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I can't imagine every ICE agent not being doxed immediately if the Democrats win in 2028. That names list is leaking within one month.
No, see, this week the doxing is just crazy right-wing paranoia. Democrats would never endanger law enforcement personnel for partisan advantage, or in this case revenge. The violence is really rare and just fringe wackos after all. C'mon now.
Yeah, we're still only at Step 1. I thought the memo was out about this.
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That's not how this is going to play out.
At best, you're going to have the ICE data used by megacorps from Apple to Zillow to blacklist these people from ever being employed again; at worst, you're going to have Nuremburg trials for many of the more prominent ICE members (don't worry, they'll be super humane -- no deaths by hanging; that's crass and right-coded. Just prison and felony charges, to make sure you're maximally unemployable).
Porque no los dos?
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As far as democrats go they're the Gestapo and will probably be tried if the MAGA coalition fractures badly enough post Trump. Either that of Vance holds it together and starts imprisoning "Antifa" in mass. Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose in the next 8 years.
No they won't. A bunch of them will probably get fired, a few senior members will get indicted on charges that may or may not make sense. The vast bulk of ICE will not be.
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The Democrats are not going to throw the criminal law at federal agents unless they clearly exceeded their political authorization in an egregious manner. As a baseline, consider the fallout of Abu Ghraib, when random US soldiers cosplayed gitmo. Most got away with a demotion and a maybe a token prison sentence. By contrast, a civilian psychopath who tortured his neighbors that way would likely rot in prison for decades. And of course, nobody went after the CIA torturers, because they kinda had government authorization.
"Government goons are shielded from facing the consequences of crimes they commit" is a principle which helps whomever likes a powerful government, which includes both Democrats and Republicans.
I also do not think that Vance or anyone will imprison the broader ideological antifa movement. They will certainly go after people for conspiracy to commit a crime, but they will not succeed in imprisoning people just for celebrating political murders.
The Kirk assassination and ICE clashes might look like things are heading for a climax, but in the great scheme of things this still seems a tempest in the teapot, rather than Troubles-level of violence. When in doubt, default to "nothing ever happens, politically".
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You badly underestimate how long things can drag out in a muddled form.
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