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What can the US do to help Mexico finally stop the cartels?

Politicians constantly talk about stopping the illegal immigrants that are coming from Mexico, but putting a wall has never and will never be a solution since the reason why so many displaced keep coming across the border is mostly to escape the crime, corruption, inequality, and violence of they have to live in their home...

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While it’s true that the U.S. is the most convenient market for Mexican cartels, it’s worth knowing that it’s far from the only one. Mexican drug cartels have major connections to markets across the globe. and that Mexico specifically is the de facto administrator of drug trade in the western world. For example, a drug bust in India found fentanyl that had been purchased in Mexico from China. . That’s not the sort of arrangement that the US can ever hope to do away with through domestic legislation without undermining the autonomy of dozens of states around the globe.

While removing the cartels’ access to the American market via decriminalization would certainly take away a lot of funds, let’s not act like black market operations don’t exist in legal markets anyway.

In this hypothetical situation where the US is responsible for Mexico’s drug cartel problem (which I disagree with), I don’t think the road to success ends at the US legalizing drugs.

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Both of these types existed in the past and still exist today.

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That attempt at fixing your typo is 10x more obvious than just letting it be would have been

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Honestly? Just give the $200 to the shelter to spend on whatever they think they need. As someone who used to volunteer at a no-kill shelter, everybody wants to donate a bag of dog food but no one wants to donate cash. After a certain point, we were throwing away old stock of unopened dog food because we ran out of storage for it.

Edit: completely misread the part about helping people specifically not in a shelter. My main point still stands though, I think most unhoused people would take the cash over material goods.

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+1 on the other commenter mentioning Hot Hands. They’re disposable and don’t last forever, but they’ll feel like a Godsend when you need them.

I’d suggest some kind of blanket. Space blankets don’t provide a lot of insulation but are great for windbreaking which makes them a great top layer over a normal fleece blanket.

I mentioned this in my other comment on one of your posts, but please consider including just a little bit of cash. Every person you meet will always have unique needs or wants that you can’t possibly be expected to account for. Even $5 can give them the agency to see to these specific needs on their own.

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Do you know what the word shill means?

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I recognize one of these people

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Uh yeah? I’m not just gonna walk to the sink with my dick out

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Seeing Tom Scott and MatPat being called the “old internet” might be the thing that puts me in retirement

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Duck, presumably

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Word of advice for anyone entering a trade: get a laser pointer in your first kit, it’ll save you so much time

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Nothing positive. View it the same way as tobacco or alcohol companies

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Milwaukee and DeWalt dads go into cripping debt trying to one-up each other with home renovations every year

Ryobi dads sit at the back of the bus.

Makita dads fuck the other three dads wives

Hilti dad fucks makita dad

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Less of a feature and more of a design, but I miss phones being small. The iPhone 4S was the perfect physical size IMO and that thing looks tiny compared to my fuckhuge S23U. The physical bloat of the past 5 Galaxys is why I’ve decided not to go with Samsung for my next mobile

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    Sort of like how 7/10 became synonymous for average

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    If someone tells me their wifi password is still the default password, I automatically think less of them

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    People start families when they feel socially and financially secure. Seems like a pretty easy solution then, if you’re not a oligarchical corporatocracy.

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    You can substitute ~75% of your meals volume with rice and come out just a satisfied with a fraction of the cost.

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    I don’t know about y’all, but this man’s certainly erected a structure in my pants

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    I’ve never felt more proud of not knowing so many words

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    I mean it’s a funny meme, but philosophers have been debating about which of these is the better option for millenia. It isn’t like the general consensus is that living in that living in the Matrix was preferable

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