American Culture of Violence & It's Related Politics
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Cliffy! put that gun down!!!!
You know why we don't let people like cliffy have guns right?
Pink Hat(e) Social justice warriors on the loose, drunk on power, and fully loaded at baseball games.
(see what happens when they get their way about other people's guns?)
I take it you have a large collection of naked white hillbilly guy photos?
I hear that's why Al Gore invented the internet.
You know why we don't let people like cliffy have guns right?
Pink Hat(e) Social justice warriors on the loose, drunk on power, and fully loaded at baseball games.
(see what happens when they get their way about other people's guns?)
I take it you have a large collection of naked white hillbilly guy photos?
I hear that's why Al Gore invented the internet.
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A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis
Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border
A national spotlight now shines on the border between the United States and Mexico, where heartbreaking images of Central American children being separated from their parents and held in cages demonstrate the consequences of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance policy” on unauthorized entry into the country, announced in May 2018. Under intense international scrutiny, Trump has now signed an executive order that will keep families detained at the border together, though it is unclear when the more than 2,300 children already separated from their guardians will be returned.
Trump has promised that keeping families together will not prevent his administration from maintaining “strong — very strong — borders,” making it abundantly clear that the crisis of mass detention and deportation at the border and throughout the U.S. is far from over. Meanwhile, Democratic rhetoric of inclusion, integration, and opportunity has failed to fundamentally question the logic of Republican calls for a strong border and the nation’s right to protect its sovereignty.
At the margins of the mainstream discursive stalemate over immigration lies over a century of historical U.S. intervention that politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle seem determined to silence. Since Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 declared the U.S.’s right to exercise an “international police power” in Latin America, the U.S. has cut deep wounds throughout the region, leaving scars that will last for generations to come. This history of intervention is inextricable from the contemporary Central American crisis of internal and international displacement and migration.
The liberal rhetoric of inclusion and common humanity is insufficient: we must also acknowledge the role that a century of U.S.-backed military coups, corporate plundering, and neoliberal sapping of resources has played in the poverty, instability, and violence that now drives people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras toward Mexico and the United States. For decades, U.S. policies of military intervention and economic neoliberalism have undermined democracy and stability in the region, creating vacuums of power in which drug cartels and paramilitary alliances have risen. In the past fifteen years alone, CAFTA-DR — a free trade agreement between the U.S. and five Central American countries as well as the Dominican Republic — has restructured the region’s economy and guaranteed economic dependence on the United States through massive trade imbalances and the influx of American agricultural and industrial goods that weaken domestic industries. Yet there are few connections being drawn between the weakening of Central American rural agricultural economies at the hands of CAFTA and the rise in migration from the region in the years since. In general, the U.S. takes no responsibility for the conditions that drive Central American migrants to the border.
More: https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border
A national spotlight now shines on the border between the United States and Mexico, where heartbreaking images of Central American children being separated from their parents and held in cages demonstrate the consequences of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance policy” on unauthorized entry into the country, announced in May 2018. Under intense international scrutiny, Trump has now signed an executive order that will keep families detained at the border together, though it is unclear when the more than 2,300 children already separated from their guardians will be returned.
Trump has promised that keeping families together will not prevent his administration from maintaining “strong — very strong — borders,” making it abundantly clear that the crisis of mass detention and deportation at the border and throughout the U.S. is far from over. Meanwhile, Democratic rhetoric of inclusion, integration, and opportunity has failed to fundamentally question the logic of Republican calls for a strong border and the nation’s right to protect its sovereignty.
At the margins of the mainstream discursive stalemate over immigration lies over a century of historical U.S. intervention that politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle seem determined to silence. Since Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 declared the U.S.’s right to exercise an “international police power” in Latin America, the U.S. has cut deep wounds throughout the region, leaving scars that will last for generations to come. This history of intervention is inextricable from the contemporary Central American crisis of internal and international displacement and migration.
The liberal rhetoric of inclusion and common humanity is insufficient: we must also acknowledge the role that a century of U.S.-backed military coups, corporate plundering, and neoliberal sapping of resources has played in the poverty, instability, and violence that now drives people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras toward Mexico and the United States. For decades, U.S. policies of military intervention and economic neoliberalism have undermined democracy and stability in the region, creating vacuums of power in which drug cartels and paramilitary alliances have risen. In the past fifteen years alone, CAFTA-DR — a free trade agreement between the U.S. and five Central American countries as well as the Dominican Republic — has restructured the region’s economy and guaranteed economic dependence on the United States through massive trade imbalances and the influx of American agricultural and industrial goods that weaken domestic industries. Yet there are few connections being drawn between the weakening of Central American rural agricultural economies at the hands of CAFTA and the rise in migration from the region in the years since. In general, the U.S. takes no responsibility for the conditions that drive Central American migrants to the border.
More: https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
How Bullying Became America’s Way of Life
Three Fatal Mistakes That Taught People Abusing and Being Abused Was Good For Them
A governor sending out virulently racist messages. A Congressman threatening ethnic bans in places of employment. And a noted intellectual suggesting that the way to end the camps is to give an authoritarian his wall.
It’s bizarre and gruesome. And yet that’s just one regular everyday morning in America now. Just one. What does it teach us, that a nation’s way of thinking, its mental processes, its way of seeing the world, has sunk this low? I think it teaches us this. I’ll be blunt, because mincing words helps no one in these times.
America is a nation now governed by bullies — because bullying has become its last organizing principle (we’ll get to that part). Sorry. Think about it. What else do you call all the above? Yet I wonder. Have you, too acquiesced, without knowing it, to this way of thinking a little bit — that capitulating to bullies is the right and correct way for a society to organize itself? Now, whenever you try to show people the flaws in their own thinking, their hackles rise. They get defensive. So I’m not condemning you or judging you. And you can be the judge if anything that I have to say is accurate.
Let’s start with Andrew Sullivan’s essay. What is it really saying? Let’s leave aside the obvious — he is telling us to appease fascists, which is laughable, a strategy that history teaches us is such a fatal mistake that it has its own name, to Neville Chamberlain a Hitler. That is because authoritarians, obviously, are not negotiating in good faith — so to appease them is to license them, not satisfy them. That much tells us he has not read a history book lately, maybe ever — and that is what I mean by “fools”. But there is more to this story.
More: https://eand.co/how-bullying-became-the-american-way-of-life-a2135781cc31
Three Fatal Mistakes That Taught People Abusing and Being Abused Was Good For Them
A governor sending out virulently racist messages. A Congressman threatening ethnic bans in places of employment. And a noted intellectual suggesting that the way to end the camps is to give an authoritarian his wall.
It’s bizarre and gruesome. And yet that’s just one regular everyday morning in America now. Just one. What does it teach us, that a nation’s way of thinking, its mental processes, its way of seeing the world, has sunk this low? I think it teaches us this. I’ll be blunt, because mincing words helps no one in these times.
America is a nation now governed by bullies — because bullying has become its last organizing principle (we’ll get to that part). Sorry. Think about it. What else do you call all the above? Yet I wonder. Have you, too acquiesced, without knowing it, to this way of thinking a little bit — that capitulating to bullies is the right and correct way for a society to organize itself? Now, whenever you try to show people the flaws in their own thinking, their hackles rise. They get defensive. So I’m not condemning you or judging you. And you can be the judge if anything that I have to say is accurate.
Let’s start with Andrew Sullivan’s essay. What is it really saying? Let’s leave aside the obvious — he is telling us to appease fascists, which is laughable, a strategy that history teaches us is such a fatal mistake that it has its own name, to Neville Chamberlain a Hitler. That is because authoritarians, obviously, are not negotiating in good faith — so to appease them is to license them, not satisfy them. That much tells us he has not read a history book lately, maybe ever — and that is what I mean by “fools”. But there is more to this story.
More: https://eand.co/how-bullying-became-the-american-way-of-life-a2135781cc31
3 killed, 15 injured in shooting before police kill gunman at California food festival
Police responded to reports of an active shooter at the Gilroy Garlic Festival at about 5:30 p.m. local time, and more than a dozen ambulances and fire department units were dispatched to the festival grounds about 80 miles south of San Francisco, according to news reports. Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said the scene of the shootings remained ��active�� late Sunday night.
source :WAPO
The US is it's own war zone........one that changes with each mass shooting location.
........and their" solution" is just more guns.
The country was born of violence and has been in a state of war for most of time since its inception. It stands to reason that violence would be a way of life down there. What goes around, comes around.
Would not put it on the list of "safe countries" to travel to. These "incidents are big enough to make them news worthy.,but far to o many happen under the "media" radar....