As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.

The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.

May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”

      • Throwaway
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        -871 year ago

        It is CIAs operation. Cartels own Mexico, CIA owns the Cartels.

        Close the border, stop the flow, and criple the CIA.

        • @Dadifer
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          491 year ago

          Call me crazy, but I think there might be an easier way to control the CIA.

          • @[email protected]
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            181 year ago

            Or even reducing the profitability of smuggling drugs by legalizing some of the most popular ones or something. But I guess then they would also lose the Jim Crow 2.0 and would need to come up with something else.

            • diprount_tomato
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              -131 year ago

              And you think the cartels will just disappear just because you’ve given them concessions?

              • @meeeeetch
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                161 year ago

                If legal alternatives undercut their main income stream, yes, they’ll disappear. Or rather, they’ll fall apart as their resources become scarce and the ‘middle managers’ being cut out of the remaining money start fighting the higher ups and each other.

                Ending alcohol prohibition didn’t strengthen the bootleggers. It put them out of business as Budweiser ate their lunch.

                • diprount_tomato
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                  -111 year ago

                  What makes you think they won’t just sell their product legally?

                  • @meeeeetch
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                    111 year ago

                    They’ll almost certainly try to (and some people who are currently involved may see some success). But they won’t have their de facto monopoly anymore. And these organizations are rife with internal corruption (shocking, I know); they aren’t being run efficiently.

                    Without their monopoly profits, they aren’t going to be able to afford the hit squads, the bribed law enforcement, or the silence of the people who know where the bodies are buried (often literally).

                    Crime won’t magically fall to zero overnight, but these organizations will not be having a good time.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    51 year ago

                    The fact that they (mostly) aren’t doing it with the drugs that are legal, should tell you why. And you already have precedent to know what happens when drugs get legalized - the Mafia is not selling bootlegged alcohol anymore.

          • primalanimist
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            91 year ago

            I want to help control the activities of the CIA. Hmm, I know, let’s build a wall, that will certainly stop the CIA. If this was just about the CIA, we wouldn’t be talking about building a wall because of just how stupid that sounds. The CIA can be stopped with a wall? They have the power to smuggle drugs into Mexico, to be sold in the US. You think they are going to let a wall stop them? LOL No, this has never been about stopping the CIA and more about political ideologies and wasting more taxpayer money on NOT the taxpayers.

            • Flying Squid
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              91 year ago

              I’m pretty sure asylum seekers can even defeat a wall unless ladder technology hasn’t reached their country yet.

        • @WhatAmLemmy
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          231 year ago

          You think a wall will stop the CIA or cartels? You naive sweet summer child :P

          • cloaker
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            -271 year ago

            borders closed, supply shortens, prices rise and the only people who lose are addicts and the people who lose out due to addicts being left with no support.

              • cloaker
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                11 year ago

                What is your point. All those who will be affected by a loss in supply will capitalise by increasing their profits. They literally never lose.

        • @Kbobabob
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          211 year ago

          Close the border, stop the flow

          Bahahahahha. That’s a good one.

        • Flying Squid
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          111 year ago

          Good thing there isn’t a second, huge, undefended border on the other side of the United States that smugglers could easily use if they wanted to.

        • @TheJims
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          11 year ago

          What a fucking joke.

    • @TheJims
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      1 year ago

      Walls can’t even keep drugs out of prisons.

    • @[email protected]
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      281 year ago

      World’s largest drug consumer has harsh words for neighbour who can’t stop drug dealers from walking across neighbour’s property to sell him drugs.

    • @theluckyone
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      81 year ago

      Don’t want drugs run?

      Quit buying them, then.

    • gregorum
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      71 year ago

      Ever heard of boats or planes or ladders, or tunnels? Guess not…

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      You mean those drug businesses that were started by the CIA, financed by american customers and defended with guns coming in from america?

    • diprount_tomato
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      -21 year ago

      Mexico doesn’t, the cartels (that are taking over the country) do