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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (24 children)

How the hell did Mexico get a Jewish president before the USA? We need to step up our game.

But also good on her and on Mexico. She sounds exactly like the sort of person I’d want running my country.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

they also approved gay marriage and socialized medicine before we did & do

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's interesting how ahead their government is with some things and behind it is with others (generally speaking they have a lot of crime in their larger cities).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s harder to take out crime when the organized crime is outfitted with similar gear to the army and the army is highly corrupt due to the cartel paying better.

America was fortunate that we were able to snuff out our organized crime before they had access to modern technology that made it near impossible to snuff out their movement.

It’s hard to arrest a group of cartel all at once if they never leave their heavily guarded fortresses for Sunday brunch like the mafia did

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Don't disagree, it's just fascinating to see it all play out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another issue is that they're civilians. You could bomb their facilities but bombing civilians, especially when they're your own citizens, is a pretty bad look.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

To an extent yes, but you’ll have a hard time finding many reasonable people to protest bombing military grade cartel facilities. Many innocent civilians have suffered at the cartels hands and governments the world over are familiar with the extent of the cartels crimes, I don’t think it’d be a significant problem.

You know what they say about eggs and omelets after all

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