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vkou ◴[] No.40213662[source]
It's actually wild what the executive can get done in an election year... With the side effect of dangling bait for legislators to take a contrarian, nationally unpopular position.
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segasaturn ◴[] No.40213870[source]
Election year and not to mention that the President's numbers are in shambles with younger voters. This move feels extremely transparent to me.
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flawsofar ◴[] No.40213949[source]
Well I mean: doing things that people want them to do to get elected. Not the worst problem?
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vuln ◴[] No.40214445[source]
It’s pandering and on the edge of buying votes. Unlike Student Loan “forgiveness” which was a direct purchase of a vote.

And no I doubt this will rouse the pot smokers to vote, perhaps mail in, as they don’t have to do actually anything.

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flawsofar ◴[] No.40214528[source]
If everyone buys votes using one issue or another, using cannabis to buy votes should be the least concern of anyone.

While you can make some amount of case that the timing makes it a manipulation, is this really the manipulation that bothers you?

I would rather there be no manipulations. But in a country that divides itself on infantile identity politics, fight fire with fire.

It is not a fair game. You can’t demand perfect intentions around this issue when politics is full of much worse actors.

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1. vuln ◴[] No.40215294[source]
The timing is complete bullshit. Politicians “pocket” issues like this and pull them out during an election year “look how much I care about you!!! Vote for me!!!” They could have and should have done this a very long time ago.

It’s obvious to everyone that the democrats are losing their bread a butter voters, young people and black folks. This gets waved around for the nth time and everyone gets excited.

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2. flawsofar ◴[] No.40216171[source]
are you really going on a downvote revenge spree? lol
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3. philipkglass ◴[] No.40216237[source]
On HN you can't downvote a direct reply to your own comment, so vuln did not downvote your reply.