I'm happy to see anybody unburdened by the US legal system, but there's something underwhelming about the most powerful politician in the country only now deigning to use his executive power.
People are cheering and memeing in unsurprising 
fashion and I'm like bruh, he could have done this and more. Years ago. And they're talking about the necessity of voting and how bad trump would be. Like where do you think Brandon was when drafting the anti marijuana bills?
That said, I don't want to come across as unreasonable when good things happen. If a lib approached me and shared this news, what would be an appropriate response?
Link because I got that bird box disease where I want to make people to see the thing.
That's great news for all twelve of them. So when's he going to reschedule it?
It's a hollow gesture where a scrap would normally be thrown. Was a single person he pardoned even still serving their sentence?
Nope
Even in a pardon that releases no one and is simply a discharge of crime for background checking purposes, they're STILL needlessly cruel to 'migrants' (thanks for that EO banning the use of 'alien' in official government docs though, good job asshole)
Biden stay doing nothing. I'm sure this has nothing to do with his flagging poll numbers, and can we talk about that? Like, this fuck is going down with the ship by all accounts, and he STILL can't bring himself to do ANYTHING significant and good? Just running guns to Israel in the midst of their ethnic cleansing? This absolute fuckstick refuses to do anything great even when he's already gonna get shotput out a window?
ed, y'all gotta read this lmao
Do the paperwork for it yourself assholes lmao
Issues pardon that releases no one, talks about how no one should be in prison like he fuckin released half the prison pop, rescheduled the drugs, and rewrote the laws
Jesus Christ you have to make an account and password to be pardoned for an action that should have never been criminalized in the first place. I hate this country so god damn much
It's the exact same thing with taxes. If they already know exactly how much I owe at the end of the year, why the fuck do I still have to do shit every year??? They already know my bank account, as evidenced by the COVID checks that they deposited directly into it without me doing a damn thing, so if I owe/am owed money at the end of the year there's nothing stopping them from just doing it without asking me first. If you know everything you already need to know to do a thing that needs to be done, then just do the fucking thing without putting up a bunch of arbitrary fucking bureaucratic hoops to make people jump through. But of course it's yet another thing wealthy people pay professionals to take care of for them, and poor people have to do themselves, and since the state is dedicated to absolutely never allowing poor people's lives to become even an iota easier, it will never happen.
It is so infuriating that the people who work at the IRS want to make it easier, the taxpayer wants to make it easier, objectively it's smart to make taxes easier on the population, but because of capitalism we're stuck doing this ridiculous dance.
Plenty of countries already do this too, so it's not like it's impossible.
I only have to edit my tax returns when I need a specific deduction that they wouldn't know about (like paying a membership fee or doing renovations on my house). Most of the time I just leave it as is and end up overpaying a little (but then get it all back next year). Zero hassle, never had an issue, really, and this is with a bunch of cuts to the tax office in recent decades.
"Its not Biden's fault he kicked off 12 million people from Medicare! They didn't file the correct procedural paperwork!!!" - PMC class of holocaust technician bureaucrats
Basically implying: "Suffering from addiction to another, harder drug like the dirty fentanyl currently flooding the US as a result of induced demand caused by the war on drugs? Go directly to prison, terrorist scum."
The war on drugs and the prison slavery industry it is tied to has been the biggest and most evil stain on American domestic policy since Jim Crow.
Is there precedent for mass pardoning people at a state level?
Governors can. Colorado Governor Polis mass pardoned a bunch of people convicted of marijuana possession in 2020 and then some more in 2021.
No, it’s not a power the president has.
"you guys were serving way too long but also i gotta let you rot an additional 3 years so i can time the pardon for maximum political brownie points"