What the fuck did Mexico do?
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2024
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They give us workers and refugees! We should bomb the shit out of them and then they'll checks notes send us... workers and refugees?
The right has been scapegoating Mexico over the ongoing opiod crisis and Fentanyl specifically
Doesn't all this fentanyl come from China who is famously allied with Republican's favorite leader, Putin?
It doesn't "all" come from any one country, but China produces the most, yes.
Didn't pay for the wall
Remember the Alamo!
I think it is a ploy by Russia and China to get the US to hurt itself.
Mexico is key to our economic future. The manufacturing which the US is trying to onshore needs many different inputs some from lower cost labor sources. Mexico provides some of the middleish parts of the process (yes Mexican labor is more skilled than other inputs from South Asia). While the US labor pool provides the upper end. Cars, appliances, low end electronics etc. are where Mexico comes in. The US just doesn’t have the labor pool to do all of this at a decent price point.
While central and southern Mexico may not be big fans of the US. People in the North are fairly pro USA as they see a lot of economic integration. Dropping bombs on them even when we are going after the cartels is not going to keep them on our side and we will see the anti US sentiment take over the country.
It’s basically one of the few extremely dumb things we could do to royally fuck up our economy.
'member those scary caravans?!?
Bomb Mexico. And these idiots could be in charge of the U.S.
Depressing.
“Poor Mexico, So far from God, so close to the United States.”
Amazing how far from God Catholics are when they're not white
Let's face it, they will be. As a non American I'm wondering how I can convince our nation to further distance itself from the US as I just don't think they are a partner we should be too tightly coupled to; they're displaying all the signs of an empire on the edge of implosion.
As a European, It's crazy how I've started to compare USA to Russia. I mean, Russia is still the baddies by a decent margin, but god damn, that gap could be closing fast in 2025.
Mexican drug cartels are responsible for manufacturing and smuggling much of the fentanyl that enters the United States and causes most drug overdose deaths, killing about 150 people a day.
Vance's repeated calls for aggressive military force, including bombing campaigns targeting...drug cartels in Mexico.
I know that the addicts in question are American, and that the manufacturers aren't, and that assigning responsibility for domestic problems to voters probably isn't much of a vote-winner, but I feel that maybe, just maybe, at a certain point, you gotta attach a certain amount of responsibility for drug use to the addicts rather than the foreign manufacturers.
I don't think that we're ever going to have a world where addictive, recreational drugs are simply nonexistent. I think that that's probably a lot more of a dead end in terms of drug policy than people choosing not to use.
We've got a pretty potent military. But I don't think that this is really a problem for which military solutions are all that useful.
Mexican drug cartels are responsible for manufacturing and smuggling much of the fentanyl that enters the United States and causes most drug overdose deaths, killing about 150 people a day.
But we're just going to ignore the broken healthcare system that CAUSED all those addictions in the 90s, right? Yeah, sure, lets get people hooked on pain killers, and then cut them off cold turkey. They'll just stop being addicted, right? Right???
Doesn't matter how much you bomb Mexico. If there is a demand for drugs there will be a supply. No matter the price. A drug addict will do ANYTHING to get it
Cutting the supply would only work if you're somehow able to cut almost all supply for 30 years straight, until the currently addicted people die off or sort themselves out
To stop the drugs you need to stop the demand for drugs. Treat addicts instead of arresting them. And oh my god stop prescribing literal Opioids as "treatment"
It’s both actually. Obviously if you make drugs more rare, the price goes up. And when the price goes up, there will always be an amount of people that cannot pay it. The problem is that they’re then usually pushed to do something cheaper, but if the cheaper drugs are less likely to harm people, that can be a win.
Cutting supply isn’t everything, but it isn’t nothing. Part of the current problems are actually worse though because the worse drug is being added to a lot of other drugs that already have demand. So in this case it would help a lot more than usually because the dangerous substance isn’t necessarily what the addiction is for.
Drug addiction is a mental health problem. Reducing supply may have some effect in reducing overdoses in the short term, but it doesn't solve the underlying issue, and it's likely that new and potentially even more dangerous sources will pop up quickly. And military action is absurdly heavy handed and unless Mexico are on board with it, I can't see it ending well (and even then).
Right-wingers don't believe in underlying causes. Drug problems are the fault of the drugs themselves and/or a character flaw of the lazy good for nothing users. They always just want to put a useless bandaid on the symptom. The world is too complex for them to handle.
Yes, but a lot of the current drug epidemic stems from over-prescription of opiates like oxycontin. Another big factor is the absolute garbage availability of social services. If you're homeless, cold, and in pain, heroin is a great way to feel better for a while. Housing and healthcare would go a long way to keep people away from drugs.
Very few people say "you know, this weekend I think I'll take up smoking meth". There's usually something that puts them in a vulnerable position that makes it seem like a good idea.
He's leaving out the fact that the people smuggling in fentanyl are mostly U.S. citizens. Shockingly, citizens are less likely to be searched and you can smuggle a huge amount of fentanyl in a tiny container. Who is he planning on bombing to stop that?
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/09/1191638114/fentanyl-smuggling-migrants-mexico-border-drugs
It's still Mexicans, isn't it?
America's drug crisis is down to its healthcare system, justice system, education system and regressive social policies.
The cartels supply a demand.
End prohibition. Put the cartels out of business.
I wonder how they'd respond to knowing that all this cartel violence is conducted with weapons manufactured in the US and smuggled into Mexico or that their wealth and power comes from US dollars manufactured and smuggled into Mexico?
When did the US change from America first policy? It’s been the same since its inception!
It means America only.
It's not the policy, it's where that slogan comes from:
They bought their own propaganda that America's worldwide military presence is not for it's own benefit but out of a noble desire to protect democracy or whatever.
So when everyone everywhere is singularly American, or Chinese, or Russian, and all of the same resource distribution problems and wealth inequality still exist, what's the propaganda gonna say?
I say fuck the dealer.
Omfg.. dear extraterrestrial.. take me away ..
You can also come with us outside of US and eat popcorn instead of slapping your face daily
Imagine thinking canada won't just import the drugs.