Jimmy Carter pardoned Nixon because Carter was the bigger person and he believed that forgiveness is the most powerful act one can perform against their attacker.

What Carter forgot was, he’s supposed to represent the people who voted for him, and the voters weren’t, and didn’t care to be, the bigger person; they wanted accountability and didn’t place such abstract values on the act of forgiveness.

It was a good personal decision to make, but as a presidential decision, I find it lacking.

Lol. Lmao.

Justice delayed is justice denied. Order your state police to arrest these law-breaking ICE agents, fire any who decline to do so, and appoint new people who will.

Stop relying on your voters to do your job for you.

Why, so you can preach “unity” and “looking forward, not backward” while you decline to prosecute?

Call in the State National Guard or admit you’re part of the controlled opposition already.

The techno feudalists and their demented puppet are sabotaging the country quite effectively

Don’t threaten me with a good time

probably already fucked up by talking about it.

I don’t think so. If we get to the point they have time and resources to tack down stuff like that, we’re badly losing the fight.

Organizing is as easy as meeting your neighbors and starting a group chat to keep an eye on each other and maybe exchange information and resources. Rome wasn’t built in a day and all that. Focus on making connections to those closest to you and your network will grow organically from there.

Organizing is effective too. It’s a lot harder for them to take someone when it’s John, the electrician who gave you a hand fixing your kitchen light and not just “the guy in the blue house.”

How many people that are progressive or liberal or you know not right wing and are low-key infiltrating ice right now for the greater good?

Zero ;)

I say we dox this asshole instead

Who wants to bet Machado offered Trump the Nobel Prize in exchange for kidnapping Maduro?

It’s not just that. It’s also a terror tactic and a flaunt of their power. If we fight back, they fight back harder. If we don’t fight back, their revolution succeeds without a drop of blood being spilled. Don’t accept their tyranny out of fear of retaliation. The regime will claim we’re revolting at their leisure, regardless of what we do.

This is what real non-violent resistance looks like

I see that as a good thing. People who are just in it for the money are more likely to resist, especially if they realize there are more of them than the ones doing it for the love of the game.

In a vacuum, I’d agree with you. But the recent increase in recruitment effort and decrease in recruit screening would seem to suggest otherwise.

Even if you don’t get selected or want to join, every moment they spend processing bogus applications is a moment they can’t spend processing legitimate ones. You can resist by simply bogging down the system with AI-generated fake resumes.

ICE is not doomed to fail. But they and this regime will be their most vulnerable in these early stages. A swift, coordinated resistance is required to make the most of this time.

Yeah, I agree with you. The assertion was that no one was ever fired for saying anything about Obama, and all I’m saying is that’s not the case.

Sabotaging illegal orders is enforcing the law.

They’re already spread thin in MN, this will only make that worse. They’re already desperate to fill their ranks with enough bodies, this will only make that worse.

ICE is currently, and is likely to remain, susceptible to infiltration by resistors.

Any able-bodied people who are interested in offering non-violent resistance to preserve democracy should consider whether they’re willing to exploit this opportunity.

A government derives its authority from the consent of the governed. The governed offer their consent as part of a social contract. The government’s role in that contract is to represent the will of the governed by enforcing the laws passed by our representatives.

The reason it’s easy for us to expect them to remain and enforce the law, is because that’s what they promised us in exchange for following their laws and paying their taxes.

Public servants have an obligation to the general public that overrides all other priorities. If you’re not prepared to use your powers to resist fascism, or even corruption, on behalf of the public you serve, you shouldn’t pursue a career in public service.

We consent to following their rules in exchange for them representing our will; that is the social contract between a government and her governed people.