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My country is turning into a European Mexico because the middle class needs their cocaine to get through life. Twenty year olds are getting payed just 20k to kill someone.

The funny thing is that all these drive bye gang bangers are all invariably caught by the police and then spend the rest of their life in jail. Don't underestimate the stupidity of man.

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I once had a chat with my colleague about how the country he was born in has changed over the last 20 years. He expressed concerns about safety, gang crimes,etc. Yet he was the one consuming white powder that is responsible for majority of those crimes he's concerned about...

The powder cannot be responsible for those crimes, if it was, the government could solve the problem overnight by simply allowing a legal supply of white powder. And if that’s the case, how is the government not to blame?

Are you sure it's the fault of the people who drove the value of inexpensive to produce substances used in tiny amounts up by multiple orders of magnitude?

You mean the government? Yeah, I’m pretty sure.

This was an entirely predictable consequence of banning recreational drugs.

The War on Drugs has failed a long time ago though, and I thought it was obvious. Such crimes exist because of the War on Drugs. That said, legalization is not enough. If the taxes are too high (as it happened to be the case in California for weed), then you will still have a black market for this white powder.

There is black market here for meat, too.

Which country is this?

None, MomoXenosaga has no idea how bad things are in Mexico and is just regurgitating alarmist talking points of right-wing populists.

Spoken like a true left-wing populist...

Spoken like a realist. I’ve frequently interacted with the worst parts of Europe, my Telegram is constantly spammed with ads for guns in Benelux (FGC-9 really booming lately). I’ve stayed in the “ghetto” in Sweden where shootings happen on a weekly basis, spent a month in Transnistria, sat down for lunch with separatist fighters in Ukraine.

Nowhere in Europe does the situation come anywhere close to being as fucked up as in Mexico, not even in the literal warzones.

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