2) This week is the 10-year anniversary of the biggest criminal fraud possibly in world history--the global financial crash brought to you by the big banks and our "public servants" that allowed them to do whatever the hell they wanted and to hell with the victims
-
-
Show this thread
-
3) Not one major bank executive was thrown in jail. Millions had their retirement savings wiped out, homes foreclosed on, or ended up in the streets. The media and government's response: it was a "once-in-a lifetime cataclysmic storm and it won't happen again." For the victims..
Show this thread -
"we'll do better next time!" 4) Another thing normalized by our government and the media that works for it is the mass slaughter of American citizens at schools, movie theaters, concerts, malls, etc. There's now a sad formula of thoughts and prayers for a day or two and onto...
Show this thread -
the next. 5) It's also been normalized for the government to work with fossil fuel companies to infiltrate, terrorize, surveil, and brutalize American citizens exercising their first amendment against planet-destroying pipelines and other "energy independence" projects.
Show this thread -
6) It's also been normalized for American citizens in Flint (and now elsewhere), including children, to be poisoned by their government...and for them to then be left to fend for themselves without
#MedicareForAll, for them to pay for their poisoners criminal defense lawyers...Show this thread -
It's now been normalized for victims of the
#FlintWaterCrisis in their 30s and 40s to die of cancers and other illnesses in high numbers (I know because I've knocked on the doors they used to live in). It's now been normalized for young children as young as 1-years-old to have...Show this thread -
rashes and white blisters all over their skin (met one adorable baby who JUST moved into Flint home in May with white blisters all over her skin from bathing). This silent poisoning in Flint has fallen off the airwaves of corporate media because if it doesn't affect our coastal..
Show this thread -
elite media, it's not worth covering as a CRISIS past the 1-2 weeks they covered it at length in 2016. 7) It's now been normalized for CEOS like Jeff Bezos to try and track their workers with tracking bands over their wrist. It's now normal for Amazon workers to piss in water...
Show this thread -
bottles rather than take a bathroom break at places like Amazon. It's now normalized for people who work full-time to live in outdoor tent cities because they don't make enough to afford housing (met a few at a houseless village in Portland). 8) It's now been normalized...
Show this thread -
for state governments to appoint unelected emergency managers to overrule elected government officials AND for state legislative bodies to repeal state ballot measures passed by VOTERS
Show this thread -
9) It's now been normalized for sick people to have to rely on GoFundMe to fight life-threatening illnesses rather than the government that should be providing their healthcare as a human right!
Show this thread -
10) It's now been normalized for media 2 pretend these abnormal things aren't happening, or that nothing can be done, or that no one should be held accountable. This is why I'm launching
@StatusCoup soon. If u want these things covered, help make it happenhttps://www.gofundme.com/status-coup-news …Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.