Link: https://fuelarc.com/hot-takes/ice-agents-trap-man-by-pretending-to-be-stranded-motorists-a-ploy-to-get-the-worst-of-the-worst-who-are-midwest-nice/

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.

War on Decency

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.

Today you, tomorrow me you're deported.

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.

Yeah that was Ted Bundy's tactic too.

Feel free to call my take hyperbolic but this is genocidal.

This aims to eradicate a culture. That's the definition of the word.

The real goal is to turn nice people into assholes like them.

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?"

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.

We've been genocidal ever since we started ripping children from their parents.

Ripping minority children from their parents has been a tradition in the USA since the very beginning. From the shameful history of slavery, to the shameful history of native American boarding schools, to the shameful current reality of anti-immigration policies and enforcement.

Yes, we've been genocidal the whole time. We've pretty much never been the good guys.

No fucking shit. The people running this world are just there, no good, and should be gone.

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've known people who got car jacked using the same tactics, DHS are continuing to use criminal tactics to fuck with working class people

They seem to like blurring those lines. As though the agents being in danger is part of the goal.

Makes you wonder, what government wants the spark to ignite the powder keg? That would be like packing the Reichstag with flammable stuff and telling a local arsonist about it -- OH.

Just looking for an excuse to invoke the insurrection act and a means to rally the base.

Sundown towns are here now. Seems repealing the Civil Rights Act is not an impossibility. Looks the Green Book is needed again.

Just another example of manufacturing fear so that we don't trust each other.