels of inequalities in the aftermath of the French Revolution and World Wars I and II.

References, recommended reading:

Paley, Dawn. 2012. “Drug War Capitalism”. AK Press. Piketty, Thomas. 2013. “Le Capital au 21e siecle.” Editions Seuil. Kropotkin, Pyotr. “The Conquest of Bread” (1892), “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” (1902) Teachout, Zephyr. “Break’ em Up (2019)”

Happy reading!

MountainBear49

Who “we”? Not me. You seem to have tried to critique a fascist (‘government’) group of armed robbers, extorters, homiciders and genociders. Your critique would probably have more effect if you stopped supporting legitimacy of use of force of theirs by counting your name as part of that (‘government’ ) organization with the first person plural “we”. THEY are fascists. THEY barely have managed scrounging a flimsy 19% of votes of the 330 000 000 residents of the so-callled U.S.A lands they have been occupying with surveillance, guns and bombs. THEY have addresses in the so-called U.S.A., on stolen indigenous tribal lands etc. THEY have been comitting genocide and have not stopped yet. THEY have real bank accounts with real addresses with specific amounts owing to tens of millions of victims per year so far.

Canada will do a lot about that problem if enough citizens and residents decide to do something enough to make pocketbooks of lawmakers and of lawmaker auction buyers notice liabilities reach their balance sheets, just like about most problems.

That situation has devolved to where some (a concerning proportion of) cars have literally injuriously sight damagingly blinding light output on other road users, and thus in many cases against themselves. Their manufacturers should be fined. Regulations should enforce maximum angle and lumens output (per surface or per volume) concentration limits. Until then, more spontaneous reparations of the offensive devices will continue to have a higher likelihood and frequency of occurence (not to mention risks of injury and death by car collisions) than with basic human-health-integrity-respecting regulations as described in this here paragraph.

who “we” ? You probably meant their own monopolist media lies about them. Those are servile servants of a few genocidal feudalist monopolists with real names, addresses, and private property on grounds nearby and bank accounts hidden behind a few layers of fraudulent abstraction accounts in places of the like of Panama and Luxembourg. With a wave of privatization of collective-use property (a.k.a. rich elite robbing low and middle revenue classes) from the 1970’s ‘neo-liberal’ doctrine monsters (e.g. Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, etc.), in the 2020’s now almost every industry market has an infection of 3-4 corporations owning more than half of the market share, in some cases up to 90%. This problem is known to have happened 3 times so far in recorded history of income and wealth distribution, and every iteration yielded an approximately very similar result: (1) the French Revolution of 1789 from a society where approximately 3% of the population (mostly aristocrats and clergy) owned most of the wealth of France, (2) World War I, from a society where, in most European countries, up to 90% wealth was under gunpoint-based ownership of as few as 10% of the population, and (3) World War II from a society with a distribution of income and wealth similar as that of the development of WWI, where in many European countries, the richest 10% owned up to approximately 90% of national income and wealth. Every iteration where income and wealth distribution became so inequitable and unequal, inequality came back down to normal levels by war. For example, in French society of the early 1900s, a lawyer or a doctor fresh out of studies would earn approximately 12x LESS THAN AN INHERITOR of one of the top 10% wealth family estates doing VACATIONING ALL YEAR LONG, collecting interest on capital ownership, i.e. from having a name on a paper. ALTERNATIVELY, societies and countries with more livable and defendable REGULATION of excesses of capitalist feudalism, i.e. social democracy societies and countries, have had much smoother, respectable, defendable, and remarkable trajectories. (Reference: Thomas Piketty, 2013, “Le Capital au 21e siecle” (“Capital in the 21st Century))

Fascists have been robbing people at gunpoint in their own homes with approval from a serial killing billionaire monopolist state and that article talks about pseudoscience, non-verifiable, self-report based terms like feelings of anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Facts have shown that POVERTY causes anxiety, depression, and PTSD. POLICE STATE ARMED ROBBERIES CAUSE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND PTSD. They’re more likely to happen to people on the antagonist side of the MERCK, PFIZER, GSK MONOPOLY DRUG CARTEL. That is a fact about cannabis possession, cultivation, usage, and sale. Another relevant fact about this study would be the shadow network of BIG PHARMA serial killers with residence addresses somewhere near readers of that article and bank accounts in 0-tax jurisdictions of the likes of Panama, Luxembourg, etc. that funded putting that pile of feces into a format that looks like a scientific article. In the meantime, those unethical bastards have been selling drugs of the likes of opioids, benzodiazepines, etc. from inside hospitals near the readers of that article, drugs that have killed tens of thousands if not millions of humans per year.

P.S. That article totally omits to even acknowledge the variety of types of cannabis with widely different molecular composition profiles.

P.P.S. That article also omits to acknowledge that fact that research on cannabis consumption therapy has been happening outside the fascist states of the american-european colonial (and racist) empire and their ‘universities’ (sites of propaganda) because of a little thing called a decades-long illegal criminalization of the non-violent behavior of personal choice of consumption of a plant flower with numerous therapy applications growable with a small budget in approximately any house.

With some of the worst education systems of all, they probably don’t think much at all. Recently (a few days or weeks ago), Florida made teaching university sociology a crime. They promised them big easy pay and ‘thanked’ them ‘for their ‘service’’, then turned around and cut veterans’ pay (and benefits) like Milton Friedman cut school budgets into his personal pockets. Not surprisingly, their economy has a (opioid-style of) dependency of burying itself in campaigns of more debt of unsolicited military aggression, expropriative extraction of land, minerals, gunpoint-based cheap labor, and snake oil artificial ‘intelligence’ (i.e. statistical inference software), like a cancerous body turning on itself. However, like Milton Friedman’s accomplices Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, There are many alternatives! (like putting words on internet forums in the name of a pseudonym for high-quality free paid education work (because studying is work, and work is to be paid in a society that respects itself, some ‘more normal’ countries actually pay their students to study (e.g. Denmark, etc.))

a budget indebted of chinese, arab, russian, etc. holders of U.S. dollars and assets? have you tried to wake up a little?

who “we”? the chicago-school-‘economics’-colonial-genocidal-necropolist-cannibalist-armed-robbery-capital-extraction-irraelist propaganda machine? not me

That problem has a track record from even deeper than the 3-firm collusive oligopoly of distribution. In fact, in the 1970s the Government of Quebec unilaterally decreed criminal charges beyond arbitrary and Pareto-inefficient quota limits of production and sale by a centralist system of ‘licenses’, a result of colluding of the 1922-born Union des Cultivateurs Catholiques (UCC) of Quebec and the Government of Quebec. Under the guise of “management of supply”, those terrorists have made production and sale of agricultural products under Quebec law a criminal offence, and skyrocketed prices of daily basic human needs of food. Example, still in 2025, the Government of Quebec has threatened criminal charges, i.e. penalties, incarceration, and ultimately use of lethal force, on any production and sale of chicken beyond the 22 chicken production licenses total, 12 eggs production licenses total, $24 000 + per cow production licenses, and 3 slaughterhouses total, on the vast expanse of land more vast than Europe under military rule of the fascist racist capitalist selling-the-country(including-their-own-mother)-to-rich-foreigners ‘government’ of Quebec.

Ahh, the smell of food riots in the morning of the 2020’s. Does not seem to have changed much since the 19th century.

About that, a few recommended readings:

“The Conquest of Bread” - Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin “The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time” - Karl Polanyi “The Hidden Repression of the IMF” - Alex Gladstein “La Ferme Impossible” - Dominic Lamontagne “Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution” - Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

In parallel, astute observers of economics and politics of Quebec and Canada have likely noted a similar problem about a similar unilateral decree of ‘licenses’ of production and sales. In opposition of the Canadian parliamentary federation unilateral decree law of 2017, by which cultivation of cannabis has legal standing up to 4 plants per household, the aforementioned government of Quebec has produced a racket of collusive monopoly, breaking entering and gunpoint robbing self-medication peasants, farmers, students, professors, moms, dads, aunties, uncles, etc. with one hand, and selling ‘licenses’ of prodcution and sales in highest-bidder-auction-even-if-you-sang-self-incrimination-about-’187’ing-cops-of-partner-nations-on-multi-million-sales-music-records with another hand.

“Oh, well just apply for a license!” => minimum investment required, a large production facility (e.g. warehouse), i.e. approx. $100k pre-application, then bribe a lottery type attribution system to actually get the Government of Quebec approval to grow therapeutic food plants, sell them, and if you produce more in contravention of the limits the Government approved of you (e.g. CannTrust), you just get a minor $ penalty, in comparison with the productive people producing outside of that dump of officepaperwork waste of natural resources.

In another parallel, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), from the comforts of offices in gomorrah Washington D.C., has an extensive record of lending active genociders trillions of US$ on conditions of ecocidal and inefficient mono-cultures very similar of the gunpoint-slave-labor plantations of the style of Charles Tait of the 1700s.

The bad parts of capitalism and centralist state communism, with scarce democracy in sight beyond words under attack from stacks of dirty paper and gold in shell-corporation hideouts of the style of Panama, Luxembourg, and Fort Knox, Texas.

Welcome to Canada Ey! Bonjour, Hi, and Bye!

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Anarchism yesterday, today, as long as needed. Of, for, by local people.

Replacing pigs in sties and maggots in rot.

Since the needs arose, until the needs subside and fade away.

For human rights, for health.

Peace.

Happy Farming :)

Sincerely,

One of numerous mountain bears.