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   Erik Jonker (erikjonker@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 01:32:40 JST Erik Jonker

   I think this is what happening between the USA and Mexico. Trump being played, he is not so strong on the facts 😀
   #Trump #Mexico #USA #tariffs

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 01:57:39 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @mina @allen099 @ErikJonker
     
     i mean, if the US was serious about combating drug abuse, they would have given life imprisoment to the sacklers (purdue pharma CEOs)
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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 01:57:41 JST Mina

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     @allen099

     On another note: if you're not a convicted criminal, leaving a country isn't illegal. (of course it is in dictatorships, but Mexico isn't one)

     Mexico has no obligation under international law of stopping people from crossing the US border.

     @ErikJonker

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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 01:57:42 JST Mina

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     @allen099

     Have you ever looked at the length of the border?

     10K personnel is not very much. It means at most 2K constantly on watch on any given time.

     And let's put things straight: Mexico's (and large part of LatAm's) biggest problem is US drug money, because they fail to have a sensible drug policy.

     @ErikJonker

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     Allen (allen099@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 01:57:43 JST Allen

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     @ErikJonker They don't typically post when soldiers are retracted. If there have been 10k already who aren't working with cartels, the number of illegals crossing wouldn't be anywhere what we were seeing the last number of years.

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:09:31 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @mina @allen099 @ErikJonker
     
     i mean, sure, the problem is the sackler family unleashed an opioid epidemic in a "legal" way and their court system just let them walk
     
     borders are permeable by their nature, unless you set up a hugely expensive north korea style security, they will be breached
     
     on the other hand, convicting a ceo who caused an epidemic is orders of magnitude easier and they just did not do it
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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 02:09:33 JST Mina

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     @NeonPurpleStar

     Noone is serious on that topic.

     The "war on drugs" has been an ideology-poised scam since its beginning under Nixon.

     @allen099 @ErikJonker