• whiwake@lemmy.cafe
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    This is the ramp up for martial law. No one wants to accept that, but you all need to start.

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    Is there some actual source on this other than a screenshot from a platform I don’t use written by some people I don’t know?

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      Source cited by a number of media articles is a substack called Popular Information. They say it can be found via the federal contract procurement system but I wasn’t able to find any results for ice that were actually warheads. I didn’t search exhaustively but I am not sure exactly what they’re referring to since armor is also under the category that includes ordinance. There’s a link in the article for searching the database, maybe someone can find it.

      https://popular.info/p/ice-boosts-weapons-spending-700

      They should probably link to the guided missile contract somewhere directly in the article. Primary sources are key in this shit show.

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    In the last nine months, ICE has spent a whopping $71,515,762 on purchases of “small arms, ordnance and ordnance accessories manufacturing.”

    For comparison, in 2019, ICE spent just $5.7 million on the “small arms” category through October 18, and during Trump’s first administration, the government spent an average of $8.4 million per year.

    While most of the spending was on guns and armor, Legum reported that ICE had also purchased “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”

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      I figured they wanted to carve up the U.S. to be given to various oligarchs to rule in the manner that their weird guru Curtis Yarvin talks about…

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        Yea but then explain the threats to take over Canada, Greenland, and invade Mexico, Venezuela, and most recently Colombia. The oligarch feudalism can be implemented across all that. This was an actual movement in the 1930-40s

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      first of seen of this, and it’s frightening because it aligns with the rest of my understanding. not surprising, just a bit jarring and sobering

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      You can get em cheap in Syria and Lebanon. Importing might be a bitch though. Although seeing how CBP spends more time terrorizing it’s own citizens, I’d say the borders are probably more open than they were during Obama or Biden admin.