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She got what she voted for. In fact, she got what she weaponized her platform to convince everyone to vote for.
I know, I know, she's a Party member in good standing, and these policies were only supposed to sacrifice the proles in the name of progress. She was voting for this to happen to you, not her sweet prince and future Party apparatchik.
This won't change anything. At most it will be taken as a test of faith. That she sacrificed her son for The Party, and progress. At worst it will be directly blamed on red tribe... somehow. Some MAGA extremist got to him. Not unlike how Paul Pelosi's attacker, a drug addled insane criminal in a city where drug addled insane criminals are given completely free reign to do as they please, was smeared as somehow being a product of MAGA America and not SF's abysmal policing and keeping of public order.
What is the program of Republicans to ensure higher quality cocaine that isn’t laced with fentanyl for rich young Americans?
Strict drug laws and closing the border. The latter won’t do anything about this issue but the former can at least plausibly reduce the tendency of rich young people to do drugs.
My inclination is that if anything, strict drug laws make events like this more likely, because even very rich people end up getting drugs from underground sources. who knows where this batch of fentanyl originated? Where if drugs were legal, this kid would probably have gotten top-brand shit.
In Japan, drugs are illegal and almost nobody does drugs. The secret, oddly enough, is getting rid of the underground sources because they’re illegal.
The whole ‘if it’s illegal people will do it without supervision’ business is half people who think it’s fine and probably do it themselves, and half people whose moral codes proscribe actual enforcement of the laws
Unless the secret is, you know, being Japan.
The numbers I’m seeing here are all over the place, but the largest seizures were like 2,000 kg/yr. Meanwhile the US border seizes 82,000 kg/yr of meth alone. This can’t just be lack of enforcement.
Because in Japan nobody is stupid enough to try it, and if they do they don’t have the layers of procedural and legal protection they would in America. Japan has something like a 90% conviction rate.
Obviously there are other factors, most notably land borders, but I think the vast majority of the discrepancy comes from severity of enforcement.
With all these other factors, why do you think severity of enforcement makes the difference?
People mostly take criminal actions with the expectation that they will benefit. I am suggesting that people try to smuggle much more drugs into America than Japan because they think they will be able to sell them.
If dealers keep getting arrested trying to sell this merchandise, and customers are too scared to buy it, nobody will bother shipping.
In short, I propose the causality is the reverse of what you suggest.
(I.e. the problem is not that heavy enforcement works in Japan but wouldn’t in US, it’s that American attitudes cripple enforcement.)
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