• 7101334@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I mean the government was hiring Pinkertons to do drive-bys on the camps of mostly-white miners. White privilege is important in America, but if it’s a showdown between that and the interests of capital, capital will win every time.

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      Trump also ordered the extrajudicial execution of a white man, Michael Reinoehl, in his first term. I have no idea why no one ever talks about that.

      Because we continue to pretend that the police and military always act lawfully, unless there’s incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.

      Even with that the news media continues to couch the video of the murders of Good and Pretti as “appearing to show” things and provides smple room for people to lie and copagandize the American public.

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        I mean yeah, agreed of course, but I don’t even see if frequently mentioned by people who are aware of what’s really going on.

        Guess there have been a lot of corpses produced by America in recent decades and… for its entire existence before then too. Too much trauma to keep up with all of it I guess. Remember when Boeing melted a guy’s lungs and nothing happened? Land of the free, rock flag and eagle.