As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.

The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.

May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”

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    11 months ago

    It’s so annoying to hear certain folks acting like all the problems in America come from this Thunderdome type situation at the boarder with Mexico. And never do they have any recommendation that doesn’t involve hurting people or invading Mexico out other ridiculous things. Just the other day I heard someone talking about all the Chinese people coming across the Mexico boarder and how they were actually spies for China. Fifteen years ago they were Muslims and terrorists.

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      I think part of it is a psychological safety strategy for people that don’t have the strength to look at their own issues. For them, it’s a lot safer to blame others than accepting any responsibility.

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      Whenever you cross the border to Mexico, the sky turns yellow, didn’t you know that? It’s widely known, we all see it on TV all the time!

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      The cartels were sneaking in Muslim jihadist extremist suicide bombers by the dozens! I saw it in a documentary called Sicario: Day of the Soldado!

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      I heard someone talking about all the Chinese people coming across the Mexico boarder and how they were actually spies for China

      chinese people what? when did this happen?

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    For anyone who likes podcasts, check out American Coyote. It’s about Elden Kidd who was famous for getting people across the border in creative ways.

    Fun fact: Kidd was once on the show American Gladiator, where he listed his profession as “adventure travel guide”

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      Thank you so much for this. Just read his story (the GQ.com article) and hitting the podcast, now. What a fucking mensch.

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    Politicians think countries only hold people. Those that are a bit smarter understand that there are wild animals living within political boarders. A population that’s a bit smarter knows that these animals move and migrate around and across the previously mentioned political boarders. So, can at least some of us agree that border walls fuck up migratory patterns and are bad for nature?

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      11 months ago

      At least a quarter of the nation hates people with a different skin color, what makes you think they give a single shit about animal migrations

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    Good point, nicely done, and nobody in the US will care. The politicians in charge know this point already, that IS the point. They don’t give a shit about the wall, they want to rile their racist base so that they vote for them

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        It is CIAs operation. Cartels own Mexico, CIA owns the Cartels.

        Close the border, stop the flow, and criple the CIA.

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          Call me crazy, but I think there might be an easier way to control the CIA.

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            Or even reducing the profitability of smuggling drugs by legalizing some of the most popular ones or something. But I guess then they would also lose the Jim Crow 2.0 and would need to come up with something else.

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            I want to help control the activities of the CIA. Hmm, I know, let’s build a wall, that will certainly stop the CIA. If this was just about the CIA, we wouldn’t be talking about building a wall because of just how stupid that sounds. The CIA can be stopped with a wall? They have the power to smuggle drugs into Mexico, to be sold in the US. You think they are going to let a wall stop them? LOL No, this has never been about stopping the CIA and more about political ideologies and wasting more taxpayer money on NOT the taxpayers.

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              I’m pretty sure asylum seekers can even defeat a wall unless ladder technology hasn’t reached their country yet.

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          Good thing there isn’t a second, huge, undefended border on the other side of the United States that smugglers could easily use if they wanted to.

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      11 months ago

      World’s largest drug consumer has harsh words for neighbour who can’t stop drug dealers from walking across neighbour’s property to sell him drugs.

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      11 months ago

      Ever heard of boats or planes or ladders, or tunnels? Guess not…

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      11 months ago

      You mean those drug businesses that were started by the CIA, financed by american customers and defended with guns coming in from america?