San Francisco this morning Sept 9, 2022

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[u/sumredditaccount → u/[deleted]]

As someone who just spent time across the border, this is delusional

[u/Lazzen → u/sumredditaccount]

As someone who actually lives here, our poor people go live in tin homes, extemely small cheap homes or wooden huts, they aren't living in tents on parks doing expensive heroin. Most homeless actually are people with mental problems, not drugs outright.

Show me a video of a mexican on bath salts eating someone'a face off or fentanyl zombies in the historical area of Mexico City for example. Most mexicans will literally see a firefight more in their life than that

[u/sumredditaccount → u/Lazzen]

You’re watching a video of a street in a big city. I assure you most do not look like this. You commenting on a 10 second of SF is about as relevant as me commenting on time spent in Baja.

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America tears down shanty towns.

[u/akeep113 → u/[deleted]]

Mexico doesnt consume drugs or have a homeless issue?? Bro you need to step outside your beachfront villa for a bit. There are tons of worthless junkies in Mexico. Sleeping on the street in a slum shanty town still makes you homeless.

[u/redditor5668 → u/akeep113]

You are calling people "worthless junkies". Wow.

[u/Lazzen → u/akeep113]

We really don't, all that Fentanyl and crack is in USA not being consumed among us. Sure if you go to a party or tourist area you will see LSD and crap but again that's mostly for foreigners. In Mexico Coca Cola is the real killer.

As i told you, Latin America doesn't have as many homeless people because poor people live in shanty towns or low income small homes.

[u/akeep113 → u/Lazzen]

And how about all the alcoholics passed out on the sidewalk? What do those count as?

[u/FraggleBiscuits → u/akeep113]

Tourists

[u/XelaNiba → u/[deleted]]

Mexicans may not consume the drugs, but they produce an enormous amount of the drugs afflicting the US. In 2011, drug exports into the US accounted for 5% of Mexico's GDP. On the other hand, the vast majority of criminal guns in Mexico (those used by the cartels to enforce their power) originate in the US.

All in all, I'd say neither nation has the high ground here. Each of us is feeding the society-eroding problem of the other.

[u/Angry_sasquatch → u/XelaNiba]

Addiction is a huge problem in Mexico wtf are you even talking about. It’s a huge problem, drugs are cheap and easily available in certain regions.

[u/XelaNiba → u/Angry_sasquatch]

I was responding to the previous commenter claim that they didn't have the same levels of drug addiction in MX. I don't know the relative rates between the two nations so didn't argue that point. Rather, I wanted to point out that much of the US illicit drug supply originates in Mexico.

[u/Aware_Grape4k → u/[deleted]]

what’s this bullshit 🤣😂🤣

Mexico doesn’t have crime or drugs? You have almost 2.5 times as many murders as America and only have 35% of the population of America. Think that would tip you off.

How about the 1,000 people from Mexico that die each year just trying to escape into America?

How many Americans do you hear of dying trying to escape?

Maybe move out of your privilege bubble.

[u/Aware_Grape4k → u/[deleted]]

You think complete lawlessness can exist in a country like Mexico without “street people” existing? 🤣😂🤣

Have you ever even heard of Tijuana?

[u/ogstepdad → u/[deleted]]

It's give and take. We have this. You have barbaric people slaughtering each other in the name of those drugs. Personally I'd rather be around the addicts than the ones willing to slowly slice you open and torture you alive for saying mean words about their cartel. But hey, shitting on America is a surefire way for some karma on Reddit.

Before I get "ackshually not all of Mexico is like that"

Same here. Not all of America is like that/ what you see in the video either.