War is not how we fix the problem. We definitely don't need to fight cartels with US Naval ships. Everything is not a nail and you don't always be a fucking hammer!!!
Exactly. Failure to address systemic barriers to healthcare, mental health care, and basic living conditions, generational poverty and violence, and a troubled education system and the school to prison pipeline have all given big pharma the keys to kingdom to exploit and addict our most vulnerable. The war on drugs was always about treating symptoms rather than the roots
Love this post because it succinctly speaks to the problem, not just with Mexico, but other "3rd World" countries the world over. I confront people all the time with the question: "These countries are so poor, where are the weapons coming from." And the people are characterized as backwards, predatory, uneducated, war mongering, uncivilized, etc. It's all deflection and control. They keep us so busy fighting each other, that it makes it easy for them to control us. Immigrants, Black people, Africans, American Indians, the Chinese... these are not our enemies, but we're constantly bombarded with bullshit, lies, half-truths. We need to find more ways to see beyond the lies so that we can work together, marginalized White people included.
Appreciate the vote of confidence. Not trying to be preachy, though. The question I keep trying to address, is how do we motivate people to act NOW!? Do people see that the concept of "race" is an illusion created to divide and control? Through division, the elite have defined wealth for us and we're mesmerized by it. Money is not wealth! Designer shoes do not define us. How do we reverse this indoctrination? I've traveled a little bit. People are people. We all desire the same things. Why can't we live and work together? We can. I struggle with how to convey this message, but so many throughout history have already said it. Humanity is stuck on stupid. If we can recognize this, the weapons, the Musk-Putin-Trumps, the Adolf Hitlers and Idi Amin's lose any hold they may have on us. The people will win. Of this I'm sure. I'm also concerned with what happens in the middle (addressed in my first post). How will this evolve and what will the end result look like?
In Canada they have taken the very approach you have asked for, the result: a 562% increase in overdose deaths in the past 25 years. We do not have cartels to our south. We have the USA and a government that enables smugglers and dealers going as far to repeal minimum sentences for offences like carrying an illegal firearm while in possession on fentanyl. The soft on users and small dealers failed horribly and now we are in real trouble.
War is not how we fix the problem. We definitely don't need to fight cartels with US Naval ships. Everything is not a nail and you don't always be a fucking hammer!!!
Yup - we have a demand problem. What to choke the supply - fix the demand. It’s too lucrative a business if there is demand.
Our opioid crisis was in large part created by Purdue Pharmaceuticals, not the cartels
Exactly. Failure to address systemic barriers to healthcare, mental health care, and basic living conditions, generational poverty and violence, and a troubled education system and the school to prison pipeline have all given big pharma the keys to kingdom to exploit and addict our most vulnerable. The war on drugs was always about treating symptoms rather than the roots
Love this post because it succinctly speaks to the problem, not just with Mexico, but other "3rd World" countries the world over. I confront people all the time with the question: "These countries are so poor, where are the weapons coming from." And the people are characterized as backwards, predatory, uneducated, war mongering, uncivilized, etc. It's all deflection and control. They keep us so busy fighting each other, that it makes it easy for them to control us. Immigrants, Black people, Africans, American Indians, the Chinese... these are not our enemies, but we're constantly bombarded with bullshit, lies, half-truths. We need to find more ways to see beyond the lies so that we can work together, marginalized White people included.
preach, friend
Appreciate the vote of confidence. Not trying to be preachy, though. The question I keep trying to address, is how do we motivate people to act NOW!? Do people see that the concept of "race" is an illusion created to divide and control? Through division, the elite have defined wealth for us and we're mesmerized by it. Money is not wealth! Designer shoes do not define us. How do we reverse this indoctrination? I've traveled a little bit. People are people. We all desire the same things. Why can't we live and work together? We can. I struggle with how to convey this message, but so many throughout history have already said it. Humanity is stuck on stupid. If we can recognize this, the weapons, the Musk-Putin-Trumps, the Adolf Hitlers and Idi Amin's lose any hold they may have on us. The people will win. Of this I'm sure. I'm also concerned with what happens in the middle (addressed in my first post). How will this evolve and what will the end result look like?
A common enemy is a powerful uniter.
In Canada they have taken the very approach you have asked for, the result: a 562% increase in overdose deaths in the past 25 years. We do not have cartels to our south. We have the USA and a government that enables smugglers and dealers going as far to repeal minimum sentences for offences like carrying an illegal firearm while in possession on fentanyl. The soft on users and small dealers failed horribly and now we are in real trouble.
https://open.substack.com/pub/1911ranch/p/chin-ada-a-drug-lords-playground?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Hey, I wonder what’s going on down at the airport?
https://biffogram.substack.com/p/wasted-a-story-of-love-gone-toxic-594