I don't think even Greenwald understands what he's saying anymore. What is the point of this? The biggest cop bureaucracy in world history needs more weapons and surveillance tech? Amazing he doesn't see the link between U.S. cops and cops who killed his friend Marielle Franco.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1414220875377913866
You can always find a few people willing to support forces of oppression. In fact, many in the media (like you) are contributing to the propaganda that causes this, and to the fact that jobs in the carceral bureaucracy are a huge source of economic wealth for many communities.
Greenwald explicitly treats calls for U.S. military invasion by small numbers of marginalized people in other countries very differently. In that context, he gets that there are complex economic and propagandistic forces at work--but on U.S. policing, he buries his head in sand.
and @lhfang is like a giddy CNN reporter who has read none of the history or empirical literature and has never spent actual time working on behalf of people in these communities but is giddy over the chance to ride along with cops to talk about how great they are.
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