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Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

"abolish ice" is great but I'm not sure why not also "abolish the border patrol"

(iirc the border patrol is the one running the concentration camps?)

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@cwebber I mean if you wanted to exhaustively list all the involved three-letter agencies you'd spend the entire duration of a protest with that

@elomatreb that's true, and also ICE is brutal sounding and the slogan "abolish ice" is easy to say, remember, repeat... which is probably a more effective chant, then

@cwebber Exactly.

(However to a German you end up appearing to want to abolish the admittedly kind of bad high-speed train offerings of Deutsche Bahn, the InterCity Express :P)

@elomatreb well, global name collision problems are an eternal thing....

@elomatreb @cwebber Mmmh, I actually wouldn't mind if ICE was replaced with TGV :D

*likes high-speed rail.*
*is in a country which is mostly mountains. RIP.*

@cwebber the camps are one problem. Raiding offices and taking legal residents is also a problem.

@alice (note that I said "why not also" rather than "why not", but @elomatreb probably gave the right answer to that social.elomatreb.eu/notice/182 )

@cwebber abolish borders ? It will solve all the foremensioned problems :D

@cwebber the real answer is because ICE is a very new agency doing immigration enforcement against the entire population with very limited oversight. abolishing borders entirely is definitely the end goal, but it's a much harder fight then "don't cause harm to people who are already here and have been here for years"