The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released a new ICE recruiting poster, under the stilted and sexist tagline, "Which way, American man?"

Why did they use that weird language? Because it's a dog whistle, something ordinary humans won't notice but that those attuned to it will respond to. And it's literally a Nazi dog whistle.

William Gayley Simpson was a Presbyterian pastor who decided Christianity wasn't workable and consciously decided to become a racist instead. In 1978 he published a book, "Which Way, Western Man?" – a manifesto calling on white men to defeat all other races. Some nuggets include:

"Let me preface what I am about to say by declaring frankly that I am prepared to accept violence on the part of our people. The Jews’ hold on our throat is not going to be relaxed until we break their grip. Hitler felt that he had to take to the streets. All normal approach to his people was barred. Today, we are confronted with much the same situation here."

"The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world...."

You might think that 1978 is too long ago for anyone to remember, but this book was republished in 2003 by a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance, and is a bestseller among neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.

In other words, the federal government is recruiting Nazis and other racists to join ICE, which is being deployed in cities across the country and arresting both citizens and non-citizens alike.

Folks, this literally is fascism. You think I enjoy posting this stuff here all the time? I don't. But this literally is fascism. They're literally following the Nazi playbook. And they'll follow it to the very end.

Unless we stop them.

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@Npars01 @msbellows @jaykuo I do find it interesting how the Conservative “Christian” worldview is basically the opposite of Jesus’s core teachings.

@keydelk @Npars01 @msbellows @jaykuo that's the power of faith: "whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"

Faith is evil.

@potpie @keydelk @Npars01 @jaykuo Faith also drove MLK and Gandhi, and Stalin and Pol Pot were atheists. Eliminating faith won't solve the problem, because the problem is humans.

@msbellows @potpie @keydelk @jaykuo

Religious faith can drive progress, but too often it's been distorted & misused to justify harming people, especially children.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/27/houston-jared-woodfill-gop-paul-pressler-southern-baptist/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/3-big-us-churches-in-turmoil-over-sex-abuse-lgbt-policy

https://missouriindependent.com/2022/05/28/eight-missouri-ministers-accused-of-sex-abuse-in-southern-baptist-convention-report/

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/decades-of-sexual-abuse-coverups-in-the-southern-baptist-convention

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/17/g-s1-28660/archdiocese-los-angeles-settlement-abuse

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/rachel-jeffs-blackmore-warren-jeffs-flds-cult-mormon-secrets-of-polygamy-child-abuse-1234942863/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/mormon-church-child-sex-abuse-allegations-california

https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/08/01/clergy-sex-abuse-catholic-church-vatican-grand-rapids-michigan

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/best-of-the-week/2023/recordings-show-mormon-church-protects-itself-from-child-sex-abuse-claims/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/missing-flds-children-mormon-cult-b2788850.html

https://abcnews.go.com/US/amber-alert-issued-missing-idaho-teens-linked-flds/story?id=123211184

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/07/the-latest-reveal-podcast-shows-how-the-mormon-church-thwarts-child-sex-abuse-claims/

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/24/malka-leifer-jailed-child-sex-abuse-sentence-school-principal-15-years

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Houston GOP activist knew for years of child sex abuse claims against Southern Baptist leader, law partner

Under oath, outspoken anti-gay activist Jared Woodfill said he was told in 2004 that Paul Pressler had sexually abused a minor. But Woodfill did not cut ties with the Southern Baptist leader — and said he had no knowledge of Pressler’s alleged behavior when another young man came forward about alleged sexual misconduct in 2016.

The Texas Tribune

@Npars01 @msbellows @potpie @keydelk @jaykuo

Whuf... this reads like a liturgy in sexual predation, indifference and bad faith coverups. 🤦‍♂️

@msbellows @keydelk @Npars01 @jaykuo You need to drill down on the semantic realty of [[FAITH]] in the most important and pertinent sense. Was MLK really motivated by the concept of "belief regardless of disproof or lack of proof" when he worked within Christianity to convince other Christians to accept his ideas? Because it seems to me that he worked to bring _reason_ into the conversation. A good person gets good done. Sometimes that means tempering evil into more benign forms.

@potpie @keydelk @Npars01 @jaykuo And now you're engaging in motivated reasoning, projecting your beliefs onto a man who, were he still alive, likely would be offended by your dismissal of his sincere faith. If you were religious, I might blame your narrowmindedness and disrespect on your religiosity, but as I said before, humans gonna human either way.

(See what I did there?)

@msbellows @keydelk @Npars01 @jaykuo I don't dismiss the sincerity of his faith, only the idea that it alone was responsible for his good work. If MLK had been raised Muslim in a Muslim country, or Hindu in a Hindu country, or atheist in a secular country, he surely would have done good within those contexts.

This is why religion is generally bad: it insinuates itself into its followers' moral reasoning and claims a monopoly on goodness.

@Npars01

They do, but they don't take it as their job to fix the fake ones.

Unfortunately, they also don't seem to take it as their job to properly warn their own people against the influence of the fake ones...

@msbellows @jaykuo

@androcat @Npars01 @jaykuo I take it you haven't been to a progressive church?

@msbellows

Granted.

Talking about protestant churches in Northern Europe, formally of the Evangelical Lutheran umbrella that the crazy US nutballs are also part of.

Very different churches, but absolutely no effort to explain why those other ones are cray cray and anti-christian.

@Npars01 @jaykuo

@msbellows @jaykuo I like how the sign implies "service" is not in the same direction as "opportunity" and "homeland" are.

"Law & Order" doesn't even seem to have been part of the original sign-- the fragment is a different shape and font and wouldn't really fit if they tried to bolt it back on.

Not sure what symbolism having patched knees on his pants is, except to make Uncle Sam look broke and doddering.

Even though there's a 70% chance this is slop, it's awfully Freudian slop.

@hakfoo @msbellows @jaykuo Perhaps the knee got worn through when Sam was kneeling on the neck of a Black guy.
@hakfoo @msbellows @jaykuo Not fully slopped out, just edited from an older piece by Frank Lea in the 1930s for "Country Gentleman" magazine.

@nini @hakfoo @msbellows @jaykuo

Well, the original was fascist propaganda as well. Note "liberty" and "opportunity" pointing to opposite direction than "new deal" and "inflation".

(It's pretty clear which way "prosperity" will point.)

This having been published at a point when USA had to either double down on fascism to stop communist revolution (with a lot of public support for the former), or do a new deal.

@msbellows @jaykuo He look like he is going to wipe his ass with the law and order sign... wait....

@the_turtle

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata - apparently the story never was on on screen (cinema or otherwise). 😉

@msbellows

Lysistrata - Wikipedia

@the_turtle @msbellows

Reminder: Most SS had families, even the camp guards went back to their families every evening.

Some people just don't care.

@the_turtle @msbellows

ICE hiring is so rushed and sloppy that it seems a big window for saboteurs to get in. IT guys can leak the whole personnel database. Street level guys can stick trackers on all their own vans, etc.

@msbellows @jaykuo

Truth is a harsh taskmaster fellow citizen M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Thank you for telling it.
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"Have you ever wondered how good was so easily destroyed by evil in the past?

And thought to yourselves how ignorant and unaware those people must have been?

Well, look around.

Because the past is upon you."
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@msbellows @jaykuo thanks for the info. They really want to get their fascism going as quickly as possible. It is horrifying what happens in the US.
@msbellows @jaykuo This is explicitly & unashamedly #racist, #xenophobic, #misogynistic, "culture war" stuff, isn't it? It's #Trump #ideology in visual form.
@msbellows @jaykuo
What again are the superiorities of white people? I feel I must have been shortchanged.
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Wikipedia

@msbellows @jaykuo

Recruiting those who would not be accepted by the military or city police or county sheriff departments recruiting criteria

@msbellows
So blatant and deeply disturbing. Newsweek article also covered this...headline:
"Trump Admin DHS Account Accused of Referencing Avowed White Supremacist"

Article: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-recruitment-social-media-post-alleged-white-supremacist-link-2112555

Trump Admin DHS Account Accused of Referencing Avowed White Supremacist

The ICE recruitment post on X appeared to reference the 1978 book of a known white nationalist, whose title has grown into a meme in online culture.

Newsweek

@msbellows @jaykuo nodds in agreement

I hate it when @AnarchoNinaWrites is right.

  • I wished her and myself would be wrong about all this shite!
@msbellows @jaykuo I wonder if someone could automate something filling the submission forms with bogus humans. 🤔