>>107372I get they're trying to send a message to their rivals and all, but isn't it kind of redundant when their enemies also do the exact same thing? I don't think either side is intimidating the other when they both make videos of cutting each other up. You're not really accomplishing the objective of a scare tactic.
I guess the thing is that there is no point anymore and they only do it now because it's just what they're used to. I don't know where that video is from exactly, but with Mexican cartels, this kind of execution as a form of message had a lot of punch to it at the start because it was still a completely new form of cruelty. Even just decapitation was still a surprise to people at that time, so it really worked as a fear tactic when someone did it. IIRC it was that guerilla war veterans brought their tactics over to the cartels and that's when it first started.
Then every random retard around saw how well it works and went to copying it, while at the same time murder rates were spiking up an insane amount. So basically the market for these kinds of executions got inflated and cutting off somebody's head just didn't mean anything at that point.