Jonathan Kamens 86 47Jan 25
White folks in the U.S.: I encourage you to sit with the fact that this feeling you're feeling, that you could be gunned down by a cop for no reason without them facing any repercussions, is a feeling that every Black person living in the U.S. for the past 400 years has justifiably felt for their entire lives.
Resolve now that if we make it through with democracy intact, you will actively work toward a world where everyone can be free of that fear.
Don't forget.
#BlackLivesMatter
Show threadTaylor SilverJan 25
@jik ice aren't cops
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Jan 25
@taylors sure, jan
Show threadAccordionBruce

@jik @taylors
ICE are cops

As long as the “good cops“ aren’t testifying against the “bad cops“ there are no good cops

Jan 25 at 1:24amToot!
Show threadAaronJan 25
@AccordionBruce @jik @taylors Pretty sure that's what "ACAB" means.

It's still true.
Show threadアイアンハンドガンダムJan 25
@aaron @AccordionBruce @jik @taylors
Show threadTaylor SilverJan 25
@mrt181 @aaron @AccordionBruce @jik personally I think ice are worse. At least the nazis had a clear agenda. Ice just kill for the fuck of it
Show threadTaylor SilverJan 25
@AccordionBruce @jik they aren't cops though
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDJan 25
@taylors @AccordionBruce @jik No true Scotsman
Show threadTaylor SilverJan 25
@martinvermeer @AccordionBruce @jik sorry my good human, I don't quite understand your response :) can you rephrase please?
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDJan 25
@taylors @AccordionBruce @jik You understand me perfectly well. Blocking offense.
Show threadPaul BrownjohnJan 25

@AccordionBruce @jik @taylors

The "system" under which ICE agents operate was brilliantly devised; a system that Goebbels would be proud of!

If I understand the system correctly, an agent is paid a signing up bonus of $50,000 however that bonus is repayable if they resign or are fired before they have served in their role for 5 years. This being the USA; a country totally bereft of any meaningful employment protection laws, presumably they can be fired at any moment on the whim of their supervisor and thus be liable to repay the $50,000 or be bankrupted. Life being what it is, I imagine that the $50,000 bonuses have long since been spent. So there we have it - a system that constrains agents to kidnap random people off the street or miss their quota, be fired and then be bankrupted!

Show threadTaylor SilverJan 25
@Paulos_the_fog @AccordionBruce @jik it's so fucked isn't it. I frequently call Stephen Miller Temu Goebbels.
Show threadPaul BrownjohnJan 29

@AccordionBruce @jik @taylors

What's the betting that the day before they hit their 5 years service, agents are fired - now hand back your $50,000 bonus!