Sending out death squads confirms that the Philippines is a third world shithole.
Absolutely.
The only true way to hurt drug cartels is to declare drugs legal.
That way you remove their profit motive and those criminals lose interest and look for something else they can exploit.
That's also the only way how to help the actual victims of all this who are the addicts.
Fuck, I wouldn't want to be an addict in the phillipines right now,
they are double and triple fucked.
-sf-
Duterte won't declare drugs legal.
His machismo won't allow him to admit being wrong. He's economically illiterate and doesn't understand why Prohibition is counterproductive.
Besides, Prohibition serves Duterte's demagogic political purposes. His supporters love his simplistic, violent solutions to complex problems.
The populist moral preening allows him to demonize drug users and lets him play Good Guy Superman Savior to the Bad Guy Supervillian "drug addict" Satan spawn.
Never mind that most Pinoys involved in drugs happen to be the least powerful, most wretched and defenseless citizens of .ph.
I can't wait until the Holy Father steps in and judges Duterte for how he's treating the poorest and most hopeless of his country.
Pope Francis is going to walk right up to Duterte, cut his balls off, and then drag his corpse behind the Popemobile from Manila to Laoag.
