Lol, lmao even.

  • BioWarfarePosadist [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Join. Refuse to arrest anyone, be as incompetent as the federal union will let you be. Actively screw up the chain of evidence, and forget to lock van doors after a raid. Then quit as soon as you can. Burn the poster as tinder to burn down the whole ICE office.

    gigachad

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      I had a buddy back in the day who moved out far from family/support network and when he realized he needed to come back and didn’t have the resources, he joined the army and deliberately failed to finish training CW mental health/self harm

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      (IIRC, he told his superiors that he was depressed and at risk of suicide)

      Eventually he got discharged and they sent him home (home home, not the place he’d made a mistake by moving to). To be fair he was actually depressed most of the time, he might have been being honest with them. I just always thought it was badass that he effectively scammed the US military into a cross country flight.

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        IIRC it’s pretty straightforward to bail on the military prior to completing basic training. I think it’s a “failure to adapt” designation or something. Kind of an “agree to disagree” kind of thing. It’s a lot harder to get a discharge after you get a permanent assignment

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        he effectively scammed the US military into a cross country flight.

        And they would have paid him for the time he was there, but they would have made him work for a certain amount of days picking up garbage and stuff before letting him leave.

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      Fifth column but for the browshirts, could work but you might end up getting soap-socked by your coworkers.

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      It’s a tool used to entice poor people into joining the imperial oppression machine. That’s why free college for everyone won’t happen - why would anyone risk their lives for free college when they can get it without murdering poor brown people?

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    I’m not personally in the position to do this, but what’s the over/under on joining for the bonus, mostly just being a snitch to whoever locally needs to know to warn at others, dox coworkers, and maybe even doing a bit of light sabotage?

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      If DHS structures it the same way the military does, the bonus will have an attached time in service requirement of say four years.

      The recipient will get 1/4 every year for four years.

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    In order to retain control, they need to make sure that the “enforcement class” continues to receive the benefits that the working class at large is denied. This has mainly been used with the army, but it’ll be spread out into ICE which will probably become increasingly militarised over time (not saying they aren’t already, just that they will be more militarised).

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      Extremely good take.

      The “enforcement class” expands where manufacturing jobs and the “service sector” recede. It might be as large as one fifth of the whole economy.