Honestly, I would fall into this trap.
The federal agent genuinely sounds like she is a person having car trouble, this trap would work on me because I guess I too am a fundamentally decent person.
As we all know, the worst of the worst tends to stop to help stranded motorists. It’s a well-documented criminal trait.
I may be from a hive of scum and villainy (southsiiiiide!), but also I have jumper cables, so back up while I take care of this.
You don’t have a son named Roger, do you?
A common use of spare battery is torture. There’s a clear correlation /s
In the UK in the late 70’s they rolled out a scheme where they fitted disabled drivers cars with little flags they could raise if they were in trouble. There were TV campaigns to make people aware - “if you see this flag, the driver needs help”.
Campaign was swiftly abandoned, because enough people saw the flag to mean “I cant defend myself and will be easy to steal from!” that it did more harm than good.
What the fuck are you doing America?
Punishing people for any form of kindness so that they are wary of helping anyone else in the future…
That’s how you wear down the population, to dissuade people from engaging in resistance. This is also the point of the violent ICE raids: breaking the social fabric to better control people.
No good deed goes unpunished
Teaching individualism /s
Capitalism.
“Well that wont happen to my country, we’re exceptional! We will tame capitalism and make it work for us!”
Yeah well people thought that here.
So here’s the new way to help stranded motorists in the US: hold them at gun point, handcuff them to a tree, then fix their car.
Where the fuck is the suspicion, nevermind “reasonable suspicion” behind the use of this tactic? Is helping someone with a broken car a crime, an antifa gang symbol or something to that effect?
There isn’t even the pretense of crime fighting in this clip, just a bait trap to kidnap normal, caring people.
Helping someone is communist /s
I think their “rationale” is to snag the cartoon characters they’ve invented in their minds.
They expect an opportunist criminal to crime them.
This only makes sense if you believe there are literally millions of criminals in a town of 50 thousand residents.
I expect them to shoo away helpful people indefinitely
(Or, more likely, just arrest a random passerby and call it a success)
This is honestly pretty smart on the part of the fascists. A big portion of what is so effective about the resistance is that it’s founded on strong community action. Neighbors helping neighbors, because it’s the right thing to do.
Posing as a neighbor in need makes that act feel riskier. It changes the calculus, just a little, in favor of not helping your neighbor. They achieve their near term goal of getting their victim, but there’s an even more valuable (to them) effect of weakening community ties overall.
Time to double down on looking out for your neighbors.
EDIT: Looking out for them so you can help. In case that wasn’t clear.
Cartel tactics
I… this reminds me of a time that a good samaritan actually helped me when I was in trouble. He had a Hispanic accent and fucked off before the cops came, but him stopping to help might have saved my life.
I of course had no way of knowing his legal status, but it doesn’t matter to me. That’s the kind of person you want in your country.
This kind of “trap” is antichrist behavior. As in against the Bible and against the words of Christ.
Many Americans proclaim that they are a “Christian” nation, even though its own founding documents prescribed no religious alignment. It’s not hard to figure out why.
When the printing press was invented, the Church was against it because it did not want the knowledge of the scriptures to be accessible by commoners; it wanted control over how the scriptures were interpreted to keep the common folk acted in line with the Church’s interests.
For the most part, their fears were unfounded. Even today, with near-universal literacy rates, the average religious American has not actually read their holy book. They rely instead on preachers and the media to interpret the text for them, hence America’s widespread endorsements of the “prosperity gospel” and “empathy is a sin”.
I keep hearing people speculating that, when the American regime changes, these DHS and CBP agents will be put on trial.
But I think we all know that’s never going to happen. Best we can do is name, shame, and socially ostracize them.
There’s not going to be a regime change. It’s just going to collapse like Haiti.
Boo them every time you see them.
We could also spend a cool 200 at home depot
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Sounds like the end result of thinking empathy is a sin.
arresting those who are kind enough to help.
and conveniently, those people tend not to be republican.
Wouldn’t call it the end result, but rather the practice of attempting to make people less empathetic is that of an aggressor looking to divide the people. It has nothing to do with the concept of sin, and everything to do with breaking people apart, making people singular, more manageable targets.
This is a way of convincing people to be less trusting of those around them to prevent them from wanting to organize or cooperate with others out of fear that they may be suddenly arrested by undercover agents.
Yeah that was Ted Bundy’s tactic too.
I am a fan of pilling people at bar trivia:
'Which tactic did Ted Bundy and Immigration Customs Enforcement both use to capture their targets?"
Imo the fatal flaw in the US system is that DHS doesn’t have to have courts with juries for prosecutions. No jury would convict after hearing this was how somebody was caught
Juries are regular citizens. Regular citizens voted for Trump and don’t care about felonies, pedophilia, eating kids, fraud, adultery, etc.
Man shoots his own daughter in an argument about Trump in Texas and the grand jury wont even indict. They are fucking sick in the head.
I read that article too, the number of texas shootings that aren’t prosecuted paired with like the uvalde school shooting response just shows how little texas residents care for their neighbors and how unseriously they treat deadly violence. I’m not sure Minnesota has the same problem.
I wouldn’t be so sure, I live in the Minneapolis suburbs and work in a more rural area, there are plenty of people out here who are brainwashed by right wing propaganda. They’ll be turning in their neighbors for thought crimes the moment the regimes asks them to.
There is a degree to which jury selection occurs that makes it difficult to stack a jury with trump psychopaths.
Probably depends on where someone lives. You can only dismiss a certain amount I thought.
War on Decency
Well if a declining world super power attacks weaker nations (Venezuela) then why wouldn’t it attack it’s own, nicer people, rather than meet a challenge? Remember, bullies are cowards underneath. “Look at me and behold my greatness!”…(after beating up the tiniest kid on the playground).
Feel free to call my take hyperbolic but this is genocidal.
This aims to eradicate a culture. That’s the definition of the word.
