ICE is another republican “make work” jobs program with ZERO return on investment. These kids should be part of a federal workforce repairing our crumbling infrastructure, something that provably has a return on investment for taxpayers.
Negative return on investment. ICE teaches people to break up society, rather than come together to improve it.
Not to mention it craters immigration.
While that may seem… obvious…
A whole buch of economic processes blow up without an influx of immigrants.
Tourism. Real Estate. Agriculture.
Its not shooting yourself in the foot, it’s shooting yourself in the balls and dieing from severing your femoral artery.
MAGAs love to destroy industries that employ regular people. Florida had a program that offered financial incentives to the film industry for Florida productions, and the industry had spent billions in Florida, and employed over 100,000 people.
Convicted Criminal Rick Scott became governor of Florida, and unilaterally cancelled the program, saying that he didn’t want to reward or encourage “Liberal Hollywood.”
So, Georgia rolled out the RED State carpet, and today the industry annually spends billions there, instead. They weren’t too Red to invite and encourage job growth for their citizens.
Thanks Florida Senator Rick Scott. BTW, nothing makes him angrier than threatening to prohibit insider trading for members of the Senate. He loves that perk sooo much.
So it’s alternative education for malicious people
deleted by creator
Morals too developed? Just recruit them while they’re still zygotes!
i know y'all don't like police, but my town is special in a lot of ways. TLDR a chair explodes
so like, having done a lot of social services stuff but not being an official social worker (just an executive for the org) i’ve gotten to work pretty closely with the local police. I’ve been really, really impressed with the force in my hometown. i will sing my hometown’s praises to the end of the earth. there’s something special here i don’t know what. people look out for each other in ways i have not seen anywhere else i’ve lived. beyond southern hospitality. like even the northerners and southerners stopped fighting to plant gardens in their yards when they got in their 20s, started becoming friends and watching ball together. a lot of that was them having kids. a lot of that was due to our police force using a soft hand rather than a hard one, being in the high schools and getting to know the kids and helping and validating their emotions rather than arresting them. giving them a community that was not the gang. they’d learn who the gang members were and “troublemakers”. The one thing they’d pay special attention to look for was gang members coming onto campus to recruit. folk who weren’t students. those were the only people they’d tell they weren’t welcome.
we went from 4 or 5 teenage shootings a year to 1 teen death a year, usually accidental. it happened the same time as decreases in violent crimes but like, the national average did not come down that much that fast.
like, to give an example of how people look out for each other here, a few years ago i went to the parade with my wife. i hadn’t been to the parade in years. I love marching bands. Live music is. my. thing. So we get there 2 and a half hours early to get a good seat, because it’s a parade and if you don’t set a chair out overnight so it can get stolen by seagulls you won’t get a good seat. And I didn’t want to sit on top of any of my friends’ buildings that year I wanted to see people. So I brought along one of those canvas camping chairs that collapses and you put it in a tube to carry it on your shoulder. People see me hobbling along with my chair and my cane and wave me over, they make room for me because Hey it’s a guy with a cane let’s give him a good spot even if he didn’t get here 4 hours early.
I pop out my chair, set it down, lean my cane against it, sit gently down and all the plastic pieces on my chair explode off in every direction as my ass plummets toward the cements and everyone turns and looks in horror. Oh no. The disabled dude. Is he okay.
“AHAHAHAHAHA HONEY I JUST FATTED MY CHAIR TO DEATH”
The tension broke. a police officer was right there by the time i finished laughing to help me to my feet (one i’d taught martial arts to when we were both teens, funny enough. i’m not sure he recognized me. he still has hair the lucky bastard), two people offered me chairs which i declined because i saw two chairs at my favorite cuban brunch place not ten steps away. What. A. Dilemma. So we ate chilaquiles and drank cortaditos while watching the parade, and that’s been our tradition ever since.
long story even longer, it’s taken a long time but the police in my town have earned my trust.
I’ve not really met friendly German Police, but nearly all of them are very professional. If I had a problem or a comment, I had no reservations about talking to an Officer because they study and know their laws relatively well, and are strict with their processes when escalation is warranted
As with all areas, know what you can and can’t do. Know what is suspicious and what’s accepted in a culture that isn’t yours. Most Polizei I’ve spoken with were more likely to talk to you or fine you before letting you go if you did something wrong (Polizei in Leipzig and Berlin can eat shit though).
(deleted content)
But then again, our cops are friendly, helpful and nonviolent
I’d say it’s a lot more likely that you’re not aware of what happens in your super secret country you can’t disclose.
It’s a pretty safe bet:
If someone thinks their country is perfect, their country is just good at propaganda.
Because even people who live in the “best” countries have complaints.
deleted by creator
I mean…. German cops are friendlier than American cops, but they’re still bastards. Oury Jalloh, the fascist WhatsApp group from Hessen, and similar things happen here too.
Yeah, but OP doesn’t personally suffer…
Yet.
But if OP is convinced everything is fine, they’ll never stop it from getting worse.
And eventually they’ll transitions from “us” to “them” in the eyes of the government and police.
They’re in that lazy compliance stage fascists support.
deleted by creator
I mean, yeah, it’s not a big deal if you don’t think about it further. I don’t like knowing that the people who are supposed to be impartial and who might have to intervene in a situation in which I find myself in danger don’t think I’m as valuable as a German citizen is. If the police had faced consequences, I would be a lot less concerned, because as you said, bad things happen everywhere. With no consequences, it means there’s tacit systemic acceptance of that type of behavior and attitude.
As for why a bastard would want to be a cop? You don’t get to witness a man burning alive as a banker.
As I said, it’s better here, but that doesn’t mean it’s fine or good.
(deleted content)
Shitler youth
They like em young, dumb, and full of naively believing the game is zero sum
Believing that life is a zero-sum game may help create the very scarcity and hostility that the zero-sum mindset expects from the world. To create a different reality, perhaps we must first choose to play a different game.
They look like they missed their chance at carrying out a school shooting and now they’re hoping to make up for lost time.
Hitlerjugend. You Americans are developing very fast.
Faster than you may realize.
Baden-Powell was inspired to start the Boy Scouts when he saw the 12-15 year old boys of the Mafeking Cadet Corp assisting the military during the Second Boer War.
What might have happened if he’d met up with Gandhi while he was there instead?
it’s the haircuts
Yeah I got that fluffy hair bro
Bruh it be broccoli frfr
Is that it? I’m seeing all these rich guys wearing that hair, thinking it makes them look young. Or maybe it’s just a good style to disguise a rug.
It does seem to be a rich kid/guy look though.
Yeah, it’s a popular style esp with Gen Z. Idk about the rich/old guys.
Probably militia kids. Whole family is indoctrinated.
In their neck of the woods, this will count for military service:
“Did you serve?”
[quietly] “Yeah, I was embedded at MCO…Orlando INTERNATIONAL Airport. Saw stuff there I’ll never unsee. I still get triggered by, uh, uh, mmmmickey.”
“It’s cool, man, it’s cool…”
Maybe. I was referring to actual militia, not military. Indoctrinated into Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and the like.
I know, I just like running down these twerps every chance I get. It’s like moral bullying. They absolutely deserve every bit of it.
Yeah, those two look like they should be studying for their civics midterms, not cosplaying jackboot goons.
I thought ICE could not operate without their face masks?
Where is “big balls” working these days?
Full time government employee. Ironic.
They’re just teenage looking guys. It worked for 21 jump street, it will work for the secret police.
Yeah… I don’t see a lot of teenagers with full sleeve tattoos.
But… but… it’s only the middle age that have a nut they need the bonus money for. Kids with their avocado toast and cocaine habits these days.
This article is fully written by ai I guarantee it
He looks young, but who knows. A guy I work with is in his mid 30s, but could easily be mistaken for a teenager.
Yeah, my first thought was these guys could be anywhere from 16 to 25.
