The reporting on this issue is so dishonest. Back in 12-13 the media was pretty good at pointing out that the pipeline didn’t actually cross tribal lands, though that would often be buried in a later paragraph. But for a number of years now they’ve stopped mentioning that altogether.
I’ll bet a substantial majority of their audience thinks the pipeline actually does cross their land.
This is our side’s ‘death panels’. Both started as activist propaganda, got uncritically reported/amplified by sympathetic media, until it’s just a truth accepted by the faithful.
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If you think looting is bad wait until I tell you about civil forfeiture.