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Huh. It takes a special kind of person to respond to "my IRL friends credibly fear being disappeared by the government" with a sneer of "lol reddit".

Man, I am glad I am not that person.



Credibly? Are they illegal immigrants with criminal records? If not, do they also walk around in crippling fear of car crashes, fatal falls, aneurysms, choking, drowning, anaphylaxis, cardiac arrest, or a thousand other things orders of magnitude more likely to happen to them? Which assumes for a moment that the odds of what you think is happening outside of human error is non-zero.

The fact is your view of reality is being warped and it’s not good for your mental health or that of your friends.


Hmm. Responding to "the government is kidnapping people off the street with no due process or recourse, and my friends are desperately afraid their spouses will be taken." with a sneering "yeah but what about all the other ways to die" is certainly _a_ choice, but not one I would ever make.

Most people aren't the type to watch The Great Escape or Bridge over the River Kwai and cheer for the camp guards. It's very brave of you.




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