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Correct, and exactly what I was referring to when talking about ICE.

As for the exact history, the original SS were nothing but a bunch of untrained thugs too. Hitler has just grown distrustful of the SA and wanted his bodyguard to be loyal to him alone instead of the party. This is also what ultimately led to the night of the long knives and the execution of Ernst Röhm. It wasn’t until Himmler took control of the SS in 1929, and with the institution of military training in 1934, that they slowly formed into an actual military organization with properly trained soldiers.

Sure, but since the SA preceded the SS I think my point still holds. You are more historically accurate though :-)

The parallels with the SS are striking. In more than one way.

LOL being the abbreviation for Lament Our Loss here, I presume?

You mean our glorious fermented fish - Surströmming. If so, I propose we send several cans to each person involved in this administrarion. Daily. Set to open the minute they enter the building.

(Pro tip: Swedish doesn’t use the Danish/Norwegian ø, we write ö to express the same sound)

Not really. I think I may have seen them in stores once or twice, but in the tradition of picking from a large wall of candy every Saturday, I don’t think I ever saw them in any bin.

As someone from Sweden I always assumed they meant our wild variety of weird fish dishes when USA Americans joked about Swedish fish. But no, it’s of course a candy. Really goes to show my overestimation of the average USA American’s familiarity with foreign cuisines.

This is another great example of “a lie has already made it to the other side of the world before the truth has finished putting on its shoes”.

By academic standards this study was lightning quick, and yet it’s like three months behind the original lie by those two fraudsters.

By the end of 2026 it will be considered quaint. The US is inching closer and closer to a Tiananmen Square incident. [Edit] I mean, with tanks and all deployed against the populace.

Not at all. I’d just propose we combine the punishments.

The man’s ego is so fragile he started a war over not receiving a prize he was ineligible for. I am pretty sure he’s already experiencing daily psychological pain by your definition.

Sounds like an interesting read, got a link to said post?

Often transparently so. I remember the whole “toy bus” thing he pulled at one point during an interview.

Seriously, he’d look so much less like a clown if he dropped the bronzer habit and horrendous comb-over that I am certain he does this on purpose to deflect criticism for his actions by drawing all the attention to how he looks. It’s like a diversion tactic, and sadly it’s working.

This is getting dangerously close to no longer being satire. I am still appalled we got here within a year and I shudder to think where things go from here.

You jest, but I am absolutely certain something of equal ridiculousness will be proposed.

I am fully anticipating Danielle to throw some kind of media tantrum over this that somehow makes the UCP look even worse than they already do. Absolute joke of a provincial leadership that has no policies other than what lobbyists paid most for and reactionary BS they imported from the US culture war.

Thanks for sharing that story. This is the kind of stuff that makes me miss the old internet (personal stories about interesting stuff, told in blog format without any kind of social media hype-train angle) and gives me a great appreciation for the kind of nerdy shenanigans engineers used to do.