Lemmy for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Here's a breakdown in the funding.
| Category | Current Funding (2024) | Proposed Funding (2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Total ICE Budget | $13.5 billion | $170 billion |
| Detention Budget | $3.5 billion | $45 billion |
| Enforcement Operations | $10 billion | $29.9 billion |
| Border Wall Construction | -- | $46.6 billion |
| State Reimbursement Grants | -- | $10 billion |
| Military Deployment Funding | -- | $1 billion |
It includes hiring 10,000 ICE agents in the next five years.
Open ze door, zis is de gestapo!
As an American this makes me weep. We saw this coming from miles away yet here we are.
Those who study world history know damn well that history repeats itself and this "timeline" is a well worn one. We already know where this goes.
I don't know what to think about those who voted for this consciously and even worse those in power who continue to enable this. I hope these people get the outcome they deserve.
For those who voted for this without understanding, let's hope the next government can find a way to better educate you, as this one has let you down.
We'll only get the democracy that we can manage to keep.
We'll only get the democracy that we can manage to keep.
Sorry, but I think you're past that — you'll need to take it back by force.
let's hope the next government can find a way to better educate you, as this one has let you down.
If you are talking about the education system then yes.
But let's not gloss over the fact that you can't rely on the government to teach you why what the government is doing is wrong. That is the job of the opposition party. It is the job of political parties to explain why their policies are better.
It's the Democrats who has failed you first and foremost. Then the media. Then the education system.
And honestly, even above the Democrats, it is the two party system that robbed you of choices. In any functional democracy, the Democrats wouldn't survive as they are now. They would either have to improve or be replaced.
It's very strange timing to do this at a huge scale as the US economy is teetering and the dollar is spiraling. Bread and circuses is the playbook for a reason, their tax bill is going to hit like a brick wall for a lot of Americans. And instead of your pop-pop getting his Medicare check you're now seeing that spent on concentration camps in your back yard.
There's a limit to fear mongering and strong arming when it pushes against economic reality. No amount of crackdowns will help when bread costs $20/loaf, international money stops coming in, and the job market crashes all in less than a few years. It's one thing to manufacture a crisis but they might be burning the Reichstag a little too hot.
The cuts don't come through until after the '26 elections. Fucking Republican cunts will point their short little pudgy fingers at Dems and say,"What did you do?" and idiot fucking voters (or even more idiot single issue non-voters) will grab it like a trout going after a fly.
It's the same as resisting early nazi germany, except now there are cameras and AI's preventing subtle sabotage. And if you tell anyone about it, the whole militarized apparatus crashes down on you.
and you get your account banned on sites like Reddit. If you're still using that site guess what, you're having a pint in a nazi bar.
Oh don't worry, already permanently suspended.
We were told this was going to happen by those that are making it happen. And still 91 million people chose not to vote. Of those 91 million people- was enough make the difference between keeping out democracy, and….
This.
I hope the smug arrogance of your little protest of the trade-agreement support of weapons to a country committing genocide is going to be enough to keep you properly blinded to the suffering of so many others as a result of your stubborn refusal to see the bigger picture-
This is your fucking fault.
Staying home on election day was a bad idea, sure.
But what about the dozens of millions of fucknuts who got off their ass to go vote FOR this?
Yeah we live in the Fascist States of America. They're just fully mask-off racist now.
The only response to ice is targeted, coordinated civil (?) resistance. Wherever they show up, show up with more people and guns than ice has
I dont think that's viable really.
They're going to have lots of hardware.
The US failed to succeed against ~100,000 Taliban in a country they could bomb and burn freely.
It cost the US 2 Trillion dollars for the war including expenses for hardware such as the 362,484 bombs they dropped.
The population of the US is ~347 Million.
If even 0.1% of the population actually decided to do something and made a coordinated effort, the US would be up against three times as many people and wouldn't be able to bomb them nearly as easily.
The US also really, really does not want anything like this happening in their borders, because it would interfere majorly with cash flow from it's citizens to itself as well as it's businesses it's in bed with. It also can't kill a lot of it's own people, because again, the money would go away. This means the more people that would oppose them, the less they could kill or capture without destroying themselves.
For this reason I think it's probably more viable than most people suspect.
The only real problem is that it's only flesh and blood that affirm freedoms gain, and people generally either feel well off enough that they don't want to do anything, or are simply too afraid to do anything.
In any event, no one ever wants to be the first one to act. They usually wait on someone else to first.
ICE is being set up to lead the theft of the midterms. I don't mean by just trying to prevent non-white people from voting either, but as the extrajudicial gestapo it is. Americans won't have to be non-white to worry about having their citizenship suspended soon enough.
I have my game plan ready for ICE, I'm willing to gamble on jury nullification.
Do you think you'll make it to the stage where you have a jury?
30% chance
How can we not have a recall option? I don't understand how we got this far without one.
Previously the other branches of government have actually stepped in to do their job. Clinton got impeached just for lying about an affair. This time around, all the branches have been bought and paid for, and prefilled with sycophants who are complicit.
Operation Reduce Non-White Vote underway. They clearly rigged the Presidential election results. The results were statistically normal everywhere except in the 7 swing states, where Trump won even though Democrats won the rest of the way down the ballot, and he won by margins that were just shy of what would trigger automatic audits. These anomalies were in the swing states only.
Stalin funded his NKVD and Hitler had his RSHA (Gestapo). AOC is correct, Putin's Sock Puppet is using ICE like his secret police force.
Death Camps.
We are so far along the nazi playbook we just need to invade Poland I guess.
oh man chuck schumer's gonna write a letter so sternly worded their heads will spin
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.
Pay enough and many more are willing to do it.
it makes ICE bigger than the fucking Chinese army
All the better to "disappear you". Seriously, history books in first world countries will document this sudden collapse of, "due process" and the U.S. Constitution.
It's possible that there simply aren't enough Americans who are willing to brutalize immigrants
You give them (yourself?) too much credit. US has been brutalizing people abroad for no fucking reason for decades. How many people do you think protested against killing brown people? Did the involved (apart for a very few cases) face any consequences? No? They live for that shit.
What do you think "Thank you for your service" means when they're literally murdering civilians abroad.
Trump of a symptom of generations of racism. People didn't come out and vote for a felon, rapist and a bankrupt moron, who probably couldn't add 2+2, just for the kicks. They organized it, so they could embolden themselves and live their fantasies about oppressing people they hate.
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.
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
There's no left in the US, they think Sanders is a comunist when he'd be center-left elsewhere.
