• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve heard ICE described as a militia of the unemployable created to persecuted the working class.

    I’m sure Marx might have had something to say about the lumpen proletariat and the wages of a failed social safety net. But the six-figure salary for hunting anyone with a green card or a student visa for sport seems to speak for itself.

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      10 hours ago

      If you’ve ever read Sinclair Lewis’s It can’t happen here, the parallel between his “marching clubs” and our Proud Boys/ICE are hard to miss.