Hey, Larkin Rose here. This video may sound sort of strange to begin with, but it'll actually
have a point if you'll bear with me for a second. I decided I'm going to become rich
and powerful by starting my own mafia, my own organized crime. I realize mafia refers
to specific Italian organized crime, but it makes for a nice alliteration. So I'm
creating the M&M mafia. What I'm going to do is corner the market on selling M&M's
to people, lots of people like M&M's. And I'm going to rule with an iron fist and I'm
going to have violent thugs who beat up all my competition. Anybody else who
tries to sell M&M's to anybody in the entire country, I'm just going to beat
the hell out of them. I'm going to scare everybody. I'm going to do horrible,
terrifying things to any of my competitors. So everybody will fear me
and I will have a monopoly on M&M's and so I will make huge amounts of money and
I will be a successful evil crime lord. That's my plan. Now, aside from the
moral aspects of... I wouldn't actually do that and it's horrible and evil, on a
practical level do you think that would work? Do you think I could do
that? Now, let's say somebody believed in my organized crime plan and gave me
like a million dollars start-up fund to make the M&M mafia and so I hire some
thugs, I get a hideout, I buy some weapons, I stockpile M&M's or whatever. Do you
think I could do it? If you actually think I could do it, it's because you
have zero understanding of economics. My competition would be every convenience
store, every pharmacy, every supermarket. My competition would outnumber me by the
many, many, many thousands of places that sell M&M's. Now, can I make an
example if I like go beat up the nearest M&M seller, the local 7-Eleven? Well, no
because what they would do is go to the police and say, hey police, this guy just
beat us up. He seems to be kind of off his rocker because he seems to think he's
gonna create an M&M mafia in corner of the market. So he's kind of bonkers. Can
you go do something about that? And they would probably go do something about
it. I mean, they're pretty inefficient and slow and stuff, but if I'm like
routinely roughing people up, they're probably gonna notice and actually do
something about it. And if I send my thugs to do it, and I'm not gonna show my
face, they're not gonna know who the M&M dawn behind the scenes is, they're
still gonna arrest the guys I hired and then I'm gonna have to hire more
guys and I have to like make money selling M&M's. Is this gonna work?
Obviously it's not going to work. The trouble is apparently most Americans
still don't understand that or haven't thought about that because they still
don't understand that the only reason there is organized crime and drug
gangs and the drug cartels in Mexico and all that is entirely because of the
U.S. war on drugs. The violence going down there right now and I don't know who
was behind the scenes and what deals are being made. U.S. government, Mexican
government and the cartels and putting on a show and I have no idea what's
actually literally happening. What scale is going on or anything of the sort
because everybody has something to gain by lying their butts off. Be that as it
may, all the related violence is completely a result of the war on
drugs. And if you don't believe that, you would have to believe that if
narcotics, whatever it is they're selling fentanyl or anything else, if
that was legalized tomorrow so that Walmart could sell it and 7-Eleven
could sell it and every OXO down in Mexico, that's basically Mexican 7-Eleven
could sell it. Do you actually think the drug cartels could compete? Like
their overhead for thugs and guns is astronomical. The only reason they can
do that is because of the huge profit margin created by the fact that
fentanyl is illegal or cocaine or whatever is there running at the
moment or all of the above, whatever it is. And the idea that well they would
just be super tough on their competition, that's just patently
stupid. The only reason it works right now is because their competition
isn't going to go running to the cops. Hey, we were trying to sell illegal
drugs and this other guy selling illegal drugs came and beat us up. Can
you, oh wait, never mind, we weren't doing anything by. But Americans have so
little an understanding of basic economics that they go rah, rah, rah
when the U.S. government, we're going to crack down on those drug deal
whether it's Mexican drug cartels or the local drug gangs or we're going
to ban fentanyl and you're the only ones, you and government, you are
the ones who made it violent. You are the ones who made it way more
dangerous. And I've talked about this a million times. We have a perfect
before and after to compare it to, which is alcohol prohibition. Alcohol
was legal to consume for a long time. Then all of a sudden the
government wanted to save the day because some people are like
alcoholics and it causes problems, which still does already did. So we're
going to outlaw it immediately. The prices went up immediately. The
market became violent because you can't go to the cops because
someone is stealing your backyard still immediately organized crime
and corruption in government, which are essentially the same
thing took over the entire thing. And then the mafia run at all
sorts of organized crime syndicates ran alcohol until
prohibition ended and then they stopped. Do you see like Walmart
and 711 having shootouts over wine coolers? No. Why is that? Will
they get arrested? Because you're not allowed to do that. But you
are allowed to sell wine. Now it's still a heavily regulated
industry where you need a license and they tax the hell
out of it and all that because of course they do because
they're government. But people people have such a short sighted
notion of just well, I don't like drugs or I don't like alcohol
or I think they're bad or unhealthy. Okay. In a bunch of
cases, I would agree with you. So they should be illegal.
No, you're stupid. Stop being stupid. Making them illegal
doesn't make them go away. As I pointed out a billion
times. I'm certainly not the only one. Illegal drugs can
be found in every single prison in the country. I was in one
and they totally good. I promise you if government can't
keep illegal drugs out of their own prisons where literally
it's their own employees bringing it in most of the time.
Yeah, you can smuggle it in some ways but mostly it's
fine to guard have someone on the outside bribe and to
smuggle stuff in. He makes some money and you have
illegal drugs inside a cage where everybody is constantly
monitored. There's surveillance of everything. You're not allowed
to own anything. You're not allowed to trade anything. It's
still there. So if you think that oh well if we just have
enough cracking down on illegal drugs, we'll make it not
exist in a country. You're just an idiot. Just an
absolute idiot. And here's the problem and I was just
talking to somebody in a chat room somewhere. If you
pretend that you care more, look at these these
overdoses and these kids getting addicted and look at all
this horrible things happening. Okay, yeah, that's
horrible. There's lots of horrible stuff happening. In
Phoenix where I lived rather recently you would see
fentanyl zombies on a regular basis. It's pretty freaking
depressing. It's horrible. Then they jump to so it
should be illegal because they don't know how to
think. They just behave like children. Well us children
shouldn't be doing that. So mommy and daddy government
should tell us we're not allowed to. Okay, if you're
compassionate and concerned about the addicts and the
overdoses and all that, if you're actually concerned
about that, wouldn't you want to know the real world
outcome of the policies that you advocate? Apparently no
advocates of the war on drugs give a shit because
you can look and you can see that the products get
way more dangerous. You can't look on the label. Let's
see what's in this. Oh, they didn't put a label on it.
They didn't tell me, I don't even know who the hell made
this because they're not going to tell me who made
it because then they'd be in a cage. So it has to
be secret. It has to be sketchy. Everybody involved
has to be sort of quiet and sneaky about every step
of the way. Gee, I wonder if that's going to lead to
trustworthy products. No, it's going to lead to stuff
that kills people. And I mean, probably won't
bother getting into detail why. If there's
something that's illegal, automatically the thing's
going to become more potent. I'll give a simple
example and you can figure out the rest. If
alcohol is illegal and you get thrown in a cage
for years for selling alcohol, nobody's going to
sell wine coolers. Nobody's going to buy wine
coolers. They're going to sell straight booze because
why would you risk the same penalty for something
with a tiny little bit of alcohol in it and therefore
a tiny little price tag rather than we want the most
concentrated potent stuff which is what keeps
happening over and over again with cocaine, with
everything under the sun. Because if we're going to
risk it, we want something this big that sells for
eighty gajillion dollars. Not something this big that
oh, it's it's Coca-Cola with a dash of cocaine in it.
If you didn't know, Coca-Cola is named after the
cocaine that used to be in it. But it wasn't just a
bottle of cocaine. A little bit of cocaine. I'm not
saying that was a great idea. But nobody's going
to sell, if cocaine is illegal, nobody's going
to sell a bottle of Coke with a dash of cocaine in it
because they would already risk being in a cage
for something that hardly any money is being made off of that.
Now we're going to sell you a brick of cocaine or whatever the most
potent concentrated stuff we can make is. So it makes everything
less reliable. You don't know what's in it. You don't know who made it
because they're not going to tell you because then they be in a cage.
Way more potent and therefore way more dangerous.
Constantly involved with violence because the cops are always
going to be against. Well, they're going to pretend to be
against it and half the time they're going to make deals with
organized crime to be in favor of it and the Philadelphia,
I think it was the drug task force like a whole bunch of
them got arrested for dealing drugs. Wow. Who could have
predicted that if you make there be a huge profit margin,
then power happy assholes who know the cops aren't coming after
them because they are the cops are going to take it over.
Gee whiz who could ever have foreseen that anybody who knows
anything about alcohol prohibition who knew that yeah,
that the government enforcers very quickly were making deals
with organized crime to make a crap ton of money off of
alcohol and everything got more dangerous and it got
more violent and government was stomping out its competition.
And I mean, we know this by now cocaine, the CIA is the
biggest drug runner in the world. You actually thought that
giving government an astronomical amount of money and
letting them do a bunch of things in secret and letting
them create black markets through legislation,
they weren't going to say, you know, we could make a
crap ton of money because we're in charge of the
regulations. We're in charge of the enforcement. We can go,
we have lots of resources to go stomp on our competition.
Maybe we should get into the drug trade. Golly gee, what a
shock. But so many people don't even think about these
things. They just think that's bad should be illegal.
And it makes everything worse and it makes the thing is
one reason it makes everything worse is because when
stupid people fall for authoritarian crap, you get
more authoritarian crap. And the fact that mango Mussolini
and his dumb ass underlings decided to ramp up the
war on drugs again to see if they could get some
mileage out of that. And his dumb ass supporters are
cheering for it. Yeah, we got a crack down on those
criminals. You utter dumb asses, it makes everything
worse and you're cheering for something designed to
create violence, including creating the drug gangs in
the US, creating the drug cartels in other countries
by creating a black market that is inherently
destructive and violent. And here you are being
so colossally stupid, just of economics and of
politics and of how these power happy bastards
function, you're cheering for something heinously
destructive that was designed to be heinously
destructive. I made a video about this a billion
years ago where I responded to the people say, oh,
the war on drugs has been a complete failure.
No, it wasn't. If you think the goal of the
war on drugs was to stamp out drugs, yeah, it's
been a complete failure. But if you think that was
the goal, kind of naive to the point of being an
idiot, it has been a smashing success for those
in power because like everything else they do,
the purpose of the war on drugs was an excuse
to increase authoritarian power. So now you have
military crap going on in Mexico and they're
blowing up boats because we gotta, we gotta
blow up the boats in the water. Why is that?
Because our politicians wrote down on paper, you're
not allowed to have that stuff that we're just
going to pretend was in the boat, whether it is
or not, and then murder some people. And we're
cracking down. You're cracking down with
government violence, unlimited arbitrary power
on something that only exists because you made
it exist by creating a black market and so
many idiots are cheering for it. And I don't
care whether you like drugs or not, I think
oh they're awesome or like oh they're a scourge on
society. I sort of think there's some of each,
like marijuana and shrooms have done a lot of
good for a lot of people. There's a bunch of stuff,
fentanyl and others, but haven't done that much good.
Whatever you think of them, the war on drugs
absolutely makes everything worse. And if you
don't know how to think or even grasp basic
economics, like why it wouldn't work for me
to make an M&M mafia, if you don't
understand why that wouldn't work, then you
also don't understand why the drug gangs in
here and in other countries exist entirely
because of government power and because of
drug prohibition. And the people in power
know it, they're doing it on purpose. So when
you hear of kids overdosing in some asshole
politician, that says what are we going to
crack down on? Shut up you evil piece of
shit. That happened because of you and you
fucking know it. Democrat-Republican, they
fucking know that the overdoses, the
addiction, the violence in the streets,
they know they made that happen, that
would not have happened without it being
a black market. So when they go out
there, oh we're so concerned and oh
it's just horrible how these people are
being gunned down, you sociopathic pieces
of shit. You know you made this happen
and you know you're making it worse
every time you escalate the authoritarian
solution. And the sad thing is the
number of economically ignorant Americans
who genuinely care about it, they're not
evil sociopaths, they're just stupid and
ignorant and they're cheering for
something that will make it far
worse. And that kind of describes
everything. I want government to help the
poor, it's gonna make it worse. I want
government to ban scary guns, it's gonna
make it worse. I want them to ban drugs,
it's gonna make it worse. I want them
to have a big military to protect, it's
gonna make it worse. I want them to
keep those illegal, it's gonna make it
worse. Everything they do not only
makes it worse by accident, it isn't
by accident. It makes it worse on
purpose because you suffering and being
scared is the foundation of their power
because then you stupidly turn to them
and you say, you gotta crack down on
these fentanyl boats, this gun crime
or whatever it is. Yes, they're that
evil, they are making these problems
happen on purpose and when you read
the headlines about, oh that drug
cartels, they made the drug cartels
on purpose. And there's a hell of a lot
of stuff that if you look into it, you
cannot make sense of it if you're
trying to imagine good motives. Look
up Operation Fast and Furious. Oh,
weirdly the feds made sure lots of
weapons got to the Mexican drug cartels.
Huh, why would that happen?
I know why it happens because I'm not
so stupid that I imagine good motives
on behalf of the power happy pieces of
shit who make this crap happen.
They want a war. Same thing in the
Middle East, ah, it turns out that
this scary band of terrorists is
fighting that scary band of terrorists
and the US armed both of them.
Huh, is that a coincidence? No, you
dumbasses, it's not a coincidence.
They make hell on earth on purpose and
they expect you to be so ignorant that
when you look at that hell on earth and
you feel genuine sympathy because
you're not a freaking psycho, they're
counting on you to be stupid enough
so that your actual humanity and
sympathy combined with your ignorance
will make you cheer for an
authoritarian solution. And right now
it's what every Democrat does and it's
what every Republican does and it's
just pathetic to watch how easily
ignorant people can be manipulated
into cheering for evil without
stinking noticing. And if you support
the war on drugs at all, you support
evil hopefully accidentally. Unless you
actually think about it and figure out
what's going on then you can't plead
ignorance anymore. If you actually give
a crap about the people overdosing and
the violence and the people being blown
up in Mexico and if you actually give a
crap about them instead of just
virtue signaling well I'm against
drugs so I support the war on drugs
actually think about whether what you're
cheering for is causing more pain and
suffering or less. Because at this
point you don't really have the
excuse of well I didn't know any better
especially if you just watched this
video. Now you know better stop
cheering for evil please.