This reminded me of a "debate" with the "FB friend" of a HS friend I haven't seen in more than 30 years. Discussions spiraled out under a meme about Harris and Walz being the fun aunt and nice Dad compared to the "wierd" guys competing against them in the horse race. I was hoping the "weird" talk would fan out toward policy, like, "It's weird to keep increasing the Pentagon Budget every year.", "It's weird to fun weapons systems the even the military doesn't want." I was rushed and feeling that I should be doing something else so I didn't mention that "It's weird to keep sending bombs and planes to militarized states that massacre people in neighboring countries and internalized open-air prisons (concentration camps for Arabs)", "It's weird to keep supporting death squads and their representatives (in Haiti, El Salvador..)" I forgot to mention all that, but might have mentioned that it would be a waste of a fun aunt and nice Dad if they got elected and enriched themselves while continuing catastrphic policies like the cute black guy from Chicago (via Hawaii?).
Somehow I end up in a discussion with an FB account the "thereal" in it's name and we're going back and forth about Venezuela. I provide links and such about how Sanctions are destructive and the policy designers knew the punitive effects would increase migrant "out-flow". The guy gets all riled up blames migration on Venezuela being a "socialist shithole" and declares he's board with the conversatin. The HS friend is a teacher so you don't know if you're dealing with a pubescent who won't learn from having their nose rubbed into their bullshit. If it's a big aggressive white guy you can pin them somewhere as an obnoxious example of Free Press brain washing, liek you would do irl and provide some nostalgic flashbacks for HS friends... So there are pressures on the breaks from not know who you're dealing with... and also dealing with the political shortbus people is sort of nobless oblige, maybe they don't want to be morons their entire life so you gotta cut them some slack to think. Maybe the discussion is noticed by other people who are already thinking and might see something usefule. But while on-line, especially on the curated and controlled FB you can't assume anyone else will see the discussion or have the leeway to think abou it.. And things irl deserve more time than on-line vapor debates, I guess. But still, it was worthwhile for me: it provided a specific example to support comments by Chomsky about how it's impossible to bring some things up in Free Press society, and how angry people can get. Chomsky needs police protection while discussing some topics at first.. evventually the USA's moral development starts to catch up with him and the Peace Movement so that things Cataclysms like Vietnam and the Middle East can be discussed without needing the police to keep the mainstream lunatics from punching and kicking Chomsky.
So, anyway I'm gettting a better feel for why Chomsky can never limit himself to one crisis. "To Learn, Compare". If Venezuelan migration is a result of "socialist shithole" policies, what about the Haiti migration. Can the Free Press Brainwash specimens say "sweatshop shithole" where the minimum wage was kept impossibly low by the US State department?
.> But the policy is circular and self-defeating, Foote argued. In exchange for the short-term political gain of alleviating the Haitian migration crisis at the U.S. border — a crisis driven by instability and deepening poverty — the deportations are only increasing instability, thereby exacerbating the migration crisis. Mexico, but also Brazil and other South and Central American nations, have seen the number of refugees from Haiti soar amid surging prices and a deteriorating security situation.
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