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[-] [email protected] 110 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ice is Taco's secret police.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Gestapo, Stazi, Spanish Inquisition. Some good reading on history.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So ICE now formally is the US SS. The presidents personal army, police force, secret police, border guard and prison management in one.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

ICE has only existed since 2003.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Shut up, Meg 🤦‍♂️

[-] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dont engage the gestapo. That is the only way they can fight, through confrontation. Bullets, fists, crowd control.

Get a propane torch, you know for some light plumbing.

Always have an angle grinder, these things can cut steel, but are also useful for shaving down rusted iron bars and aluminum. Keep these separated for safety reasons.

Also, if you need something very bright and very hot, magnesium strips can be ignited by the above mentioned torch. Don't do this near that dust you made.

Seriously don't. That kind of reaction, depending on the amount, will melt through solid steel.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Also, never mix grape juice with yeast and sugar. If you put it in a warm place, it will make a light poison appear in the bottle.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago

It absolutely is, and the ramifications of the bill won't be fully understood until it's largely too late.

It will have to be challenged in the courts and hopefully held up until a new Congress is seated in '27 and a new President in '29.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

a new President in '29

We all hope.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

until a new Congress is seated in '27

So, you think Trump isn't going to have democratic candidates arrested and/or disqualified from running? It's one of the standard next steps for authoritarian leaders.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

People said the same thing about W. Bush and the opposing side said the same thing about Obama. I'm cautiously optimistic.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Neither of them ignored court orders the way Trump has done. Neither of them tried to launch an insurrection when they lost an election the way Trump did on Jan 6th. Neither of them called up governors and tried to pressure them to "find a few votes" the way Trump did in Georgia.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

“Sir what would you say to extremist groups like the Proud Boys?”

“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by

They stood by.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Coming soon to election centres near you.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Best case scenario is Trump fuelling and stealing all that money

[-] bradinutah 5 points 2 days ago

He kinda is. He's made deals with the companies that will get rich from the semi-legal human trafficking profits that this creates.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

ICE is now upgraded to:

Imperial Command Enforcers

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

Dumb comment.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Sure would be nice if people like you didn't meme the rise of fascism in America

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Sure would be nice if Americans didn't elect fascists to control the world's most powerful military. But here we are.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Fortunately most of this money will be stolen by federal contractors, but yeah, the gICEtappo is going to balloon in size.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

That's the glimmer of hope here. You've got greed and inconpetence all dueling with malice.

Billions of dollars will be squandered on overpriced and inappropriate equipment, or laundered through consultancies that won't be providing proper training, setting the stage for some dramatic rake-in-the-face moments.

My bingo card includes:

  • An ICE branded armoured vehicle driven over their commanding officer, DUI optional.
  • Antivaxxed recruits getting Super Malaria trying to operate the camps.
  • Some dramatic security failure (maybe a domestic-terror plot) that even Biden's law-enforcement apparatus would have easily stopped except that all resources were focused on ICE.
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I feel pretty prepared.

ca-click

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

as if they arnt doing it already, they have A specialized airline solely for deportations.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

At the rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if most of that money will end up in the pockets of new American oligarchs.

[-] [email protected] 105 points 3 days ago

I know I love making fun of you yanks, but, y'all stay safe out there.

[-] [email protected] 101 points 3 days ago

Uhhhh......we can't

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago

For now. If you're a white male/female with at least 2 generations of American citizenship. You'll be ok.

I'm thinking the next big leap? Gov looks at all social media for what political side you're on. Then you'll get thrown in camps. This is maybe year 4 of Trump or whatever comes after him in a rigged election. Maybe an "emergency" skip the elections this time thing.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago

I'm thinking the next big leap? Gov looks at all social media for what political side you're on. Then you'll get thrown in camps. This is maybe year 4 of Trump or whatever comes after him in a rigged election. Maybe an "emergency" skip the elections this time thing.

No, the next big leap is transgender people being rounded up. Trans people have been saying this, myself (an Australian) included, since before the election. He's already made it difficult to impossible to leave the country if you're trans. Not only are trans people being denied passports in their chosen gender, but those people are being denied them in their gender assigned at birth too. They're ignoring court orders over it as well.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’m not so sure. Don’t forget RFK appointed David Geier to “cure US the autism epidemic.”

David worked with his father, a doctor, on a supposed ‘cure’ for autism. They experimented on neighborhood autistic kids in their basement. Their hypothesis is that since autism has links to gender dysphoria, that hormones must be at fault. They began giving the children injections of Lupron, a hormone suppressant that can cause chemical castration over time.

They were both charged with endangering minors, David was charged with practicing medicine without a license, and his father’s medical license was revoked.

Fun fact: Autism Spectrum Disorder was rebranded from Asperger’s when the DSM-5 was updated in 2013. They decided to finally drop the name of Dr. Hans Asperger, the German scientist who experimented on ‘autistic psychopaths’ under Nazi guidance.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That transgender people will be the next target over autistic people. I think it depends on how much support Trump gives RFK for his mission.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Or, hear me out, both can be targeted at the same time. I mean, there's already a lot of overlap. We don't have to be out here playing the oppression olympics.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wasn’t speaking competitively, but as a point of awareness. I fall under both anyway. Sorry if my reply came off as standoffish. Trans people are more aware of their persecution, so I think it’s also important to remind people with ASD that they’re a target for RFK.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Same here. Interestingly enough, it’s actually somewhat common.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09593535221074806

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

That's 1 million people if you take out the 13-17 demo. That would take a year with the new 200 billion budget. Then they have to find a new target.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

cis hetero *neurotypical white man/woman. I only fit the white category. The LGBT will be next to be rounded up into camps. Not sure if I should flee the country or just accept my fate.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Palantir is actively collecting a database of dissenting social media accounts

We are not safe and you are naive as fuck if you think we are.

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