ICE wants to hire contractors to monitor social media for threats. Those who criticize the agency could be pulled into the dragnet.
    • einkorn@feddit.orgEnglish
      57·
      9 days ago

      Not that I am arguing for simply rolling over but:

      Come screw with my first constitutional rite, and my iron clad citizenship.

      When push comes to shove, they won’t give a flying fuck about a piece of paper that says they can’t do that. Just ask anyone who’s been to Gitmo on either side of the bars.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      132·
      9 days ago

      They put you somewhere that you have no communication with the outside world. Now what?

        • palordrolap@fedia.io
          61·
          9 days ago

          You haven’t watched or read much dystopian fiction (or fact, as below), have you?

          My mind always goes to that one scene in Roots where, below decks on the slaver ship, the captured slaves-to-be stage a revolt and resolve to swim to the bank of the river the ship is sailing on. They succeed in reaching the top deck, a masterpiece of planning, only to become dazed both by the daylight as well as the fact there was no riverbank in sight.

          Those poor bastards were from inland, had probably never been more than a few miles from their villages. They literally couldn’t conceive of something as large as the Atlantic ocean.

          Likewise you’re failing to conceive all the ways that your plans won’t work. You really think you’ll get to someone’s crotch or eyes? And if you do, that you’ll not be overcome and won’t get that opportunity next time?

          The only hope is a whole heap of incompetence on behalf of the captor. And in that case you will still not win the fight. Run.

          And hope there’s a riverbank nearby or else you’re cooked.

  • underwire212@lemm.eeEnglish
    55·
    9 days ago

    Remember when Americans make fun of China because the government censors and controls what you can say online? Yeahhhh……

    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      18·
      9 days ago

      Maybe 30% of ICE personnel would understand that being the gestapo represents a “branding problem,” maybe 1% are ethical enough to feel bad about it but not enough to quit.

  • Whateley@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    9 days ago

    I shit on ICE and everything it stands for.

    All my homies shit on ICE, too.

    • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 days ago

      Yes, fuck ICE, fuck nasified ICE. See, this as a positive stance to have towards ice. This is not : “Posting Negative Things About” … “Fucking ICE”.