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fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
5hr ago
But regardless of media spin they are actively choosing to have insane optics. The Hyundai plant. Tiktok videos with the pokemon theme song "gotta catch em all" on what I thought was a very serious topic that required significant government resources.
Also, again, they'd be way more justified if this wasn't so obviouslyfake. They don't actually want to solve this, they just want the base to think they are. It undermines all of it.
Where is e-verify? Why are they not going after illegal immigrants in hotels? Or farms? Why aren't they going after american employers, all of whom are documented, who make up a much smaller # of entities to deal with? American citizens pay illegal immigrants American dollars to work. Go after them! That's so much easier, that's so much more effective. Illegal immigrants will deport themselves if they can't make money to send home, they're not here for fun.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
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ICE's mission obviously isn't a bad mission, and most people agree with the overall goal.
The second part does not appear to be true. Or rather, it is true that "most" people agree with it, but there's a significant number opposing it both rhetorically (including here) and physically who do not, and that should not be ignored.
ICE's conduct is obviously not good, especially in an American context, which is a country that (ideally) has a stronger aversion to government overreach than most.
This is pretty much unproven. There's lots of stories, but most of them describe pretty ordinary law enforcement stuff (which I often object to, but applying such complaints only to ICE is not valid) and often use overwrought words like "kidnapping".
Democratic talking points like "if you're not enforcing the law in the way we would prefer you enforce it, you're not serious" are themselves not serious.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
5hr ago
It's my opinion that if you make concessions to your partners that they require as a basis for partnership, you cannot then renege on those concessions simply because you don't like them.
Yeah, a person I otherwise respect used to have a saying "accept compromise, but keep fighting", and boy I sure have a lot to say about how I hate the very idea of it.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
5hr ago
I don't understand why everyone is beating around the bush (actually I do, it's partisanship, or in rationalist speak "in-group bias").
ICE's mission obviously isn't a bad mission, and most people agree with the overall goal.
ICE's conduct is obviously not good, especially in an American context, which is a country that (ideally) has a stronger aversion to government overreach than most.
"Muh masks" seems to have become a meme here, but it's real. You're Americans, why are you okay being cucked by your government. Masked non-uniformed men are stuffing people into vans. Not just that, they're sending them to third world prisons??? That's insane. Obviously it's nowhere near as bad as the NKVD, but why are you okay taking even a step in that direction? What if the Democrats spin up the "super ATF" who start kidnapping people who fuck up their gun paperwork into unmarked vans to be sent to Romania? Government overreach is bad, period.
Judges, prosecutors, and the supermajority of law enforcement agents manage to do their jobs with their faces uncovered. ICE agents could too. Doxxing ICE agents is illegal and prosecuting people who do that is almost a bipartisan slam dunk. It would be especially bipartisan if ICE didn't make themselves such easy targets by acting like NKVD-wannabes. Most Americans don't like the current immigration situation. So make ICE not maximally shit looking, and then let the Democratic leadership alienate themselves protesting something Americans like, instead of currently, where Americans are starting to dislike ICE.
Further, the actions of ICE are WILDLY UNDERMINED by the fact the administration is EXPLICITLY SAYING they won't go after farm or hotel labour (why hotels?????) If they were serious about immigrants, they'd go after them where they were in large concentrations. They'd use their political capital to push e-verify. They'd go after the AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO PAY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AMERICAN DOLLARS. But they aren't, because they don't want to. This massively undermines the legitimacy of ICE.
They made ICE maximally inflammatory, and then you act suprised the Dems are inflamed? This is the sibling equivalent of winding up your little brother then acting suprised when he tries to kick you in the nuts. You'd get a lot more parental (american people) sympathy if you weren't obviously trying to piss him off and were actually doing the thing you said is your goal, because right now it just looks like you're trying to piss him off and don't care about the goal.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5hr ago
You'll sieve out particular haplogroups, and that only if we allow the technicality of a chromosome being one molecule. You won't sieve out the attachment to land or whatever cutoffs you're imagining exist that make some people legit members of an ethnicity and some not. Those are higher-level ideas. Like laws or morality, concepts that are rooted in memories and emotional responses of physical brains.
daguerrean
5hr ago
He has been transparently trolling across about a dozen comments over hours in flagrant violation of site discussion rules. Users have been asking him pointed questions clearly and politely and he has been deliberately obtuse and made no effort to discuss aside from low-effort snide dismissals
birb_cromble
5hr ago
At this point even important institutions are ringing the alarm bell.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
I would have opposed prohibition, and perhaps violated it wantonly. I don’t think I would have tried the stunts we see in reference to ice.
KMC
5hr ago
Incorrect. Ethnicity is absolutely real and exists in the material world, unlike laws or morality.
You can, in fact, sieve it out.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
Unfortunately, you don't get the former without the latter. A law that is not being violated will not be repealed.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
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I shared the sense of other posters that he was arguing to inflame/grandstand rather than to either explain or understand, which often presages a dramatic departure and certainly indicates people have "checked out" of the community (as they are no longer willing to exercise the thankless self-discipline it asks for for its sake).
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
5hr ago
I mean, I think that's the motte and bailey.
I think a majority of leftists believe that their official mission is illegitimate, and borders in general are basically unethical, but outright saying that is still a bit outside the Overton window of mainstream political discourse (insofar as you still care about trying to convince conservatives and "centrists" and put on good optics for them).
KMC
5hr ago
The fugitive slave act was meant to bring a recalcitrant north in line with the south's slavery policies.
No, the FSA was meant to bring the recalcitrant North in line with what they agreed to in the Constitution.
Article IV, Section 3
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
If the North didn't want to return fugitive slaves, then they shouldn't have agreed to it in the first place. If they changed their mind, they should change it via the constitution instead of lawlessly defying federal authority, authority which they themselves agreed to and submitted themselves to. These concessions were necessary for the South to continue in union with the North in the first place.
The morality of slavery is irrelevant, because unlike the Constitution, it is not agreed upon between all parties.
Slavery is perhaps about 80-90% of why the civil war started.
Northern defiance of the constitution is why the civil war started. The South, correctly, thought the North couldn't be trusted to abide by their own agreements.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
5hr ago
It's unfortunate that it seems like you have chosen to flame out
What does this mean? Is disagreeing with the motte hive-mind "flaming out"? I thought that was the point of this website.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
5hr ago
the conduct of ICE but the legitimacy of their official mission seems fine?
I really thought this was the whole point of this thread / argument but everyone really loves to conflate the two
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5hr ago
Plausible, I guess.
But something can be wildly biased without being representative. Outside of the Squad, how many members of Congress really care about it?
This is a genuine question.
07mk
5hr ago
Masked and armed bouncers dragging people away at gunpoint has horrible optics.
This is happening, and the optics do suck. You can tell they suck because people hate and fear ICE officers in a way they didn't a year ago.
The core issue here is that there's no causal relationship between the optics sucking and the behavior of ICE, though. The optics are defined primarily by 2 things: what people see, and how they respond to what they see. Former is primarily determined by people who hate Trump and hate the core mission of ICE, and the latter is highly determined by those people as well. And the past decade or so has established a pattern that these people will always make the optics bad when it comes to Trump, in a way that's entirely orthogonal to truth and fact. So it makes sense that ICE and the people who lead it, like Trump, have decided to focus little on the optics.
Credibility takes a lifetime to earn and a millisecond to destroy, and unfortunately, the media and political organizations that are against Trump pretty much blew their load within his first presidency (I'd argue within his first campaign) and are still in the refractory period 8 years later, furiously rubbing the poor flesh and wondering why it just hurts instead of shooting another rope.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5hr ago
Neither are there molecules of laws, or any particular ethnicity or nationality, or states.
TK-421
5hr ago
| ...however I'd wager you see the fight against Prohibition and its reduction in freedom as a good one.
Really depends on how we're defining "fight against Prohibition".
If you mean the political efforts to generate support for and pass the 21st Amendment - yeah, totally.
If you mean the efforts of smugglers and criminals to violate the law, sometimes violently - absolutely not, no.
KMC
5hr ago
I don't think moral legitimacy exists at all.
To paraphrase Pratchett's Death, take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one molecule of moral legitimacy.
And yet you act as if there is some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
5hr ago
there are no elite groups in America that actually want to limit immigration
Thank you for speaking the core truth
Trump is very conveniently ignoring the many illegal migrant farmers that keep food prices down
He's not just ignoring them, he's telling us (and them, and the Americans who pay them) he's ignoring them. Also hotel workers for some weird reason... maybe because he owns hotels? Lmao
KMC
5hr ago
The Fugitive Slave Act was 100% legitimate, and in fact there would be no United States without the federal authority to pass such an act and enforce it.
It's literally right there, Article IV, Section 2:
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
Without this clause, we don't get a United States, we get whatever else could have come from the Articles of Confederation when the South broke from the North (and likely the West from the North, too).
It's my opinion that if you make concessions to your partners that they require as a basis for partnership, you cannot then renege on those concessions simply because you don't like them.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
5hr ago
We do that, in a sense. We keep them as pets in strange dwellings, feeding them strange food, castrating them and arranging their entire lives around our enjoyment. Were an alien do that to humans we'd probably consider it torture.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Unlike Judges and Prosecutors which are a small, relatively cloistered group if need be, ICE is the law enforcement front line. And there is an active threat to dox and murder them. Sure you can prosecute the people who do, but it doesn't un-murder the husbands and fathers.
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