Poor girl cows 😢

t. Big-Ears.

Well why mention my hobbies if you weren't trying to make a point? You failed to find out that I was a Nazi or something so you were working with what you had.

Okay the USSR didn't fail in a vacuum — wow what a groundbreaking point. You sure showed the other guy.

I'm not even sure what your argument is at this point. Bar trying to make smug comments about my 'baggage' whatever that means.

You’d think a colonial snowflake would have melted by now.

That must be how I got hired for my first after college job. My interview was terrible.

I wonder how much wealth was taken out of America when it was colonized. I need to research both countries about this.

It's a great example of the fallacious conclusion that when two things happen one after another, the first must have caused the second."Post hoc ergo propter hoc"

Another could be rain dances.

• It's dry, so we try to appease the gods/spirits/whatever.
• After Bill danced for a day, it started raining.
• Bill's dance made it rain.

If this is punishment, then what is being rewarded?

Part of the issue with it wasn't the concentrate itself, but the sheer number of people being arrested for trafficking by trying to bring it back into the country.

One of the things people tend to forget is that even when something is decriminalized on a state level, it remains illegal on a federal level unless Congress passes a law that over rules the previous law.

The laws which govern customs, which handles importing of goods into the US, is federal law, not state or local. It also covers things like tobacco, and food. Meaning yes, you can also get arrested for bringing too many cigarettes into the country, but I digress.

The problem that the US noticed, was that US citizens were going to India, buying charas, and then trying to return to the US with it. When they would pass through customs, those people were getting found out and were being arrested on smuggling or trafficking charges. Since these were federal charges, this was happening in places where cannabis use was technically legal, and it was creating a severe backlog in the federal legal system.

To help curtail this, the US State department reached out to other nations where this drug originated, and requested that they do something about the sales of it in and around where major international airports were. The reasoning there being that it would prevent US citizens from getting it and bringing it back; while at the same time it would help cut back the number of native Indian smugglers, since drug mules rarely operate too far from points of embarkation due to how the internal (inside their body) smuggling is performed. Meaning there's a short time frame between ingestion of the smuggling packets, and when the mule boards a plane.

For India, there were concessions also made, as things like this are never so one sided as they're presented on places like Reddit or Facebook. These concessions were a relaxation on import and export tariffs (basically taxes), which would allow legal importation of other goods at a higher rate, since companies wouldn't need to pay as much to do so. Given how high tariffs are to begin with, when offered a chance to lower them and only needing to make a simple concession to prevent sales of something around major airports, well it's no surprise that the Indian government agreed to the decision.

Oh, and something that may interest you. Going back to the point I made about federal charges, LAX (Los Angels Airport) has clear warnings that while you may legally have cannabis on your person inside the non secure areas of the airport, attempting to go through TSA with it will result in your arrest for smuggling charges.

Edit: One final note. TSA and Customs are not the same thing. Customs officers, those who search the bags of returning passengers, are federal officers. TSA are employed by the airport themselves, or in some cases by the state.

That's absolutely fascinating. Thank you.

Bro, I didn't say anything about America, nor anything negative about Tolkien or Warhammer. I clicked your profile and scrolled for a few seconds to see if you posted in some of the more outrageous subs which are especially telling that someone has major issues with reality. 40k and Tolkien are good hobbies/fandoms to be a part of (or, they can be). I subscribe to Nerd of the Rings on YouTube, it's fun. But you're having a harder time in world history, or in reading comprehension, I'm not sure which, because you keep saying I'm talking about shit that I'm not. And defending the post I was responding to, which was just me saying that the USSR didn't fail in a vacuum while acknowledging their corruption playing a big part. You're bringing your own baggage in, moving goalposts, whatabout-ing and wasting both of our time. Again, have a good day.

*edit: slight correction. I said US in that original post when I could have said western capitalist nations. But the point stands, and I didn't say 'the US alone' or anything like that.

Population would be the #1 factor for India being the way it is. Oh and it has been 70+ years since the Brits left. So I should have said "decades ago." 70 years of running themselves. They can take credit for their country.

America has been pressuring other countries under the guise of drugs for over 100 years.

The sheer amount of wealth they extracted from india is insane, it's why they built the railroads, to get it out if the country.

The British Raj and their impact on Indian society is a very fascinating topic

Thank you, I was trying to remember why this name seemed familiar.

I think is called irony.

“ThEReS oNLy tWo gEnDErs” stupid woke cows!

Hey you want to defend colonizers, go for it.

Imagine thinking colonizers leaving “years ago” erases everything they did.

I know it's time to clean mine when the glass of wine tilts right over it, bridging? parts of the PCB and randomly activating keys. Luckily this happens about every fortnight, so my keebee is mostly squeaky clean.

I wonder who else was in that class and how they fared in their careers.

"This raid is sponsored by 'Raid: Shadow Legends.'"

That's a good point. Really it's a comparison of public profiles, and that's not exactly the gold standard of usable information. I imagine a certain amount is also gleaned from Mein Kampf, and an elected figure is inherently more public than royalty. Hitler put himself on display, and I imagine Leopold wasn't quite so interested in that.

I didn't know that about Hitler being awkward and dull, that's interesting.

I apologize for offending you. I have no ill will towards British people, just the old East India Company.

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I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. It’s a fact. As was Bristol. The Slave trade is well documented in the Liverpool museum and there are a number of streets named after slave traders… Penny Lane the famous Beatles song is about a street widely believed to be named after slave trader James Penny. Source I live in Liverpool.