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As a member of ICE, you may be wondering: How are the people we thrust into our vans supposed to know that we are, in fact, acting under color of law and not just kidnapping them? Can I really do this job while wearing either an Army uniform that I have assembled myself in a confusing, over-the-top way or the same T-shirt I just wore to my failed custody hearing?

Sure! Here’s what to wear to let everyone who interacts with you know that you are an agent of ICE!

Do we have a uniform? No.

Uniforms show that you are part of something and that there is someone to call if anyone interacting with you has a complaint. A uniform indicates that you are not a rogue criminal seizing someone’s mom and hurling her into an unmarked van without reading her her rights: You’re an officer of the law doing that.

Who are they going to call about some guy in an ill-fitting T-shirt and long shorts? Why, behind that face covering, he could be the billionaire Mark Zuckerberg! Better treat him as though he is worth billions and accountable to no one, just in case!

If you’re wearing a uniform, people will be disappointed when you fail to show them an arrest warrant before entering their place of work. If you’re not wearing a uniform of any kind, they won’t know whether to be disappointed until it’s too late!

If you decide to wear some sort of uniform anyway (Army Surplus? January 6 Surplus? Your choice!), you can still send the message that you intend to be accountable to no one by wearing a face covering.

A face mask can say so many things: “I’m trying to do my part to protect those around me,” or  the exact opposite. A balaclava can say, “I’m skiing!” or, “I’m about to commit a jewelry heist,” depending on how you accessorize it.

The point is, we want you to feel free to express yourself! ICE believes in freedom of expression, except for graduate students who want to lead protests or write op-eds. Your clothing should tell a story about you! Just not who you are or that you are acting in any kind of official capacity. Wear a pink button-down, a shirt, a jacket, and some sort of backwards hat. Wear something that looks like what Ben Affleck would wear if he were really going through it and was visiting the Dunkin’ drive-through on foot. Wear something that, if you showed up at a costume party in this outfit, would make people say, “A soldier, but wrong somehow, like he’s in a video game,” or, “Did I see you at Charlottesville?”

If the person you are shoving into a van has any inkling that you are an officer of the law, you are doing it wrong. You should look like someone who is going to Home Depot because you forgot something (what you forgot was an arrest warrant for your next stop).

As Coco Chanel said, whenever you assemble an outfit, before you leave the house, look in the mirror, and take one thing off! Specifically, your badge identifying you as an officer of the law. Coco collaborated with the Nazis.

Remember, the right ensemble and accessories can say: I’m accountable to the people of the United States, and we are still operating under rule of law. So before you get dressed each morning, think about the message you want your outfit to send. It shouldn’t be that.

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Having to explain to way too many people that no, Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

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Anon wrote: Hi! I'm an INTJ, and I have a struggle, to which I'd like to read your opinion. So my problem is, that I tend to be too rational and detached. I often dismiss information input that isn't rooted in well thought out rationality, or doesn't connect to some kind of scientific approach,or rely too much on data and cold, hard facts. - This was always the case in my life, but somehow, now at the age of 26, I started to feel somehow inhuman - not in the good sense.

Essentially, I came to the realization that I probably missing out being human, and operate like a calculator or computer. It started to feel souless. When I realized this, I reviewed my whole life, and also realized that in some form or others, I always craved the touch of humanity, but always ended up either shying away from it, or deemed it too vague or unstable to let it affect my psyche.

But then there was those times, when I read a really deep book, or saw a very soul touching piece of theatre, and I remember seeing the colors of the World around me more vibrant, felt as the wind touches my skin, realized that I live. And then felt too vulnerable and started to fear that if I continue down this road, I won't be able to operate as successfully and efficiently as I can without this. I started to fear that If I show some kind of weakness, I Will fail.

But somehow, I seem to be unable to let go this part of the human existence. I feel drawned towards it, inspecting it with curiosity, much to my unpleasure, sometimes I secretly interested in this dimension more than the perfect functioning formula of life where everything is best calculated. So, now I decided that I want to explore this, and stop with missing out being human for once and for all. I want to live fully. It caused me so much isolation and loneliness - even within myself.

Also, I realized that disregarding this dimension can hold the danger of missing out pieces of information that would normally make me more efficient in decision making and would make me a more developed and more high quality being. So the question is: In your opinion, what should I do? How to engage with my self, with my being? Thank you in advance.

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It sounds like everything you've described falls under the purview of tertiary Fi development. There is already information in the study guides about it, so you can review and learn on your own.

One of the main lessons of type development is that each of your functions has something valuable to contribute to your life. This implies that going out of your way to reject the development of a particular function means missing out on something very important to your self-actualization and general well-being. Resistance against function development eventually turns your personality unhealthy because of becoming imbalanced or extreme.

You are now feeling the pain of this imbalance. You have spent too long neglecting your feeling life. Yes, it is indeed the F component of personality that allows us to feel fully human, to understand what it truly means to be a human being.

Art is one of the major ways people express their feeling life. It is a relatively safe and acceptable form of exploration and expression. Art holds the possibility to move and touch you very deeply. However, it cannot substitute for the other major pathway of F expression: close interpersonal relationships. This pathway is more risky because there is more uncertainty and unpredictability. But keep in mind, the greater the risk, the greater the reward as well.

You are INTJ? To be INTJ is to pursue your aspirations with a strong and relentless will. This should also apply to Fi development. If you allow fear to hold you back, you're not going to get very far very fast. I'm not saying you shouldn't progress safely; I'm only saying that you have to commit. Be fully willing to challenge yourself to open up your heart, so seek out and embrace every opportunity to feel.

Remember: Ambivalence is an enemy of type development.

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in loving memory of my favorite shirt

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Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

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how’s that house that raised you?

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Black cats are lucky. (via leahweissmuller)

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I think I just found the only reasonable exchange involving two people with opposing views on porn to ever exist on this website

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The list goes on and on –> (x)

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Sometimes as a European you play an American game and even though you speak fluent English and culturally there's not too much different you can Tell you're missing some kind of cultural context

I had no fucking clue what a mormon was when I played the New Vegas DLCs

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tumblr staff finding out their site has crowdsourced a viral song, only to discover it is 100% unusable in any corporate marketing scenario

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Way, way too real (source)

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A protester in Warsaw on Friday bears the words: ‘I will not be living coffin’. Photograph: Robert Pastryk/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

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I honestly feel like the proliferation of LED headlights was the canary in the coalmine for the general attitude we see in the political climate these days and i'm not even remotely kidding

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So for all of you who think nothing matters:

We have a local, I guess I'll call it an events complex. It's where concerts and the fair go. It's owned by the city.

When Trump started the whole ICE thing, our commissioner sent a letter to the local representatives, telling them they could use it as a detention center for illegal immigrants. Our event center. Where the 4H kids show their fuckin' lambs.

"The fuck you will" was the resounding reply.

So, when I talk about coalition-building, and working with people you do not agree with or maybe even like, this is what I'm talking about. There was an immediate and vocal show of disapproval, from all sides. We all contacted people we knew would dislike this, REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY FELT ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE. The meeting was packed with people yelling at the commissioners. Of all political stripes. Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Prairie Populist, Independent.

Some were, of course, the tumblr-style arguments about inherent humanity, but--I think more compellingly if you're actually trying to put the pressure on--there were questions of, 'How are we gonna get paid?" "Are you aware of how, as the only event center for more than two hours, much fuckin money this brings into the community? ANd that immigrants of all types make up less than 2% of the population of the entire state?(my argument), "Do we trust the government to pay us?", "Isn't there a fuckin' empty prison in [town about an hour from here]? Are you just being a kiss-ass?' (offered up by a man I know to be very conservative indeed. BUT HE DID NOT WANT OUR SPACE USED FOR THIS) and, an argument that was so good I was infuriated I didn't come up with it, "DO you think the bank is gonna want to be known as the sponsor of "National bank Detention Center?" (Which caught on and the bank had to offer up a letter saying how they hoped the commissioners would use the event center as intended.)

They folded. A letter came out a few days ago from the manager of the event center, saying it was decided that the events center would rescind the offer, as "more acceptable alternatives could be found." They blinked.

That's the thing. All that happened is that a bunch of people got mad an went to ONE TWO HOUR MEETING. It changed everything.

SHOW. UP.

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Hey. International people.

Keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico or whatever your term is for it. Do not allow the Republican regime to label that body of water the Gulf of America to the world. The name came from a the term Mexica, what the Aztecs called themselves. It’s been called the Gulf of Mexico since the 1600s.

Keep calling it Denali. The original name before it was Mount McKinley. Don’t let the Indigenous Peoples/First Nations be erased.

It may sound stupid and petty. But it is an attempt to rewrite history and make us forget the origins. It is a literal white washing of history. This type of censorship is a beginning to greater evils.