ICE is disappearing people.
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I wish I were that optimistic. But using your metaphor, the larva have actively been quietly attacking the political and social infrastructure, to make sure that we can't bring the hammer down when fascism rears its ugly head. The solution (as always) is to make the rich not rich somehow, but as long as they are and have been rich, richer than ever, they've pushed programs to criminalize friendship and decimate communities. To turn our hammers into manacles, and turn us against each other.
This isn't a parasite. This is leukemia.
CC: @inthehands@hachyderm.ioFortunately, society is not a biological organism, and we're not brainless cells, so I think we have a chance, if we can just figure out how to keep the machinations of the rich from manipulating us into acting like brainless cells. If we cannot resist the manipulation though, the prognosis for an organism composed of dumb cells with leukemia is not promising.
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Theoretically, if they got rid of all the immigrants, I wonder what they would do with all the money?
I guess they would just return it and the budget would shrink and everybody would go home.
A well armed, well financed, fascist paramilitary recruited from Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and neo-Nazis, will *not* disband willingly. It's not going to happen.
They'll defend themselves by every means at their disposal.
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ICE is disappearing people.
This is a grim and difficult piece, but it is heartening to read it one particular way: the broader national and global conversation is finally, finally starting to pick up on what so many of us have been yelling for weeks and months: the Department of Homeland Security is acting as Trump’s secret police, a group of Brownshirts with a military-sized budget whose horrors extend far beyond two murders.
https://emptywheel.net/2026/01/29/the-disappearances-in-minnesota/
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That's 3 observed ones, isn't it?
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A well armed, well financed, fascist paramilitary recruited from Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and neo-Nazis, will *not* disband willingly. It's not going to happen.
They'll defend themselves by every means at their disposal.
Of course. They're being paid huge money right now the likes of which they've probably most of them never seen before. They will absolutely not give that up.
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Of course. They're being paid huge money right now the likes of which they've probably most of them never seen before. They will absolutely not give that up.
Or their guns and ammunition.
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Or their guns and ammunition.
Many of them probably already had plenty of guns and ammunition (go, USA!). However, if we're making a list of everything, add their wonderful immunity to prosecution for everything they get to do to immigrants on the pile.
