Nonviolent crowd control does not seem to be a core competence of these federal forces.

They should augment deployed enforcement with those who have such expertise.

fish rots from the head. Violence, lies and grift. The very head is convicted grifter who is openly using his position for personal enrichment. Right next - Noem - trigger happy dog shooter, and why suddenly so many DHS ads with her ? :

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campai...

"Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer-funded campaign."

and that cherry on top:

"DHS, White House shared white nationalist song in ICE recruitment posts"

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/white-national...

> officials rushed to defend immigration officers without waiting for key facts to emerge – in what former immigration officials called a clear break with past practice for federal agencies

Without obscuring how bad is it, I don't believe there was ever a time when officials _didn't_ rush to defend federal officers without waiting for key facts to emerge. The us government has constantly loved to say that no one working for them has done anything wrong.

While I do feel like it is bringing attention to some questionable behaviour of the DHS and trying to share nuanced information I also feel like at parts this article kind of side step that in order to slander ICE more, though this has been apparent with Reuters for a while as the Good shooting article contains information about the agent saying "fucking bitch" but not her wife telling her to "drive drive" when the officer is positioned in front of a car, where I've noticed more left wing sources do that when reporting on it while more right wing sources do the opposite and leave out the former while including the latter.

Arguably ICE does seem to overreact but I would still appreciate more nuanced articles that really try their best to be purely fact based and don't attempt to manipulate the wording to make ICE seem better or worse than it is.

It’s hilarious seeing the kind of narratives the right is coming up with to avoid admitting the obvious truth which is on video from multiple angles. I’m now seeing people say things like “you can’t carry a gun at protests” (even though there are numerous photos of people openly carrying guns at right wing protests), or “here’s a different video showing Pretty was an agitator” (as if that excuses the execution), or “wait for bodycam footage” (even though there is a video of them removing his gun and later putting him on his knees).

I will say though that I am also a bit scared. When government officials push a blatantly false narrative, that they know is a lie, and their supporting voters completely accept that version of reality over what they can see with their eyes, it suggests that those same voters would be okay with ANYTHING the administration does.

Fascism has come to the United States.

Welcome to Active, let me take your coat https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Instead of getting mad, I suggest you get informed. Talk it out with your favorite "pro" LLM. What modifiable factors help buffer against the rise of the far-right? Group by effectiveness High/Medium/Low. Include a rationale and supporting evidence/counterexamples.

I'm sure you will find plenty of surprises in that conversation. For example your LLM will recommend European-style safety nets, which a lot of software engineers have a hard time with because they involve European-style taxes.