• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    For just an instant, he stopped being NYPD and simply became a New Yorker and I had a lot of sympathy for him.

    Tactically, I am very happy with local law enforcement even the NYPD of all fuckin’ agencies beefing with ICE. It’s a vital and wonderful step. But yes, it’s hilarious in the irony. This dude thought it would always be other people on the receiving end of the injustice, I guess.

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        It’s not quite that… the NYPD has more than twice as many employees in New York as ICE has nationwide. Police forces in American megacities are sort of equivalent to the whole militaries of some small countries. That’s why events like this are a real good thing. This one, at least as much as is shown in this clip, is more the leopard trying to eat the face and getting slapped away.

        This is the kind of factor that Gene Sharp means when he says that dictatorships can collapse literally in weeks or days when their support goes away, given the right kind of circumstances.