• @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    2044 months ago

    Many of us have been comparing ICE and the SS since it’s inception alongside the Department of Homeland Security post-9/11.

    9/11 ended up being way more successful than Osama Bin Laden could ever have imagined. It just took an extra 25 years for the Republican party to destroy the country from within like he wanted.

    • aramis87
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      894 months ago

      Department of Homeland Security

      This is something that’s always chilled me since they created it. To me, “Homeland” always had that echo of Nazi Germany’s “Fatherland”.

      • KSP Atlas
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        4 months ago

        Fatherland is still used in many countries/languages, hell even polish uses “Ojczyzna”.

        • aramis87
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          164 months ago

          They won’t. They switched it because it’s easy to justify spending any amount of money on “defending” yourself. If they switched it back, it would cost them some support.

          • @dalekcaan@lemm.ee
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            94 months ago

            Yup, euphemistic language is preferred. It’s all very Orwellian. Soon the Supreme Court will be the Department of Truth.

      • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14 months ago

        “Department of Homeland Security” is almost as oxymoronic as “Military Intelligence” or “Department of Justice”

          • @mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            34 months ago

            Have you ever met anyone in active duty? Every single marine is fueled by a six pack of Monster, punching each other in the dicks for fun, and eating crayons for lunch.

            • @Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              54 months ago

              I have actually, even talked in depth with a few at a country fayre after the recruiter had pissed off along with on several RAF & Army bases the actual soldiers are generally quite intelligent and those working in SIGINT are often very intellignet.

              • @in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                24 months ago

                Yet they’re still tricked into bombing brown kids over a WMD lie or for the religious act of patriotism. Doesn’t sound very intelligent to me, it’s like saying Oxford/Harvard educated math nerds making millions trading in high finance are smart because they think mathematical models of reality are more accurate than reality itself.

                • @Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  -44 months ago

                  “Muh Palestine” I don’t really care, what was done in GWOT was wrong but given the world is now heating up I fully support increasing defence spending to protect the nation from potentially hostile powers which could at this stage potentially include the USA.