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The 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 o
by gruez 10mo ago
The 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 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo agoThere's a poem about this.
- pickleglitch 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo 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 10mo agoFirst off, people have been calling police pigs since time immemorial. Second, anybody who is abducting 5 year olds is subhuman.
- direwolf20 10mo agoWould it be okay to dehumanize Nazi Gestapo officers going door–to–door searching for Jews? If not, don't dehumanize ICE.
- AnimalMuppet 10mo 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.