You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains?
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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
Yep. Trump putting ICE at airports has SFA to do with maintaining or enhancing security during a partial govt shutdown. It's another opportunity for Stephen Miller's ICE to make their quotas for arresting and deporting immigrants...and anyone who objects to what they're doing or how they do it.
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@danirabbit Honestly I'm stunned at how quietly and easily Americans have accepted this as the new normal.
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@danirabbit how is this legal? Are there really no requirements for training and whatnot that prohibit arbitrarily swapping who’s doing which job? Or spending money from the ICE bucket for TSA spending?
@ShadSterling @danirabbit Of course if the DHS budget is flexible enough to pay ICE agents at their $100k/yr salaries to do work outside their job description, they could easily flex the money to pay the TSA agents their paltry $40k salaries. The agency is flush with money. Not paying TSA, FEMA & every DHS employee whose job isn't overt racist violence is a choice.
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@danirabbit Honestly I'm stunned at how quietly and easily Americans have accepted this as the new normal.
@dcdeejay Just like last century.
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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
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@ShadSterling turns out “legal” only matters when people agree to enforce the law
@danirabbit that’s true… the first time I heard budget news after DOGE I wondered why it mattered when the administration will just spend where it wants and Republicans in Congress and SCOTUS will do nothing to stop them. Since then I fell back into the habit of treating it like it matters. And, it does, but not like it used to
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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
When they rolled out professional molesters at the airports, I was done. I take trains and buses. I haven't been on a plane in 21 years.
And now it's getting worse?
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@danirabbit check if your family has an old ww2 arian passpaper thing, the n-th generation german... maybe thatll work
@biglinter I do actually happen to have my (Polish) great-grandfathers Nazi passport in a box of family memorabilia in the house.
Boy I just *loooooove* that we’re going to live through that again.
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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
@danirabbit The idea that "in every movie set during WWII there's a scene were Nazis are checking papers on the trains" is not really valid.
Counterexamples:
"To be or not to be" (1942 version ).
"Das Boot" (nearly all of it on a submarine)
"Der Untergang" (last days in Hitler's bunker)
"Green for Danger" (murder mistery/comedy in a British hospital during World-War II).
"South Pacific" (WWII but not in Europe).
"Casablanca"
"Bridge on the River Kwai" -
@danirabbit The idea that "in every movie set during WWII there's a scene were Nazis are checking papers on the trains" is not really valid.
Counterexamples:
"To be or not to be" (1942 version ).
"Das Boot" (nearly all of it on a submarine)
"Der Untergang" (last days in Hitler's bunker)
"Green for Danger" (murder mistery/comedy in a British hospital during World-War II).
"South Pacific" (WWII but not in Europe).
"Casablanca"
"Bridge on the River Kwai"So the US is worse
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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
@danirabbit A uniquely dysfunctional country.
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You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today
@danirabbit I wonder how Americans would react if they would actually speak German?
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