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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 65 points 6 days ago

The shooter is a 10+ year veteran of the agency. ICE has always been bad and filled with violent nationalists.

Also, this is far more damning of our education system. It should be difficult to find and recruit that many illiterate people.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 47 points 6 days ago

They offered lots of money to join ICE to the worst people. Why is this surprising? They wanted thugs, they got thugs, not Harvard grads.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 46 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"This isn't the department of baking cookies," one source said. "This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country. And we're now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces”

And giving them firearms

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

THAT is an American tradition.

For a country as obsessed with firearms as the USA the level of knowledge on how to use them safely is shockingly low.

[–] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf 10 points 6 days ago

That's what happens when gun ownership is a right. It doesn't matter how fucking stupid, irresponsible, or psychopathic you are, you still get access to firearms and there's no pressure to learn how to handle them safely.

And saying everyone should have a class on it is called tyranny because who cares about a three year old grabbing a gun from between the couch cushions.

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 29 points 6 days ago

The trigger men for the killing fields of Cambodia and the Tiananmen Square Massacre were illiterate peasants from rural areas...

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 33 points 6 days ago

high school grads who can "barely read or write"

'Merica.

Looks like the decades-long reputation of educational institutions is finally crumbling and Americans will at last be forced to suffer through the same "Back in my country, I was doctor. But since my degree is considered no good here, now we run a convenience store" cliche.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Some real Meal Team Six holding the thin crust line.

[–] GarbadgeGoober@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

Meal Team Six made my day. Cannot stop laughing when looking at this dude.

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Gravy Seals

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 19 points 6 days ago

So they couldn't graduate from 6th grade?

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well doesn't this all sound like 1932 all over again.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 6 days ago

I hope Germany can save us. I wish that was a joke.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The South Park episode about ICE recruiting was hilarious.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you need a job, it's a job to have!

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Gotta get my "nut". 🙄

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I kinda want to sign up for ICE just to record and leak everything that goes on. I don't think I'd be able to stomach a second of being around these Nazis though.

Resistance comes in many forms and I like that you're considering what actions you can take

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There must be at least some samaritans that joined with this plan in mind. I regret to think that there will never be a way of sorting them from the bastions of evil when they're brought to courts though.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah that was one of my fears. Not the courts necessarily, I think you could put together a good defense if you worked with a reputable reporter to leak. Its more I would feel so ashamed if someone I knew saw me suited up on the news. Even if I wasn't the one busting skulls.

[–] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Prob aren’t gonna be considered unless you have swastikas or SS tattooed on yourself somewhere

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to see Borat join or something like that lol

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

That is why that crowd and police like AI so much to offload writing and thinking for them.

[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Deport them they can't speak English. That's how it's supposed to work right?

/s

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Except no /s

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Then why are we paying them signing bonuses that are more than many people's yearly salaries?!

Omg 😱 no way!!! /s

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