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I’ve thought for a long time that non-white countries such as Haiti that defied the West and won are inevitably subjected to constant interference and economic punishment until they are forced to collapse. Basically, it’s the concept of the “uppity negro” needed to be put back in their “place,” but it’s an entire country. The West has and never will forgive Haiti for successfully giving their French slavers the boot and they must be punished for all time because of it (see the Haiti Independence Debt for starters). I don’t think it’s an accident that Trump chose to demonize Haitians in particular. I think there is a deep antipathy towards Haitians that is baked into our political establishment for the above reasons, along with cartoonish depictions of Voudon/Voodoo. The fact that so many ordinary Americans can easily be persuaded that dark-skinned others are kidnapping and eating their pets doesn’t reflect very well of them.

Even if we put this aside, there’s still the fact that our political discourse refuses to acknowledge that the reason migrants keep showing up is because the West keeps destabilizing their countries of origin. The European migrant crisis is the result of the US invasion of Iraq, coupled with the destruction of Libya. Similarly, most migrants to the US are fleeing the results of the Monroe Doctrine in Latin America. This is only going to get worse because of climate change. The West wants two things that are mutually incompatible, namely to have these isolated ethnostates, while also desiring imperial plunder to fund an increasingly unsustainable lifestyle.

As for the second Trump shooter, there’s a lot that is still unknown about him at the moment. What I have heard is that Trump wasn’t scheduled to be at the golf course at the time the shooter was there. I think this detail alone will give lots of fuel for speculation. It’s also odd that he lived in Hawaii and didn’t seem to have a job, yet he could somehow afford to travel all the way to Florida and somehow obtained military grade weaponry. Then there’s the Ukraine of it all. If the first shooter seemed like the stereotypical spree killer in his late teens/early twenties, this guy seems (at first glance) like an over the hill oddball. It’s also possible that this shooter really believed that Trump is an existential threat and needed to be taken out once and for all, but failed even more so than the first guy. It’s a strange situation.

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Five Cents's avatar

The question is just how much violence will we have down the stretch to Election Day and then, what will happen in the aftermath of the election. Things are like this because of Trump’s stink, our press corps is pretty awful, and our political process is controlled by big money. Hold on to your hats! It’s gonna get rough.

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