Like I said, short of an armed uprising, nothing will satisfy them.
I would settle for the local authorities being explicitly used to make arrests of kidnappers, violent assailants, and being utilized to provide protection for citizens to public places (e.g. schools, state & municipal property, etc.).
Again, what are you doing to advance the step of abolishing ICE?
I wish more people would just be honest about being too scared and risk averse to do anything differently.
It’s one thing to not have the stomach for the risk of what could work to change the situation and admit it, but it’s a whole other thing to start at the level of risk you’re already comfortable with and claim emphatically that it’s going to be obviously effective. It’s a pernicious thing that liberals do too often. Wherein they try to recast risk-aversion as courageous or righteous shrewdness and cunning regardless of the actual context or evidence. Sometimes risk-aversion is just risk-aversion.
I don’t know anything about what
@sword_9mm does or has done, but my criticisms, questions, and prosecutions come from a place of having invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in “normal” political activism. Spending many hundreds of thousands more on specific support for relief, assistance, and service to the marginalized of the sort that the extremists are exploiting and targeting. Having been gassed, sprayed, and shot at. Having dealt with relentless death threats for me and my family at various times.
It’s unlikely that I’m going to lose any sort of, “Oh yeah! Well what are
you doing!?” pissing contest here. So, when I’m questioning things, it’s coming from a place of experiencing what hasn’t and doesn’t seem to work and when proposals seem pretty orthogonal to the stated goals.
I don’t start considering or exploring a solution space for achieving a goal by first constraining myself to the level or risk I’m currently able or willing to tolerate. That’s true for me personally, professionally, and politically. I start at considering what could work regardless of my level of risk tolerance, and then if I think it’s too risky I either admit that to myself and understand I’m extremely unlikely to achieve my goal, or I figure out what I think I’ll need to do to be able to adjust my risk tolerance.
It’s fine to be afraid, but being afraid isn’t automatically wisdom. Sometimes it’s just fear.
if I find a different live stream I make a new post.
