Kroger recently announced plans to close around 60 stores across the US over the next 18 months
Sorry. No more money to close stores. Only money to shoot rubber bullets and throw tear gas at the newly unemployed.
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That's only 2% of their stores.
Don't forget that local cops also show up to beat and gas people on behalf of ICE (and Israel). ACAB all day everyday.
Pretty sure ICE agents see it as they get to shoot rubber bullets and throw tear gas at people protesting racism. They aren't being forced to do it, they're being given permission.
All cops, dear
every time I say "abolish the police in all 50 states" I get ratio'd into obscurity
That's because law enforcement does need to exist in some form. Definitely not in its current state, but to say it needs to be abolished completely is a bad take.
I mean, unless you're fine with innocent people dying to vigilante justice.
On .world, sure. There are probably bots there for that, if not all the users being turbolibs. this is a db0 community.
ICE in particular has people in the field that aren't getting paid.. they're volunteering because they want to hurt people without consequences
They got $50,000 signing checks.
But if they quit before 5 years, they owe $10,000 for each year.
How many of them blew the $50k on a truck, or paid their CC bills with it the first week?
Now they’re stuck there.
it's hard to find specifics but last time I checked they don't get the full $50,000 immediately. It's something like $10k immediately, then $10k after a probationary period, then $10k a year for the next three years.
I heard some of those bonuses didn't even get to the employees.
They aren't even getting paid right now, several of them complained about not getting their salary in the ICE private subreddit. And if a new administration comes in and fires them, they're on the hook for 30k and cannot declare bankruptcy to escape from the debt.
None of them got $50k, though. It's a structured bonus program. They don't get the full amount until after they hit several milestones.
All cops, dear. This is all cops. Ice is mot deployed to protests.
People who get these jobs, hope that that day will come where they can shoot and torture anyone really, civilians or not. They don't care. They are sick fucks without feelings or thoughts.
They do have feelings or thoughts, and all of them are directed about how to give themselves and ONLY themselves pleasure, or they do have them, but they don't actually bring them up when it comes to hurting others.
There's two types of guys who do this stuff: those who genuinely think they're doing nothing wrong, and those who think hurting those inferior to them is good. Both are evil and lack empathy, but in different ways, one through indifference, and the other through active sadism.
(Edited my comment to reflect my point better)
My dude if stocking grocery shelves paid six figures I'd do that tomorrow.
That makes it sound like you're ok with working for ICE because it pays so well
Which it doesn't. Which says a lot about them.
Doesn't ICE pay like 20k€ a month?
A bunch of new agents aren't getting paid at all.
But no, starting salary is like $48k. Like 4k a month. Seems to go up to the 80s. Not exactly "risk Hague trial" levels. In line with most office jobs.
I don't interpret their response that way.
As someone who is not in a good financial place, I would never work for ICE.
However, as someone who is not in a good financial place, if I realized I was probably working for an evil empire and couldn't change anything from the inside: I wouldn't be able to quit because my family would starve. I'd need to find another way to provide first, and that's not easy when you've got kids and debt in a bad job market.
Stocking grocery store shelves wouldn't pay the bills. That's fairy tale logic/something that people with means can joke about doing.
Heck yeah though, if stocking shelves paid 6 figures I'd apply immediately.
However, as someone who is not in a good financial place, if I realized I was probably working for an evil empire and couldn’t change anything from the inside: I wouldn’t be able to quit because my family would starve. I’d need to find another way to provide first, and that’s not easy when you’ve got kids and debt in a bad job market.
Ok, fair enough. Hopefully the enraged mob will accept this excuse once the evil empire tanks and it's mass graves are uncovered. Good luck.
If you can't afford to quit, use the anonymity built into the system to subvert from within. Fire too high or too low (as the manufacturer instructs!) to harm people. Send the teargas upwind of your own guys, they're masked anyway. Treat protesters with respect and deescalate conflicts. If you're supposed to be rounding up random folks rather than a dangerous criminal, moonrun (a word I just coined to mean making it look like you're putting in the effort while not going anywhere fast) to fool your new body cam while you don't catch anyone. If you have to transport abductees, at least try to make them less uncomfortable and keep family members together. If they show you documents, believe/honor them, and don't confiscate them.
Most of this is how the job should legally be done, it only subverts the most evil parts. If they fire you, make sure you get the cause on record, if only through email bcc'd and saved to your own computer.
You'd have to fight so many autistic people to get that job, fr.
where we are going, we don't need paid six figures, Marty