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A British woman was shot dead by her father last year after the pair had argued about President Donald Trump earlier that day. Lucy Harrison, 23, was fatally shot on Jan. 10, 2025 while visiting her father, Kris Harrison, in suburban Dallas at his home in Prosper, Texas. Harrison moved to the U.S. when Lucy was a child.

Prosper police originally investigated her death as a possible case of manslaughter, but a criminal case in Texas was not brought after a grand jury in Collin County opted not to indict him. Her death is being investigated in Cheshire Coroner’s Court in England.

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    trump derangement syndrome strikes again. this mental disorder has infiltrated almost all levels of government including ICE and has killed 2 US citizens. and now another one. when will there be a cure of this disorder.

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      Way the fuck more than 2. You may not have seen the other ≈500 or so, because those deaths weren’t caught on camera, but since ICE was founded in 2003, around 500 people have died in ICE custody. In the last year that has skyrocketed to around or over 60 people dying in a single year (2025). Previously the high point, even under the first Drumpf administration was only around 30-32 people in a year.

      In 2025 60 people died in ICE custody. In 2026 they have gunned down, directly murdering in public as opposed to in custody, 2 people before they took them into custody, THAT WE KNOW OF.

      Who the fuck knows what they are doing outside of camera range. That’s like 99% of US territory, though admittedly ≈80% of the population lives in the scanscapes of the cities and towns.

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        Yup. That young woman who had a seizure, was (supposedly) taken to hospital, then hasn’t been heard from since got to me. All of it is tragic and horrible, but of the recent cases, that one stands out for me, cause you just know she’s dead. And they won’t even fucking give the family any closure.

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          And that’s just what they are telling us. There is no federal law that enforces local and state law enforcement to divulge the amount of times they fire their weapons, much less how many people die in custody.

          ICE may have already killed thousands last year. There are over 1,000 people that no one can account for that were supposed to be in Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers cannot find them. ICE claims not to know their whereabouts.

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            ICE may have already killed thousands last year.

            ICE has quite likely already killed thousands last year, you mean. God it fucking sucks just typing that…

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              I’m hoping for the horrible snowball chance in hell that they misplaced them by deporting them illegally, or just literally losing them en route somewhere.

              I realize that’s not fucking likely, but I live closest to their Otay Mesa facility, and am wondering why an older veteran than I hasn’t taken a killdozer to that particular concentration camp.

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                I should pay attention to usernames a bit more, lol.

                I can tell you why you haven’t, though, cause it’s the same reason from our other thread: compassion.

                But, I feel pretty safe saying we’re in agreement!

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      don’t do that. calling it anything other than a cult only provides them with more fuel to burn in their “us vs them” hate machine.

      yes, they are deranged. yes, they are psychotic. yes, they are a danger to the general population. no, it’s not a syndrome. it’s a lack of education that empowers domestic terrorists to manipulate and brainwash people susceptible to suggestion, IE a “cult”.

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        They don’t see themselves as a cult. You calling them a cult just allows them to ignore everything else you have to say. You have to meet them with their own doublespeak if you want to break the cultish brainwashing, and force them to question themselves.

        Antagonistic conversion will only entrench their beliefs. The way you have to deradicalize them is to earnestly question things until they can no longer deny the hypocrisy and doublethink/ doublespeak.

        Remember who you were when you were 2 years old, and “why” was the greatest question in the world, but force them to provide receipts. Make them explain the joke that you “innocently” don’t understand. Make them say the quiet parts out loud, because you “don’t understand.” Either they will deradicalize themselves, or they will stop talking to you permanently.

        “Why is that funny?,” and “You aren’t being the neighbor that Fred Rogers knew you could be,” are effectively a social chemical (gas) weapon and a social nuclear weapon, respectively, when deployed correctly in the US. They must be deployed with an innocent and loving tone.

        Follow this up with, “No. I need to understand, you’re supposed to teach me to be a good person. Explain this please.” Or something similar, and you can literally watch people deprogramming themselves.

        “The Dragon is a bad thing! The Dragon ate my grandma!” Resonates with everyone, even those that haven’t heard it yet.

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          Eh, no.

          There is only one thing that gives any chance - compassion. And that’s got a snowball’s chances in surviving hell. But there is nothing else but compassion that’ll give you any chance at all.

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          They don’t see themselves as a cult.

          people in cults never do.

          You calling them a cult just allows them to ignore everything else you have to say.

          people in cults usually do.

          You have to meet them with their own doublespeak if you want to break the cultish brainwashing, and force them to question themselves.

          no I don’t. breaking programming requires one of two things. force or logic. logic won’t work with this cult, and force is unscalable without collaterall damage.

          Antagonistic conversion will only entrench their beliefs.

          correct, which is why you shouldn’t ever try to “double speak” them.

          The way you have to deradicalize them is to earnestly question things until they can no longer deny the hypocrisy and doublethink/ doublespeak.

          as I said, logic won’t work with this cult.

          I’m not even going to finish reading your comment because you clearly have a lack of experience or understanding of how programming and cults work. this is especially true since many of the members of this cult have had their programming fortified over the last 20 years. put simply, they are entrenched and the only thing that may work is a shock to their system. even that though, is unlikely to work.

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            How many have you successfully reached? I’ve been deprogramming them for decades. I know of at least 6 people that I successfully deradicalized this way in the last 2 decades, and as many as 18 over the last 4.

            For one person that isn’t exactly nothing. These people all exist in The Bible Belt, aka Trump Country, and I have lived in California for the last decade.

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              Your technique is irrelevant. That you had the compassion to stick with it is what matters.

              I’m not trying to be an ass. Really. But to think that you have a universal technique to deprogram anyone is dangerously naive.

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                Nah, you’re probably correct on your assessment about having the stubbornness needed. I was just mainly arguing that logic won’t work with people that didn’t logic themselves into their beliefs on the first place.

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                As I thought. Your methods have resulted in 0 positive results.

                My methods have resulted in the better part of 2 dozen positive results. Not a great percentage, but better than 0. Emotions work much better than logic with these people, despite my objections to that.

                The definition of insanity is trying the same failed methods over and over expecting different results.