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As it turns out, Portland isn't actually Portugal.

Hard hit by the US opioid crisis, Oregon reconsiders decriminalization

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ha...gon-reconsiders-decriminalization-2024-02-18/
Even Portugal isn't actually Portugal anymore. There's been a few questions about how that's played out here in recent years with fentanyl nibbling at the fringes and tax money often getting funneled elsewhere.

The last two lines really get me:

The fuck are you talking about??
Meanwhile.... well, the dude is on drugs. :boh:

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AFL_ITALIA

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Even Portugal isn't actually Portugal anymore. There's been a few questions about how that's played out here in recent years with fentanyl nibbling at the fringes and tax money often getting funneled elsewhere.
What have been proposed changes or solutions there?
they should try a police dance team

Imagine half of them chasing after anyone
 

swag

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they should try a police dance team

You allow a Black National Anthem at the Super Bowl, this is naturally what happens next.

What have been proposed changes or solutions there?
This isn't a bad take on it:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-drugs-decriminalization-heroin-crack/

To be fair, I think reconsidering policy is good policy.

Too many people get hung up on this antiquated idea that government policies must remain fixed and never change. That investors and businesses and families and the like can then operate with greater certainty.

But policies work until they don't anymore. And there's no reason to keep a dying or out-of-date policy alive if it starts to hurt more than it helps.

Portugal's government has been given crap for changing its rules around short-term rentals in cities like Lisbon or issuing "golden visas". But the smart move was to change those rules as the bad side-effects of those policies started to rival and exceed the original benefits as designed.
 

swag

L'autista
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That is a real risk.

But at the same time the man is a criminal, who has hurt others financially. Regardless of who he is, he should be prosecuted. That's how any half decent justice system works.
Trump wants the president (OK, himself) to be above the law. I'm not so sure that's ever had good outcomes ever.

And it's not like people aren't jizzing over Hunter Biden. But at least get a credible witness.

This is good. It's like performance art. Then he starts really going over the edge as he hits the finale.

But he's no different than one of the "good" people who marched in Charlottesville in 2017 chanting "They will not replace us". But we somehow forgot that.
 

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Trump wants the president (OK, himself) to be above the law. I'm not so sure that's ever had good outcomes ever.
And every court he has presented this to has pretty much ruled: fuck no.

I don't even get the idea behind it. I mean, he's not president at this moment in time. Couldn't Biden just declare the USA a kingdom and sentence Trump to death with impunity? After all, it is Biden who is president.
 

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