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1. Walks like duck, talks like a duck...

Reply to B.See (Original post)

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 12:36 AM

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Personally, I think of ICE as the Nazi SS without the organization and brains, but your analogy works at least as well if not better. The underlying hatred is the same. The primary difference is that ICE seems to be motivated as much by financial gain as ideological purity. But the end result is the same.

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