Be prepared to have checkpoints everywhere you go.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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And people are disappearing.
That's the actual point.
Bludgeoningly obviously, ICE had been chosen to be America's Gestapo.
Just put everyone in a labor camp and make North Korea look like a joke I guess.
My pride flag will still fly. I will still protest. But I will now answer the door, chain bolted, and 9mm pointed through the door.
Bad idea. Even pistols can shoot through doors and entry tactics love it when you come to set location.
Get a security camera and if they take it out first... Well, you know what they're there for.
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I always wondered if family members of ICE members know that they are members... If I had a cousin that was ICE, I would go absolutely no contact with him, and would let everyone know that the guy is ICE. Wear your shitty mask, but people will know.
Someone should start an ICE database, where pictures of ICE people are posted, even masked. And let people who know them come forward and say "hey. I know the guy in picture X, it is John blabla". Then, bully those pieces of shit out of existence.
It'd probably be better to pretend to befriend them. Information is power.
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A massively enlarged unaccountable army beholden to Trump, huh can’t imagine what could go wrong.
You'll soon start seeing huge investment in trains, and their time-table as well.
It's absolutely fucked that this could be how trains and rail-lines get reinvigorated.
An overfunded undisciplined paramilitary of degenerates that couldn't make it through police academy, what could go wrong?
God bless the United States of authoritarianism
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America is fuckity fuck fucked. Enjoy Americans, this is what you voted for: fascism and tax breaks for billionaires.
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The interesting thing is that the US of today isn't a historical parallel with Nazi Germany.
The US has 300,000,000 guns (among other things) in civilian hands.
I don't think it's going to be an uneventful 10-20 years as this round of fascism works its way through the American system.
A lot of those guns are in the hands of individuals who align politically with ICE, but yes — the greedy dragon will inevitably attack enough people indiscriminately that this will become a serious factor in the years to come.
The only question is, how much damage is going to be done before people use them? Can we trust that the people will fight back against a homegrown Gestapo?
Furthermore, places that are most likely to see heavy ICE action will be places like California, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, which checks notes... right, have the strictest gun laws.
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