What’s an “aggressive demure”? Seems contradictory.
mike otter
1 month ago
¿Eso si que es? good piece if you’re “othering” La Raza but equally a good laugh if it’s con fé (with faith or “in good faith”) Its a bit like Covid/SARS Cov19 really, 60% c**k up and 40% conspiracy. The 40% being opportunists, politicians, narcos, and, of course, los perioquistas (conquistadores with laptops or pens – journalists who drink the blood of the drug war innocents and lionize the dealers and their yankee cop/govt bros.) The focus on individual players/soldiers/victims kind of misses the point. No one can deny that getting f**ked up with coke & meth with heroin as desert is an awesome high BUT we’ve got to count the cost to users & families . Plus the half-wit crooks sucked into the game? Are the highs enough to justify the harms? – only for the user/addicts and their politician/cop overlords. The 60% the rest of us, continue to lose out as these dickheads play us for $s. Until the majority asserts itself and medicalises the druggies ( treatment orders, break the familia – barrio cycle) and their narco-politico-journo masters (life w/o parole or “shot resisting arrest”) then we are stuck with these pajeros – a kind of 21st C clergy.
That 40% is a big bucks sub niche that thrives off fear and spectacle
UnHerd Reader
1 month ago
“ In early 2005, an associate of El Chapo kidnapped Pedro and held him for over two weeks, almost starving him to death.”
I have personally done 20 day water only fasts, without any risk to health. If he was almost starved after 15 days, he must have been anorexic before he started.
Excellent essay. Very enjoyable read.
What’s an “aggressive demure”? Seems contradictory.
¿Eso si que es? good piece if you’re “othering” La Raza but equally a good laugh if it’s con fé (with faith or “in good faith”) Its a bit like Covid/SARS Cov19 really, 60% c**k up and 40% conspiracy. The 40% being opportunists, politicians, narcos, and, of course, los perioquistas (conquistadores with laptops or pens – journalists who drink the blood of the drug war innocents and lionize the dealers and their yankee cop/govt bros.) The focus on individual players/soldiers/victims kind of misses the point. No one can deny that getting f**ked up with coke & meth with heroin as desert is an awesome high BUT we’ve got to count the cost to users & families . Plus the half-wit crooks sucked into the game? Are the highs enough to justify the harms? – only for the user/addicts and their politician/cop overlords. The 60% the rest of us, continue to lose out as these dickheads play us for $s. Until the majority asserts itself and medicalises the druggies ( treatment orders, break the familia – barrio cycle) and their narco-politico-journo masters (life w/o parole or “shot resisting arrest”) then we are stuck with these pajeros – a kind of 21st C clergy.
That 40% is a big bucks sub niche that thrives off fear and spectacle
“ In early 2005, an associate of El Chapo kidnapped Pedro and held him for over two weeks, almost starving him to death.”
I have personally done 20 day water only fasts, without any risk to health. If he was almost starved after 15 days, he must have been anorexic before he started.