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It absolutely eclipses the Gestapo.
The Heritage Foundation quite literally took the Nazi Germany history and said "we can do it better."
With 32,000 members, the Gestapo and adjacent effects was able to kill 21m people.
The Foundation wants 258,000,000 dead.
That $170b is going to that.
That's $170B, not millions.
Ooops, I knew that too I'll correct it
Yeah, this is some SS level shit. Or more accurately, Trump wants his own Rosgvardiya.
National Guard is separate from the Armed Forces.[3] It became a federal executive body in 2016 by a law signed by President Vladimir Putin.
I was not familiar with Rosgvardiya turns out it was founded in 2016. Wow.
280,000,000 dead
Who exactly?
The Heritage Foundation members have stated a population around 100million would be healthy.
If 75% of Americans were culled (remember the number supposedly "saved") that ends up being near 100m or killing 258m.
65m Hispanic ancestry? 48m Black Americans? 6.5m South Asians? 5m Ethnic Chinese?
Alright thanks.
I know Laura looked said 65 mil but maybe they just want the 1% left and use robots for labor.
And here's a bit of a hint for the slow people out there - they don't need that many agents or that big of a budget if they're only dealing with immigrants.
Just sitting here quietly wondering what it would take to deport everyone who admitted to being a homosexual, black, Latino, or drug addict on a medical form…cause I assume that’s why DOGE wanted so much of our private information - to use it against us.
The leading edge of the Nazi thought machine is already saying it.
https://bsky.app/profile/elnorterecuerda.bsky.social/post/3lsyrlsj3wc2x
At this point, all it would take would be to successfully establish the precedent that legal citizens can have their citizenship revoked (which just requires a case getting to the Supreme Court, where the corrupt majority has already demonstrated that they're going to just rubber-stamp whatever Trump wants), then to issue an executive order declaring that [whatever quality] is [whatever has been deemed to be acceptable grounds to have ones citizenship revoked]. It would undoubtedly be challenged, but again, it would wind up in front of the Supreme Court sooner or later, and they'd rubber-stamp it
and when those excuses for hunting people run out, who do you think they will focus next to keep getting funding?
Whoever they deem "undesirables".
easy to target every democratic and independant voter out there, most of them arnt raiding mostly blue more than red areas.
The goal is to go back to the slave system using some legal trickery and brute force. The money is there to make it happen.
Yes, though with a feudal system mixed in.
Corporations and wealthy individuals will be the sole property-owners and will play the roles of feudal lords, and the people will be serfs, allowed to live on the lords' estates only if they serve the lords.
Since homelessness will be criminalized while all property will be owned by the feudal lords, those who won't serve the lords "willingly" will be imprisoned, and yes, they will then be slaves.
One of the various conservative thoughts is to make large swathes of US territory governed by corporations and billionaires. Basically, non-state zones subject to rules set by non-state systems.
Surprise! They're trying to make feudal / monarchy systems. Welcome to bring peasants again, fellow peasants.
The underlying foundation of conservative thoughts was, and is, to uphold a hierarchy that supports a monarchy. It has been from day 1. The American Revolution was a war against conservatism.
I think one of the most concise ways to conceptualize the current conservative project is that they looked at the French Revolution and the collapse of the Ancien Regime and drew the wrong conclusions.
Rather than seeing it as the inevitable result of the systemstic oppression of the majority for the obscene privilege of a select few, they see it as a failure of the select few to sufficiently protect their privilege. And their goal is to recreate the conditions of the Ancien Regime, but this time around to prevent the peasants from successfully rebelling.
Weird how the conservative fear of "FEMA camps" was just them drooling about using them to put anyone that looks too brown in.
It'll be different depending on the skin color. The darker the skin, the shorter the road to slavery and skipping the feudal system.
But then where would they hide extra money to syphon later in corrupt dealings??? C'mon man! Think like a republican!
If I remember something I read earlier, they would be better funded than the Russian military. This is insane.
The russian military literally told their soldiers to show up for war, bringing their own weapons, food, clothes, and tools.
Thats not exactly a great bar to measure funding with....
They do have tanks, airplanes, and artillery though.
Money to fund gestapo US Border Patrol and ICE-IS but not enough for health care for our elderly, education for our youth, or nutrition and housing assistance for our vets.
This government is morally bankrupt. Error Code: 404
Don't worry, there's plenty of money to fund israeli healthcare as well as their genocide.
Wake up babe, new Sturmabteilung just dropped.
Largest and most expensive are two different things, most expensive could lead to largest, but I guarantee you the plan for spending that money is the size and shape of a napkin and includes a big funnel to the military and prison industrial complexs and with a sketch of some stick figures in suits throwing piles of cash at each other while laughing.
would
*will
I guess it's a poor situation.
Oh, look...
That private army Mafia Don Mangolini's always wanted is coming to pass.
Able to do "Daddy's" (🤮) bidding without restraint or consequence.
FFS.
🤡 🖕 🖕 💩
the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation
Are all those qualifiers even needed?
Are there any state or local agencies larger than the federal government’s? Are there any other countries with larger agencies? (China or India, maybe?)
Or can we just call it “the largest law enforcement agency in (western) history”?
Wait it passed? The democrats didn't do anything to stop fascism? Who could have seen this coming?
It helps when they are not the minority… with a 10% margin
They have the filibuster. The thing they refused to get rid of to allow them to do good things.