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1. nolasco (nolasco@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:33 JST nolasco

   • nolasco
   The govt is using heli's to hunt cartel down
   • billiam :4chan: (billiam@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:28 JST billiam :4chan:

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     • NEETzsche
     @nolasco @NEETzsche Rogan:
     >one solution is making drugs legal - you're not going to stop people from doing drugs.
     what a fucking basic bitch position. The CIA (et al) were helping the cartels smuggle drugs in the 80s and this relationship between the ZOG and the cartels hasn't let up since, see e.g. the obama regime smuggling weapons to the cartels (operation fast and furious)
     Kenny Blankenship likes this.
   • nolasco (nolasco@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:29 JST nolasco

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     • NEETzsche
     Nah, they may have started as regular people but to be a member of a cartel is not as simple as telling them I want to join. You have to prove yourself in some way it's not easy. Rather, moral. It could be easy for some.
     
     They don't need to issue their own currency when they effectively run the markets. You can't set up a shop or run trucks across highways without negotiating for their "safety". Multiply this by their 33 territories and you have a nice little market to extort. Arms/human trafficking, legitimate businesses, Oil markets, crypto, to name a few as well as their drug networks.
     
     This is an overt display of power but they've been running shit for a while. The last president was found to have been taking bribes from El Chapo.
   • nolasco (nolasco@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:29 JST nolasco

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     • NEETzsche
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY2hBTCSya4&ab_channel=JREClips
     
     I really like listening to this guy and his perspective on the drug war. Really intelligent character.
   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:30 JST NEETzsche

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     @nolasco This sort of thing is commonplace when governments lose legitimacy. See, once you get to the scale that you're describing you aren't just dealing with sociopaths anymore. You're dealing with regular people who end up getting recruited into these cartels in whichever way they go about doing that.
     
     Right now I think the cartels are acting a little grug. If they really wanted to make a power move what they would start doing is issuing their own money and then requiring landholders to pay "tax" in that money. That would have a much deeper, more systemic subversion effect.
     
     I would still characterize this as a chimp out more than anything
   • nolasco (nolasco@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:31 JST nolasco

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     • NEETzsche
     It's been getting worse since the 2000's. This used to be unheard of, small time criminals being sociopaths what's new there but these sociopaths forming a large enough group to become a de facto military presence that can stand against the state? Right on our doorstep? And the US doesn't care? Lol
     
     They are essentially going to hold multiple territories hostage until this kid is released. It hasn't even been a whole day yet since the fightig started and already casualties are thought to be in the hundreds between state and criminal casualties.
   • nolasco (nolasco@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:32 JST nolasco

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     Sinaloa Cartel tells Mexican President that he has 72 hours to give up El Chapo’s kid or they’re going to start after military/government officials, civilians, and set fire to gas stations.
     
     Situations just getting worse, they definitely won’t release him either.
   • NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:02:32 JST NEETzsche

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     @nolasco These dudes are nuts. But I'm not that surprised, given that on the street level these cartels will do some Aztec shit to you if you get in their way.
   • Kenny Blankenship (dw2@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 23:03:28 JST Kenny Blankenship

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     • billiam :4chan:
     • NEETzsche
     @billiam @NEETzsche Zog could largely shut down the drug trade overnight if it wanted to. But then where would it get its funding for its global gay ops ?