A quadruple murder in Oklahoma shows how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate the booming illicit trade, fortifying its rise as a global powerhouse with alleged ties to China’s authoritarian regime.
    • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1213·
      3 years ago

      too bad both presidential candidates are old and conservative

      and Biden is Religious with a prosecutor for a vice president to boot who has backtracked on most of his campaign promises including his ones on cannabis which he did on day one of his presidency

      legalization is decades away and with states and Native Americans legalizing the trouble for citizens will only get worse

      there are already border patrol style policing going on at the borders of legal states, cities that are half recreational and or medical and half illegal, and thousands left imprisoned

      that is yet another failed promise wrangling in the police even going as far as turning a blind eye to cop city

      already a shit show and just going to get worse

            • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              3 years ago

              Cop City

              Journalist and protesters in the US killed or imprisoned by cops

              Corporations using prison labor

              More things are qualifying as jailable offenses such as people’s social status or medical conditions/events/etcetera or jobs

              Cops are increasingly more prone to protect corporate interests over the public’s (who wrote that story The Last Capitalist the one were one man owned the earth including oxygen and sold it with cops protecting him?)

              a president who back tracked on every campaign promise to address policing issues

              the next election is against two people want to continue doing all the above and more

              barely leave just for the grocery store anymore

              it is getting worse your next trip outside could involve a black bag over our heads

              fucking dystopian horror show like out there

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
      163·
      3 years ago

      ProPublica is an independent nonprofit news organization with a long track record of high quality investigative journalism…so, they might be marginally more credible than random Lemmy users.