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[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 120 points 1 week ago

ICE is a wasteful “make work” jobs program for racist losers and dumbasses who can’t get one or hold one down anywhere else. It has ZERO return on investment. They can’t even accomplish a small fraction of their stated task. In fact, the entire DHS, including TSA and ICE is provably redundant, incompetent, and corrupt. (The OTHER reason these agencies were created was to hand out huge government contracts to assholes like Michael Chertoff)…

We don’t need these fucking people, and these agencies should be disbanded. The personnel should be trained to do construction, and they should be centrally employed by the government to build federally funded hospitals in rural communities (instead of shutting most of them down due to Medicaid cuts), and repairing the roads and bridges that are collapsing all over the country, as we see now n multiple headlines a year.

Make ‘em build houses. Call it “Department of Housing Security”.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

I think ICE, with its astronomical budget, has two main functions for MAGA: to embezzle state funds, for example through private prison companies, and to set up a secret police force loyal to the regime.

Incidentally, as of November 15, the military will no longer be paid, which I would say fits in with the picture - but hey, private patrons are stepping in and distributing money "without any strings attached"...

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

One private patron stepped up n to donate $130 million to pay the troops, which works out to about $100 each. So, basically ramen noodles for a month.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

More will certainly want to buy in.

It is also in the regime's interest for soldiers to be dissatisfied with ramen noodles instead of wages, because ICE has a budget that corresponds to the military spending of medium-sized countries now: Either soldiers with a fitting fascist mindset can be poached, and/or the military can be weakened as a potential opponent in the establishment of a dictatorship (no pay = layoffs, and these will mainly be people who have a problem with an autocratic America under an orange dictator).

I'm not from the US, but it all looks pretty grim to me.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Ice apparently has the 8th largest budget in militaries around the world. Gonna say it goes US, China, Russia, UK, Germany, India, France, Ukraine maybe (off the top of my head). Israel might be in there instead now too.

They are trying to be a private army for MAGA, along with the aforementioned grift payouts to prison companies.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

"Okay, TommyBoy - you don't mind if I call you TommyBoy do you? Of course you don't - so TommyBoy, here's what we're going to do. You're going to pay $130 million to pay our troops enough to buy some ramen soup for a month, and I'm going to give you ANYTHING you want. Hell, I just gave Argentina $40 billion, instead of health care for Americans, just so the SecTreas' friends wouldn't go belly up in their irresponsibly risky investment with a country that goes bankrupt every 3.5 years."

"My name is Timothy."

"What? No, it's TommyBoy now. So whaddaya say, TommyBoy, you in?"

"Sure, whatever you say, Your Excellency."

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

ICE is full of DEI hires. Or as I like to call them, DUI hires.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

Or as I like to call them, Morons

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago
[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 6 points 1 week ago

One of the best lines in a movie to one of the most genuine laughs out there.

[-] sue_me_please@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

They signed up to brutalize brown people, not build houses.

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Perhaps they’ll accept a work detail in exchange for shortened prison sentences

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ice agents: "Fuck those kids"

Republican lawmakers on the scene: "Do you think we have time?"

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

*them kids. Wouldn't want to think they use proper grammar!

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Let's stop referring to AAVE as "improper".

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

You ever been to the South? "Them kids" is not the purview of AAVE.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

If it's that prevalent, is it really improper at this point?

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

If the term "proper" bothers you, feel free to replace it with "standard" or "formal."

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago

I hope Democrats realize that if they ever get back into power there will be an Epstein list situation where liberals demand the ICE payroll to be released so these traitors can't exist among us without repercussion and if they don't release it they'll be hearing "Why are Democrats protecting Nazis" just like we're hearing "Why are Republicans protecting pedophiles" right now.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 26 points 1 week ago

Every last one of them needs a felony sentence. We don't need worthless dirt bags like that walking free and able to fully participate in society.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Yep.

Every future employer needs to know. It needs to be factored in for every social program they attempt to take advantage of. These are traitors violating our Constitutional rights. They should not be allowed to exist in America without repercussions.

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 week ago

Good thing for them they're doing everything in their power to prevent everything that you ever wanted from taking place and eliminating anybody with these opinions and the opinions themselves.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Liberals are spineless though

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I want every last one prosecuted to the full extent of the law

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago

Saving the children as usual

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 week ago

Where was the teargas? Am i blind?

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

The visible clouds must have blown away by the time this news team started their video, but it's clearly visible in the photo on top of this article discussing the same incident -

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/26/northwest-side-ice-arrests-tear-gas (arc)

[-] Exeous@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I not see tear gas in video.

Yeah, also that dog seems very calm if he has tear gas in his eyes/nose

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

And no one doing a damn thing to stop them.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't worry, in a couple more months they'll have another No Kings parade. That ought to do it.

You've got to step your shit up, America.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Because America hates brown people more than they love their children.

[-] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

Things Americans love

  1. Guns
  2. Racism
  3. Misogyny
  4. Religious bigotry and cults/televangelist
[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 4 points 1 week ago

Turns out all these good guys with guns who protect the country are really busy.

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

This but unironically. They fucking hate their children.

[-] shane@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago

The entire neighborhood was literally opposing ICE.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some people expect moms and dads to just start shooting heavily armed officers and get themselves killed immediately as soon as they see something they don't agree with. If they don't do it they "don't do anything".

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[-] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 18 points 1 week ago

Why would you share this video but beep out the fucks.

Anyway, you can shout all you want but at some point you got to get serious about the resistance.

I wonder when Americans are going to wake up.

#FrogsSlowlyBoiling

[-] sourhill@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago

What would you do, specifically?

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is there a video? I hate these websites that show a picture you can't click. Give me a break...

Video: https://youtu.be/pB5yJHYzga4

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

oh, i thought they were just making halloween extra spoopy /s

[-] SCmSTR 3 points 1 week ago

Nope, just poopy.

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ICE is protecting our community from aliens, demons, ghosts and Wednesday Adams.

[-] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Fester Adams is the real menace. He robbed a bank 3 times last month!

[-] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
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