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I get where you're coming from, but I find it pretty difficult to sympathize with privacy issues faced by the innocent employees of an agency that routinely violates my privacy rights to get the same info.

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I don’t blame you. Anything strictly ICE-related gets a “sad trombone” reaction from me. And that extends to certain portions of CBP as well.

I appreciate you reflecting on it, but please try to continue reflecting -- saying you get a "sad trombone" reaction is incredibly frustrating to read. You're making light humor around very horrific things as if it's some comedy. These are our friends and families being taken away from us.

> You're making light humor around very horrific things as if it's some comedy.

Thats a bad misread.

You’ve gravely misunderstood. I’m saying I don’t sympathize with employees of ICE when something like this occurs. They’ve made their decision to continue working at and supporting an agency that disregards the rights of citizens and non-citizens. They have no room to complain when their work numbers and emails get published considering how much worse they’ve treated people.

What about all the employees of Meta, Alphabet, etc that have systematically destroyed the attention span and lives of billions?

That has nothing to do with the topic at hand. This whataboutism is misplaced.

It absolutely is related. People in this thread are alright abusing DEA agents who are willingly doing work that they are instructed to do from their employer while the big tech employees are doing what their evil employer instructs them to do. If DEA is bad therefore DEA agents are bad. If big tech is bad therefore big tech employees are bad. Keyword being IF. There are plenty of people that think DEA is good and I bet there are plenty of people who think big tech is good. Point being is that plenty of bad is happening all over the place by employees following instructions.

What have I gravely misread? I'm telling you that it's fucked up to minimize a situation by making a "sad trombone sound". There's really nothing else to my post.

Like, you realize that it's not okay to respond to grief by playing this audio, yeah...? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQeezCdF4mk

the fuck...

Either you still don’t get it or you are commiserating with CPB, and we can’t really tell which at this point.

To be explicit, I guess: fuck CBP and fuck the assholes who think it's okay to "whomp whomp" when peoples loved ones are taken away from them. Giminey...

you’re making things a bit too much about yourself. here let me add what you’re adding to the mix

Grief comes in many forms, friend. I hope you can see that.

It’s minimizing to make the sound when ICE and CBP employees’ work info is leaked? Ok, if you say so.

You've misread.

as if humor is not the most human way to deal with tragedy. get off your high horse. People are dying.

pots and kettles

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