ICE is to police what the SS was to the Wehrmacht: sure they wear uniforms and they kill people with firearms, but they’re a lawless bunch of thugs with no rules and total impunity.
ICE is Trump’s paramilitary. They’re not regular police. They just share many of the police’s nasty traits.
Their vests say “POLICE” right on ‘em.
My cap says Redskins and I’ve never touched a football in my life.
ICE isn’t police, but I guess this fits here.
Don’t wish for that. The more mainstream Lemmy becomes, the more it’ll become a target for the regime’s surveillance apparatus.
That’s how you wear down the population, to dissuade people from engaging in resistance. This is also the point of the violent ICE raids: breaking the social fabric to better control people.
Not really. It’s just that only a lunatic fringe in the US calls it the Gulf of America. They can also call the country the Uber Stupendous Amazingistan, if nobody else ro-ro with that, it’s as good as nonexistent.
Point being, while there is no legitimate authority, usage is what makes it official.
So here’s the new way to help stranded motorists in the US: hold them at gun point, handcuff them to a tree, then fix their car.
As we all know, the worst of the worst tends to stop to help stranded motorists. It’s a well-documented criminal trait.
Can’t believe it’s been renamed for a year now!
It hasn’t.
You would hope the corporate collaborators of this fascist regime will one day get their comeuppance. Sadly, if the history of corporate collaborators in Nazi Germany is anything to go by, most likely not much will happen to them or their officers…
ICE was created in 2003 as a more aggressive and militarized replacement for the old Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
DHS was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it started doing unconstitutional shit from the get-go.
Back then many people predicted that a frontal attack on America wasn’t Al-Qaeda’s goal, but rather causing America to self-destruct from within. Those people were totally right: the self-destruction process started with the USA Patriot Act and is almost complete today, 25 years later.
Al-Qaeda has won.
it’s turned into something qualitatively worse and more dangerous
Quantitatively too.
I think I know what happened in El Paso: some dumbass Magat figured it sounded too latino and unwhite, until someone remembered it’s in fact in the US.
Florida is really turning into MAGA-central. It’s attracting all the fascist-adjacent refuse. What a dump…
The only way to know for sure what’s truly lurking in the dark confines of Ghislaine Maxwell’s head is to crack it open and look inside.
MAGA is bad for your health.
Speak for yourself. Who says I’m paying taxes?
“90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation” - Henry Kissinger
Oh that’s nice: for once a young person is pissing on the boomers without lumping us gen-Xers with them.
Cuz more and more now, I’m being told that I’m a scumbag, the scourge of society and that we all had it easy-peasy in the 80s. Because of course we did: obviously we’re the cause of everything that’s wrong in the world today, and our evil boomer parents even more so!
Oh well, inter-generational hate will always exist. You will know it too when you get older my young friend…
The regular police has rules and pretends to abide by them. Agreed they don’t pretend very much but they do pretend. And every once in a while, a bad cop gets convicted.
None of those things apply to ICE: they officially have zero rules, they openly practice racial profiling, they brutalize people with zero consequences (and I mean ZERO, not very low chances of consequences), they’re masked like the cowards they are, and they very officially have complete impunity.
That’s the difference with the police. We are still free to hate both the police and ICE intensely, but ICE is a different beast to hate.