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   {:-]))) to noname   
   Re: No escape   
   03 Oct 16 15:34:36   
   
   XPost: alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   noname wrote:   
      
   >Trump is one of the few people in today's world who is actually fighting   
   >the "War Against Drugs".  He's fighting it by opposing the establishment   
   >which has made life so tedious and difficult for people that those who are   
   >unable to cope with it turn to drugs, it's the only thing they can find to   
   >make life livable.   
      
   I can see how, for some users, the, "establishment" is their thing.   
      
   As for Trump's actual position on drug-laws, I don't know anything.   
      
   Executive Orders can be made easily enough.   
   Obama could have but chose not to.   
   The Feds continue to be Feds.   
      
   States are States and states of mind, xin, vary.   
      
   Beyond how some systems function and are dysfunctional is wu-xin.   
      
   I don't mind nor care much about wu-xin at times.   
   It's perfectly natural, for me, to be apathetic, ziran.   
      
   Probably I'll cast my vote on a Tuesday. That's pay-day.   
   Or, at least it was a promise made at the time.   
   And I gladly pay on Tuesday.   
      
   Why, one might wonder. To which I say, because it takes two.   
   And sounds like sounds like sounds that sounds like.   
   Politicians tend to make them in their daze too.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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