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ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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Ah yes, that hotbed of dangerous leftist radicals the Cato Institute (narrator: the Cato Institute is studiously Libertarian and was founded by Charles Koch, among others).

Untrained people hired for partisanship instead of skills and acumen can only look stupid, until they become comically lethal. Idiots dropping tear has in traffic is only the beginning folks. It's all going to look like a Monty Python skit soon

Oh boy! I wonder if CATO will get to add yet another agency to the list of groups that have seriously unironically demanded they be arrested for treason!

I want to go back to when the person in charge would say "The buck stops here." Do you hear me Kristi Noem? It's not our fault the thugs you are in charge of beat up on innocent people. The buck stops with you!

Decades of research into authoritarian enforcers—whether riot cops, secret police, or loyalist military units—show they tend to score high on right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). This means they crave order, fear change, and see obedience and aggression as virtues. belib.org/ICEgoons

belib.orgThe Psychology of Goons: Why Authoritarians Always Find EnforcersFrom the Sheriff of Nottingham’s men in the Robin Hood legends to the Nazi Gestapo, Soviet KGB, Pinochet’s DINA, and modern police in various authoritarian states, the tyrants groom their enforcers.

ICE appear to be all the bad cops that got caught falsifying police reports. Pretty clear what we are witnessing in America when the "enforcers" don't want their faces exposed. The clock is ticking on this fascist fiasco.

i know what i'm about to say is completely unrelated and i get the feeling jay and the devs are gonna go "WAFFLES" again but. you're on the board of directors right? please, if you're seeing the damage your ceo and the devs are doing by pushing their users away, PLEASE fire them

Even more than going fash, the problem with the RINO rhetoric of the 80s and 90s is it was always going to lead to this. Invariably, dipshits always No True Scotsman their allies one by one until they're alone on the most rickety branch imaginable. Serves them right, the assholes.