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(90,714 posts)msongs
(67,420 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)It's about a movie called Sophie's Choice, one of the saddest movies ever made.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)That awful scene where she is forced to give up her little girl is pretty hard to take.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)think this will be stop people from coming. They don't get (or care) that these parents are desperate; otherwise they wouldn't even think of taking such a perilous journey coming here, riding of top of the beast, facing all kinds of criminals...all they can think that if they get here, their children will LIVE.
What a horrific nightmare!
malaise
(269,063 posts)were financed by US Corporations and their government to prevent 'socialism' from spreading, to prevent workers from joining unions, to depress wages and on and on and on.
US governments facilitated access to the US to whoever supported them. Same shit here and many who supported them were allowed to run the drugs. It wasn't just Iran-Contra.
It is how we got here.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)you will never convert the king con disciples.
rurallib
(62,426 posts)these poor people are either just bystanders or pawns in the power plays of the filthy rich trying to get richer.
malaise
(269,063 posts)Caliman73
(11,738 posts)When idiots are talking about "they're coming to take our jobs" or the need for walls and tougher immigration policies and they ask, "what do you propose?" My answer is, first, we need to STOP meddling in the affairs of Latin America. We have been down there messing things up since right after we became a country. We know the term "filibuster" from the political world in Congressional proceedings, but its original meaning was to describe the unauthorized wars engaged in by American businessmen against foreign countries. Since the early 1800's there were wealthy people raising armies and going down creating problems in Latin America.
Mexico's longest standing dictator, Porfirio Diaz, was supported by the US and had a council of advisers from the US and was influenced heavily by the Ambassador from the US. We sent Marines in the 1910's and 20's to over throw legitimate governments for the benefit of United Fruit Company, which is documented by Smedley Butler.
We have had a very strong hand in creating the problems that exist in Latin America that drive immigration, including those more recent events that you included in your post. These are the consequences of our actions.
malaise
(269,063 posts)forgetting that it was and is US banana companies who rule and are backed up by their home government.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)between South America an the US.
And then there is also the deportation of MS-13 gang member from Los Angeles, who have gone to form their own gangs. There are thousands of them. That's hat the biggest source of violence, and countless of the mothers escaping do it because the "maras" are trying to recruit their sons, or take their daughters -some as young as 11 or 12, to be their "woman". They must comply, or die. The only other alternative is to flee.
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)This book blew my mind. I worked for one of the guilty corporations.
Here is the author, in his own words
https://m.
malaise
(269,063 posts)A frightening classic
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)Howard Zinn's History
Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine
and my first eye opener in High School
William Shirer's "Berlin Diary" - a beautifully written chronicle of the prelude to Nazism. An important read today, imo.
Here is the introduction and the first 130 pages of Shirer's book
https://books.google.com/books?id=oYoqAAAAQBAJ&pg=PP6&source=kp_read_button
Enjoy
malaise
(269,063 posts)OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)He has a gentle writing style, maybe because his topic is so violent and terrifying
Enjoy the Berlin Diary Snippet
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)I keep these books together because I chronicled the territorial growth of the US Empire. My research and books are presently packed away.
Combined I found the whole story beginning with the Phillipines, if memory serves me. Sadly, the US has some serious 3rd world karma as you alluded above. We may have won the Cold War, but did we win the hearts and minds of all the countries we politically meddled with?
malaise
(269,063 posts)from Mark Twain than from anyone else. Not one big power is innocent - not one old or new. They collectively created this mess.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Some of these are on my list, but would really like to read William Shirer's Berlin Diary.
yardwork
(61,654 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)TNNurse
(6,927 posts)will not get this reference. They do not read. They are not literate. They get info from ignorant sources. They watch movies that are violent or fluffy without significant substance. They are not just embarrassing, they are dangerously hateful and bigoted.
gademocrat7
(10,660 posts)sandensea
(21,639 posts)And Cheeto knows this.
"It's a winning issue for me - bigly!"
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Because I can see him being fired soon if he keeps this up.
I think this is the first cartoon I've seen him draw with no humor in it whatsoever. And so it shouldn't.