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		jimmaswell on Feb 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mississippi is 37th state to legalize medical mari... Exactly. Democrats: vote for us for universal healthcare, weed, etc. Republicans: vote for us for gun rights, freedom, etc. Neither plans to actually do anything at the national level. They want these carrots kept around to dangle in their constituents' faces.

inglor_cz on Feb 3, 2022 [–]

Gun rights are mostly in hands of SCOTUS now and Republicans did exert a lot of effort to get their candidates there, though in a context of a more general power struggle.

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