So like, I'm not arguing against this comparison, per se. I'm saying we need to get real honest about where we're setting the baseline.
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Are these messages meant to say, "dear ICE agents, watch out because 'just following orders' was a path to execution" and if not why bring it up? And if it is, what path do we foresee that gets to that point?
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Nuremberg comparisons are premonitions of violent reconciliation. They are meaningless without the willingness to be party to anti-fascist violence.
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Qualified and sovereign immunity exist and are stronger than ever. Chelsea leaked hard evidence of actual war crimes and nothing happened. There is no framework for legal consequences for this behavior in America without dramatic upheaval of our systems.https://twitter.com/saavik2017/status/1008593509002235904?s=19 …
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"Watch out, copper, think about Nuremberg before we come for you with a legal system that fails to convict cops who are even caught on HD video straight up executing unarmed, compliant Black men. You'll rue the day!"
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The Nuremberg trials didn't happen because the Third Reich abruptly and willingly changed it's path. It took a brutal war to tear that regime down, so like if you wanna make Nuremberg comparisons to America we need to start talking about the bloody war that will precede it.
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*other nations* came in and put those Nazis on trial. Which other nations are gonna come put ICE agents on trial? Because that's what you're arguing when you make this comparison.
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