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Given ICE's unpopularity this is like trying a find a very specific piece of hay in a hay stack.
by spamizbad 9mo ago
Given ICE's unpopularity this is like trying a find a very specific piece of hay in a hay stack.
- wat10000 9mo agoOr is it more like trying to find all the hay in a hay stack?
- gruez 9mo agoThe point is presumably to make an example of a few, and use that to deter future people from posting information about ICE officers, not to send everyone who oppose ICE to the gulags.
- wizzwizz4 9mo agoI fear they've burned the credibility they'd need for that to work. If they claim to have made an example of a critic, how do we know that was actually a critic – and by extension, how do we know that not critiquing them will keep us safe?
- ASalazarMX 9mo agoThat's when loyalty becomes the new bar. Polarization makes everyone not supporting the regime an enemy. I don't see USA fully going down that slope, so I'm confused about what is the final goal. Maybe it's just a temporary whim of the executive and his backers.
- Xiol 9mo agoThere's a poem about this.
- pickleglitch 9mo agoNot YET. But ICE's budget is now larger the military budget for most countries. They are spending billions developing sophisticated AI-powered surveillance tech infrastructure and building detention centers (aka, concentration camps). When they run out of immigrants to deport, they aren't going to just sell all that crap on ebay. They're going to go looking for more targets.
- KerrAvon 9mo agoArbitrary cruelty is the point. There isn't a coherent rationale. You're going to the gulags if the subhuman pig in the mask says you are. You'll be lucky (?) if they don't just decide to execute you in the street. This is the reality on the ground right now. In a blue state in America.
- AnimalMuppet 9mo ago> ... if the subhuman pig in the mask... You're using exactly the kind of dehumanizing rhetoric that the administration is using in order to justify their violence and inhumane treatment of immigrants. You might need to think about that. Other than the quoted snippet, everything you said may be true. Still, don't dehumanize your opponents.
- Ar-Curunir 9mo agoFirst off, people have been calling police pigs since time immemorial. Second, anybody who is abducting 5 year olds is subhuman.
- direwolf20 9mo agoWould it be okay to dehumanize Nazi Gestapo officers going door–to–door searching for Jews? If not, don't dehumanize ICE.
- AnimalMuppet 9mo agoThey're dehumanizing people. How like them do you want to be? In fighting them, don't become them.
- direwolf20 9mo agoIs there really any difference between the Nazis and the people who fought the Nazis?
- bulbar 9mo agoDehumanizing ICE will help the administration. They WANT war in the streets. That's how you solidify your power without proper democratic processes.
- pickleglitch 9mo agoThat's where AI come into play. This is why Palantir exists.
- reactordev 9mo agoThis is exactly why palatir exists. They data mine for you.
- general1465 9mo agoPalantir will give a lot of fake positives and overload remainder of ICE forces who will be chasing ghosts. Heck even Google believes that I am a woman and is constantly showing me women hair and clothes products. And they are doing targeted data mining for ads business for decades.
- pickleglitch 9mo agoICE doesn't give a shit about false positives. They are already using a facial recognition app as definitive proof of someone's immigration status, even when they are shown documentation such as a birth certificate. They don't care if it's accurate, they just want targets.
- general1465 9mo agoThen what they need AI for? Just pick random people from the street and deport them wherever.
- TitaRusell 9mo agoThe much easier solution is ID laws and make everyone get a passport. Fucking amateurs. Mobile phone? Passport Voting? Passport Buy weed? Passport Police stop? Passport But that wouldn't let tech bros get paid billions I suppose.
- general1465 9mo ago
- JCattheATM 9mo ago> Given ICE's unpopularity Seems divided along party lines unfortunately. Plenty of people are proudly saying this is exactly what they voted for.
- estearum 9mo agoNope. Trump is -13% on deportations according to YouGov before the Alex Pretti murder.
- JCattheATM 9mo agoIsn't this the same problem of many people who feel otherwise not participating in polls? The conservative subreddit shows a very different story. I'm sure the asktrumpsupporters sub does also.
- halfmatthalfcat 9mo agoI would not be making generalizations on any group based on what spews out of Reddit.
- JCattheATM 9mo agoIt's fair to judge a community by the average sentiment their members post.
- bulbar 9mo agoBegs the question if the conservative Reddit community really represents the average Republican voter. I don't think so.
- JCattheATM 9mo agoThe average republican voter voted for trump, so I do think so.