The most effective methods of decreasing drug addiction are: protect children from abuse (especially SA), ensure basic quality of life for everyone, and build a society worth living in. Simple. Easy.
Trump uses violence for several reasons. He wants to pretend he’s strong. He breaks the law to test if he will be held accountable. If not, it’s a license to do worse. It’s also racism. It’s a threat to the world. It breaks our reputation and our international relations. It creates chaos and distraction. Trump hates an orderly society because he knows he doesn’t belong in one. He will seek to make money off of every crisis. He has no respect for life or liberty or truth. He is evil.
It's being run like a corporation: Top Heavy full of nepotism and cronyism with Vogons in "leadership" positions doing everything they can to "appear" like they're doing things to make the shareholders happy enough to keep supporting their bullshit, knowing that they'll all come out of this just fine with zero real consequences. It's performative, only not everyone has figured that out.
Yeah the fact this article just assumed those boats WERE drug boats and that it's just the cartels finding other routes, is problematic. It's most likely the cartels havnt adjusted shit because those weren't drug boats.
To a certain degree if you see a country blowing up boats, Venezuela’ing, and messing with the straight… you’d think that’d be a little bit of a deterrent. I usually avoid that type of behavior
Did you also note that they determined this by testing the PURITY of the drugs they did find, and the PRICE charged for them? All those murders, and it wouldn't have STOPPED anything, it would have just made them cut the drugs more. Humans have been chewing coca leaves for tens of thousands of years, I don't see a problem with the active ingredient. But when they start cutting that shit with Fentanyl and bathroom cleaners, that's a problem! That's how Prince died!
Knowing what I know i looked at some of those boats and said "these dont even have the fuel capacity to make it to florida like they claim is happening. Its not feasible. They would have to stop off in the islands first where they would be most likely caught, and they cant run those engines that hard thst long."
You can't get rid of drugs with force. Who knew? Aside from everyone. Decades worth of global health research, legal data and statistics prove that the war on drugs was a lost cause from the start. There is also plenty of data on better solutions, like Portugal's shift from criminal punishment to a public health and harm reduction model. But as with everything else (homelessness, healthcare access etc.), conservatives prefer to punish and hurt people rather than help them.
It was done for Trumps ego. So he could feel tough and brag about bombing people and taking oil. It was not about stopping drugs, it was about looking like he was s tuff guy and trying.
Plenty of US administrations should. Or at least most of the top figures. Could list reasons for all at least until Eisenhower. But terrorist states usually don't care about the law.
"I think everyone should read this article on this subject. No, I won't link to it, I can't be bothered. I will spend time taking multiple screenshots of it, though. But I won't post the url, that's too much work, you should not be lazy and google it."
For the life of me I don't understand these people who will screen shot partial (or even full) articles and not bother to also c+p the url. And the god damn animals in usersub who keep putting stuff like this to the front page...! ANIMALS, I tell you!
Yeah, it’s funny how the media machines have turned all of our brains to mush from overconsumption. An inevitable thing with this administration. We forget an atrocity because a new one pops up before we can fully process the last one. So forth and so on. I forgot this happened too.
Its also funny that when there is some negative thing against Orange One there is a lull in Right Wing Chuds posting on social media, then the usual maga influencers will release the same excuse all a once, and the chuds come roaring back to social media.
If the media was complicit they wouldn't need distractions. Fox News never had any problems talking about kittens or whatever instead of covering Trump's various scandals.
Bludabeagle
colddogwater
Literally every US military operation is mass murder. Has been for some centuries jow.
usingYourMomAsAHat
I would once again like to congratulate drugs, on the war on drugs.
iusedtodream
The most effective methods of decreasing drug addiction are: protect children from abuse (especially SA), ensure basic quality of life for everyone, and build a society worth living in. Simple. Easy.
thewiggins
If you want to fix drugs, you need to fix why people buy so many drugs. There is too much money in it to bother with the supply lines.
DocFunkenstein
Who knew murdering random citizens out fishing would have no impact on drug smugglers?
veronicablood
how bout this: legalize all drugs, tax them fairly, treat addiction as an illness, use some of that drug tax money for treatment.
END THE WAR ON DRUGS.
Mountons
Drugs, still winning the war on drugs.
Bobbobbobobbananafanafobob
Not reduced in purity-they tested it personally
Garwoodxx
Trump uses violence for several reasons. He wants to pretend he’s strong. He breaks the law to test if he will be held accountable. If not, it’s a license to do worse. It’s also racism. It’s a threat to the world. It breaks our reputation and our international relations. It creates chaos and distraction. Trump hates an orderly society because he knows he doesn’t belong in one. He will seek to make money off of every crisis. He has no respect for life or liberty or truth. He is evil.
Comet260
I do not have words to describe the level of hatred I have for Donald Trump.
jenoween
It's being run like a corporation: Top Heavy full of nepotism and cronyism with Vogons in "leadership" positions doing everything they can to "appear" like they're doing things to make the shareholders happy enough to keep supporting their bullshit, knowing that they'll all come out of this just fine with zero real consequences. It's performative, only not everyone has figured that out.
DwayneTheCrackJohnson
So it was just international crimes and war crimes and serial murder, gotcha, just the US being the US
GreaseMonkeyOfLove
Well,duh, we can’t have Don Jr’s cocaine supply interrupted, he might go crying to daddy.
ireallydontthinkso
you want me to belive that blowing up local fishing boats did not stop the international drug trade? nice try.
flow3232
Can confirm no change in price or quality
southflhitnrun
Anyone who believes this specific group of people, in this Administration, genuinely wanted to disrupt the cocaine supply are complete idiots.
That was never their motivation for these illegal executions.
mrthewhitee
I'm shocked that blowing up boats that weren't headed to the US and didn't contain drugs has had no effect on the amount of drugs in America.
AmZero85
I always assumed that Don Jr got ripped off by his dealer and they were "sending a message".
Maverickaura
Yeah the fact this article just assumed those boats WERE drug boats and that it's just the cartels finding other routes, is problematic. It's most likely the cartels havnt adjusted shit because those weren't drug boats.
ThinkThisOut
To a certain degree if you see a country blowing up boats, Venezuela’ing, and messing with the straight… you’d think that’d be a little bit of a deterrent. I usually avoid that type of behavior
GravyEducation
These cocaine loving politicians will take that into account and *sniff sniff* what if we made our own crypto app
crazyspelling
Did you also note that they determined this by testing the PURITY of the drugs they did find, and the PRICE charged for them? All those murders, and it wouldn't have STOPPED anything, it would have just made them cut the drugs more. Humans have been chewing coca leaves for tens of thousands of years, I don't see a problem with the active ingredient. But when they start cutting that shit with Fentanyl and bathroom cleaners, that's a problem! That's how Prince died!
philmoregraves
Knowing what I know i looked at some of those boats and said "these dont even have the fuel capacity to make it to florida like they claim is happening. Its not feasible. They would have to stop off in the islands first where they would be most likely caught, and they cant run those engines that hard thst long."
arf63a
It gave maggats erections...that's not nothing.
FiftyShadesOfTiramisu
You can't get rid of drugs with force. Who knew? Aside from everyone. Decades worth of global health research, legal data and statistics prove that the war on drugs was a lost cause from the start. There is also plenty of data on better solutions, like Portugal's shift from criminal punishment to a public health and harm reduction model. But as with everything else (homelessness, healthcare access etc.), conservatives prefer to punish and hurt people rather than help them.
ColossalBalls
It was done for Trumps ego. So he could feel tough and brag about bombing people and taking oil. It was not about stopping drugs, it was about looking like he was s tuff guy and trying.
Cranbananarama
For people likely ON those drugs, they don't seem to know much about how they flow in and out.
WhoIsFlabbergasted
This entire fucking admin needs to stand in front of the Hague
ElusiveThing
Plenty of US administrations should. Or at least most of the top figures. Could list reasons for all at least until Eisenhower. But terrorist states usually don't care about the law.
Hatlled
In front of a firing squad at the Hague.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Too bad the US has a law saying they'll attack the Hague if that happens.
Callynd
We could change that law. We won't, but we could.
ontarioOT
Or be laid down under it.
ButtscratchMcPherson
Since OP couldn't be ****ing bothered... https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a73287733/caribbean-boat-bombings-us-pete-hegseth-ineffective/
Iblamemyparentstoo
Thank you!
Scahrossar
Thanks. Pissess me off. If you're gonna steal parts of an article, fuckin link to it.
ButtscratchMcPherson
"I think everyone should read this article on this subject. No, I won't link to it, I can't be bothered. I will spend time taking multiple screenshots of it, though. But I won't post the url, that's too much work, you should not be lazy and google it."
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Thank you. Like an idiot, I googled for the link instead of checking the comments first.
ButtscratchMcPherson
For the life of me I don't understand these people who will screen shot partial (or even full) articles and not bother to also c+p the url. And the god damn animals in usersub who keep putting stuff like this to the front page...! ANIMALS, I tell you!
thedudeman519
Even worse is when they get obstinate about it. Like on a post I saw yesterday
ButtscratchMcPherson
Oh I've had some of these jackholes curse me out and block me.
CrisprCAS
Oh right, I forgot about that group of people Trump murdered to distract from his child raping
KuldFyt
Sebastopol140
Yeah that's too many distractions.
Tom40
I’m afraid you’ll have to be more specific
dswagz
…forgot about Some Of Those Other Groups Of People Trump murdered to distract from his child raping.
orp0piru
imnotinthewitnessprotectionprogram
Dumbeachjuice
Yeah, it’s funny how the media machines have turned all of our brains to mush from overconsumption. An inevitable thing with this administration. We forget an atrocity because a new one pops up before we can fully process the last one. So forth and so on.
I forgot this happened too.
meme2zombie
thedudeman519
They're not distractions. His base never really gave a shit about that
CrisprCAS
They're distracting the media, which is the part that matters.
thedudeman519
Are they distracting the media, or is the media complicit ?
AmZero85
Its the Steve Bannon "Flood the Zone" bullshit.
Its also funny that when there is some negative thing against Orange One there is a lull in Right Wing Chuds posting on social media, then the usual maga influencers will release the same excuse all a once, and the chuds come roaring back to social media.
CrisprCAS
If the media was complicit they wouldn't need distractions. Fox News never had any problems talking about kittens or whatever instead of covering Trump's various scandals.