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Columbia Pro-Palestine Activist Mohsen Mahdawi leaving ICE Detention After A Judge Ordered Immediate Release Today. His Words to Trump: "I am not afraid of you." (midwest.social)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This is classic Prisoner's Dilemma. The best outcome is for everybody to rise up together in protest, but the individual incentive is to keep one's head down. Neither choice is unambiguously correct, which is what makes game theory so interesting.