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post 1651161123 11-20-2021, 03:52 AM
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Why are cartels so brutal to each other's rivals?

We've all seen and read the stuff that mexican drug cartels get up to and I still dont understand it ... Is the poverty there so bad that people are willing to join cartels in the hopes of making some form of income? but even then, they'd have to realise that joining up a cartel doesnt necessarily mean that you're gonna be making a lot of money as a lot of these guys will just be regular footsoldiers on the front line and probably dont make much (perhaps they make more than trying to earn an honest living). However, on top of that these are guys don't realise that they're entering into a life that is beyond violent and that chances are you're not gonna survive very long - Even worse, rival cartels and even your cartel will absolutely brutalize you in the worst possible ways if you fuk up/get caught by one of them. The best you can hope for is a quick bullet, otherwise you're gonna be subject to all sorts of brutal torture methods.

Apart from that, why even the brutality? it's like these guys get some sort of sick pleasure in inflicting the most fkked up kind of pain on another ... Obviously it's for fear, but doesnt seem like it works because the cartels dont really back down and either more keep popping up or its just an endless cycle of retaliation. How tf does someone go from a regular human bean to cutting off people's limbs, heads, stuffing bodies into acid bins, cutting off penors and still have semblance of humanatty or normal life.

And that's just the cartels ... You have the government on top of that trying to hunt you down if they decide to stop working with you lol.

Must be something in the water in mexico because I dont think any other terror groups or fukked up countries elsewhere in the world go to the lengths that drug cartels do in order to dish out violence.

Not even bringing up the fact that why someone would want to choose to be a cop in mexico.


Any mexican miscers just walk through the streets and witness shootouts like it's a regular thing?
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post 1651161203 11-20-2021, 03:58 AM
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Probably a result of growing up in complete poverty with extremely abusive/neglectful/absent parents. The psychological toll abuse has on children is fking brutal. They probably grew up around violence and that's all they ever knew so it's normal to them to conquer their enemies in the most fked up way possible. Think of medieval times where authorities would inflict torture on peasants and commoners as punishment for petty theft and chit. It was just normal. It's inconceivable for people who grew up in a loving and moral environment.
post 1651161443 11-20-2021, 04:11 AM
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Pretty much from one upping eachother.

Zetas were the ones who really started to change the brutality game in Mexico, founding members were ex Mexican Army Special Operations.
post 1651161673 11-20-2021, 04:23 AM
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post 1651161693 11-20-2021, 04:25 AM
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Originally Posted By Rajc
they wanna brutalitymaxx so others are scared of them and dont fukk with them

works well for the most part, they can mog most politicians, cops and normal civilians.. however at this point its also a mogging amongst different cartels so they all just brutalitymaxx as if its mortal kombat


edit: no it has nothing to do with growing up in poverty you dumb bricks
You're answering why they do it.. yeah, to scare the chit out of rivals and politicians and chit so they can make all the money. But OP seems to be asking how a self aware person can lack so much empathy and can bring themselves to torture the fk out of someone so ruthlessly. There's a psychological profile behind these people and majority of them would have had poverty childhoods. Getting a normal every day joe from the western world to do that chit because "brutalitymaxxing" will help them mog their rivals, theyd never physically be able to do it.
post 1651161703 11-20-2021, 04:25 AM
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Originally Posted By Rajc
they wanna brutalitymaxx so others are scared of them and dont fukk with them

works well for the most part, they can mog most politicians, cops and normal civilians.. however at this point its also a mogging amongst different cartels so they all just brutalitymaxx as if its mortal kombat


edit: no it has nothing to do with growing up in poverty you dumb bricks
As if a virgin like you knew anything about it.



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Originally Posted By umop3pisdn
You're answering why they do it.. yeah, to scare the chit out of rivals and politicians and chit so they can make all the money. But OP seems to be asking how a self aware person can lack so much empathy and can bring themselves to torture the fk out of someone so ruthlessly. There's a psychological profile behind these people and majority of them would have had poverty childhoods. Getting a normal every day joe from the western world to do that chit because "brutalitymaxxing" will help them mog their rivals, theyd never physically be able to do it.


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post 1651162433 11-20-2021, 05:13 AM
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There's a deep and sinister evil to it. The Mafia may be psychopaths but as I understand it generally they'll just kill as efficiently as possible whereas these cartels............

Can't even listen to FunkyTown anymore without getting shivers.
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Just skimmed but if you don’t understand why fear is one of the most powerful weapons in war then I just don’t know what to tell you.

Chances are once you live in that phucked up world for long enough, you become so desensitized to the violence that yeah, you probably do get something similar to pleasure from it.

You see the same thing happen to battlefield soldiers all the time.
post 1651164383 11-20-2021, 06:38 AM
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Originally Posted By MrDevereaux
There's a deep and sinister evil to it. The Mafia may be psychopaths but as I understand it generally they'll just kill as efficiently as possible whereas these cartels............

Can't even listen to FunkyTown anymore without getting shivers.
Is a type of religion srs


They worship the dead or some chit, there are interviews of cartel bruhs talking about it
post 1651165333 11-20-2021, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted By umop3pisdn
You're answering why they do it.. yeah, to scare the chit out of rivals and politicians and chit so they can make all the money. But OP seems to be asking how a self aware person can lack so much empathy and can bring themselves to torture the fk out of someone so ruthlessly. There's a psychological profile behind these people and majority of them would have had poverty childhoods. Getting a normal every day joe from the western world to do that chit because "brutalitymaxxing" will help them mog their rivals, theyd never physically be able to do it.
Bit of both actually .... Like you said, i cannot brain why they'd be ok with going into that life and actually getting deep into it knowing what they know.


Originally Posted By MrDevereaux
There's a deep and sinister evil to it. The Mafia may be psychopaths but as I understand it generally they'll just kill as efficiently as possible whereas these cartels............

Can't even listen to FunkyTown anymore without getting shivers.
aware, but didnt listen to the audio of that video and skimmed through it before noping out.
Originally Posted By knightofday
Is a type of religion srs


They worship the dead or some chit, there are interviews of cartel bruhs talking about it
fukkk ...santa muerte
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post 1651165473 11-20-2021, 07:22 AM
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Ever seen what rival soccer club fans do to each other?
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native american ancestry.

mexico is like 50% native blood
post 1651165913 11-20-2021, 07:40 AM
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If cucked America would legalize all drugs then cartel would go belly up
post 1651169113 11-20-2021, 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted By Slaydom
native american ancestry.

mexico is like 50% native blood
This. Mayans and Aztecs would do killings like that. Ripping out hearts, dismemberment. Look at the torture devices of the spanish inquisition.
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I always wondered why they dont just sell fake drugs.

Like what are you going to do if you get a kilo of flour, complain to the management?

On a side note- ZeroZeroZero is a superb show about cartels on prime.
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Originally Posted By crupiea
I always wondered why they dont just sell fake drugs.

Like what are you going to do if you get a kilo of flour, complain to the management?

On a side note- ZeroZeroZero is a superb show about cartels on prime.
Lol the CIA would drone strike them if they did that.
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the 10% aztec in them makes them incredibly violent.
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Originally Posted By anonkunbrah
If cucked America would legalize all drugs then cartel would go belly up
They’d find something new to traffic because the main importer of drugs, and other illicit activities is just north of them.
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A cartel is a group of businesses working together to control the market and prices. This snuffs out would be new competitors and takes control from the consumer. Drug dealing is kind of an "anti social" business. in the sense that the dealers are all hardened thugs. Their brain isn't wired the same as a result of their childhoods and experiences up to and including their early 20s. Now, think about being in prison, and think about what it would take to control the biggest and toughest dudes in there. Reasoning isn't in their nature. They are either exploited/coerced by sheer force, or you have something they want and need to keep you alive to get it.
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Aren’t a lot of them high on drugs most of the time?
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It keeps scumbags in check percentage wise
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Originally Posted By crupiea
I always wondered why they dont just sell fake drugs.

Like what are you going to do if you get a kilo of flour, complain to the management?

On a side note- ZeroZeroZero is a superb show about cartels on prime.
Because it keeps them coming back. Counterfeiting only works if someone wants to make a quick dollar, then disappear. The better the drugs, the more addictive and more money you can make
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You are forgetting the types of drugs these guys consume. You don't become people like them, unless you fuk with drugs
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Aren't South American cities overwhelmingly the deadliest in the world? I could be wrong. I do remember their serial killers getting pretty short sentences after racking up insane kill counts of like, 500+ victims. (And people think Ted Bundy is the serial killer archetype...they've never heard of Pedro Alonso López and Luis Garavito.)
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