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Ryan K
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Judging people by how well they protect the weak and the environment.
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I feel seen.
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In my job, we often try to quantify risk using probability and severity, and I find it really unintuitive. I wonder if there could be better communication on this.
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Maybe it's about risk perception. The chance of getting hit by lightning is low, but the outcome can be fatal. And we _do_ often see news saying that climate scientists or the IPCC underestimated this or that. Even if the consensus isn't changing that much, it's a bit alarming.
December 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
So yes, Canada’s system is different. But the real reason ICE is so awful isn’t modern politics or incompetence. It’s that parts of U.S. law were built to SURVIVE EQUALITY WITHOUT ENFORCING IT — and they’re still doing their job.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
That retreat hardened into doctrine. Each time rights enforcement threatened the social order — Reconstruction, civil rights, mass policing — courts raised shields. Qualified immunity is the legal memory of that fear.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
After emancipation, Congress empowered courts to punish state officials who abused power. Southern officials resisted. Violence followed. Rather than fully enforce equality, courts narrowed remedies, softened liability, and insulated officials.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
So where did that instinct come from? It didn’t appear out of nowhere. It emerged when the U.S. first tried to hold officials accountable for violating the rights of a newly freed population — and the courts panicked.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Canada never adopted this doctrine. There, the assumption is: if the state violates your rights, the state answers for it. In the U.S., the assumption quietly became: officials must be protected from the people.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Enter qualified immunity. In the U.S., officials aren’t liable unless they violate “clearly established” law. Novel abuses don’t count. Courts dismiss cases before evidence is heard. Impunity isn’t a bug — it’s engineered.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The U.S. model is different. ICE does visible interior policing. Wrongful arrests rarely lead to meaningful consequences. Even clear rights violations often go unpunished. This isn’t just culture — it’s law.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Canada still detains and deports people. But enforcement is mostly administrative: hearings, reviews, court oversight. Officers and the state can be sued. Abuse happens — but the system is designed to be checked, not theatrical.

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December 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Composition fallacy. You’re cherry-picking one drawback to ignore the full-system benefits.

Next step will be "moving the goal post" fallacy.

Let’s face it, ICE vehicles are
probably a part of your identity and you're resistant to the change.

Drive one. You might like it.
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Reposted by Ryan K
Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In short: When we hear “Aunt” in this sense, it’s not an error - often it’s an embrace of extended-family logic.
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM