Miller is a ghoul, but who are the troglodytes who believed, or still believe, that they’re going after the worst of the worst? This is a terror campaign aimed at the softest of targets
It’s hard to imagine the full effect of America’s modern self-sustaining fascist disinformation ecosystem. It’s an alternate reality that follows the same patterns as cult brainwashing, with the same cognitive effects and resistance to deprogramming. North Korea and Russia have a version of this but modern first-world algorithmic feeds and astroturfing / bots multiply the impact and resilience against real information by a thousand times. The people captured by it don’t know it’s there, even when it wraps them as tightly as a straight jacket.
So: I think the majority of conservatives in the US at least believe ICE is only targeting criminals, and the typically just the worst ones. They don’t even see stories like this unless they’re strong enough to break that propaganda bubble. And when they do, that fascist media treats it as an honest mistake and that the victims are overreacting.
It was never about going for the worst of the worst, not in any part of the chain of command. The point was to start a war of attrition with one goal: drive out undesirables by any means necessary. Trump and his ilk have a soft spot for Putin and are taking a trick straight from his playbook: destroy enemy morale by attacking their weakest and most vulnerable.
Miller is a ghoul, but who are the troglodytes who believed, or still believe, that they’re going after the worst of the worst? This is a terror campaign aimed at the softest of targets
It’s hard to imagine the full effect of America’s modern self-sustaining fascist disinformation ecosystem. It’s an alternate reality that follows the same patterns as cult brainwashing, with the same cognitive effects and resistance to deprogramming. North Korea and Russia have a version of this but modern first-world algorithmic feeds and astroturfing / bots multiply the impact and resilience against real information by a thousand times. The people captured by it don’t know it’s there, even when it wraps them as tightly as a straight jacket.
So: I think the majority of conservatives in the US at least believe ICE is only targeting criminals, and the typically just the worst ones. They don’t even see stories like this unless they’re strong enough to break that propaganda bubble. And when they do, that fascist media treats it as an honest mistake and that the victims are overreacting.
Sure, but I think a healthy portion of them see the cruelty and celebrate it
It was never about going for the worst of the worst, not in any part of the chain of command. The point was to start a war of attrition with one goal: drive out undesirables by any means necessary. Trump and his ilk have a soft spot for Putin and are taking a trick straight from his playbook: destroy enemy morale by attacking their weakest and most vulnerable.
Miller is the heart of this operation, it’s his baby. That’s not defense for anyone else. It’s just recognition of top of the command structure here.
He also set absurd deportation quotas and pushed ICE to go after the “easy” targets to meet them.