cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40006019
from Seattle Times
Dec. 6, 2025U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is calling for the immediate release of a Clark County man whose attorneys say was mauled by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement dog despite not resisting arrest.
Undercover immigration officials detained Wilmer Toledo-Martinez, of Vancouver, Wash., outside his home on Nov. 14. An ICE agent pretended to be a construction worker, claiming he had hit Toledo-Martinez’s vehicle and needed to exchange insurance, luring the family out of their home, according to the senator.
Another agent was waiting for Toledo-Martinez outside, releasing a dog that then mauled him, according to his attorney. As of Saturday, Toledo-Martinez, was being held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
Nazis doing Nazi shit isn’t shocking to anyone.
I am horrified, but not shocked. We said the gestapo would come and here they are.
Those that have a conscience are already shocked.
Remind me why they’re doing this again? Vague white nationalism?
They’ve been convinced that their suffering is the result of minorities and not rich people.
Kind of like how Democrats have been convinced that their suffering is the result of racists and not rich people.
This is America. We have no conscience left to shock.
Everyone is waiting for the aha moment where we’ll finally arouse the long dormant inner decency of the masses of this country and we’ll all rise up against the evil that has made its home here but it never comes.
The sociologists who study such things say we’re way, way out from a large uprising, as the information age has us weak, soft, and demoralized. The size and sprawl of our country means that game theory/prisoner logic/mass bystander effect all apply which keep the flames down. The daily grind and short collective attention span keeps us all stunned and marching along. If we don’t find a way to stop the culture wars they wedged in and rediscover our shared values, this will keep going.
It will not keep going forever. A few decades longer at best.
The climate will end all other plans. Be sure of it.
Those plans may change to something worse, but the status quo of people being weak and complacent will end, by by force of nature. Will that mean revolution? Who cares. It will be too late. It is too late.
A lot of things should, but apparently don’t.
You either have surveillance capitalism, xor you have a conscience
Nice logic
