The conversation about "the cartels" has always been dumb, but this just takes it all a step further, painting the image that all crime is committed by members of a single organization that you can actually go to war against.

https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1706872036235378782

  • TheGamingLuddite [none/use name]
    hexbear
    19
    9 months ago

    I predict this is going to be their next abortion issue. They'll promise an invasion of Mexico to get their base riled up but will do nothing. The blowback from invading a sovereign country in the midst of terminal, unmanaged socioeconomic decline could be fatal.

    However the next generation of right wingers will believe it at face value and actually try to execute it, just like abortion.

  • Beaver [he/him]
    hexbear
    16
    9 months ago

    More likely than an invasion is that they'll just start doing drone strikes in northern Mexico. Those weddings and school buses were full of cartel thugs.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
    hexbear
    13
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    https://hexbear.net/post/255991

    "The U.S must defeat Mexico's drug cartels - The narco-terrorists are more like ISIS than the American Mafia."

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
      hexbear
      17
      9 months ago

      Organized crime is wholesome HBO fun when it’s white people doing it!

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
      hexbear
      13
      9 months ago

      Coincidentally, both ISIS and the cartels have a close working relationship with US intelligence agencies expert-shapiro