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throwaway0a5e on Sept 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: 179 Arrested in Global Dark Web Takedown

It's not an American thing. It's an authoritarian thing. Authoritarians the world over love criminalizing people. It just so happens that drugs are a great way to go about it because so much of the population does this or that drug and so few people are gonna step up and defend the addicts.

TheAdamAndChe on Sept 25, 2020 [–]

It's not criminalizing people. It's criminalizing behavior that is very detrimental to society.

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