The damn image is AI I now see.

But here's the article.

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-employee-quits-had-make-moral-decision-2097370

Edit: OP image, ahem ethically modified with an image from the article linked above.

Ice Attorny resigning with raised fist and box of belongings after realizing he's one of the bad guys

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[–] 111 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    You mean he's not actually leaving the department of mnlftsiunbf gvcvh fgfrdvbbgi building?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    are you sure the US government hasn’t just regressed to a seal surrounded by gibberish?

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago

    Most people have limits ; I can see this man finding out he has a very small moral code he cannot ignore.

    Or he simply lost a bureaucratic turf war. There is a lot of reorganization going on , lots of power struggles. And he decided to whitewash and reinvent himself. Even if this guy is legitimate, there will be many of the later later

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    The good news is, anyone deciding to do this won’t make headlines; so especially as other agencies are wrapped into ICE’s mission, this might happen more often and we won’t hear about it.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wasn't aware that it was specifically targeting criminals at all.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Now I wonder what the guy thought when he signed up for the job.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Probably what all "good cops" think, "I can change the system from within" or "It's just a couple outlier bad cases, but I'll make sure to only prosecute actual bad people"

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Which isn't a bad idea really. It's an admirable goal.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Doesn't work, but it's an admirable thought.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If enough good cops rebel then they can drive the bad cops out. Dream scenario

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The issues are systemic and won't be solved by replacing people.

    As one example, it would be 100% legal in many states for a bad cop to rape a prisoner. No matter how many good cops testify against them, there would be no legal basis for prosecuting them. At best, department policy would give cause to fire them. Then they'll get a job in some county with an elected sheriff who ran on being Tough On Crime (tm).

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Gonna keep the border safe and stop bad people coming into the country illegally.

    Instead (or more likely, eventually), he got "gonna round up anybody who 'fits the description' and unperson them into the Dade-Collier concentration camp"

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ICE isn't targeting criminals at all, because criminals shoot back and it's way easier to just arrest random brown people off the street and then deport them to death camps without due process.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Many criminal organizations are fully infiltrated and controlled by the government anyway

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    When I started pouring the concrete for this slope, the builder assured me it would not be slippery.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    No quarter. To the gulag with you.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Of course the really important thing here, the crux of the whole issue, is that somebody used AI to make an image.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    No one is allowed to change their opinion when conditions change or they learn new information. You form an opinion then hold on to it no matter what.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you are referring to the title, my point was that this guy was already willing to accept being a step or three closer to evil than I would be, and probably than most of us would be. And still they went too far for him.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I can accept that he was one of the altruistic ones who thought of ICE as protecting America from the bad ones - who do exist. The fact that ICE morale has dropped into the shitter reflects that a lot of other employees are in that same category and don't like the way the agency is now. If they were primarily gung-ho look at me I'm kicking this guy's ass types, their morale would be soaring right now, like the assorted maggots who crawled out from under their rocks and puffed out their chests when Trump started gaining traction. Those people's morale doesn't go down when they're told to be stormtroopers, it goes through the roof.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Trump was always against immigrants, minorities irrespective of whether they are illegal or not. Was the ICE official living under a rock all this time ?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Or rather he was ok supporting the previous mission of ICE.

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  • He's not resigning in protest. All the other recent resignations are the same thing: their phase of work is over.

    They handled the difficult part of setting up an apparatus of death quickly, now they hand it off to someone else to run it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The United States needs a department like ICE, every country does, but the current iteration is forever poisoned. People keep calling them Gestapo, but I think Brown Shirts is more on the nose.

    I'd like to point out how wrong I was about all this. For years I had commented saying that modern Brown Shorts would rise organically from local MAGA groups, then come together under a federal banner of some sort. I never foresaw the Trump admin short cutting that clumsy method and directly utilizing an existing federal department.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The United States needs a department like ICE

    No, they fucking don't.

    What the US needs to do is fix its broken as fuck immigration system. That's what's creating the vast, VAST majority of the problem in the first place. For fuck's sake, it can take decades to obtain citizenship, and that's if you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't just get lost in limbo for reasons.

    America should be thanking the people who want to come here to go to school, to find work, or just to live the "American Dream" (TM). Instead, we ended up with a whole bunch of nazis doing fucking nazi shit like tear gassing, hog tying, and frog marching 6 year olds into the back of an unmarked van.

    We don't need ICE. What we need is way fewer nazis.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The thing is we really dont need ICE. We need someone doing the job, but ICE is a 21st century development and any us government department winds up becoming impossible to reduce the power of. If you spread their duties out acrods multiple departments they have a more difficult time doing this shit

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    you now see? it should have been blatantly obvious. I didn't even read anything and saw how fake it is visually

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