Why it is important to recognize that ICE is a paramilitary operation. Among other things, they are harder to reform than traditional police.


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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    This was a great read,

    I really felt this early paragraph “At best, progressives seek to convert. In the main, they name and shame – ineffectively. American ‘progressives’ distrust political power, period, are queasy about anyone having it, and suspicious toward anyone who actively seeks it, including other putative progressives. The contest as progressives conceive it is fundamentally a moral one: they believe they are right, and want their opposition to see the light and reform/conform. Thus, they don’t frame what they engage in as a fight but rather as a debate……”

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      Sometimes people are too far gone to be reasoned into acting right, and they can only be put down like rabid dogs for the sake of humanity. Could you have changed the mind of a rapey American soldier in Fallujah as some young Arab girl, for example? 😞