And people are disappearing.
That's the actual point.
Bludgeoningly obviously, ICE had been chosen to be America's Gestapo.
Lemmy for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And people are disappearing.
That's the actual point.
Bludgeoningly obviously, ICE had been chosen to be America's Gestapo.
Peacefully polite protesting should do the trick. You democrats reading my comment have any thoughts on the Second Amendment now? (Im a socialist and own guns and am not trolling, just want to genuinely ask what a solution is to this)
As much as I hate the idea of having guns just all around the place in society, I think at this point I'd have gotten one myself if I didn't think I was more likely to kill myself with it than actually do anything useful.
I haven't done it yet. But for me it doesn't make sense to do it with a gun.
An overfunded undisciplined paramilitary of degenerates that couldn't make it through police academy, what could go wrong?
A massively enlarged unaccountable army beholden to Trump, huh can’t imagine what could go wrong.
I always wondered if family members of ICE members know that they are members... If I had a cousin that was ICE, I would go absolutely no contact with him, and would let everyone know that the guy is ICE. Wear your shitty mask, but people will know.
Someone should start an ICE database, where pictures of ICE people are posted, even masked. And let people who know them come forward and say "hey. I know the guy in picture X, it is John blabla". Then, bully those pieces of shit out of existence.
Be prepared to have checkpoints everywhere you go.
papers please
God bless the United States of authoritarianism
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America is fuckity fuck fucked. Enjoy Americans, this is what you voted for: fascism and tax breaks for billionaires.
Just thinking of all the value for the shareholders makes me shudder with ecstasy 😍
It's never going to stay limited to the US. Palantir will guaranteed be used by other governments outsourcing their tyranny.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
The root cause is the democratic party's complete disconnect with its consituents. If you insist on scape goating, you are giving them a green light to lose the next election too.
It what world is anyone to blame but the people that chose to make genocide their running platform? This whole "blame the voters" game is a zionist talking points so we don't pressure the dems to change their stance on Israel.
It's been pointed out repeatedly that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
You'll soon start seeing huge investment in trains, and their time-table as well.
My time will come. Voted (D), protested, and we have a pride flag at our house.
No, I will not leave my country. I will fight to the death when the goons grab me.
Death Camps.
We are so far along the nazi playbook we just need to invade Poland I guess.
Not before the Olympics. But you can already start killing the disabled. Also look out for the new ICE guys to kill the old ones.
People are already dying in ICE detention. How many for we need to call them death camps?
My pride flag will still fly. I will still protest. But I will now answer the door, chain bolted, and 9mm pointed through the door.
Bad idea. Even pistols can shoot through doors and entry tactics love it when you come to set location.
Get a security camera and if they take it out first... Well, you know what they're there for.
If you guys get another left leaning president be better be a socialist dictator. If this is the game now, play it. Next guy better abolish ice
Operation Reduce Non-White Vote underway. They clearly rigged the Presidential election results in swing states. In all 7 swing states Trump anomalously won, always by just under the threshold that would trigger an automatic audit, even though democratic candidates in the same races won down the line.
I read that it makes ICE bigger than the fucking Chinese army. It's beyond obscene. One thing that I wonder about is... are there even enough racist sociopaths in this country to fill the ranks? You need a specific type of person to be willing to join ICE. It's possible that there simply aren't enough Americans who are willing to brutalize immigrants to use the $200 billion they were given.
Yep and what that turns into is instead buying military level expensive equipment to justify the money to make up for each empathetic person who refuses to join ranks.
Dont need unmarked vans and ski masks when you can drive tanks down poor neighborhoods looking fot minorities to abuse.
54 million MAGA out there. Plenty of jobs. They might not be able to run 50 feet without a smoke break, but they are there.
In terms of pure numbers, yeah, there are plenty of MAGA out there to hire. But they need to be mentally and physically fit in order to join ICE and carry out these raids. I would be genuinely surprised if there were enough MAGA in this country who could pass the physical.
I could be wrong. But if I'm right they might try hiring literal mercenaries for this, or just embezzle the funds. Or buy stupid militarized vehicles like police departments like to do.
They need to be mentally fit? What do the mental fitness evaluation standards look like for a brown shirt? I get what you’re saying that traditionally ICE agents may have had those requirements but it’s a new dawn where the only requirements moving forward are going to be MAGA loyalty.
That's why the police have the vehicles to begin with, most of them are ridiculously out of shape. I mean the typical shoe they wear are proof very few of them are actually fit enough to even try the activity of running.
they need to be mentally and physically fit
Sweet summer child
no need to run 50 feet when you are armed and have the blessing of the ruling class to use it on brown people freely.
The concept of MAGA jobs.
What is scary about the modern world is just how much damage can be caused by a handful of people thanks to technology. They don't need millions of people to run their gestapo if they have the NSA surveilling the internet, a network of facial recognition enabled surveillance cameras, military gear that would let a handful of agents take on anything short of an armed mob, and drone strikes for the ones they can't even be bothered to capture.
There aren't a lot of psychos, but it really doesn't take that many to cause problems if nobody else has the will or capacity to fight back. And this will make oodles of money for "defense" contractors.
a network of facial recognition enabled surveillance cameras
One can only hope that a sufficiently-motivated populace can destroy them faster than they can be replaced.
It's possible that there simply aren't enough Americans who are willing to brutalize immigrants to use the $200 billion they were given.
The SS was 800.000 members strong by 1944 so I think you're wrong, there's plenty of people who are willing to brutalize those they seem lesser for a plethora of reasons - money, feeling of power, ideology, opportunism, hate, the ability to do violence without consequences or any number of combinations of those.
among the 5 US militaries, ICE is bigger than two of them combined:
US NAVY: $292B USAF: $249.5B US Army: $179.4B ICE: $75B US marines: $57.2B US Coast Guard: $14.5 B
Marines are supposed to be underfunded, they make do with less. They also pass their audits, unlike literally everyone else.
still, having a secret police with a budget greater than practically every nation's military is a dystopian nightmare
I dare say that the Chinese are only all too happy that US is providing outsized budget to an agency that is relatively useless in the grand scheme of things, because the resources would otherwise go to countering China's growing influence.
Well, good news. If we do get in a war with China, we have a ready supply of fighting-age men who apparently fit enough to serve in law enforcement and military roles. I propose we simply conscript all the ICE officers and send them to the front lines first.
If we do get in a war with China
China is not gonna start a war with the US. China is going to do whatever it pleases and they have 0 to gain from a war with the US. Plenty of resources elsewhere.