I’d like to add that the “pillar of the community” who performs monstrous actions on or against those without protections is a familiar trope to those of us who have covered border and immigration issues.
I know there are people like that everywhere (abusers and predators everywhere come to mind) but it’s particularly stark at the border. A lot of things are
I don’t know details on this doctor, I don’t know anything about him other than what’s been reported. But if you want to learn everything there is to know about the many contradictions inherent in people (and lose faith in humanity in the process, probably) hang out at the border
And by “the border” I mean geographically but also border and immigration issues. I’m using it in this way deliberately, because just as I predicted years ago, the border and its policies have come for everyone now
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I've been thinking about doing this thread for a couple of days. This is mostly for myself so I can go back to it, I don't really expect anybody in this dying hellscape to see it, but I wanted to lay it out here for my own sake. Here's my last few years in news stories:
Here's me, just so incredibly naive in late 2016, saying that "fake news" wasn't the problem so much as lack of journalism. For the record, I still stand by this, but at the time I had no idea how much social media was in on the disinfo attacks:
Hi everybody! A lot of you have been asking me what you can get me for my birthday, which is this weekend. Just kidding, literally no one asked me that but just in case you were considering getting me something please donate here instead entertainmentcommunity.org
Alternately, please consider joining a #WritersGuildofAmerica picket line and support the absolute shit out of this strike
I haven't really articulated this much but: Disinformation depends on altering our stories, true ones and fictional ones, to affect how we see ourselves and each other and make the world seem much more negative. There is a lot of power in culture, so of course jackholes want it
"The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.
Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges."
"As the planet warms, more calamities will strike the U.S. and, if the recent past is any indication, create new opportunities for militias and other extremist groups to mobilize and recruit...."
That's why all the insane border hardening and eugenics shit is happening now too. Borders are there to consolidate resources. Well, we're the resources they're trying to consolidate.