wraelk
20d ago
This is wild to me: I'd say "yes sir" to the garbageman, assuming he was asking me a question where it made sense and being reasonably polite to me.
Or to someone I've actually hired to do a job for me, I'm pretty sure I actually have used it with the pest control people.
I'd use it for basically any interaction in a professional setting: if someone's working a job they deserve at least that much respect, assuming they're not being rude or disrespectful to me. I'd honestly expect both of us to be using that terminology back and forth.
wraelk
20d ago
But this is broadly what we would expect, in a world where ICE anonymizes themselves: when people want to attack ICE, they need to do it while they're on their official duties, because they don't know which people at home are ICE agents. Attacks that are prevented by anonymizing ICE don't happen, because ICE anonymized and thus the attacks were prevented.
We can't examine the counterfactual world where attacking ICE agents at home is easier, since we're not living in it. Conceivably some of these attacks could have been replaced by attacking agents at home, if it were easier to do so.
Yeah, that's a fair point: there might be some difficulty finding people from nothing, but I absolutely believe motivated extremely-online people could compile a list of ICE agents who were willing to state it on Linkedin.
Trivial inconveniences might matter there, but it's clearly something that's doable.
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