It’s pretty clear that ICE is the seed of a paramilitary force.
And half of the country is cheering them on.
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#32Yeah, that's some Gestapo level business... or since they don't like that word, Stasi.
As in, there were loads of people in the DDR (East Germany, 1949-1989) whose job it was to read people's personal mail, along with the network of neighborhood snitches.
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#33Hold, citizen, you shall be arrested for your impure thought. By masked goons.
Goons arresting gooners. In the year of our Lord.
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#34Palantir can help with that
Why bother with the additional tender, the NSA have been doing it for decades?
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#35It’s pretty clear that ICE is the seed of a paramilitary force.
And half of the country is cheering them on.
A key lesson is that there is always a large proportion of the population which will cheer this kind of action.
You can't lay blame on the people doing this and feel like you're done. Unfortunately they're always going to exist. You have to lay blame on the people defending against them. They failed in their defense and here we are.
The difficulty in stopping it scales with how long you let it fester.
Last time it was a world war which could have threatened extinction.
We're still in the phase where people are hoping doing nothing will make it all better or denying outright the threat.
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#36It’s pretty clear that ICE is the seed of a paramilitary force.
Indeed. The timeline is probably going to play out like this:
2025: Get downvoted on HN for comparing Charlie Kirk to Horst Wessel
2026: Get upvoted for it
2027: Get banned for it
2028: No voting allowed, here or anywhere else
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#37What happened to all those 2nd Amendment conservatives who needed their guns to protect us from the governments jack booted thugs?
The 2A guys have only ever been LARPers.
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#38It’s pretty clear that ICE is the seed of a paramilitary force.
I fully expect to see them take on more and more roles that e.g. the FBI traditionally performed. The strategy appears to be to expand, empower, and control them as the "MAGA law enforcement agency" and bypass all the rest, either seconding them to ICE or diminishing them to a tiny role.
Look to see them expand to general "counter-terrorism" enforcement in the near future, with only the barest veneer (if that) of its having anything to do with immigration enforcement. After all, if you can stop practically anyone on baseless suspicion of being in the country illegally (see: recent precedent that apparently "they looked foreign" is enough) then charge them with whatever after-the-fact even if they turned out to be legal residents or citizens, that sure looks like a neat little work-around for due process. Or you can just "accidentally" disappear them to El Salvador....
I think about the minor plot point of the President having dissolved the FBI, in the film Civil War, a lot more this year than I ever thought I would when I watched that movie the first time.
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#39What happened to all those 2nd Amendment conservatives who needed their guns to protect us from the governments jack booted thugs?
This is such a lame comment, sorry.
The fact 2nd amendment crowd had a chance to prove their principles a few weeks ago and they did it with flying colors when the NRA came out against any restrictions for trans people.
But as a 2A supporter I don't feel any obligation to rage against ICE assembling a social media team. These seem to be completely disconnected concepts.
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#40The US is going down the gutter, it's sad and pathetic.