Spoiler alert: they're going to enforce a lot more than immigration.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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If ICE was a military, it would be the third most funded military in the world with this budget. Right behind US and China and about $50 billion more than Russia.
We are looking at concentration camps for real.
I’ve seen MAGAs post gleeful memes at the idea of immigrants being eaten by alligators. It’s sick.
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I feel like what the rest of the world doesn't understand (I am from the "rest of the world), is that the USA is VASTLY more powerful than the Nazis ever were. Barely any country is sounding the alarm seriously. Just "oh we're concerned about what's happening".
We are truly fucked.
And we're under the US' thumb (Australia).
At least we're majority white...... maybe that'll keep us safe, temporarily.
I hate this timeline, so very much.
I think (and hope) that one key difference here is that the US is much more divided politically and culturally then Nazi Germany was. At least right now, there is no way the US declares a war of aggression against a former Ally and doesn't fall into Civil War. It will take a hell of a lot of internal suppression for that to change, the act of which will likely ignite the Civil War itself.
My hope is that the next few years will be less "What if the Nazi's controlled the most powerful nation in history?" and more "What if Francisco Franco controlled the most powerful nation is history?"
Europe and China likely have time to prepare, and they really fucking need to. If they're smart they're already covertly looking into ways to arm and fund internal opposition in America.
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The Gestapo.
Oh... it's already there
Fucking bingo.
Yeah, that is SS funding money, complete with a Waffen SS branch.
MAGA is building its own secret police SS force. What a surprise that absolutely no one could see coming /s.
At least some people are beginning to realize what I (and you probably) have been saying for months, and we aren’t just crazy.
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The Democrats are already drafting up a cutting, sternly worded letter.
I bet Susan Collins will be concerned about it (but still vote 100% for everything)
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But nothing for healthcare, of course. That would be communism, or some such bullshit.
Cato probably agrees with that statement, but at least they have some actual principles about small government rather than small government for good things and big government for bad things.
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Well they're gonna need a lot of new brown shirts, I assume
Naw. That's just what they're saying to appease the slavering, gnashing teeth of American conservatives. Virtually all of that money is just going into a black hole, and right into the offshore bank accounts of Trump's cronies.
It's what Russia did — why would Trump run the playbook any differently?
Because Putin was popular enough to build status quo fascism. Trump doesn't have such luxury, so he needs to get his act in order before domestic opposition finally wakes up. Federal forces, and specifically ICE, are woefully underprepared for enforcing authoritarian rule in a country as big as America, even setting aside the possibility of a civil war.
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Apparently they'll be getting the money for it
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Well done America, you had a pretty decent country with some major issues (healthcare, cost of living) but you've all decided you need a bit more racism and hate in your lives. Congratulations on your incoming authoritarianism.
The issue some of us take with that is no, we did not all decide we needed more racism and hate. In fact, more and more evidence is being found that shows the entire thing was rigged, and the true majority decision was not acknowledged by the folks who had mostly been behind the scenes before.
America has been sliding further and futher away from being a democracy for decades, eroding rights and corporate lobbys have put business over people, he was elected TWICE even if there was voter rigging. The democratic party is dead and your political system is broken. The Heritage foundation has long been planning this and none of this was a secret. While YOU may note have voted for this, this is what the face of America is to us foreigners,
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Trump said it was rigged when he won (Elon fixed the machines in Penn)
What violence against him have you seen from these presumed non-supporters?
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Sure ok but that's pretty meaningless at this juncture.
Rigged machines aren't going to save us
To be fair, right around 50% of us are vehemently opposed to this sort of thing. Far from all America
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Imagine if we allocated that much money to housing people. Ha, right?
In fascism, you don't need disabled, Sick, old, or excessively poor people. No need for Medicare or Medicare when they can be shipped off to the concentration camps and disappeared. One big beautiful final solution.
And eventually, nobody will get sick or old anymore! Miraculously, they'll just stop appearing entirely!
Because we'll all be dead.
My prediction: This is how America finally gets highspeed trains, but they'll only be used to deport people faster.
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7th branch of the military operating on US soil
Seventh National Army
It's just a pun. Nothing to worry about.
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2025-06-26/marines-budget-2026-18253650.html
The [Marines] $57.2 billion budget request is part of the Navy’s $292.2 billion overall proposed spending plan for fiscal 2026, which begins Oct. 1. The budget request reflects a more than 6% increase from the 2025 request.
More then three times the budget of the Marines.
Can't have food for starving infants but we'll spend a fifth a trillion on the masked, jeaned gestapo to kick the American gulag and genocide project into high gear.
I guess they aren't spending it on uniforms. I wonder where all that money is going?
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All of which is going to be funneled directly into the pockets of Trump's tech bro friends via contracts with data companies like Palantir.
Acquire weapons. Melt the ice.
That's actually one of the better scenarios.
Currently; it looks like MAGA is building the world's third largest military force that's greenlit to operate on US soil kidnapping and disappearing ANYONE without given reason, no legal process, and 0 recourse.
You'll be fucking lucky if that money just disappears into some billionaires pockets.
This is what America chose. Enjoy it, idiots.
Imagine the USA being the new North Korea, Donald Jr. eventually following his father to the throne. Ostracized by the world. Global hacker scams and their own version of Juche. The parallels are astounding, esp. if you make a few simple deductions into the near future: distribution of wealth, collapsed economy while claiming it's booming...
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Well, those Florida swamp death camps won't pay for themselves.
For context, this article was published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank originally founded by Charles Koch (among others). The fact that these guys are ringing the alarm bell should be a warning unto itself. You can read the full text of the bill (H.R. 1) here.
I don't think it should be a warning into itself. They basically provide a libertarian view on everything which doesn't seem to be augmented by real world politics. I've noticed they do that in many situations, some mostly unnoticed by most people in western countries, and some politically heated. That's a very good commendation IMHO, that they are still doing what they were supposed to do.
About the thing itself - border police also seems to be one military structure in your country relatively less accountable than those 3-letter agencies wearing black and fighting aliens and loudly breathing in our phone calls.
And it's possible that Trump wants to have it as his own terror force, like some Gypsy baron gone dictator.
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