HUGE FLIP: Democrat John Ewing Jr. just turned Omaha blue—defeating the longest-serving GOP mayor in the country and becoming the city’s first Black mayor in history.
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Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane.
Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet
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The US should abolish all "recreational" drug laws and trash the DEA and its state and local equivalents. That would decrease crime globally as profits would greatly drop. And decrease greatly bloated govt power. Bukele's dangerous utilitarianism would not be needed.
Drug crime wasn't even a big part of crime in El Salvador. It was mostly straightforward extortion rackets.
Libertarians greatly overestimate the role of drugs in crime. The tattooed men in those photos WANT to engage in a violent tournament for dominance. If drugs were not available to fight over they would turn to something else, including in the end just violently shaking people down.
Evidence for Salvador drug crime/crime? You evade presenting a standard for acceptable drug crime/crime. Most US federal prisoners are drug criminals. Many parts of many US cities are dangerous because addicts steal for black market prices. Courts are slow because of many drug trials. Security is expensive. Corruption of the justice system. Contempt for law. Enourages more statism.
Based on my conversations with Salvadoreans (I was there in March 2022 actually), forumposter123 is right. It was mostly extortion rackets.
It was shocking to see how much it distorted markets, to the point where large areas of San Salvador didn't have any small shops (the usual Latin American bodeguitas/boliches/almacenes).
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