10-11-2025, 08:40 AM
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#15261
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Western Canada
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I was thinking a bit about ICE last night, and I was wondering whether this is just an excuse to arm and reward the most extreme trump supporters.
Are there any checks on who they hire? Are they just deputing extremist militia members and Jan 6th people?
It seems this is a military/police force entirely beholden to Trump.
That may explain the reason to pay exorbitant wages, another way to reward these extrmjsts.
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10-11-2025, 09:18 AM
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#15262
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by marsplasticeraser
I was thinking a bit about ICE last night, and I was wondering whether this is just an excuse to arm and reward the most extreme trump supporters.
Are there any checks on who they hire? Are they just deputing extremist militia members and Jan 6th people?
It seems this is a military/police force entirely beholden to Trump.
That may explain the reason to pay exorbitant wages, another way to reward these extrmjsts.
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You said it in the bolded part.
I don't think he cares about rewarded these losers; they're just a tool for seizing complete power.
All levels of military, police, legal system, medical, everything else are to be beholden to the administration. Game over democracy.
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10-11-2025, 09:49 AM
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#15263
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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A lot of January 6ers and Proud Boys are now in ICE.
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10-11-2025, 09:59 AM
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#15264
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
You said it in the bolded part.
I don't think he cares about rewarded these losers; they're just a tool for seizing complete power.
All levels of military, police, legal system, medical, everything else are to be beholden to the administration. Game over democracy.
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Having a personal paramilitary force with little to no legal oversight is a basic way for dictators to overrun all "checks and balances" and just bypass the existing law enforcement and legal systems. This is especially necessary in the early stages of a dictatorship, when power is not yet absolute and the existing systems haven't yet been sufficiently purged.
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10-11-2025, 02:33 PM
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#15265
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Itse
Having a personal paramilitary force with little to no legal oversight is a basic way for dictators to overrun all "checks and balances" and just bypass the existing law enforcement and legal systems. This is especially necessary in the early stages of a dictatorship, when power is not yet absolute and the existing systems haven't yet been sufficiently purged.
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Gestapo
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10-11-2025, 03:25 PM
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#15266
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by edslunch
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That exactly what it compares to. It won't be too long before they are the morality police rounding up anyone declared an enemy of MAGA. They will probably be supervising election polls and occupying the Capitol when the next transfer of power is supposed to happen.
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10-11-2025, 03:46 PM
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#15267
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Jan 2008
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We really are in the stupidest timeline.
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10-11-2025, 06:30 PM
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#15268
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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Originally Posted by redflamesfan08
We really are in the stupidest timeline.
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Agreed
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10-11-2025, 08:14 PM
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#15269
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Pickle Jar Lake
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LOL. Free plane, indeed.
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10-11-2025, 08:55 PM
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#15270
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: In the prairies, surrounded by sheep
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Itse
Having a personal paramilitary force with little to no legal oversight is a basic way for dictators to overrun all "checks and balances" and just bypass the existing law enforcement and legal systems. This is especially necessary in the early stages of a dictatorship, when power is not yet absolute and the existing systems haven't yet been sufficiently purged.
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SA (i.e. the Brownshirts) in the early days, then the SS (after Hitler agreed to disband the SA in return for loyalty of the Reichswehr)
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10-11-2025, 09:38 PM
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#15271
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by #22
SA (i.e. the Brownshirts) in the early days, then the SS (after Hitler agreed to disband the SA in return for loyalty of the Reichswehr)
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What's the saying? History doesn't repeat but sometimes it rhymes?
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10-12-2025, 01:01 AM
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#15272
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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Quote:
Originally Posted by edslunch
Gestapo
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No Brown Shirts, once you have absolute power you then create the Gestapo to slaughter the Brown Shirts, that comes in a couple of years time when you have gotten away with suspending elections
edit: just saw #22's post
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