Gut check me?
5 Feb 2026 11:19Can someone -if anyone is reading, LOL- gut check me on this one?
This skeet was written by someone I both like and respect, and someone I consider to be an educator, and a damn good one, as well as a gifted scientist.

This seriously sits wrong with me. It feels... completely different, and that comparing a hideous government created situation with what appears to be a stranger abduction is rather insensitive.
ICE is killing people, both on the street and in custody. Not going to deny this. However, their primary goal is not murder and/or murder and abduction. Their intent, while nefarious from a human and humane standpoint, is not criminal and is at least "legal adjacent".
These things are not the same. The probability of getting a loved one out of detention alive is much higher than the probability of getting someone back alive after a stranger abduction.
So yeah. Both are bad, but tbh, I'd rather my loved one taken by ICE than some random person in the middle of the night.
This skeet was written by someone I both like and respect, and someone I consider to be an educator, and a damn good one, as well as a gifted scientist.

This seriously sits wrong with me. It feels... completely different, and that comparing a hideous government created situation with what appears to be a stranger abduction is rather insensitive.
ICE is killing people, both on the street and in custody. Not going to deny this. However, their primary goal is not murder and/or murder and abduction. Their intent, while nefarious from a human and humane standpoint, is not criminal and is at least "legal adjacent".
These things are not the same. The probability of getting a loved one out of detention alive is much higher than the probability of getting someone back alive after a stranger abduction.
So yeah. Both are bad, but tbh, I'd rather my loved one taken by ICE than some random person in the middle of the night.
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Date: 10 Feb 2026 01:32 (UTC)