It’s not unfeasible that someone may try this, but it’s a statement of what is “allegedly” happening and not a call to action. And Patton Oswald is not encouraging people to do it, but encouraging people to spread the rumor around.
I also hope, perhaps naively, that anybody that does have thoughts of actually trying this would do a little bit of research first, to find out where this is happening and try to see if there are any locals doing this that they can join. It would be much less effective for an individual to do this as opposed to a group who can fake legitimacy by vouching for each other if they’re called out. And also to avoid a situation similar to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug dealer trying to sell to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug user. If you pretend to be ICE and start pointing fingers at other people who are also pretending to be ICE, it very quickly defeats the whole purpose and leads to impersonator infighting. And all of this to say, in looking into things further to attempt to effectively do what is being claimed here, they would discover that it is a fabrication.
And as we’ve seen, the right tend to take everything being said at face value as opposed to actually fact checking things. So they are more likely to be duped by these types of rumors.
What? No… Just the ice agents? What about the people that might actually try this?
It’s not unfeasible that someone may try this, but it’s a statement of what is “allegedly” happening and not a call to action. And Patton Oswald is not encouraging people to do it, but encouraging people to spread the rumor around.
I also hope, perhaps naively, that anybody that does have thoughts of actually trying this would do a little bit of research first, to find out where this is happening and try to see if there are any locals doing this that they can join. It would be much less effective for an individual to do this as opposed to a group who can fake legitimacy by vouching for each other if they’re called out. And also to avoid a situation similar to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug dealer trying to sell to an undercover cop pretending to be a drug user. If you pretend to be ICE and start pointing fingers at other people who are also pretending to be ICE, it very quickly defeats the whole purpose and leads to impersonator infighting. And all of this to say, in looking into things further to attempt to effectively do what is being claimed here, they would discover that it is a fabrication.
And as we’ve seen, the right tend to take everything being said at face value as opposed to actually fact checking things. So they are more likely to be duped by these types of rumors.
They go to federal prison for a felony conviction of impersonation of a federal officer.
I apologize you’re a different person. Please disregard the comment that I left if you were still able to read it in your inbox.
I think you wanted to reply to the person that replied to me. But you replyed to me instead if that makes any sense.
Or maybe I am entirely mistaken and you are indeed replying to me to which I would simply say I am very confused.