The notion that we can simply go test new ideas in a new country seems to be largely promoted by neoliberals, because it implies that liberalism is popular.
I sincerely wish we could have more tests like the Free State Project - now they just want to impose it on everyone.
Saying "leave if you don't like your country's imperialism" is no different from saying "anyone who are not as racist as me should go kill themselves".
No you don't get it, yanks are from the shining light of the world! The US is a perfect place that every other country looks up to, and even their problems are kind of cool!!!!
Well tbf... México has been shitting on itself without help and we just put what most likely will be the final nail in the coffin with the last (and probably the LAST) elections, so not everything is USA's fault.
A huge chunk of cartel funding comes from American demand for drugs. They could be a much more stable country if there weren't billions of dollars coming in to mega Corp level gangs that can corrupt and control large parts of the country.
if its similar to marijuana, prices of drugs drop heavily when legalized. as long as something stays forbidden, the cost is extremely high, especially drugs that are popular with wealthy people.
Yes! The war on drugs and prohibition has barely done any good and has been used to justify a police state to lock up black and brown people, made drugs less safe due to lack of regulation and traffickers making increasingly concentrated drugs to hide easier (fentanyl), destabilizes our neighbors and funnels money to criminal organizations that murder people daily to ensure their market. All of this so maybe a few less people will do drugs, even though drug use has gone up since the war on drugs started and the fact that a drug being illegal usually isn't , and shouldn't be, the main reason people don't do drugs.
Man... could you share some copium? Mine ran out a long time ago.
México wouldn't be more stable even if the drug cartels weren't here, do you know why?
Because we are fucking assholes; corruption, nepotism and populism would still run rampant and we (mexicans in general) would still enable them. The evidence were the last elections, the next elected president has blood in her hands among many other crimes but people didn't care as long as they get some pesos, their defendants blatantly said that they vote for her to make everyone else's life worse and to move the country to a fake communism where we no longer can vote.
So yeah... the USA might have done their part LONG AGO, but the current state of affairs has been all us, shitting on each other because fuck us.
do you know why?
Because we are fucking assholes; corruption, nepotism and populism would still run rampant and we (mexicans in general) would still enable them
I understand you're probably Mexican, but you're just being racist towards Mexican people. There's nothing inherent about Mexican people that makes them corruptible, tolerant to corruption, or assholes, or nepotists. The reality is Mexico is part of the global south, and so the global north basically forces it to adopt free trade agreements which allow companies from the global north to open factories and businesses there with misery wages and bad working conditions, and to export these goods and services to the global north at much reduced prices. This perpetuates a cycle in which the labor of the global north is consistently priced much higher than that of the global south, and there's a wealth extraction called "unequal exchange".
In the meanwhile, every effort is made so that there's no labor organization in the exploited country, and that elected leaders don't apply protectionism or even nationalizations.
So yes, it's fair to blame the US and the rest of the global north for the lack of development of most regions in Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
And I assume you are not mexican and only knows that side of the tale because your best card is calling me racist for something that I never said.
I never said it was inherent to us because we were mexicans, I said we are, we allowed it and we seem to look up to it because that's what we are showing and we've been showing for years. Why is it? I don't know, I'm no expert in psychology, but living since birth here in México has shown me it's a lie that we are mostly good, there are a couple good people but a bigger number would rather sink the ship to make their crewmates life worse than to try and make the ship better for everyone.
The USA played a big role at the beginning (I've never denied it), but so many years later we have nobody else to blame than us. Not even the politicians, we civilians enable them (some even protect them for free) and stopped protesting... And I mean actual protests, not just a small mobilisation that lasts a couple hours and then it's over.
So many people don't seem to realize this, even people living here. The amount of people I work with who are shocked that my wife wasn't granted immediate citizenship and is still going through the process 7 years and two children later is quite high. I like to bring it up when they talk about how easy immigration is in Canada and how we're being overrun by immigrants.
I mean, why should a rich country accept people from other rich country if they don't bring any necessary qualifications to the table? You're not a refugee, the fact that the situation is shit in the USA is on the people that live there, it's not our responsibility to save you guys.
You're the one saying that all extra hands are beneficial to the economy, yet we intentionally refuse people who apply for immigration, why? By your logic we should be welcoming everyone to boost our economy, right?
In the West there are generally two big queues for immigration:
People who desperately need help, so refugees.
People who bring things we really need, typically skills (though many countries will also to it for mere wealth)
Americans don't (yet) qualify for the first queue and as for the second one it really depends on your skillset and wealth (if I remember it correctly Canada does have a VISA for people who bring enough money). Mind you, the skillset required to qualify for queue #2 is often not what one would expect - I vaguelly remembers something like "plumbers" and "pastry chefs". It's well worth it to check what are in-demand skills of the country you want to immigrate to if you need a VISA.
And unfortunately it feeds into the right wingers arguments here...
"SEE! They get it! Not even those socialist asshole countries allow just anyone to move in so why can't we freely murder Mexicans that jump the border!?"
Oh, you try moving from your ravaged country to our haven of stability? No, you don't. Or only if you let yourself be exploited as an underpaid protoslave.
Your comment made me think: Its funny that politicians who promise more strict borders and curtail immigration from Asia also support bombing the heck out of the Middle East.
Like, you gotta stop at some point and think.. "maybe we should stop being assholes and not plunder natural resources and call people extremist for opposing us"
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