Their plans are obvious. I'm not an accelerationist, but I don't see any reason for the world to delay putting forth the strongest possible response as soon as possible. The fascist fucks are cowards at heart and their hold on power is growing less tenuous by the day, call their bluff.
You might be the only person in here that gets this. There's a very deep selfishness to the "American dream". Like crabs in a bucket, you gotta grind to get on top of as many people as possible so that there's less shit raining down from above. If you're lucky you'll have enough society below you that the work you do looks luxurious by comparison.
What's the alternative? They have admins ban any and all accounts that might be made by ice or ice personnel? Refusing to validate them doesn't take them off the platform. They'd still be there, you just wouldn't know who they were. In fact you still don't, they could very well have puppet accounts all across blue sky, Lemmy, and all of your favorite instances.
At the very least when this account starts to post insane shit, you'll know it's actually them and not some edge lord cosplayer pretending to be ice. A verified account removes the plausible deniability aspect of anonymous posting.
And I'm not being argumentative, I'm asking a genuine question. This is the Gestapo wearing a uniform. If anything, they're stupid for asking for verification. This is them wearing ICE jackets to the grocery store.
The real test will be how bluesky treats the content this verified account posts. When (and let's be real, it'll be when, not if) bluesky refuses to censor this account, then they'll have proven themselves complicit.
So the shrimp from that place has been being dusted with pollution from a scrap metal smelter this entire fucking time and we only know about this because they managed to accidentally expose themselves. Amazing.
The real answer is that a serving of beans has more fiber than half the US eats in a week, meaning people who order from Taco Bell suddenly have their guts doing what they're supposed to do instead of the usual protien-and-fat shits.
Their plans are obvious. I'm not an accelerationist, but I don't see any reason for the world to delay putting forth the strongest possible response as soon as possible. The fascist fucks are cowards at heart and their hold on power is growing less tenuous by the day, call their bluff.