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Oh, fuck this guy. He failed to have moral courage when it mattered, and he still sits on the board of the private prison company that imprisons child asylum-seekers. They’re all trying to spit-polish their images, nothing more.
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Expect plenty more to come out now that it’s too late and pretend that they had nothing to do with enabling all of this for personal gain. Fuck them all.
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Brooke Binkowski
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I was just talking about how studying Latin American history with focus on the border has deeply informed all of my alarm about the disinformation that has overwhelmed us. I believe the phrase I used was "careening toward 'guerra sucia' territory." We're already taking kids.
The term "banana republic" was popularized during the Guatemalan civil war, which happened after a USA-led propaganda campaign destabilized its democratically elected lefty government at the behest of the United Fruit Company/Chiquita. Edward Bernays was the mastermind behind it.
The term had already been around for a while, but I think that's how it really entered the lexicon: Because of foreign meddling with corrosive disinformation and propaganda campaigns that destabilized a left-leaning government and plunged Guatemala into a bloody civil war.
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Brooke Binkowski
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See? Everything this shitbag does is to further the grift. Up to and including a fundraiser for charity without disclosing that he sits on the board of the nonprofit he’s raising money for. he deserves nothing but mockery followed by an ignominious descent into obscurity
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Brooke Binkowski
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Dear @NPR, please consider that a rebranded “population control” (i.e. eugenics) group might not be offering interviews and information in good faith. They spread disinformation.
Please do your research.
And also for fuck’s sake hire a more diverse editorial staff. You wouldn’t be making these amateur mistakes if your newsrooms actually reflected the demographic realities of the United States.
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