You have more than made the case for the dire consequences of having a second army. I am fearful of the number of American citizens and immigrants who will be killed as the inexorable clash takes place.
Cost per deportation skyrocketing, it's almost as if the a department of government efficiency helped them out...
Aside from geographic issues one of the reason the us attracts so many more undocumented workers than Canada is because it appears easier to work and live in the us while undocumented. I put this in part on laws that must seem to allow it and employers that take advantage of it. Close this up and they'll probably find they need and want a number of documented either temporary or road to citizen immigrants to keep the economy going.
Yes, this is a massive part of the problem. Those undocumented immigrants pay their fair share of taxes. And that is why it is allowed to continue. The H-1 B program is especially exploitative of workers. It's ironic that MAGA blames immigrants when they should be blaming the billionaires profiting off of that cheap immigrant labor.
I'm no expert. I'm just a guy who for fifteen years has been telling people we live in a police state, and watching the slow decline of the nation of his birth while not being able to convince anyone of anything he's been seeing this whole time.
Even so, I'm wondering if there is any intent at all here beyond destabilization. It has seemed to me that the power elite has been attacking the seat of their own power as efficiently as they've been brutalized the general population.
I think what sets this apart from historical examples is what we used to call globalization in the 80s, but is now known as transnationalism. I've been reading that the Heritage Foundation, for example, is active in more than one sovereign nation.
With the money from the illegal Venezuelan occupation in offshore accounts, this is all starting to look like a smash and grab looting to me rather than a dedicated coup.
I try not to predict crazy but if we look at the historical pattern, you must economically bring a country to its knees before you can seize power. Every authoritarian regime needs one thing and one thing only. MONEY. They can kill the press, destroy science, and turn their goons on citizens but if they don't have a boatload of money, it gets tricky to overthrow a democracy.
These villionaires think that AI is going to replace a human workforce and then there will a period of economic collapse. When no one has a job, no one can buy shit.
That's why Musk keeps mouthing off about the "parasite class." He is trying to normalize eliminating anyone who is old, sick, (that's me), poor, or not the right skin color.
The Roman Praetorian Guard started as bodyguards and ended up selling the empire to the highest bidder. When you create an armed force whose loyalty flows to its paycheck instead of its purpose, you have not built protection. You have built a market for betrayal. The pattern repeats because power always finds the shortest path to its own survival, and secondary armies are engineered to be that path.
Very well written and informative.
Disarm and unmask ICE. Make those proposals conditions in the discussions concerning further government funding, which expires in two weeks.
SA = ICE
many apt points and parallels here!
Beside the cost in dollars, we are risking a huge cost in human lives if the regime is allowed to carry out its agenda.
You have more than made the case for the dire consequences of having a second army. I am fearful of the number of American citizens and immigrants who will be killed as the inexorable clash takes place.
Even capitalists with zero compassion should be asking: Who the hell is paying for all of this???
Cost per deportation skyrocketing, it's almost as if the a department of government efficiency helped them out...
Aside from geographic issues one of the reason the us attracts so many more undocumented workers than Canada is because it appears easier to work and live in the us while undocumented. I put this in part on laws that must seem to allow it and employers that take advantage of it. Close this up and they'll probably find they need and want a number of documented either temporary or road to citizen immigrants to keep the economy going.
Yes, this is a massive part of the problem. Those undocumented immigrants pay their fair share of taxes. And that is why it is allowed to continue. The H-1 B program is especially exploitative of workers. It's ironic that MAGA blames immigrants when they should be blaming the billionaires profiting off of that cheap immigrant labor.
Clearly you fools are now funding the near future emprisonment of y’all.
I'm no expert. I'm just a guy who for fifteen years has been telling people we live in a police state, and watching the slow decline of the nation of his birth while not being able to convince anyone of anything he's been seeing this whole time.
Even so, I'm wondering if there is any intent at all here beyond destabilization. It has seemed to me that the power elite has been attacking the seat of their own power as efficiently as they've been brutalized the general population.
I think what sets this apart from historical examples is what we used to call globalization in the 80s, but is now known as transnationalism. I've been reading that the Heritage Foundation, for example, is active in more than one sovereign nation.
With the money from the illegal Venezuelan occupation in offshore accounts, this is all starting to look like a smash and grab looting to me rather than a dedicated coup.
I try not to predict crazy but if we look at the historical pattern, you must economically bring a country to its knees before you can seize power. Every authoritarian regime needs one thing and one thing only. MONEY. They can kill the press, destroy science, and turn their goons on citizens but if they don't have a boatload of money, it gets tricky to overthrow a democracy.
These villionaires think that AI is going to replace a human workforce and then there will a period of economic collapse. When no one has a job, no one can buy shit.
That's why Musk keeps mouthing off about the "parasite class." He is trying to normalize eliminating anyone who is old, sick, (that's me), poor, or not the right skin color.
Great piece! People had better pay attention to what's happening in America today. And they said it couldn't happen here...
The Redcoats ARE coming!
Hell, they're already here!
The Roman Praetorian Guard started as bodyguards and ended up selling the empire to the highest bidder. When you create an armed force whose loyalty flows to its paycheck instead of its purpose, you have not built protection. You have built a market for betrayal. The pattern repeats because power always finds the shortest path to its own survival, and secondary armies are engineered to be that path.