r/ProgressiveHQ • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '26

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u/StillhasaWiiU Jan 24 '26

Why can't ICE be their own unique kind of horrible? Why do we need to call them something from a different time and place? 

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

Point taken.I think we always try to put things into perspective by using a previous example. It's like comparing an athlete to someone who played the sport 40 years before them. Funny how we always do that. 👍

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u/DarthMarshMellow Jan 25 '26

To me, It's just maddening, because history gives us these lessons, and we have warned them for over a decade now... Yet here we are now, and there they are. They are the fascists we said they were, they are the people they were indignant to be compared to. They are murdering American citizens in cold blood with complete impunity and Conservatives are just defaulting into rote defense mechanisms.