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"...cognitive dissonance has become a political orientation. It has framed our watching-daily, hourly, for generations— the reality of what American money and materiel does to entire populations of people, their bodies, their histories, their land." @brandonshimoda.bsky.social
The normalization of cruelty extends far beyond the incarceration of immigrants. There is little to separate the aspiration to run "the largest deportation operation in history" (Trump) from the aspiration to maintain "the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world" (Kamala Harris). The people targeted for deportation by the United States and the people forced to seek asylum from the conditions often created, in whole or in part, by the United States, are the same people. But cognitive dissonance has become a political orientation. It has framed our watching-daily, hourly, for generations— the reality of what American money and materiel does to entire populations of people, their bodies, their histories, their land.
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM