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Each of these five children wears the costume of their choice: what they want to become in life. A pilot, a ballerina, an astronaut, a doctor, and a soccer player. So when a government imposes a prohibition that reduces supply, drug suppliers sell more or less the same quantity as before, but at higher prices. This often leads to even larger drug sales and revenues than before. This combo of higher prices and revenues allows drug suppliers access to larger stashes of cash which they can spend on more manpower, weapons, bribes, etc — all of which only serve to expand their operations and escalate overall violence.

Furthermore, by making drug production and importation more difficult, only the biggest and most efficient drug syndicates can survive in the market. This drives away their competition and grants them monopoly power in the black market, making them thrive. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the US, which has waged an intensive drug war since the s.

More than 40 years have elapsed and a trillion dollars have been spent since the war started. Therefore, a drug war that focuses disproportionately on supply reduction tends to strengthen and enrich — rather than weaken and impoverish — the operations of drug suppliers.

Education and prevention campaigns among the youth, or rehabilitation among drug users, eventually lead to a surplus of illegal drugs in the market. But there's dubious policy, and then there's "Is this building up to the announcement of a giant death laser? These are terrifying examples of the latter. China is responsible for countless human rights violations that are conveniently overlooked because they produce giant piles of consumer goods and movie tickets instead of the inept threats of neighboring North Korea, the country closest to a real-life Latveria.

And perhaps chief among their many evils is their treatment of the Uyghurs. The Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group with predominately Islamic religious beliefs, and China is home to around 11 million of them. Their loyalties are all considered suspect , because China's not big on "freedom of expression" or "showing interest in anything other than fawning servility to the state," and so approximately a million Uyghurs are currently interned in concentration camps.

There they get to learn fun lessons like "Communism rules, Islam drools, and we'll torture you until you agree. But what's China doing to bring some innovation to crimes against humanity? Well, one detainee is Abdurehim Heyit, who was a nationally acclaimed musician right up until he performed an Uyghur song with the phrase "martyrs of war" in it.

The piece encourages people to respect their ancestors who suffered through the conflicts of the past, but to China it was proof that Heyit was a terrorist threat, which would be like the FBI throwing Taylor Swift in jail on the assumption that "Look What You Made Me Do" was foreshadowing a shooting spree. When rumors spread that Heyit had died in one of the camps , China found itself under serious diplomatic pressure.

So they released a video in which Heyit explained that he was totally fine! He's alive, being treated well, is completely cool with being investigated for crimes against the state, and definitely isn't reading from a script.

No, of course you can't see or talk to him, don't be absurd. He's very busy! Don't be ridiculous. We would have edited that out. They have a history of clashing with neo-Nazis, to the point where one of their members was one of seven peopled stabbed by white supremacists during a rally. That's not unusual on its own -- the government likes to keep tabs on groups that show up in large numbers to wave signs around, and somewhere in their vaults there's probably a file on Cracked too.

But the devil is in the stupid, stupid details. The report was concerned that BAMN was potentially involved in a conspiracy to deny the KKK and other white supremacists their right to peacefully assemble and give speeches about how nonwhite people are subhuman mongrels who should be exterminated or enslaved.

Oh, but don't worry, because according to the report, the KKK simply consists of "members that some perceived to be supportive of a white supremacist agenda.

Every single Paraguayan schoolchild learns about President Hayes and how he saved the country from ruin. Statistically speaking, there isn't a single human being who has ever lived, lives, or will live who hasn't seen every episode of Friends at least twice. These days, most folks are content just letting episodes autoplay on Netflix while doing the laundry or being idly depressed.

But there's still a place where Friends is a must-see cultural milestone: your mom's living room. Oh, and China. Because of the emerging trend in China of people "having time off" and "spending that time hanging out," they've developed a surprisingly strong relationship with the Joey prequel. The sitcom serves as a peephole into free-spirited American culture. This goes especially for Chinese Millennials, with students using the show to learn English and core Western values, like being on breaks and not sharing food.

Friends is so big in China that several Chinese knockoffs of the show have already been made. Like the Chinese sitcom Planet Homebuddies , which was so obviously trying to be the Chinese Friends that they even hired the frontman of Rembrandts, of the Friends theme song fame, to score their intro. There's even an exact replica, from the couch to the menu, of the Central Perk coffee shop in Beijing.

The owner is so dedicated to authenticity that he had his name changed to Gunther. Classic Gunther move. As millions of eighth-grade book reports will tell you, Gone With The Wind is one of America's most important novels.

The book, about a whole nation ruined by war between the North and South, is seen by millions as the quintessential American experience.

Did we say "American"? We meant Korean. Over the years, Margaret Mitchell's epic has found many audiences around the world, but nowhere as big as in North Korea , whose population apparently has easier access to Confederate literature than food or medical supplies.

Because of its "Yankees screwed us over" narrative, the book has landed on the state-controlled reading list, next to a bunch of third-string communist authors. In fact, it's one of only a handful of books automatically included in every North Korean iPad knockoff, with an introduction that says it's "particularly useful for understanding how modern capitalism spread to all of the United States.

Meanwhile, the movie which is rumored to be Kim Jong-un's favorite is used as a language training tool for government officials -- though it's still banned from the public due to the outrageous allure of Clark Gable's mustache. North Korean diplomats have even been known to quote, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," during negotiations.

But while the government expounds the novel's anti-federalist virtues, regular North Koreans are crazy about Gone With The Wind for a totally different reason: It's a great book with little competition. The North Korean literary scene is about as desiccated as its soil, so the people don't have a lot of options aside from government propaganda and centuries-old classics.

For them, Gone With The Wind is as wild and fantastic as a novel can get