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jyounker 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytal...

You appear to lack the historical knowledge to appreciate the joke:

The war on drugs was specifically designed to allow the government to go after the left and black people. Nixon's domestic policy chief said this in 1994:

* https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminal...

tt24 6 months ago [–]

What makes you think I lacked the context here?

jyounker 6 months ago | [–]

Because you failed to see how the historical context made it funny, and even responded in kind of a vicious way.

tt24 6 months ago | | [–]

Why does the historical context make it funny? Is everything that references a historical event funny?

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