Parents have to pay 8 dollars a minute to talk with their offspring that were taken away by the US deportation thugs.

I suspect that this fee is imposed not by the deportation thug agency itself but rather by the privatized prisons that the agency uses. In other words, the agency is privileging a few companies to shaft these parents rather than shafting them itself.

This indirectly does not morally absolve the agency of responsibility, but does provides a convenient shield for evading that responsibility.

Privatization of a state activity is wrong in general for several reasons, and one is that it systematically tends to lead to unaccountability. This is one of many examples.

The bully seems to be trying to move the world from a system of (incomplete) US hegemony to a system of three roughly comparable superpowers.

This can have some good effects. US hegemony, when challenged, has led to a proliferation of wars. A triangular system might provide a way out of some of them. At the same time, it could start other wars.

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Treating violence as a disease, and blocking its spread where there is an outbreak, has proved effective in various cities for reducing violence.

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