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DHS Agents Arrest Man by Pretending to Be Stranded Motorists… A Ploy to Get The “Worst of the Worst” Who are Midwest Nice (fuelarc.com)

submitted 2 days ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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Honestly, I would fall into this trap.

The federal agent genuinely sounds like she is a person having car trouble, this trap would work on me because I guess I too am a fundamentally decent person.

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[-] phx@lemmy.world 103 points 2 days ago

Punishing people for any form of kindness so that they are wary of helping anyone else in the future....

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 58 points 2 days ago

That's how you wear down the population, to dissuade people from engaging in resistance. This is also the point of the violent ICE raids: breaking the social fabric to better control people.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 9 points 2 days ago

Sadly, it was worked perfectly for a whole generation.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

No good deed goes unpunished

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