Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "VICE" channel.

  1. Work so hard and take so much risk to get that money just to blow it all away in one night out? Yep, that sounds like most of the dealers I've known.
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  2. Church goers can be extremely trusting. I knew one couple that used church funds to pay gambling debts for years. The only reason anyone noticed was one church regular happened to work at the bank (small town).
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  3. We're all human
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  4. That would destroy the profitability of casinos. It's a zero sum game, the odds MUST be stacked against the customer in order to stay open.
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  5. There was a similar problem with Czechoslovakian Gypsies during the Soviet era where some doctors would trick Gypsies into surgeries that prevented them from breeding. In both cases, the motive was the same as the culprits considered a class of persons to be beneath them.
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  6. About the bonded labor: The Romans called this debt slavery, where sometimes even several generations of farmers were bonded to a landlord because ages ago someone got into a huge amount of debt due to misfortune or vice.
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  7.  @randomdude5938  There's a lot of planning and preparation that goes into this
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  8. When I was a jailer, most of the people we dealt with had some kind of drug charge. The addicts consistently said they'd rather go to rehab than jail, which made sense because we jailers were jerks and there were more freedoms at rehab... But come to think of it, I can't actually speak for the sobriety of the local rehab.
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  9. Sensationalism and panic are common when the science isn't fully understood. See climate change, covid, radiation poisoning, carcinogenic chemicals, and every other case where idiots on the internet insist there's systemic corporate or government negligence of a problem.
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  10. Meth and weed are the most common drugs in my part of rural America simply because it can be made locally. It's common enough my coworkers have casually mentioned where they get it. New Zealand ain't exactly weird.
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  11. Shut up
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  12. Culiacán has always been the capital of Sinaloa (both the state and cartel of that name). Sicarios interviewed there were found to not exactly be hiding from police.
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  13. Bolsonaro is hardly losing to the gangs. He owns the biggest army in the country and they've crushed several major gangs. Welcome to Brazil.
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  14. From this reporter, yes. Can't say the same for everyone with admin access to VICE's YouTube account
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  15.  @MrJohnybravo86  dude, men have been beating on each other since Cain and Able
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  16. Most of these are lower caste women while most Indian doctors are upper caste. There was a similar problem with Czechoslovakian Gypsies where some doctors practiced eugenics by tricking Gypsies into surgeries so they couldn't breed. Also, the founder of Planned Parenthood thought that only the poor and stupid needed free abortions and she thought by encouraging it she could get rid of the filth. In all cases the answer is the same: Arrogance. The culprits consider a class of persons as fundamentally stupid and/or beneath them.
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  17.  @jorgeromano9900  In select towns, yeah. But Mexico is a big place and each town does its own thing
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  18. The famous professional gambler John Law would bet anyone 1000 to 1 that they couldn't roll six sixes in a row. Law had done the math beforehand and knew the odds of rolling that was 46,656 to one. Thus, even though he paid a small fortune when he lost, he won so often that he made lots of money. Casino slot machines work the same.
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  19. Who said they're any different?
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  20. That and we beat the crap out of each other
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  21. On a small remote island, that's probably 50% of the supply.
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  22. I'm sorry, doing the sign of the cross with a revolver is just hilarious!
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  23. There doesn't seem any original journalism, just a highly editorialized wiki article.
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  24. In some Arab countries, these men are called ghouls. Ghoul means demon, but slang variations apply the term to anyone whose career involves death (hitmen, gravediggers, morticians, etc).
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  25. They're mixing whatever drugs are on hand, so given the prices they're charging it's a bit of a ripoff.
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  26. Three problems: Title says the cartels are running this racket but no definite connection was made between these dealers and the major cartels. Pointless politicization by digressing to irrelevant topics and cherry picking statements from some witnesses. Clear US-centric reporting when Mexico's unregulated pharmacy industry seems to be the topic.
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  27. It makes them feel powerful, though
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  28. 30 cents a hit for trash in Bogata, but genuine cocaine is worth more than its weight in silver in the US. It's a matter of effective enforcement driving down the supply but not the demand.
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  29. This guy's English is good, but his grammar says he's from a Slavic country.
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  30. Originally it meant a large syndicate that attenpts to maintain a monopoly on something (which DTOs commonly do). These days the term means "a gang of gangs."
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  31. There was a murder mystery film "The Cleaner" that showcased this type of job with a fictional crime scene cleaner being tricked into destroying the evidence of a crime.
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  32.  @calebcompton9120  what does crime rates in Roma neighborhoods have to do with forced sterilization?
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  33. In Columbia, cocaine is worth as much as fine cheese. In America, cocaine is worth more than silver.
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  34. Careful. You my find out why the custom lasted so long to begin with.
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  35. Funny, because Sinaloa cartel members call it "la vida loca." Literally "the crazy life."
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  36. @stockscrypto1014  some people were encouraging predation against women. And if you ask me that is castration worthy
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  37. Go away before you share his fate
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  38.  @a.k.3659  uppers and anti-depressants are the same
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  39. Does this guy actually do original reporting or is he more of an crime analyst?
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  40. Can be, but the guy making this video is a British recreational weed user preoccupied with drug wars.
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  41. Not always. Sometimes they disable them when people are encouraging criminal behavior.
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  42. Delete this. Your a news source, not a demagogue.
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  43.  @J_Clean_1996  liar
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  44. Correction: Meth was in use for a lot more than two decades among the Afrikaners. It only became widespread among the Bantus and Khoisan after Apartheid ended simply because they learned how to make it and meth is cheaper than the indigenous weed.
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  45. Who wants to bet these "watch groups" will start their own extortion racket too?
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  46.  @Kolejboy  Chinese attempts at "world leadership" doesn't discriminate. Some Pacific island leaders have been offered bribes in order to get favorable business deals and naval jumping points.
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  47. You know they signed a ceasefire with gangs, right?
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  48. Not exactly. Guys think girls wouldn't be so interested in a guy going bald, and never underestimate the lengths men will go for sex.
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  49. ​​ user-dm2dj8nk8g bug off, freak show
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  50. No, this was from the war in Syria.
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