"...designed to both de-spin racist right wing propaganda, and re-spin the facts to protect the (now) ruling 'liberal' establishment in America... controlling how readers think about this subject, rather than overtly telling them what to think... a big part of why it’s effective"
"There’s a lot of money sloshing around the migrant carceral system; and plenty of institutional actors are prepared to manufacture consent for locking up migrants, just so they can get a slice of the pie."
"Looking at the nexus of politics, money, and flagrant abuse of migrant children in for-profit concentration camps, it certainly does become a lot easier to understand why the ruling establishment and their media muppets would rather you focus on partisan spin."
"Even setting aside the reality that Biden currently refuses to end Title 42 and expand the refugee cap, this theory [of Biden's good intentions] just doesn’t hold water."
"Forget merely lying on TV; people would commit unspeakable crimes for that kind of money [from extracting Latin American wealth], and as a nation, we most certainly have already."
"Through... violence, terror, and imperial power, American capitalists have transformed most of Latin America into a thinly-veiled slave enterprise; a steady supply of guns and bombs go in, while fantastic profits pour out, leaving hyper-exploited migrants fleeing the fallout"
"Military enforcement is a business, infrastructure lending is a business, hiding all of this from you is a business. Indeed, the crisis itself is a business in which refugees are transformed into TV ratings, votes, bribes, and a migrant carceral system worth billions of dollars"
"The existence of each of these enterprises in turn, creates another layer of institutional actors committed to perpetuating the carnage... As it turns out the capitalist hydra has a lot of mouths to feed, and there’s still some shit you’re not allowed to say on television."
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1378182330838253568?s=20
You can follow @ChrisWestsideJX.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: