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Is the U.S. a Police State?
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Let’s look at evidence:
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Rethinking the war on drugs would be a serious step to change a lot of this.
They'll let us all die before they ever consider that though.
Nixon's War on Drugs was always intended as a tool to crush PoC and "hippie" counterculture revolutionaries.
Now it's an excuse to harass and cage migrants, too.