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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

gender affirming care for trans children

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Give children the right to buy alcohol too.

[–] styxem 1 points 18 minutes ago

More give doctors the right to treat their patients

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago
  • Drugs

  • Prostitution

  • Abortions

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago

Pirating of otherwise unavailable media.

[–] Kalcifer 28 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

Sex work is real, dignified work that contributes to civilization.

Unlike being a landlord.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

Taking food when you have no food

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Dumpster diving. Doesn’t matter if it’s food or merchandise. It should be illegal to lock a dumpster or willfully destroy usable goods.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Locking dumpsters is important in some areas so wild life dosen't get into them. To quote the National Parks service,

"There is a significant overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest humans".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

Most businesses lock the dumpsters because trash service is expensive, and if you don't lock them people will pull up with a pickup bed full of trash and fill them up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You've never had to repeatedly clean trash slurry off of a concrete slab because junkies are terrible people who have no manners. If people could be trusted to not redistribute the trash across the land I wouldn't mind so much

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

If capitalism could be trusted not to put valuable items in the trash, it wouldn’t be a problem.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, so getting things out of the trash could be legal, but making a mess from a dumpster should have consequences

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Enforcing that would take a lot more money than a padlock.

A better idea would be to charge businesses for the downstream costs of externalities like waste. Make them self-enforce by making it more expensive to dump recyclable or reusable materials.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Euthanasia/medically assisted suicide.

The cruelty to force people to stay alive while slowly dying and suffering with terminal diseases is horrible. It’s traumatic for everyone involved, and it’s pointless.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We give animals more dignity in death than we do humans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

*animals. If people come across (irreparably) hurt wild animals, those tend to get killed as well

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I think male chicks get treated worse than humans when they are identified at the factory farms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Yes but also there are some diseases where I'd take death by shredder over slowly wasting away

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Prostitution. Keeping it illegal makes it so much worse for everyone involved except human traffickers.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Abortion. No specific circumstances needed. If a woman wants an abortion, it should be allowed. There is no one getting late term abortions that didn't want the child and something tragic happened and now they need one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a caveat to the last sentence, it's definitely possible for women to not know they're pregnant until very late in the process. There have even been women who only found out they were pregnant when they went into labor.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Actual marriage equality.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Sleeping in a car that you own.

I think there should be restrictions on where to park for this, but in general people found sleeping in cars should be protected by the law against theft and harassment.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Restrictions on where you can park

Nah fuck that noise. This is how you let them corral you into slums.

Park where you want. Out front of parliament, the prime minister's house, on the street out front a billionaires house, wherever. If they don't like it, them they should fix it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well, I mean, someone's evil ex shouldn't park in front of their house. And people should not park for a nap in a handicap spot. And not in the driving portion of a road, not in the breakdown lane of a major highway, not on anyone's lawn.

But yeah, basically any place where parking is allowed, sleeping while parked should be allowed and protected.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

All of those places already have laws preventing those. Don't need a special one for no sleep in car in those instances

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Weed (not legal in all states)

Most hallucinogens (at least for medical or supervised use)

Being trans (lotta states trying to ban me)

Being gay (they're probably next)

Abortion (many states ban this now)

Free healthcare (not technically illegal, per se)

Being homeless

Polyamory (not technically illegal afaik, but there are a lot of legal benefits that married couples get which aren't extended to polyamorous relationships due marriage being restricted to couples only)

The list goes on because while there are many basic things that aren't technically illegal, the system is set up in a way to fuck you because of the required profit motive behind offering basic necessities in a capitalist society.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Poverty, being unhoused.

Felons should have the right to vote.

Seeking gender affirming care.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Wait a minute, felons can run for president but can't vote who to be president?

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (21 children)

The right to end one's own life.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For now all I can think of are drugs (every single one, including opioids) and euthanasia (not just for terminal diseases, should be available for everyone who decides to).

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Jaywalking
Giving water to voters standing in line
Punching nazis in the fucking face

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