Afghanistan back under Taliban rule

[mrmaczaps]

The US could always just take over Mexico and make Mexico America.... then all those illegals would be citizens, free to pay taxes & all that fun sh!t... [half serious here as it would be better in a way than just letting democrats bus the d@mn terrorists here anyways...] And as far as the Middle East, we should have turned that area into a giant glass parking lot 2 decades ago. Problem solved. Probably even less deaths too. [Not really serious here.] Ready or not, here comes the Boom!

But Republicans & independents are the terrorists according to Joe Pedo & co...

[CyberCubed]

Breaking Bad taught me that all Mexicans sell and produce Crystal Meth.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by mrmaczaps

The US could always just take over Mexico and make Mexico America.... then all those illegals would be citizens, free to pay taxes & all that fun sh!t... [half serious here as it would be better in a way than just letting democrats bus the d@mn terrorists here anyways...] And as far as the Middle East, we should have turned that area into a giant glass parking lot 2 decades ago. Problem solved. Probably even less deaths too. [Not really serious here.] Ready or not, here comes the Boom!

But Republicans & independents are the terrorists according to Joe Pedo & co...

I mean, the thing nobody really likes to talk about is that one day, whether it's tomorrow or 100 years from now, something like that IS going to have to happen, in either case. It's inevitable. It's just that nobody wants to be the one to instigate it, because those solutions would be "mean" and heavy-handed. Even though they are in fact necessary solutions.

People don't like to admit it, but you can't look the other way and keep saying "Well, that's just their culture" FOREVER as countries commit massive human rights violations against their own people (and occasionally against other people). Eventually, those countries WILL have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the modern era and huge chunks of their respective "culture" are going to have to be put to bed for the good of the majority.

The only questions are When, and how much bloodshed will there be when it finally gets to that point. But when people just shrug with regard to places like Afghanistan and Mexico and say, "Well, we've got no business trying to 'fix' it anyways, that's their business"... that's defeatist and enabling. The fact is those places can't be allowed to continue on as they have. SOMEBODY has to fix it, and one day, they will. Probably not in any of our lifetimes, but eventually it has to happen.

It IS going to be a huge and bloody mess when that time comes, though. That's unavoidable. What we've been doing for the last couple of decades Over There... half-measures, at best. It's not that there ISN'T a proper solution, it's that someone would need to have the balls big enough to completely upturn the status quo AND be willing to shrug off a gigantic mountain of criticism they'd be inviting in the process. Like they'd have to be okay with being labelled a super-villain for the rest of their lives, in exchange for being vindicated a hundred years in the future after it all worked out for the best. I don't think anyone like that exists yet. Most politicians don't have the "vision" to see beyond the next election; that's generally why nothing important ever gets done.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I mean, the thing nobody really likes to talk about is that one day, whether it's tomorrow or 100 years from now, something like that IS going to have to happen, in either case.

I don't see it. We don't want Mexico.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I don't see it. We don't want Mexico.

Not as it presently exists, no.

But at SOME point someone is gonna have to roust the cartels and give those people such "luxuries" as flushing toilets and clean drinking water. Things can't stay the way they are forever.

I think what it will come down to is less having to do with them having anything of value to us specifically, and more with Us being sick and tired of such embarrassment as what goes on down there taking place in essentially our own backyard. Like taking it upon yourself to mow your neighbor's lawn when they're out of town, throwing out all the beer cans and empty bottles and such; they didn't ask you to do it, and there's no real benefit to you, but it's overgrown and unkempt and it just makes everyone on the street look bad by association, so you just do what needs to be done since they can't be bothered to care.

I mean think about it; you've got L.A., which despite being a cesspool of another kind is still more or less the shining beacon for 21st-century living. And then just a few hours south, you've got a country full of people where tons of them don't even have stable electricity or running water. That's a goddamn joke, an embarrassment, and it shouldn't be that way.

And it's very easily fixable. Somebody just has to say "Enough is Enough" and actually commit to fixing it. BUT... we're in bed with the drug barons, so we continue to look the other way because Status Quo makes the most people rich. If we actually wanted it fixed, it'd be fixed.

One day. Not tomorrow, but eventually.

[The Deadman]

Of course the US govt is in bed with some of the drug cartels in Mexico, why do you think some politicians want to decriminalize all the major drugs in this country?

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

Of course the US govt is in bed with some of the drug cartels in Mexico, why do you think some politicians want to decriminalize all the major drugs in this country?

-ouch-

What politicians want to do that?

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by IMJ

-ouch-

What politicians want to do that?

DemocRATs, of course.
They have already legalized Marijuana.

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by IMJ

-ouch-

What politicians want to do that?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/2...icy-reform-act

https://www.thegazette.com/staff-col...is-aging-well/

Theyve been at this sh*t for years.