Instructions unclear... the government has now created regulations to further entrench the technology and make sure that the companies providing it have no responsibility or accountability to anyone whatsoever.

Haha yeah, I was a bit confused but all good!

Did you respond to the wrong person? I fail to see how any of what you said could be directed at me.

do not automatically self-censor

grpd and unal*ved

lmao pretty sure you can say raped and killed here

OK. I'm not talking about many people here. I'm talking many people in general, in the population.

It is true that “thug” is being used as a racist dog whistle.

My point is exactly the opposite. Whether or not someone is a thug has nothing to do with the colour of their skin.

mass deportations started with Obama, and continued with Trump and Biden. Biden didn’t even stop the controversial family separation. And we have to be vigilant that the next Democrat cunt might just normalize all of this rather than making substantial changes and reparations with only some symbolic changes.

I agree. All governments = cunts. Trump + Maga = turbo cunts+++.

if you fail to acknowledge that, then you aren’t asking to end this tyranny and violence, you’re just asking for it to go back when it only affected minorities and you had the privilege to ignore it. and yes, if that’s your attitude you are undeniably as racist as ICE agents, just afraid to acknowledge it. you shouldn’t get to pat yourself in the back and call yourself an ally.

How you could read my original comment and think I might be racist is just mind-blowing. As for my supposed "privilege", I wasn't born in the USA and I don't live in the USA so...

Yeah? I didn't say that I thought that or that it was correct.

In my opinion tax isn't the answer at all. Tax is theft, specifically extortion i.e. "give me that, or else".

We have to stop them becoming rich in the first place, which means undoing capitalism as their wealth is stolen from the rest of us as profits.

If you're interested in understanding more here's some nice reading.

Respect for being open minded!

ngl there is racist connotations in the way people label ICE as "masked thugs" or "gang members".

What other meaning does this have? Especially when the OP goes on to call "masked thugs" and "gang members" racialized terms of criminality.

ICE also aren't just cops, they're an escalation past that and calling them just cops is minimising it in my opinion. One of the things stopping there being even more people out protesting or fighting back is that many people see them as just law enforcement acting within their remit.

So the problem is the ruling class and we're going to fix it by taking money from the ruling class and giving it to the ruling class? Good luck.

B-b-b-but he used to work for Blizzard dontcha know!

Idk about that but there's horror synthwave...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_5unoZTpoQ

https://dancewiththedead.bandcamp.com/

What a braindead take.

By calling out ICE as masked thugs you're calling them exactly what they are thereby stripping them of any legitimacy they may have in people's eyes by being part of the government. As for calling them gang members, that's exactly what they are. They're members of the biggest gang - the government.

Only a racist person who believes in race would automatically think of non white people when they hear "masked thugs". Anyone who isn't racist and doesn't believe in race just pictures thugs with masks.

The counter to racism is to realise that race doesn't exist, not joining in believing in this arbitrary social construct. Once you adopt this view you stop seeing race everywhere. If you're anti-racist but you believe race exists and you see it everywhere in everything then you're part of the problem.