Ellie Belle
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they do care, but they care about creating the suffering.
They don't care about bad PR either to an extent because...
I mean, you know, this is what the show is about.
Authoritarian regimes and fascism is about control.
the escalation in Minneapolis last week where Renee and good was shot and killed.
I was collecting notes before this call and I'd already had many.
And then when I was collecting notes just from today alone, I was like, Oh my God, 20 things have happened.
We found out in the last day alone, there was a huge piece published in Slate today that ICE is doing zero background checks on their applicants.
A journalist got officially hired despite being a prominent person who speaks about leftism online.
They failed a drug test.
They didn't even complete all the proper paperwork.
ICE has literally no idea who they're hiring and they don't care because they'll take anyone who is willing to terrorize people.
Like that's going to cause, it's already causing a lot of community ruptures.
It's going to ruin communities.
And the reality is they don't care if it does because it's actually the point.
If this were about accuracy or real quote unquote justice for Americans who are, you know, quote unquote being wronged by immigrants or whatever their narrative is, they would have a vetting process.
They are incentivizing people to betray their values.