No I don’t. The consequence I’m referring to isn’t any sort of change in policy or future criminal repercussions for ICE en masse or anything.

The consequence I’m referring to is literally just Noem getting replaced. It doesn’t stop ICE or change what they’re doing, but it’s better than an alternative where opposition to the current gov’s ICE policies is so locked down that they can’t even manage to do that much.

The good potential was lost when the old wild west Internet, where any random person could build a site and start a community. Now that there’s enough money and corporate presence on the Internet, they build up all the sites and tools that places use to socialize with others and, lo and behold, they implement algorithms to make sure reactionary beliefs are spoonfed to as many people as possible.

They understood the meta on what communication and community building was going to look like, and now, the only hope to get people out of these pipelines into reactionary echo chambers is either to pray all the big social media platforms decide en masse to stop promoting these views out of the goodness of their hearts, or we all just give up the poison and go back to living like it’s the late 90s and the Internet is just a thing you maybe check a couple of times a day at home and you otherwise live in the real world.

It’s not an improvement in the sense that the new guy is going to be better or do less evil.

It’s a small victory that the backlash to Noem’s time as DHS head was big enough that, even if they don’t admit it, it’s an implicit acknowledgement by the Trump admin that they did something wrong enough to warrant a response.

It’s not a major victory, and it shouldn’t be talked about as one, but it’s an improvement over the alternative, where ICE murders people and calls them domestic terrorists with literally no consequence.