"Stay home or else": Brazilian drug gangs enforce Coronavirus curfew in favelas

[Crayolan]

It's like a "noble" mafia situation where they're essentially doing this as PR to make people trust them over the actual government. Plus it's not like they want the virus spreading amongst their gang members.

 

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[Baccus]

Are you a bad enough drug gang to have more common sense than the president?

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10/10

Also wow

 

[wrongway]

I don't like this timeline.

 

[hateradio]

I don't like this timeline.

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We have to hit rock bottom to get back up!

 

[AlexBasch]

Of course.

They know that if people die, there won't be anyone left to rob, extortion, kidnap or murder. That means less money for everyone. Or risk having their hitmen and leaders sick with the diseases.

 

[IIFloodyII]

What did ISIS do?

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Told Terrorists to avoid travelling to Europe so they don't get infected.

Isis tells followers not to travel to Europe for attacks because of coronavirus

‘The healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic,’ says terror group

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Musubi]

Can't have customers if all your customers are dead.

 

[ChrisJSY]

Somehow I don't trust they'll enforce it correctly, probably going to mess up a lot of innocent people just going to the shop.

 

[Z-Beat]

It's like a "noble" mafia situation where they're essentially doing this as PR to make people trust them over the actual government. Plus it's not like they want the virus spreading amongst their gang members.

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Fisk for mayor

 

[Deleted member 3010]

That's quite a timeline to live in.

 

[NinjaTrouiLLe]

 

[Titik]

What did Duterte do?



I mean, this already puts these gangs way ahead of the billionaires in the US demanding blood to keep the wheels of the economy turning.

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Duterte is using drug gangs and drug dealers as an excuse to grab power in the country.

 

[HStallion]

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Time for a new season of The Wire were the next generation of gang members in Baltimore and forcing social distancing on the fiends and the general populace while the police and government fuck around. Thanks President Clay Davis.

 

[Aya]

Aah the good ol' bad guys. 2020 the year when traffickers, murderers and thieves step up trying to do the right thing yo.

 

[Advance.Wars.Sgt.]

Their approach is wrong, but I get the sentiment behind it. Certainly better than Bolsonaro, who wouldn't give two shots about the people in Brazilian slums precisely because a significant portion are of the wrong heritage.

 

[King Kingo]

When drug gangs and ISIS have more respect for people's lives than a president

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Never in my life did I ever expect to see the words ISIS and respect in the same sentence, yet here we are.

 

[lunarworks]

When drug gangs and ISIS have more respect for people's lives than a president

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[Z-Beat]