Alan Elrod (@aselrod.bsky.social)

I’m sorry but this is a damning indictment of the American people https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deportation-immigration-opinion-poll/

Bluesky Social
I really cannot stress this enough. When I visited France, I visited a building where I read an entry in a log book where a Nazi recorded my great-grandmother's death in the camps. The name of this building was the "Musée de la Résistance et de la *Déportation*". It was not the "museum of the death camps" because they don't _call_ them death camps. While it's happening, they call it "deportations". The name "death camps" shows up once the occupying army is rolling their tanks into your capital.
When I say that "abolishing ICE is the centrist position" I mean that as someone who, perhaps as a squishy centrist lib dummy, does not want violence. This is the position that ICE agents should favor. They should favor it because the other thing, the "left-wing" position, the thing that any student of history can tell you *is what happens* to the "deportation police" once such a thing exists, is *much, much worse for them*. And the LA protests are approaching that outcome *fast*.

@glyph I'm not averse to the violence. It's a tool. When it's done, we put the tool away.

We got here by gradually shying away from acting. Now we are left with the need to act more strongly.

Avoidance only increases the magnitude of the damage.