My issue with all of these entities was never political, it was never some ideological bullshit. It was that these are people who have power over the vulnerable who have badly abused that power. I want transparency, accountability, and justice -- for everyone.
Well I guess that is ideological but it wasn't some ill-considered reactionary ideology; it was formed over years in the dusty borderlands, standing in line to cross back from Mexico to the USA, talking to people and families with so many physical and psychological scars
Hanging around Tijuana's few and bare shelters crammed with people going and coming -- people waiting for asylum, people recently deported -- meeting the United States military veterans who had been expelled from the country, people who had been bought and sold on the streets...
...talking to U.S. citizen kids with deported parents who crossed the border every single day just to go to school, talking to asylum-seekers missing arms and legs from injuries they received in a desperate trek to the border to escape the profound violence around them...
anyway you get the idea.
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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.