Random political thought thread.

[The Cat]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Props to Greta but I still hate Twitter. I'll acknowledge that it can be used for good, I just think the effect has been a net negative.

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

Even if he wins, the majority of the people will suffer.
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[Kephalos]

Mexico’s Long War: Drugs, Crime, and the Cartels. Council on Foreign Relations.

Mexican authorities have been waging a deadly battle against drug cartels for more than a decade, but with limited success. Thousands of Mexicans—including politicians, students, and journalists—die in the conflict every year. The country has seen more than 360,000 homicides since 2006, when the government declared war on the cartels.

Mexican Drug Cartel Influence in Government, Society, and Culture. Jacob JiHyong Kim.

Powerful drug cartels have left an indelible mark in Mexican history, and they continue to operate with relative impunity today. Efforts by authorities to curtail their influence have failed, largely because of their inability to learn from lessons of the past. This thesis examines the history of Mexican cartel influence- highlighting the problems in government, society and culture- to understand why and how cartel influence has spread. Authorities would benefit to use this knowledge to forge a more holistic approach in their war against Mexican cartels, as their current tactics lack much efficacy. Diminishing the formidable influence of Mexican drug cartels will likely reduce violence, corruption, sexism, drug use, crime, chauvinism, environmental damage, and human rights abuses. There is no singular method to make this happen. It would be beneficial for government and society to work together, using a variety of means and introducing new ideas as necessary, to combat drug cartels.

Transnational Organized Crime and National Security. Eric Halliday.
No Shortcuts in Resolving Mexico’s Spiraling Violence. Arturo Sarukhán Casamitjana (Brookings Institution, Former Ambassador of Mexico to the United States).

Sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera, AKA "El Chapo" charged with drug trafficking. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Joaquin Guzman Lopez, 34, and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, 28, are charged in a one-count indictment alleging that from in or around April 2008, through April 2018, they conspired to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana from Mexico and elsewhere for importation into the United States. This case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras.

New York Times: El Chapo’s Son Is Captured by Mexican Authorities for 2nd Time.

The arrest of Ovidio Guzmán López was a victory for the Mexican government. He had been briefly detained in 2019, but was released after cartel gunmen overpowered law enforcement.

Why the arrest of El Chapo's son caused a rampage of violence in a Mexican city. Mark Gollom (CBC).

 

[The Cat]

So much for Lucky 13...
Can you name 6 republicans who would cross over and put the country over their party...?
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Anyone?

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[The Cat]

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Some unusually good news...

Amazon Labor Union Certified by U.S. Labor Officials

Amazon now has a legal obligation to bargain with the union, and can face serious penalties if it doesn't.

www.vice.com

I have no faith in politicians to do the right thing without groups like this exerting pressure on them.

 

[The Cat]

 

[Doctor Cringelord]

 

[The Cat]

You are their leverage. Never forget that.​

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

 

[The Cat]

 

[Virtual ghost]

Well, objectively speaking this is the closest we got. Not even Cuban missile crisis was this hot.
In the other hand it is funny how people further and further away from the"fault line" are more and more panicking over stuff like this. I have Ukrainian refugees moving into may street, at my local grocery story they employed one other Ukrainian lady. Economy clearly wobbles. Plus through the bedroom window I see mountains on the horizon that are controlled by openly Pro-Russian separatists. However I made my peace long ago over the fact that I am in bind.

 

[The Cat]

Well, objectively speaking this is the closest we got. Not even Cuban missile crisis was this hot.
In the other hand it is funny how people further and further away from the"fault line" are more and more panicking over stuff like this. I have Ukrainian refugees moving into may street, at my local grocery story they employed one other Ukrainian lady. Economy clearly wobbles. Plus through the bedroom window I see mountains on the horizon that are controlled by openly Pro-Russian separatists. However I made my peace long ago over the fact that I am in bind.

Most folks further away have only just woken up to the reality that they're bound up in something they have no control over. Im more concerned over the climate change and how we've got around ten years at best if we keep on like we've kept on. For me the irritation comes from the same frustration of the Tide CEO

 

[The Cat]

Ron "Totally Straight" DeSantis is running for president on the "Keep America Ignorant." Platform.
One of the few state governors who utterly refuses to decry Nazi's coming to their state and doing shit...because he knows who is voter base is, even if they don't.
Mother fucker has said in his own words that the thing that convinced him he had to run for office to "fix america" was Obama getting elected president...
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[Red Herring]

Mother fucker has said in his own words that the thing that convinced him he had to run for office to "fix america" was Obama getting elected president..​

From this side of the pond it does look like a good part of this culture war is a considerable share of people not getting over the fact that a Black men was elected president....twice.

 

[The Cat]

From this side of the pond it does look like a good part of this culture war is a considerable share of people not getting over the fact that a Black men was elected president....twice.

not only that but a black man who legalized gay marriage and trans people in the military. The way some of these chuds go on, you'd think he came by and locked them all in chastity before cucking them. I swear porn insecurities are driving the right.

 

[The Cat]