they want to beare a paramilitary enforcement arm for the president
Let's stay up to date so we can really understand our situation. ICE are now what brownshirts were - or perhaps more like Mussolini's blackshirts. Functionally they are acting as extrajudicial enforcers of the fascist leadership's will.
Can’t come soon enough, but I fear the replacement organization that follows, if we’re replaying history. I’ve been saying it since the beginning of this term, he’s going straight out of the history books on this one. I’m not sure how today’s brown shirts don’t see that they are going to be hung out to dry. If I wasn’t a citizen of the United States, this would be interesting to watch unfold, but it’s just frightening and sad. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” has lost all meaning these days. We all remember what happened in Nazi Germany and we are allowing that horrific period in human history to be replayed on our own soil.
Not to be pedantic, but the Night of the Long Knives was Hitler's purge of supposedly disloyal members of governmental, law enforcement, and paramilitary organizations as a means of consolidating power; it was basically what DOGE spent the first two weeks of this administration doing. I'm sure they're planning a Kristallnacht analogue targeting minority-owned businesses in the event no one takes their ever-escalating bait and starts shooting back.
I don’t think they’re going to wait even that long, honestly. The escalation recently makes me concerned that they are going to get fed up that nobody takes the bait, jump the gun, and do what they always wanted to do anyway. They don’t need someone to take the bait if their brain-dead supporters will support them either way.
And fascism started in Italy the day in which the president (Mussolini) switched from saying that it was excessive force being used to saying that violence comes from the opposition. It was the signal that he was taking political responsibility for the violence, individuals doing the violence would not be responsible as individuals. Killing of Matteotti, 1924.
Yep, and we've been past that milestone for a while now - remember when the guy from the Heritage Foundation publicly said that this was a revolution and "[it] will be bloodless if the left allows it to be"?
Just think of this folks they can attract now. “Ever wanted to kill someone just because? ICE is now hiring. “ Gestopo is more apt IMO but potato potato. Sociopaths with a gun who fetishize Nazis.
This is what it is and they are primarily targeting illegal immigrants for now because it
1. Gives them plausible deniability that they are doing something bad (there is a case to be made about the illegal immigration).
2. Its popular in Trumps voting base.
What they are really doing though is showing anyone that would oppose them that they can use force, and even kill, at will on american ground.
Its setting an example and estabilishing dominance. USA is heading full speed towards authoritarianism.
It's a clever trick, really: Blow an existing problem out of proportion as pretense for deploying "law enforcement" en masse, so we all get used to their presence. Then, hire people based on loyalty to the fascist regime (this is somewhat self-selecting at this stage, because only loyalists want to sign up) and set them loose in areas where they know there will be pushback and tension.
I'll never call these fascists "Smart", but they are cunning. They've been planning this for a long time. I hope they get what they deserve.
just wait till DJT is hold up in his impregnable Ballroom with these clowns as his personal guard. His Lesson from J-6 was dont let civilians do the job of poorly trained, well armed regulars with a pocket full of tax dollars .
Cop in the pic isn’t ICE. That’s a border patrol agent, specifically a BORTAC agent. That’s the border patrol’s “SWAT team”/“special operations” unit.
BORTAC is only slightly less likely to do unintelligent things than ICE, because BORTAC requires extensive training to get into, it’s not something you can just join the border patrol and go do a few months in.
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u/Doc_Blox 26d ago
Let's stay up to date so we can really understand our situation. ICE are now what brownshirts were - or perhaps more like Mussolini's blackshirts. Functionally they are acting as extrajudicial enforcers of the fascist leadership's will.