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[SalmonGod]

My roommate stupidly watched a cartel execution video he found on Facebook and is now freaking out. He still doesn't believe me about the extent of cartel power in Mexico.

My parents have a friend in Brazil who is looking for ways to flee the country, because it's apparently even worse there.  One of his friends was recently killed by gang activity.  They executed him in the street for not handing his wallet over fast enough.

[Scoops Novel]

That's news to me. I knew they had problems, but worse then Mexico? Does news about it simply get out less?

[Frumple]

Pretty much, yeah. I think coverage is a bit better in Europe and some other areas, but in the states at least there's basically a media blackout in relation to most news coming from central/south america. Stuff generally just doesn't get covered unless it's something like a natural disaster, from what I've seen. Maybe a bit in relation to drug trafficking, but even that tends to be downplayed or muted (at least in relation to their "side of the fence", so to speak.).

I'd call it weird, but considering how badly USA based corps are fucking with things down there and how much pressure they exert to keep things on the down low, it's not actually very surprising. There'd probably be a fairly large increase in pressure on them if we were actually getting more thorough media coverage of the area.

[Scoops Novel]

Pressure in what respect?

[Descan]

On the US government to keep things quiet, and on the bigger media in general.

Unless you meant how. Then the answer is as always, money, dear boy.

[Frumple]

Political, legislative, economic... bad press means less profits, generally, and some of the press that could be coming from down there is really damn bad. At least if you're talking about what pressure would be exerted on the companies if awareness increased. We've actually had a couple cases, iirc, where states-based companies were basically hung by the court because of some of the shit they've pulled south of the border, but from what I recall they only really got pushed down by the law after it got a bit of news coverage. Public awareness makes it harder to get away with stuff, so public awareness has a hefty chunk of mitigation thrown toward it. Wheels are easier to grease when constituents aren't looking

[SalmonGod]

Yeah... What Frumple said.  Even if Brazil isn't worse than Mexico, I think Columbia definitely is.  I forget where I encountered it, but I saw a post from someone in Columbia a couple years ago about how political death squads (with U.S. influence both past and present playing a large part) are still a daily reality there along with drug-gang violence.

[Descan]

How's Venezuela rank up, compared regionally and globally?

Income disparity, GDP, average happiness (if that's been measured there yet, it's a recent metric), health care?

Etc.

[AlmightyOne]

I'd prefer to imagine someone spiked my drink with meth that had no negative effects, but in all likelihood, no.

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

[SalmonGod]

I'd prefer to imagine someone spiked my drink with meth that had no negative effects, but in all likelihood, no.

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

Yeah. Basically, it means I'm immune to meth's problems and get the stimulant effects from it.

You win Cataclysm, IRL!

[Descan]

INTRAVENOUS!

INJECT IT INTO YOUR EYEBALLS

RRRR

[kingfisher1112]

I decided to search "Dykeface" in Youtube. I found these two videos.

I'm laughing so hard right now.

[MonkeyHead]

I still dont get why people thought that Dykeface was funny.

[kingfisher1112]

I still dont get why people thought that Dykeface was funny.

I still don't get why people thought Dykeface wasn't funny.

[Dutchling]

I still dont get why people thought that Dykeface was funny.

Same here :/.