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Patrick going to Mexico City. Advice appreciated.


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2023 Feb 4, 4:55pm   11,124 views  86 comments

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Patrick says


I'm actually studying Spanish intensely for a few weeks, because I'm going to go check out Mexico City with the wife.

We just went there last summer. Don't miss Teotihuacan or the Anthropology museum.

The subways are safe, at least during normal hours on the tourist lines. Food is delicious. Even the locals strictly drink bottled water. Don't even brush your teeth with the tap water.

I can order food in Spanish but that's about it. My fluent wife was a big help but there are many People that are happy to practice their English to help you with directions.

Have fun, we did.



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80   WookieMan   2023 Mar 10, 7:25am  

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WTF? Drug cartel says it respects human life?

Not about human life. Covering tracks because it was Americans they killed. They know if they piss off enough people the US will make sure the hammer comes down.

It's no different than in Chicago when a banger kills a random white person, it's a big fucking deal and will screw with their "business." That's generally why I'm not afraid in the ghetto. They have more to lose and you're not a threat generally unless a cop. There's no reason to kill random Americans in Mexico by the cartel unless they're involved in the drug trade.

This "seems" like a fuck up on the cartels part, them owning it in hopes US policy doesn't change and we start funding anti cartel/drug trade shit more than we do now.
81   clambo   2023 Mar 10, 7:38am  

Columbus was interesting but eventually he flipped out and was brought back to Spain in chains by a knight sent to investigate stories of his crimes.

Re: Mexican cartels
They ruin the Mexican economy and society.
Exports of dope to the USA isn't their only activity; they find easy money by kidnapping and extortion.
The name for "protection" money is "piso".
Many businesses close because they don't want to work to support the gangsters or can't afford it.
I met a Mexican in Texas who left his business behind for this reason; his uncle had a business which he also left.
Mexico has thousands of mom and pop businesses which can't grow or which close.
Most Mexicans would rather have a job in Mexico than leave it to be an illegal alien in the USA.
83   clambo   2023 Mar 10, 9:32am  

The cartels which are only involved in drugs tend to have more respect for non gangsters.
One reason for turf wars is some groups are pissed at the assholes who kidnap and fuck up everything.
A successful smuggling group doesn't like that losers who are disorganized just kidnap and extort locals; sometimes this turns into a battle.
The boundaries are unclear because all of the guys know extortion is easy money.
There's a huge fake kidnapping scam over the phone and it's actually profitable too.
Scared mothers get a random call about her son or daughter seeking a ransom; it's bullshit but works sometimes.
Mexico is strange to experience; individuals are polite in general, but on the other hand, you're not totally safe either.
84   Onvacation   2023 Mar 10, 7:09pm  

Fentanyl
85   Patrick   2023 Mar 11, 8:13pm  

Patrick says

Last night I found out that Indians in the US (the Mississipian culture) built mounds that look a lot like pyramids, though not with stone, as far north as Illinois and Wisconsin. They had human sacrifice and art that looks very Mexican to me


OK, something even weirder:

https://notthebee.com/article/get-in-here-and-learn-about-the-moon-eyed-people-the-cherokee-encountered-when-they-first-moved-into-appalachia-and-the-insane-connection-to-england


This tribe, the Allegewi, supposedly were Delaware and Iroquois tribes, causing the survivors to flee deep into Appalachia where the Cherokee later encountered them.

Here's where the European legend comes in.

There are also claims (including on a Fort Mountain State Park Plaque and, supposedly, by the 18th C. Cherokee chief Oconostota) that the Moon Eyed people are descendants of the Welsh prince Madoc--who, according to Welsh legend, sailed to America in 1170.

Prince Madoc is a fascinating figure out of legend. He supposedly sailed to the Americas three hundred years before Columbus, which isn't an impossible thing to imagine, considering the Viking incursions centuries earlier. There is likely a long chain of various migration events across the Atlantic and Pacific over human history that we know little to nothing about (one of many reasons that the woke worldview and its idea of indigenous land ownership is so childlike).
86   fdhfoiehfeoi   2023 Mar 12, 9:48am  

Not saying it's impossible, but that's pretty similar to what Jehovah's witnesses have in their bible.

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