They'll wait until they're deployed to Iran though
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Marines vs Icebergs.
I have known a few Marines. They will not appreciate this initiative.
This is not a wise course of action.
"Multiple Marine-class lifeforms in the area. Are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?"
That feels like the real slogan for the presidency "This is not a wise course of action"
Too literate.... Use the wrong word in there somewhere, or mess it up some other way.
It's going to be great, but it may not work.
How to lose the civil war you're trying to start in one easy step.
How to lose the civil war you’re trying to start in one easy step.
we wish to
What the ACTUAL fuck?
Are they TRYING to be as stupid as they possibly can be??
This isn't just shooting themselves in the foot. This is planting a live grenade in their own underwear while stepping barefoot on Lego and shouting abuse about a serial killer's mother to his face while covered in meat within an enclosure full of starving lions!
Remember fascist have always been fucking braindead, due to how their political cults tend to work they are far more interested in grand standing than getting effective results even within their own so called ideological framework. For example the Confederates had to start losing the war before they started using slave labor for things like logistics, which the abhorancy of slavery aside I thought that was one of the reasons to keep slaver, ya know to do the work noone can or wants to do.
The slaves were already working for their owners.
Even if that was the case you'd think they'd give a tax break for those who "volunteered" their slave or even have the state aquire their own. Regardless my point was moreso that they didn't do so for ideological reasons since they did do it eventually but we're resistant to doing so due to ideology and pride.
trying? no. They simply are.
Fascism eats itself.
They need hostage if they don’t want them to revolt
Jesus, I thought it said Iran instead of ice. And I was thinking how that is kind of a stupid idea. What a fucking timeline.
Them ICE people is jeniuses
It's not just ICE here. The whole administration is malicious.
When do the Marines get to target back?
Also foreign adoptions.
When you get no travel money, but the trigger finger still gotta pull some shit
DO IT!
Ice has virtually unlimited money and complete intelligence, which is to say informational intelligence, not actual intelligence obviously. A few disparate Marines on their own do not stand a chance without organization behind them.
Ice is already around $170 billion, which is roughly three times the budget of the Marine corps.
Most people can't understand just how much money that is. $40 billion of that is going to building new detention centers and various kinds of concentration camps. That's about $7m per ICE employee every year.
And they have been wasting no time on spending it. They've been hiring and buying Americans' data and arming themselves.
Least I heard they had bought missiles and drones.
Not a Marine, but I do know they place a lot of value on loyalty.