I keep coming back to what Kevin Kruse said here: the Trump regime is trying to get an ICE officer killed.

@inthehands yes, well, a pretext is only accomplishing anything to the extent there's anyone convinced by it

for example, moderates in positions of power

at some point, with the administration's habit of killing people, even the most nihilistic moderate is going to have trouble feeling like the people fighting back are the ones escalating

They are doing everything they can to make it happen: the endless escalations, the recklessness, the shoddy training, the quotas, the sense of impunity, the masks, the bounty hunters, the right-wing camera crews following them like ducklings, the redoubling of provocations after ICE murdered Good: what does it point to except baiting, a total non-concern for the lives of ICE officers, a wish to get at least one of them shot on camera?

Renee Good is a crisis for the Trump regime: not because they care about her life, but because ICE murdering her makes ICE look bad. They’ve been telling all these stories about all the imaginary violence ICE officers face. In their minds, it’s the people on the streets who were supposed to lose their cool first. Now they’re falling over themselves to make that happen.

We just want ICE gone, but their bosses want them dead. And no, I’m sure they do not understand this.

@inthehands you do get they don't need "pretext"? They've already gained total control

@ireneista
Yes, that is the bind they find themselves in now. They need an ICE agent killed fast.

Grim stuff.

@sortius
No they have not. This is a dangerously false and wrongheaded throwaway reply.

@sortius
Written for someone else, but also for you:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115860687777099579

@inthehands dude, you're playing it like it's February 1933, you're at January 1939... it's too late to talk about not giving them pretext.

You're just collaborating your way to oblivion

@sortius
Possibly also relevant:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115865700698134339

@inthehands not really keen to read it after your previous reply

@sortius Lastly, mostly for others reading the replies because I am probably about to block you for your obnoxiousness:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115866146267364003

@inthehands mate, you're the obnoxious one.

Your country has fallen and you're talking about pretext. They shot someone in broad daylight in front of cameras and witnesses.

They do not care, and you're the problem, along with everyone sitting there saying "let's put on frog suits"

@sortius@infosec.exchange Already blocked him, but just one more to close out the thread, in case anybody else from halfway around the world wants to splain my city to me:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/110079454709159458

@inthehands Very plausible. Especially since that's the same script as Jan6. Then it eventually became clear the idea was to see Pence or Pelosi or, hell, any old Congresscritter or recognizable name killed. That would open the way to declaring martial law (or facsimile thereof using some pet agency?).

@inthehands surely the leopards won't eat THEIR face?

@inthehands boosting though my boost would do nothing to help (i.e., get this message to people who are ICE agents who may still be under any illusions that they are serving the right people somehow)

@apophis @inthehands anyone who joins ICE already knows they arnt the good guys and doesn't care. They're here specifically to kill and traffic people

@sortius @inthehands You’re not missing anything beyond an anecdote about earmuffs and a tacit dismissal of your POV because you don’t live here (which isn’t really much of a counter argument).

But I do and I absolutely agree with the person that doesn’t live here, who can see things more clearly IMO.

If an ICE agent gets killed or not only tweaks the existing situation at the margins. They can make that happen themselves or fabricate the situation as needed, frankly.

@inthehands oh, more than a couple.