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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • Last I checked the Taliban is still going.

    You’re absolutely right.

    Even better, thanks to U.S involvement, they’ve got a whole country in their clutches now!

    🇺🇸✌️MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!✌️🦅

    There’s times when violent intervention is unavoidable, and cartels are decidedly not a force for good in this world, but it’s seriously sad how we’ve conditioned the civilian populace into casually thinking “Maybe if we just killed them all that would fix problems!”

    “Just one more invasion bro. Just one more, just one more drone strike bro. It’ll fix everything this time! Trust me bro. One more Contra op! Just bump my defense stonks a little bit bro! Just little bump! C’moooon!”


  • Way to go. I like this take.

    It’s become very clear that there is no moral goal behind the “war on drugs.” It just becomes a never-ending escalation of cat and mouse, and civilians are caught up in the middle.

    The factions of fear and despair based profit that made everybody miserable enough to give the cartels a market, now are simply mad they’re not getting (enough) revenue from that market.

    Conveniently as well, entire industries (many well-meaning) have sprung up around combatting the ravages of addiction, and “because drugs” is a convenient cop-out for pretty much every societal issue, and an expedient paper-thin justification for crackdowns, fear-mongering, and draconian punishments.

    Unlike the rest of us, the powers that be have little to gain from “solving” drugs.

    Instead of reducing the systemic precursors to crime, they would rather instead cut off everybody’s arms and merely rent them back to you only while you’re clocked in at work.