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   Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:27:07 JST Micah Lee

   Minnesota State Senator John Jasinski arguing against marijuana legalization:

   "The police dog discussion and all that. What's it gonna cost the local law enforcement agencies who've done these dogs-- who've spent thousands and thousand of dollars on these dogs to get these dogs drug trained. And now they're gonna have to be retired?"

   https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1626283181287653376

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     jonathankoren™ (robotmonkeys@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:27:06 JST jonathankoren™

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     @micahflee Has anyone made the argument that legalization will significantly cut into asset forfeiture revenues, and thus cause the unthinkable, budget cuts for law enforcement, or increases taxes?

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     Cecilia Mjausson Huster (mjausson@mastodon.design)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:27:11 JST Cecilia Mjausson Huster

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     • jonathankoren™

     @robotmonkeys @micahflee That was the real argument he wanted to make but his aides workshopped it into the sunk cost fallacy applied to dope dogs. ??♀️

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     Rawwwb (rawwwb@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:27:55 JST Rawwwb

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     @micahflee State senator argues we should continue sending human beings to prison because he doesn't want a dog to be unemployed

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     Point051 (gothilla@nutmeg.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:28:00 JST Point051

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     @micahflee Won't someone think of the drug-sniffing dogs, cursed to enjoy a loving home for the rest of their days without working?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:32:25 JST clacke

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     • WesDym
     @micahflee @wesdym We can at least wrap links in a less extractive interface:
     
     farside.link/nitter/HeartlandS…
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     WesDym (wesdym@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:32:26 JST WesDym

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     @micahflee You're free to keep linking from a horrible, anti-democratic, pro-fascist website that has clearly stated its hatred for media, at least until the instance stops you.

     But I'm free to mute you for it, right now, for good.

     Goddamn, how come journalists don't know better already?

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     Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:32:26 JST Micah Lee

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     • WesDym

     @wesdym I don’t know of any other source for their video. I actually don’t use Twitter myself anymore since Elon Musk suspended me for doing journalism

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     keith (keithpjolley@discuss.systems)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:32:31 JST keith

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     @micahflee And all these bullets and batons and tear gas. Are you telling me you want us to stop shooting, beating, and gassing our people? That'd be waste of their goddamned taxpayer money.

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     Cecilia Mjausson Huster (mjausson@mastodon.design)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:32:52 JST Cecilia Mjausson Huster

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     • billy joe bowers 🗽

     @billyjoebowers @micahflee They're not. He probably just spoke so he could say that he spoke out against legalizing weed. Then he and his law enforcement Ol' Boys can chuckle at Democrats who try to reason with such a harebrained argument.

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     billy joe bowers 🗽 (billyjoebowers@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:32:54 JST billy joe bowers 🗽

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     @micahflee

     It's like Republicans are stupid or something.