Don't blow their cover
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Don't blow their cover
It's a tough call.
If enough paranoia can be generated within ICE, the more resources they'll need to divert to internal investigations, and the less effective they'll be while still having power.
He just said dont blow their cover.....
I don’t see the good in C.Y.A. When doing the damage right now… after all the horrors they get to snitch to try to dodge accountability, how expected of them.
some ice agents are better criminals than others.
Or for a promotion right now if they find out any of their peers have any family of hired help that are immigrants. Why wait?
Or for a promotion right now if they find out any of their peers have any family of hired help that are immigrants. Why wait?
Yes. Collecting evidence such as this, such that when the regime falls, the person who earned that promotion through betrayal would not be able to escape justice easily.
You've provided an excellent example of who I'd collect as much data as humanly possible on.
I mean if you're putting yourself in an ice officers shoes, I already can't really get there in my mind.
I need about 5kg of zofran or a toilet with a fat pipe in fro!t of me and an electrolyte IV, but it's doable
I mean if you're putting yourself in an ice officers shoes, I already can't really get there in my mind.
Whatever helps you slide past the point I'm making.
Personally I can't picture an ICE agent that is anticipating a regime change within their lifetime, but I could be wrong.
Personally I can't picture an ICE agent that is anticipating a regime change within their lifetime, but I could be wrong.
There is a very specific reason that ICE agents and other collaborators strive to hide their identities.
They would not feel the need to do so if they believed, deep down where it counts, that they were on the right side of history, and that the regime will last indefinitely.
I don’t think they’re that introspective. Pretty sure they all think “this is so anteefuh can’t find out who I am and kidnap muh kids”. Action hero delusions
I don’t think they’re that introspective. Pretty sure they all think “this is so anteefuh can’t find out who I am and kidnap muh kids”. Action hero delusions
Most will be too stupid, and will be the ones using I Was Just Following Orders as their defense.
Neither did the S.S.
A paralel that I'm sure they both openly embrace, and which is also completely lost on them.
I hope the parallels follow with ICE hunters who dedicate their lives identifying all of them.
When will the regime fall? Can we please just skip to the end now!
No, too late for that. Now we need to go through the part with all the violence and the living envying the dead.
No. Some Americans still haven't learned their lesson.
How much blood must be spilled for America to learn its lesson?
3.5% of the population
No idea but there are still far too many Americans that support the current government and their actions.
The regime won't just fall. It'll need people to make it fall, and I haven't seen enough people stepping up to make that happen. Americans are still too passive, thinking that waving signs around one day a few weeks ago will overthrow a fascist. It's a start, but nowhere near the end.
I honestly fear the US will be a fascist dictatorship for the rest of my life and beyond. North Korea has been a fascist dictatorship all my life
It's a possibility. People need to wake up and realize the seriousness of what's happening. And they are waking up. I'm just not sure if it's quick enough.
It won't be falling via a peaceful transfer of power. Voters made sure of that. However it happens, it will be violent.
You know I've had this feeling for a long time. But I really have it now.
Look at everything going on, everything he's doing. If AOC (arbitrary example, but he'll call any Democrat a "radical marxist" through the entire campaign no matter who it is) is elected in 2028, will he and his handlers go "well, at least it will take them a long time to unfuck things?" No, there's no way that happens.
Maybe we'll get an honest election and maybe we'll learn the results of it. I don't think he leaves in Jan 2029 without a fight no matter who wins, unless it's Vance, and maybe not even then.
And to be clear, there's no way the Dems will run AOC or anyone like her. We'll probably get someone even further right than Kamala or Biden since it seems to be Republican votes they actually want now.
I only have hope for 2028 actually resulting in Trump no longer being president if the cheeseburgers take him before then, or the 2026 midterms are not only a blue wave, but also entirely above board and free of shenanigans.
Where are people getting this idea that there will ever be any type of trails for this? I've even seen some talking about the Hague, which is particularly laughable because the US has an invasion policy specifically regarding the Hague, predating Trump.
Where are people getting this idea that there will ever be any type of trails for this? I've even seen some talking about the Hague, which is particularly laughable because the US has an invasion policy specifically regarding the Hague, predating Trump.
I'd absolutely count on your attitude to be pervasive while I was collecting my cover-your-ass dirt on my co workers.
Their sense of invincibility would be vital for me throwing them under the bus.
Nope.
Nope.
As in nope, none of them are smart enough, or nope, they place loyalty to each other over self-interest?
As in nope thinking the regime is going to fall is just copium hopium
As in nope thinking the regime is going to fall is just copium hopium
Refresh my memory. How long were they boasting that the Third Reich would last?
There are many counterexamples to the third reich. China and Russia have been police states for a long time, with no end in sight.
Both Russia and China have long histories of centralized authority.
Most western powers have been comparatively short lived, constantly expanding and fragmenting into new power structures. That includes the US, which has always had back and a forth infighting between state level and federal powers. I give the current regime a decade more (they have been building up for decades) due to speed running the few things they could use to placate the populace into the ground.
You may be right... I just wish I could be as optimistic as you are. The political opposition to Trump's changes is very, very weak, and with all the money ICE has now, I'm afraid any popular movement will be swiftly repressed.
Let's hope US citizens are as resilient as they believe they are.
They said they would be guardians of power for a thousand generations. The reich lasted 12 years. So given that it’s this year theyre going full nazi, you can expect them out in 2037.
They said they would be guardians of power for a thousand generations. The reich lasted 12 years.
So they lasted less than a thousandth of the length of time that they chipped about.
Therefore, we should always disregard the boasting of fascists.
So given that it’s this year theyre going full nazi, you can expect them out in 2037.
There are parallels, but Hitler wasn't an elderly incontinent man with dementia. While both men are fucking idiots, one of them had functioning short term memory, and was able to not shit himself.
Also, have you given any sort of thought to how many firearms are floating out there in civilian hands?
Hitler wasn't an elderly incontinent man with dementia. While both men are fucking idiots, one of them had functioning short term memory, and was able to not shit himself.
Trump isn't the source of fascism in the us, he's just the face of it.
Also, have you given any sort of thought to how many firearms are floating out there in civilian hands?
Who are they going to shoot? Are they going to walk around town asking strangers if they're nazis?
It's as though you're attempting to fulfill a brief:
Discourage pushback against the Trump regime at all costs. Amplifying the idea that resistance is futile.
I see you.
While I share your pessimism, I also know that some of these dudes are just scared to lose their job. I'm not saying that they are innocent just that they are in the same boat we all are with our jobs. If I got fired I'd be bankrupt in a month if not less. I'm sure there are plenty of ICE that we don't see that are freaking the fuck out. The only ones we see in clips online are the ones that will immediately volunteer when asked if they want to go arrest some brown people.
And to reiterate, that does not make these guys innocent. They are complacent and watching this happen without lifting a finger to help. The "just following orders" crowd, if you will.
"just following orders" wasn't a valid excuse at Nuremberg, and it won't be a valid excuse in 2028 in the Washington Trials.
Presents lists, gets arrested anyways.
How do you think this will play out? They’re either going to get caught with it, or it’s useless when the regime collapses as they’ll likely be mostly dead anyways. It’s useless as long as the regime remains, and keeping it is a time bomb waiting to go off, and not just for you, you’re a risking your family and friends too.
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