I have to admit I know nothing of the geopolitical situation there, but I always had a soft spot for Burkina Faso ever since I learned about Thomas Sankara.
Apart from telling France imperialism to fuck off, which is a good thing, do we know more about their plan for the future confederation?
On the other hand having a fascist private group (to my knowledge) like Wagner there to help you ensure security, sucks.
No worries I did not feel attacked. I certainly am aware of how drugs have been used in the past and especially how their criminalization was used to oppress people.
I still think that even in a socialist society people would use drugs because it's fun. I would hope that as you mention in such a society abuse would happen way less due to not needing it as a way to cope with our shitty lives. Criminalization imho would not solve an issue but create stigma around using while not actually stopping people from using them.
I think forbidding use usually creates more dangerous way of people using them. (e.g. Consuming more at once and using drugs that might be cut with shit)
I have no idea what's China policy on drugs, are users thrown in jail like in most countries ? I don't think that because something was used by a colonialist state to fuck up a population it should be banned (even though I can empathize with the trauma around it). I feel it's like currently LGBT rights are pink washed by neo colonialist states to try to justify why they do fucked up things in some countries does not justify these countries then oppressing LGBT communities to get back at the colons(even worse when most of the anti LGBT laws were initially created by these same colons in the past centuries).
What is China's position on alcohol and cigarettes? These are usually example of drugs that are legal and not stigmatized (despite having a high risk of abuse)
I unfortunately do not have have a lot of questions about trains, it's my main way of transportation and has been during most of my life. I also have a friend who happens to be obsessed by trains and their miniature models and she usually gives me a lecture about trains once a month lmao
Interesting topic, I have to say that I have not thought a lot about it even though I'm a sentientist vegan. I think the fact that cats usually kill a lot of other sentient animals when outdoors is a problem for me. I would much prefer people not to continue breeding animals and keep aeimals just for their own pleasure as I think it causes a lot of issues.
I would much prefer cats to be kept indoor and fed a well formulated and supplemented plant based diet as from my research I did not see any indication it cannot be done. I would also prefer cats to be sterilized as I think it's one of the less cruel way to prevent the population from exploding due to the facts we breed them with no care for them or the other non human animals.
However I have no idea whether it is a problem for cats to be kept indoor their entire lives, do you have resources on this subject?
I'm pro legalization of drugs as I think prohibition does not help society and war on drugs is a failure which worsen risks associated with drugs consumption, production and sale.
I would like drugs to be sold and controlled by the state to ensure sufficient quality control as well as having comprehensive harm reductions methods and/or courses available to the population and more specifically visible in sale points.
Help to deal with addiction in persons that are considering their addiction a problem should be freely available.
I would also love for the sigmats about consumption to disappear .
Thanks for the list. I would say undecided, When I was younger anarchism principle resonated a lot with me, however as I was trying to dig more into in, the answers I got from people were vague and not actionable enough to me. Like how would the transition period to realized socialism look like? How would we defend against capitalist nations trying to subdue us? etc.
This might however be more of a critic towards anarchists I met and my failure to find answers while looking online, rather than anarchism, not sure.
Thanks, I’ll try to find an audio resource as well as it might make it easier for me to listen to while working and then come back to the written text for passages that are more complicated for me
Basically your post is already "posted" there. Anyone with a mastodon account on an instance that federates can see it. They could either paste on their mastodon search interface the url to this post and see it appear as a mastodon message. They could then reply on mastodon and it would show for you here on your lemmy instance.
They could also follow your account on mastodon or a community just as if you were a mastodon user and then see your posts on their timeline.
And when you point out that if they want to take individual actions, the single best action they can take is going plant based rather than air conditioning, they flip out and tell you that they use paper straw and that's already a lot
Thanks for the various sources!