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So much focus on the idea that the ICE crackdown is a distraction from the Epstein files makes me wonder if it isn’t the other way around-get people to focus on the idea of a cover up that they don’t resist a fascist takeover as effectively as they otherwise might.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don’t think that’s the case. I think this is all connected to the FACT that israel is a hostile foreign power who is literally milking America dry. When Americans ask for the social safety nets we pay for Israelis to have were told it's "Marxism"

We the American taxpayers

pay for Israeli citizens to get free universal healthcare, a $400 payment per child per month until they are18 and free college and a blank check for war and genocide.

Don't worry we get a lot out of it because they are our "friends". Such good friends in fact that they funded Epstein and ghisline to run a child sex trafficking ring to blackmail our politicians. That's totally something a friend would do not a hostile foreign power that wants to bleed us dry for their imperial ambitions. You mad? You should be.

The IDF is training ICE

This technology was developed by palantir to assist Israel with their settler colonialist genocide target Palestinians, journalists and children

Our politicians are still being blackmailed by Israeli intelligence because Epstein and Ghisline were Mossad

Washington is literally occupied by Israeli assets

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/retired-green-beret-whistleblower-claims-ice-trains-israel-bring-apartheid-tactics-us-1769427

https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/palantir-allegedly-enables-israels-ai-targeting-amid-israels-war-in-gaza-raising-concerns-over-war-crimes/

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/epstein_israel

https://www.trackaipac.com/congress

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/75-democrats-express-gratitude-to-ice-in-antisemitism-vote-amid-la-riots/ar-AA1GoYn7

[–] zorflieg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fun fact for Aussies. The largest retirement fund in Australia is Australian Super. Probably no surprise their standard balanced offering invests in Elbit Systems and weapons companies. But in 2025 they reclassified their ethical "Socially Conscious" investment from "Include companies that make more than 10% profit from" weapons shady shit. To now read "No more than 50%" and that's profit not turnover. Also both their socially conscious and Aware Super ethical both include Palantir among their investments. So basically any investment in them is an investment in all the BS.

[–] Darkness343@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

It makes you wonder if our ancestors were into something whenever they tried to erase the 'chosen tribe of god' from their lands over and over again...