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The Senate has passed a bill making Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the U.S.'s largest interior law enforcement agency with funding for Donald Trump's immigration enforcement agenda higher than most of the world's militaries, including Israel's.

Pending its passage in the House of Representatives, Trump's bill could mean a massive increase in ICE funding as part of an immigration enforcement agenda worth $150 billion over four years.

This figure is more than the annual military budget of Italy, which at $30.8 billion, is the world's 16th highest defense spender for this year according to tracker Global Fire Power.

It is also higher than military spending for Israel, ($30 billion), the Netherlands ($27 billion) and Brazil ($26.1 billion).

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That means this is their new military.

Pretty clever if you think if it. They don't try to convince their current one but build one up besides them while starving them of their resources.

[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Building a paramilitary beholden to Party-aligned officials as a stopgap until the Party seizes total control of the actual military is boilerplate fascism.

EDIT: And when they do seize control the military, it usually doesn't end well for the paramilitary.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We should quit paying our taxes

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (32 children)

Leave the US. If you have expertise you'll be easily welcomed into most countries, if not, there is are a lot of countries you can still move to that are not police states. Either way you'll stop paying/supporting and supporting US fascism with your work. The immigrants your government is so eager to deport have been through worse.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would have been gone years ago I just don’t really have the means to leave

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The government can just print money, they don't actually strictly need your taxes (see MMT). The only actual path is withholding labour and mass protests (with at least a credible threat of violent escalations).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I haven’t contributed to the economy in any meaningful way and have managed to make money without working any real job since the last place I worked at shuttered in 2020, withholding my labor. I’ve been doing my part. And I’m only one person so there’s not much else I can do unless more people are also doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Printing money is how you get hyperinflation. You cant just print money without it flooding the market. If you do that too often, the money becomes worthless.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Then your government will acquire yet more debt. And if everything crumbles down for them, there will be your offspring paying for that debt and their taxes for generations.

I don't know what's worse, honestly. I just know everyone needs to fight back and resist, and they'll get exhausted fighting everywhere in the world. But it they don't have to fight, they'll just keep doing their shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice of you to assume I'm gonna have kids.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

This shit can’t be bankrolled any more. I personally didn’t have offspring because the future is far too bleak to even dream of subjecting another human being to what’s to come. Yeah, we need to start fighting and needed to quite some time ago.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Too late for that now..they'll just take all your money, house, claim you're not a citizen, force you to work for 1/256th of that you earn now and keep the bribe from companies that bought you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well either choice leads to imprisonment of some type so I’ll go out blasting rather than perpetuate it

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