[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 22 hours ago

So how will you know if he changes anything?

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 23 hours ago

The US isn't in anything right now. It's deployed (it always is), but not in active hostilities.

(Unless I'm missing something in Central or South America)

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 10 points 23 hours ago

Honestly. No country should have the military spending that the US does. It's too much power in one place. I understand the cold war made it necessary though.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

Not ban. Regulate, like food. Have standards and enforce them.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Secondhand nicotine does you no harm. The reason cigarettes are so bad for you is that you're smoking tar. That's what makes the walls of a smokers home yellow, and what gives them cancer.

Nicotine is addictive, but largely harmless at the levels in cigarettes and vapes for the primary smoker. A secondhand smoker will be getting almost nothing. The problem with vapes is, I suspect, the flavourings. I'm aware of mounting evidence that they're not harmless, but I think that's only to primary vapers, not secondary.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

I think that last point is an important one.

Banning things often does more harm than good. In your case "Nicotine Bad!" as a policy removes your options.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

So regulate them and enforce it.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh boo hoo!

People being mildly annoying means they should be banned? Cigarettes were killing smokers and those around them. That's the line for me. If your actions harm others, then it gets restricted.

Vapes are nowhere near that line. They just smell weird.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

You know this, but nicotine isn't the problem. It's all the other crap in them.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 98 points 5 days ago

...and let me guess. Critizing Israel's actions is tacit support of Hezbollah?

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 40 points 5 days ago

Worse than that. Fraud. He's scammed people out of millions.

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