however, if you wanted to bomb somewhere and make it count, the place to bomb is afghanistan.

the reality is that the drugs causing problems at the bottom of american (and canadian) society don't need to be imported from anywhere, because they're made out of chemicals in a lab.

the premise of "drug trafficking" is a 20th century concept. it's not how drugs are manufactured or distributed anymore, and there is no better idea in terms of going after drug traffickers. the drug trafficking that still exists would be mostly for cocaine, and to a lesser extent for marijuana. 

you'd be an utter moron to try to traffic fentanyl or meth over a border when you can just make it in a lab instead.

drug wars are not inherently bad. i don't agree with so-called leftists who argue that; real socialists hate drugs. it's the libertarian right free market capitalists (rand paul) that have these ideological problems with fighting drug traffickers, not socialists or communists. drug dealers would face expulsion or execution in any sort of real socialist society. in china or even in cuba, they'll sentence you to death for selling certain drugs, and i agree with that, in principle, while not supporting capital punishment. they ought to be sentenced to death, they ought to be shot in the face from the side while forced to look at themselves in the mirror, but i wouldn't support actually killing them, i'd just support locking them in a cell for perpetuity, until their bones start decomposing into calcium. dealing drugs is amongst the worse crimes against humanity possible.

i say let the neighbours string the local drug dealers up on the nearest fucking tree; i say stop protecting them, and let them face the wrath of the families they destroyed. the police spend more time protecting drug dealers from vigilante justice than they do arresting them. it's a symptom of a sick, consumer capitalist society, where selling anything at all, no matter how antisocial, is seen as just participating in the system, just trying to get by.

but drug wars, like tariffs, are hard. it's not an easy problem, and donald trump is not somebody i'd have confidence in to figure this out.

while i would actually support bomb drug traffickers and treating them as terrorists in general, that isn't how drugs are manufactured in 2025 (it was in 1985), and venezuela, particularly, only really exports cocaine, which is certainly not what the masses of homeless drug addicts are taking or overdosing on. cocaine is the drug your rich aunt and uncle are addicted to, and the reason you're not getting an inheritance, but it's not causing property crime or overdoses in the downtown cores. homeless people cannot afford cocaine, and can't even afford crack anymore, which is why they do meth, which is more intense and far cheaper.

if you want to have a real war on drugs, i'd actually be in support of it, but bombing alleged cocaine traffickers isn't helpful, and might just drive up the price for the mexican cartels.

meh. let them leave, nationalize the factories and sell them to chinese ev manufacturers.

the dirty carbon burning jeep is a loser of a product. it has no future.

canada should not be spending a dime to prop up dying anachronisms like jeep, in an attempt to turn ack the clocks to an era that mostly sucked to begin with. we need to move forward.

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