• tburkhol@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    ICE recruits people the police rejected. It’s what happens when your political ideology is more important than any morality. IOW: when the ends justify the means.

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      I’ve heard ICE described as a militia of the unemployable created to persecuted the working class.

      I’m sure Marx might have had something to say about the lumpen proletariat and the wages of a failed social safety net. But the six-figure salary for hunting anyone with a green card or a student visa for sport seems to speak for itself.

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        If you’ve ever read Sinclair Lewis’s It can’t happen here, the parallel between his “marching clubs” and our Proud Boys/ICE are hard to miss.

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      True… I’m just awed by the unprofessionalism of it.

      These peoples means are going to justify their own end… they will forever be pariahs, at best.