In the UK in the late 70's they rolled out a scheme where they fitted disabled drivers cars with little flags they could raise if they were in trouble. There were TV campaigns to make people aware - "if you see this flag, the driver needs help".

Campaign was swiftly abandoned, because enough people saw the flag to mean "I cant defend myself and will be easy to steal from!" that it did more harm than good.

I may be from a hive of scum and villainy (southsiiiiide!), but also I have jumper cables, so back up while I take care of this.

A common use of spare battery is torture. There's a clear correlation /s

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

Teaching individualism /s

Don't even need handcuffs, just need a thin tree or a pole.

Have them wrap one leg around the tree/pole and sit down on it, I remember reading that it would be nigh impossible for them to get up from that position without help

Helping someone is communist /s

Isn’t Oklahoma passing a law that makes it illegal to help an illegal Immigrant in any way? If these laws pass, then the agent can say they were posing as an illegal immigrant, making the helper immediately guilty of a crime.

I think their "rationale" is to snag the cartoon characters they've invented in their minds.

They expect an opportunist criminal to crime them.

This only makes sense if you believe there are literally millions of criminals in a town of 50 thousand residents.

I expect them to shoo away helpful people indefinitely

(Or, more likely, just arrest a random passerby and call it a success)

Yep, if history is any guide, Democrats, if they ever get back in power, will want to look forward, not back. They've done that with Nixon, Reagan, the GFC, torture, Trump's whole ass coup, ...

It just means that the exact same characters will just try again.

There's not going to be a regime change. It's just going to collapse like Haiti.

Stop waiting to be saved. It should be on sight at this point. The civil war is here and the rightoids are winning.

We are in unprecedented territory, and it will require unprecedented solutions. Our poor past choices to kick the can down the road have brought us to here, and now we have to deal with the can, and we have to crush it.

We can't just rely on the old patterns and strategies, we need new ones going forward. When you say that we'll only do what we always do, NOTHING, you tell those who are in charge that that's what we expect, and that's what we'll accept, even if we hate it. And thats what they'll do - NOTHING.

We have to tell them in every possible way, that we expect JUSTICE. We expect these people to pay harshly for their treason and corruption, and we will accept nothing less. Elected Democrats are not our friends, they are our Warriors, and if they won't fight for us, they have to know that we will fire them, and perhaps even prosecute them, if they won't do their proper jobs. If you are too cowardly to stand up to MAGA, we'll bring in someone who will.

So, No, they will not get away with anything. Those ICE Apes who murdered innocent Americans WILL spend the rest of their lives in jail, eventually. Just because they are evading justice at the moment doesn't mean they are in the clear. They know that as soon as things change in this country, and they will change, one way or another, they are going to prison. They will be sweating every election, they will be looking over their shoulders, knowing that one day they'll be arrested, and they'll never breathe free air again.

Wouldn't call it the end result, but rather the practice of attempting to make people less empathetic is that of an aggressor looking to divide the people. It has nothing to do with the concept of sin, and everything to do with breaking people apart, making people singular, more manageable targets.

This is a way of convincing people to be less trusting of those around them to prevent them from wanting to organize or cooperate with others out of fear that they may be suddenly arrested by undercover agents.

I am a fan of pilling people at bar trivia:

'Which tactic did Ted Bundy and Immigration Customs Enforcement both use to capture their targets?"