Charlotte Walker@purplepadma@beige.party
Obviously the police force attracts people who enjoy exercising brutal power over others, but seriously, who follows orders to bodily arrest frail octogenarian women for holding pieces of cardboard and doesn’t think, “OK, this is just stupid now, and I want no part of it”?
Nicole Parsons@Npars01@mstdn.social
@purplepadma@beige.party
In the USA, they're paying people to be cruel.
Such people in ICE get $30,000 dollars in bonuses to accomplish a fossil fuel funded fascist hijacking of democracy.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5494724/ice-is-recruiting-federal-workers-offering-bonuses-to-hire-thousands-of-workers
The fossil fuel industry is funding anti-protest laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/fossil-fuel-company-donate-lawmakers-anti-protest-exxon-koch
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/25/how-so-called-libertarian-charles-koch-drove-a-national-wave-of-anti-protest-laws/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/26/anti-protest-laws-fossil-fuel-lobby
https://scholars.duke.edu/publication/1560894
The fossil fuel industry is funding anti-immigrant raids.
https://www.iatse728.org/about/news/employers-weaponizing-ice-against-workers
https://www.vice.com/en/article/im-a-mother-of-four-palantirs-tech-helped-put-me-in-an-ice-detention-center/
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/749243985/mississippi-immigration-raids-net-hundreds-of-workers