Stealing this quote from a guy I follow on Twitter, but it's along the lines of "a basic function of intelligence is discerning meaningful differences."
Surely one can discern differences between kidnapping Maduro for example and invading Iraq and killing 1M people, cost the US $6T and 3K men for 15 years. But yet the Greenwalds and Dave Smiths were citing the track record of interventions to hyperventilate about it.
That's not to say kidnapping Maduro was *correct* or *legal* or even good policy. I don't know enough to say for sure. But it was surely not remotely by any stretch like invading Iraq.
Same thing going on here. Ice enforcing immigration law, an explicit platform on which the current admin was democratically elected, is not remotely the same as forced injections, lockdowns, bureau of disinformation, etc. One can have any view one likes about immigration policy or whether those laws are right or wrong. But the knee-jerk (it's just fascism from the other side, statist) is absurd. Well, it's not entirely absurd, as all government action IS fascism to an extent, but that includes normal enforcement of criminal statutes, etc. IOW, getting exercised about the current thing as if it's like COVID is what's absurd, and so patently so, it just comes across as virtue signaling when I see it.
Chris Liss
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