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[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 days ago (34 children)

I read that it makes ICE bigger than the fucking Chinese army. It's beyond obscene. One thing that I wonder about is... are there even enough racist sociopaths in this country to fill the ranks? You need a specific type of person to be willing to join ICE. It's possible that there simply aren't enough Americans who are willing to brutalize immigrants to use the $200 billion they were given.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What is scary about the modern world is just how much damage can be caused by a handful of people thanks to technology. They don't need millions of people to run their gestapo if they have the NSA surveilling the internet, a network of facial recognition enabled surveillance cameras, military gear that would let a handful of agents take on anything short of an armed mob, and drone strikes for the ones they can't even be bothered to capture.

There aren't a lot of psychos, but it really doesn't take that many to cause problems if nobody else has the will or capacity to fight back. And this will make oodles of money for "defense" contractors.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

a network of facial recognition enabled surveillance cameras

One can only hope that a sufficiently-motivated populace can destroy them faster than they can be replaced.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I feel like that's the consequence we get for spending the last century advancing technology (to feed our hunger), but not advancing our governance systems (ti resist our greed).

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