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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 37 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

ICE recruits people the police rejected. It's what happens when your political ideology is more important than any morality. IOW: when the ends justify the means.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I've heard ICE described as a militia of the unemployable created to persecuted the working class.

I'm sure Marx might have had something to say about the lumpen proletariat and the wages of a failed social safety net. But the six-figure salary for hunting anyone with a green card or a student visa for sport seems to speak for itself.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If you've ever read Sinclair Lewis's It can't happen here, the parallel between his "marching clubs" and our Proud Boys/ICE are hard to miss.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

True... I'm just awed by the unprofessionalism of it.

These peoples means are going to justify their own end... they will forever be pariahs, at best.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

i dunno. what happened to the SS and SA after 1945 in germany? did they get to go back among the populace as normal or were they shunned into exile? because i seem to remember only a few were tried and the rest just became regular germans.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

For them it's all about the means