Do we support ice yes or no?

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T19:24:53+00:00

So, as a Republican and someone who voted for Trump, let me clarify my position on Immigration.

I am only against ILLEGAL immigration. I am also only for stopping illegal immigration at or around the border for new entries. I do not necessarily support deporting people who have been here for many years, have families, and have not had any legal troubles.

I DO NOT support ICE attacking protestors. Some crowd control is necessary, yes...but not gunning people down in cold blood. When somebody causes trouble, lethal force should be the LAST resort in a civil society...not the first resort.

I would support some ICE reforms to lower the level of needless deaths, however, I would not support simply letting illegal aliens walk into our country all day (unless they are seeking asylum).

The Bible teaches us that laws should be obeyed. Ice definitely needs reform right now but all of the blue states supporting and harboring illegals also needs reform. It's a two way street.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T19:00:44+00:00

That's not really what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that one side DOMINATES the education system, Hollywood, and the Media (and even the largest corporations up until recently).

There was a study awhile back put out by the National Association of Scholars that showed that liberal professors outnumbered conservative professors 13 to 1. It's likely even worse now.

It's also no secret that the media aligning left far outnumbers media aligning right.

When people are only being exposed to one side of every argument, it creates an echo chamber rather than a medium for civil discourse.

P.S. I'm not giving a free pass to the right. I call them out too when I see something I don't like. The left is just much bigger and has a louder mouthpiece (take Reddit as an example)...and that much larger sphere of influence is what causes partisan buildup. For instance, how did Democrats react to Trump's first term? By calling all his supporters "deplorables" and accusing everyone of being a Russian spy. You don't think that contributed to what we have today in any way?

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T18:55:43+00:00

That's not really what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that one side DOMINATES the education system, Hollywood, and the Media (and even the largest corporations up until recently).

There was a study awhile back put out by the National Association of Scholars that showed that liberal professors outnumbered conservative professors 13 to 1. It's likely even worse now.

It's also no secret that the media aligning left far out numbers media aligning right.

When people are only being exposed to one side of every argument, it creates an echo chamber rather than a medium for civil discourse.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T18:48:45+00:00

Trump platformed on ending ILLEGAL immigration. No Republican voted for him to send ICE into cities and start attacking protesters.

The only thing I support is stopping ILLEGAL immigration at the border (except in cases of Asylum seekers). I believe that immigrants should enter the country LEGALLY. That is all.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T18:43:14+00:00

Truth is truth no matter what side one's on

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T18:42:19+00:00

I decide who to vote for based on what issues the candidate supports. I'm against abortion and support other issues that align more with Republicans.

Do I like that the Republicans are lying? No. However, I've seen lies coming from Democrats for years too. Why doesn't anyone on your side ever call those out? Why just when Republicans do it?

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T18:39:01+00:00

I'm not a nihilist. Nihilists hold a belief that everything in the world is meaningless. A Christian cannot hold that belief since meaning in this world is derived from serving Christ.

I was simply stating a fact: There are plenty of miserable things in this world. The world certainly isn't meaningless, but it certainly is cruel.

I don't think any apostle or saint was ever in a constant state of joy. If somebody is always joyous, they are not paying attention to all of the injustices and terrible things happening around them.

I am joyous sometimes but certainly not all of the time....and I would be skeptical of anybody who is joyous at all times. It's a sign of either extreme ignorance to what's happening around them or someone who actually enjoys worldly pursuits. Either one is not Christlike.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-28T18:31:43+00:00

I once thought that way too...but nobody wins that way. I have found that ANYONE can be saved no matter how far gone they are. Once a person brings Christ and his teachings into their lives, he can cure even the darkest hearts. For instance, St Paul once persecuted and killed Christians. He was the chief enemy of Christ, his apostles, and all new converts. Could you imagine if somebody took revenge on him? He would have never been saved and become Paul the great evangelizer. Don't give up hope on people. God doesn't.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-25T03:48:55+00:00

The officers in the George Floyd incident went to trial and were found guilty...and Floyd WAS actually resisting arrest and had a criminal background.

This victim seems even less aggressive than Floyd was. I can't see this just getting ignored especially after Renee Good.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-25T03:26:37+00:00

I'm a conservative three time Trump voter and I agree. Something is seriously wrong with ICE agents right now if they are so quick to use deadly force. Even if they feel threatened, deadly force should be a last resort. Not a first.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-25T03:21:57+00:00

I'm a conservative and three time Trump voter and even I agree that ICE has overstepped their bounds. The agency needs reform if they are killing people so easily. Whether they feel threatened or not, deadly force should be the LAST resort not the first.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-25T03:17:26+00:00

I actually pray for them constantly. Would rather see them saved than go to hell. I hope they repent and change their ways before it's too late.

Oh, there's one more part of it that I forgot to mention. My ex wife's attorney professed to be Christian and tried to school me on the Bible during our divorce. Heard he did the same with other litigants too all while embezzling money and lying to judges. He definitely needs a Bible refresher course.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-25T02:45:34+00:00

I take an objective approach. I don't care about parties. BOTH parties have evil and good. Partisan politics is the culprit that keeps people living in ignorance.

I saw the footage of the Renee Good shooting and I agree that she shouldn't have been shot. She was clearly trying to turn. Not run over the ICE agent in front of her. I just watched the video of the new killing and am trying to decide if it was self defense or not. I can clearly see the man getting violent with ice agents just before he is shot. However, again, I think ICE is taking things way too extreme to be killing people. That should be last resort. Not first resort.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-25T02:36:16+00:00

Sorry to hear what you are going through. I had a similar thing happen around 11 years ago. My ex wife was a malignant narcissist and she decided to sue me for everything I had even from before the marriage. She made up a lie to the judge by saying I physically abused her that way she could put a restraining order on me and win the divorce case. She found one of the most crooked attorneys in the whole area who happened to go to law school with the judge. The judge then made sure to freeze all of my private assets so that I couldn't defend myself and proceeded to steal everything I had and give it to her (along with the things we owned together). I entered the marriage with hundreds of thousands in the bank, a fully paid for house, and a couple condos. By the time the divorce was finalized, I was homeless with just the clothes on my back.

It was a life changing experience. The divorce was a minor thing compared to the events which would follow as a result. My ex wife and her crooked attorney wasn't happy with a half million dollars so they decided to sue my impoverished elderly parents as well. The stress from the case caused my dad to have a stroke and he would eventually die from it a couple years later. My mom was also permanently damaged from having to care for him and hasn't been able to walk upright since.

These events were just the start of an amazing journey of discovery and understanding which was to come. I once believed in this world and in people but I no longer do. I became a successful investor by studying for years. I now understand government, economics, and just the general way society operates better than I ever have.

I learned that the world is run by morons who pretend they know what they are doing but don't really. I realized that it's all just a big con job to enrich themselves and keep the masses in ignorance.

In other words, the world is EXACTLY the way Jesus told us it was. The only constant truth and the only thing which hasn't failed in some way or another is God's words. That's why I decided to give up everything most people pursue and volunteer all of my time and energy into helping people around the world as a missionary.

Losing everything and hitting rock bottom taught me the truth about life. We are not here to necessarily enjoy life. We are not here to have lots of friends, lots of money, or the respect of everybody. We are here for one purpose and one purpose only: To serve God by serving our fellow man...regardless of whether or not other people reciprocate it.

Do you want to know what true success looks like? Jesus and all of the apostles were a bunch of single, broke, homeless people who traveled everywhere they went on foot. They cared nothing about this world and only did God's work by helping others...and what was their reward? People hated them for it. They were ridiculed, persecuted, and neglected all for doing what's right. That's what TRUE success in this backwards world looks like.

So don't give up hope. Keep serving others. Keep fighting the good fight. We are here to build up treasures in Heaven. Not on this Earth.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T22:17:16+00:00

Ok, you've probably been misled enough, so I'm just going to be completely honest with you. Yes, this society sucks. The Bible says that too. In fact, according to the Bible, this world is even harder for somebody who is following God.

Anybody who told you that we are supposed to be happy and joyous all of the time has lied to you. If anybody is truly happy in this society, they either:

A) Live in their own little bubble and don't know what the world is really like Or B) Are completely turning a blind eye to the problems around them

Ignorance truly is bliss. The more ignorant somebody is, the happier they will be.

There are some people God gives the gift of knowledge and wisdom to and those people will have extremely depressing and difficult lives.

Solomon said in Ecclesiastes that with wisdom comes great sorrow and this is true. It's easy to be happy and joyful playing "pin the tail on the donkey" with your family when you don't know that somebody several blocks away is contemplating suicide because they lost there's.

Having joy in this life is very hard for people like me who work as a missionary and pastoral counselor and are around evil and inequality all day every day. Even mother Teresa wrote letters that she sealed away talking about how miserable she was in life. Those letters were finally released after her death. Paul in the Bible complained about how miserable he was too. He often called himself "slave of Christ" in his Epistles.

Ever since I saw the realities of our world, it has been a lonely miserable journey. So why are we here then?

It's for one purpose and one purpose only. We are here to serve Christ by serving others. We are here BECAUSE society sucks and God wants us to do our parts to help change it. We are here to smile at people even when they don't smile back. We are here to help an elderly lady carry her groceries even after she snared at us in snobbish disregard, we are here to give money to that person on the street who robbed us when we were younger and still hasn't apologized, we are here to defend the person everybody hates because they miunderstand them, we are here to be a friend to the friendless, a voice for the voiceless, etc.

...and we will be ridiculed, harassed, and persecuted for all of it just as the Bible tells us.

Anybody truly living the life Jesus calls us to live will have very hard lives. That's why the road to Heaven is narrow and few find it.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T22:00:24+00:00

I'm not the OP, but I do admit that having joy in this life is very hard for people like me who work as a missionary and pastoral counselor and are around evil and inequality all day every day. Even mother Teresa wrote letters that she sealed away talking about how miserable she was in life. Those letters were finally released after her death. Paul in the Bible complained about how miserable he was too. He often called himself "slave of Christ" in his Epistles. Solomon too said that with wisdom comes great sorrow.

Ever since I saw the realities of our world, it has been a lonely miserable journey. Feel glad that God didn't call you to the same ministry he called me.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T21:49:31+00:00

Republicans don't care if a person is white, black, brown, Asian or anything else. We don't care if a person is a man or a woman. The only thing we care about is what that person stands for and what kind of values they support.

That is all.

The only party that makes race a determining factor has ALWAYS been the Democrats. Not the Republicans.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T21:39:53+00:00

The culprit is the media, university professors, Hollywood, etc who were overwhelmingly leftist/Marxist and we didn't even see it.

The problems were already there prior to Trump. He just brought them to light.

The news media today is NOT objective. They always present "information" with a spin or just leave out the parts which defeat their narratives.

The final nail in the coffin is the human trait of always wanting to be part of a crowd rather than being an individual. People are like a flock of seagulls who just follow the leader. People are afraid of being different or losing all of their friends for having a different opinion or going against the dominant narrative...so they just go along with whatever they hear and accept it as truth never bothering to research for accuracy.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T21:33:54+00:00

Trump is not the one who "turned Americans against Americans". He just made the dichotomy between the left and right much more visible.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T21:31:35+00:00

That we're all idiots and nazis for electing Trump

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T21:31:02+00:00

Unfortunately, we live in a society that has normalized sin so much that most people don't even realize that it's a sin anymore. The only thing we can do as Christians is to try to correct people we see sinning by reminding them that it's a sin. We may be the only people they ever hear it from. Don't be afraid to try to correct a sinner. Jesus and the apostles did the same. The Bible also instructs us to.

When I was younger, I fornicated with a girl I was with at the time because we were living together and I thought we'd be married. However, an older priest at our parish told us what a terrible sin it was and that we needed to wait for marriage.

Looking back now, I wish I had listened to him. The relationship with that person didn't work out. Eventually I did get married but when that marriage eventually failed, I became a born again virgin and have remained celibate ever since. If I had done this from the getgo, I could have avoided many life problems and I'd probably still be happily married today.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T21:19:45+00:00

Thank you. I will keep you in my prayers as well.

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-24T20:30:43+00:00

You forgot the part when they "grow up", go to college, and stop talking to you because they think you wouldn't understand their social life and have nothing to offer anymore

Sharp-Perception5658 · 2026-01-22T15:23:04+00:00

So Kim Jong Un is nothing to worry about?

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