• woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    asked whether he would have to smoke cannabis if he studied in Germany

    Mindset of not living in a free country.

    • Brunacho@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      or the mindset of living in a country that was induced into drug addiction by a “free” country before.

      • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        I can’t seriously believe that Chinese people didn’t abuse psychoactive substances before they discovered the joy of British opium

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          6 months ago

          British

          Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.

          • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

            • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

              A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.

              • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                6 months ago

                The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!