wemptronics
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wemptronics
5d ago
In Nice Facebook Group people may be more genuinely unsettled by factual explanations in a that's our preferred style of bot way. On reddit, bot or AI accusations are regularly and routinely used to derail discussion. A portion of it is bots, trolls, or propagandists of intent, but then a greater number are people who have observed this and get the same use out of the technique-- a handy way to route around any type of discussion. "Echo chamber" is an accurate description of this phenomena despite being so popular to be meaningless. Bots are bad>bots say bad>you say bad>you're a bad bot.
The blue area in my state never committed to any real sanctuary policies. The state has also made some decisions for them with regards to certain mandated cooperation which made it easier for blue politicians to ignore.
According to news reports, ICE stepped up operations in my state the first half of last year. That seems supported by a substantial increase of reported ICE arrests from 2024 to 2025.* According to social media ICE stepped up operations around the blue area in the last 6 weeks. I can't say by how much that is a real increase, because ICE watch styled posts aren't a reliable indicator. My state reports thousands of more deportation arrests in 2025 than the likely upper bound of 3000 that DHS claims for the surge in Minneapolis. I haven't diligently gone through that data, but I'd enjoy looking at man hours spent per arrest to compare. Mr. Vice President, do your thing.
Neither the task force styled Afghanistan metro surge or the sustained, but heightened enforcement efforts puts up the kinds of numbers that the hardliners say they really want. We're talking thousands to tens of thousands, not millions. With that taken into account the headline grabbing surge juice doesn't appear worth the squeeze. Whistle resistance isn't going to endure 3 years.
- Bonus uninformed speculation: based on the timing and sequence of the stories that do exist, it seems like increased efforts started on one side of the state and are sweeping to the other. Could just be me though.
I just looked and it wasn't hard to find dissenting voices from 2A advocates if that counts as right wing. James Reeves has a bunch of skeptical tweets, and he is one of the most famous industry personalities, a lawyer, and shitposter. He quotes Kostas Moros in a few of his shared posts who is a fierce 2A advocate. It's still all speculative, admittedly.
I'm not watching each and every video to inform my speculation. It doesn't look like an "execution" to me, but it does look like a bad shoot. What it looks like to me: police attempted to arrest a man and successfully disarmed him during his arrest. The presence of a weapon heightened alert of agents who, despite the number of men in arm's reach, did not coordinate well enough to restrain the individual. That failure allowed the man to squirm and contort enough to the moment where a cop blasts him. That cop will probably claim he saw him reach into his pants or whatever and he will probably be correct. Doesn't make it a good shoot.
A silly mod score doesn't memory hole an X times reported AAQC post or hide it from the editorial review process, I hope. Every time I've participated it hasn't been very difficult to tell what's in there for AAQC review. I've downgraded "High Quality" posts to "Good" in the janitor queue because of that. There are more than a few posts I'd like to see more of that are not at AAQC threshold, because it is its own special gold sticker.
Now that I know the volunteer janny institution has been captured via a Long March, I'll have to escalate my
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