This is straight up bullshit. The counter-argument to this is always, “JEEEEHHEEEHEEERBS!”, but that fucking pipeline is a one-time contract gig for almost everyone involved, and you’re fucking over a colossal number of people for it.

Regardless of how you feel about pipelines or fossil fuels or native peoples this is a master class is government fuckery. Basically, a company says, “Hey, i want to build a pipeline (bc train cars are stupid)”, and then a bunch of government acronyms reviewed and approved it, notably the Army Corp of Engineers. And…

There’s some fucking Pinkerton shit going on out there. They’re siccing dogs on people. If you’re not outraged about building a pipeline that will invariably leak, poisoning land and water, you should be outraged about the goddamn barbarism of the jackbooted thugs trying to get the thing built. To say nothing of yet…