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>criminal gangs (drugs, extortion, etc) are absurdly overfunded Not only this, they are "overarmed" with military grade weapons thanks to the USA's insane gun
by miguelazo 3y ago
>criminal gangs (drugs, extortion, etc) are absurdly overfunded
Not only this, they are "overarmed" with military grade weapons thanks to the USA's insane gun laws. The saying of (former president/dictator) Porfirio Diaz, "Poor Mexico: so far from God and so close to the United States" rings just as true today, if not more so.
>to a large extent it feels like the population at large can’t agree who are the good guys and who are the bad guys
As if this is any different in the US, where film and music have also lionized the "baddies" for well over a hundred years!
- BSEdlMMldESB 3y agoa lot of these 'baddies' are bad due to war on drugs policies perpetrated by the american government against all of latin america because imperialism the huge amount of funding of organized crime is a direct consequence of imperialistic war on drugs. "a matter of national health??" ahahahah, just think about the american health system for a minute.....
- a-user-you-like 3y ago[flagged]
- lnxg33k1 3y agoYeah there are still too many kids in schools
- a-user-you-like 3y agoAgreed, still too much money forced to provide substandard public ed. let parents keep the $$ and use them for better ed.
- a-user-you-like 3y agoAnd murder is already illegal fwiw
- lnxg33k1 3y agoAlso it's people that shoot people not guns, so we should regulate people not guns
- lnxg33k1 3y agoAlso why do we need to fund education at all, there is such a huge workers shortage that seems madness to give up on so much labour
- rolandog 3y ago> As if this is any different in the US, where film and music have also lionized the "baddies" for well over a hundred years! Agreed. IMHO, we all could benefit from some critical thinking when watching movies or TV series: that someone is the main character, doesn't automatically make them "the good guy", and they shouldn't be emulated even if you love binge-watching their antics.