Comment by hypeatei
3 days ago
> This is what I voted for
You voted for brown people on flimsy boats to be blown up in extrajudicial killings and for regime change? I thought MAGAs were all about love and peace unlike the war monger, Barrack Obama.
3 days ago
> This is what I voted for
You voted for brown people on flimsy boats to be blown up in extrajudicial killings and for regime change? I thought MAGAs were all about love and peace unlike the war monger, Barrack Obama.
> Brown people
hold up, I'm a "brown person."
Those people were trafficking drugs (as evidenced by the pallets of cocaine that fell out of their absurdly overpowered "fishing boat.")
I don't really care about extrajudicial killings of drug traffickers, as someone that has been impacted by them.
Out of all the many years of fighting a war on drugs, what difference is this going to make? Some lackeys (forced potentially) get blown up, the barons find some more, or use different methods, and 40 years later we're still fighting the war on drugs.
People love drugs. They really want to get hold of them. Someone is going to keep supplying drugs, no matter how many lackeys you blow up.
It’s ~1,000 miles from the US to Venezuela. Have you ever been on a fishing boat? Especially an “overpowered” one? Guess how much fuel they burn? It’s very unlikely a boat has enough fuel to make it to the US, and if it did it would need fuel to get back. Where are they getting the fuel for these drug runs?
You can read about the logistics from countless sources.
For most boats, it's not a straight shot to the US, they often refuel from boats at sea or utilize refueling points in Central America; or perform a handoff in Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic.
They don't "need the fuel to get back," the boats are scuttled on arrival. The value of the boats and fuel is a rounding error compared to the value of the drugs.
5000 years of civilisation and a sizeable chunk of the population of first-world countries still doesn't understand why law and courts are better than "just kill people who are le bad".
Let's not even talk about the killing of shipwrecked people who are hors de combat according to the Geneva Convention. Even the Nazis during unrestricted submarine warfare had the decency of not murdering shipwrecked crews and passengers. We are truly in a wretched time when nothing matters anymore.
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1) there's no evidence that they were trafficking drugs, and especially fentanyl (which the orange is on a crusade about)
2) if that's true, how do you feel about him pardoning one of the biggest drug traffickers ever[0]?
0: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/nyregion/honduras-hernand...
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Ah yes, inexplicably alluding to race makes every argument stronger. May as well throw in some inaninity about climate change while you're at it.
I only did because that's the phrasing everyone uses for describing our operations in the middle east. Those are bad, but doing the same in South America is good because evil drug traffickers?