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This feels really weird to me:
protecting the community against ICE is of course a righteous cause, but to do it by basically acting like less murderous cops, inconveniencing a lot of innocent people is not the BEST way to do that.
Especially since many of the people who would be willing to volunteer for such a task will tend to be less willing to stop again once ICE hopefully goes away making the stops an unnecessary nuisance..
It's not weird at all. It's called operant conditioning: Instead bombing Nazis, freeing victims in deathcamps, heck even hunting nazis, they have become Nazis themselves, gestapoing non in-groups in their community “for their protection.”
It is precisely this conditionate praxis why I have given up on 🇺🇲ans ever revolting. They have become the very thing they fought against.
so much incorrect. let's just start with the accusation they have become cops. just flat out wrong
Then why are they watching who comes in or not in their community? What's the point of barricading their entrances? Why are they even stopping traffic for?
Liberators would have already demolished deathcamps. Noncombatants would be feeding, sheltering, and networking with the victims. And the combat ready would be bombing Lockheed Martin, Palantir, SpaceX, Amazon, Google, Meta, OpenAI, et al.
What're “cops” to you?
Sounds like an interesting plot line. Let us know when your screenplay is complete.
Glad that you at the least are aware 🇺🇲ans will never do this🙃
Now time to chant the reality: 🇺🇲ans are all fascists.