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Honestly, I would fall into this trap.

The federal agent genuinely sounds like she is a person having car trouble, this trap would work on me because I guess I too am a fundamentally decent person.

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What the fuck are you doing America?

[–] phx@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Punishing people for any form of kindness so that they are wary of helping anyone else in the future....

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's how you wear down the population, to dissuade people from engaging in resistance. This is also the point of the violent ICE raids: breaking the social fabric to better control people.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 9 points 1 week ago

Sadly, it was worked perfectly for a whole generation.

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

No good deed goes unpunished

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

Teaching individualism /s

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Dropping the mask.