Sorta off topic, but ive been playing the game We Happy Few recently, and I want so badly for them to make an America DLC where you grow up going through American public school and being taught you live in the greatest nation on earth, then you stop taking your Joy and the disillusionment sets in.

That the immigrants are IN the US illegally. Is my guess.

One thing I’m noticing in these comments, and in a lot of comments threads is the “well yeah, duh. Everyone already knew that” and while I’m definitely in that camp and have done that myself, I am starting to wonder if there is danger there.

Like, this is a significant breach of privacy and trust and the kind of thing that we should be up in arms about. But we already assume the government is doing the worst movie villain shit imaginable, so when we have evidence of it we shrug it off as just another Tuesday.

Yeah, waters wet. We should still be alarmed when we see a puddle of it somewhere it shouldn’t be. (I don’t know if that analogy actually tracks but I’m sticking with it).