This is the face of the ICE agent who just shot a U.S. citizen: Renee Good.
Musk and others are already spreading lies that she was a threat to people and was trying to drive them over. That's of course not true, but it's what he needs to say to continue manufacturing consent for ICE's kidnappings.
On 7th of January 2005 German police burned Oury Jalloh alive behind closed doors, lied about it, and to this day got away with it.
21 years later, on 7th of January 2026, American ICE agents killed Renee Good in front of multiple cameras, immediately lied about it, and made the whole world repeat that lie, despite us seeing the execution of a U.S. citizen in front of our eyes.
The final nail in the coffin, the final straw of humiliation, is not even having the decency to make up a good lie. Suddenly the nicest women on earth can become a violent killer trying to run people over, and the actual violent masked killer present turns into this heroic figure simply trying to protect people.
She was at the wrong time in the wrong place, not even part of any protest. Suddenly, people like her become 'activists' (e.g. “activist judges”) even though they are teachers, journalists, public workers, or just at the wrong time in the wrong place.
You're not a violent “activist” because you are one, you become one when it's needed to justify the government killing you.
Make a group of people synonymous with crime, suddenly their subjugation becomes justice. Even if she was an activist or an immigrant, even if she didn't act right in that moment, even if she was one of the protestors, nothing justifies her killing. The fact the U.S. government already created the public basis to disregard anyone's death or opinion if they are “antifa”, “immigrants”, “transgender”, “woke”, or simply an “activist” (whatever that means) is clearly wrong, especially because they can extend these labels and apply them to you, so your death no longer matters in the public eye.
The famous “First They Came” Niemöller poem is sometimes incorrectly reduced to say “first they came for the socialists” instead of “first they came for the communists”, which I strongly disagree with, as the usage of the word communist was a specific decision, as that term describes a group that people instinctively didn't care about at the time.
Take a group and make it so people instinctively won't care about them, such as immigrants, “activists”, communists, muslims (“terrorists”, “jihadists”, “islamists”). Then, begin expanding that definition.
To fascist Laura Loomer you're a communist if you have pronouns in your bio, and she doesn't care about dead communists. After all, they're criminals, inherently they must be and hence any action against them is justified. Make a group of people synonymous with crime and then their subjugation can be framed as justice.
Renée Good had kids and never even participated in any protest. But she's a communist and deserved to die, right? After all, who cares for dead communists?
Remember, not so long ago the same people told us we need to mourn Charlie Kirk, and anyone mocking his death, or even just pointing out the fact that his death was the result of the world he created, was subsequently fired from their job.
Folx, it makes sense to show the insanity of how few and short hurdles one has to go through to become an ICE agent, I understand why we're pointing out that Renée Good was a U.S. citizen, or innocent, or not protesting anything, but this is just a gentle reminder that these things don't matter.
These facts may be an entry point to showcase a broader argument, but must never be the criticism itself. If ICE had year long training, they'd still be cops, and would do just as much oppression, with maybe less visible or noticed violence.
The truth of the matter is that, as much as Trump is the death of the euphemism, ICE is the revelation of the violence that was always underlying the American empire.
They aren't un-American and what is happening isn't new. People who believe that are just taken outside of a comfort zone they believed to have been a right, when in reality it was a privilege.
ICE isn't like Gestapo, because it were the Germans whom were inspired and amazed by American segregation, not the other way around.
ICE is more like Slave Patrol.
We shouldn't compare something fascist to Germany, when fascist authoritarianism and racism is as American as it can be.
It always fascinates me how the moderate mind has to use foreign events to describe and condemn the very western things happening. When censorship, disinformation, and authoritarianism is on the rise in the United States of America, they cannot be put into historical context with a plethora of domestic examples to choose from, these forms of oppression must be compared to the currently constructed enemy figures, and hence, while appearing on the surface as criticism of the status quo, it's inadvertently reinforced.
“I Never Thought the Middle East Would Come to Minneapolis” is a New York Times article from the 25th of January 2026, discussing something so uniquely, historically American, yet portrayed through the lense of it actually being similar to the imperial enemy. I've recently discussed why ICE should rather be compared to the American „Slave Patrol” than the Gestapo. While I see the purpose of utilizing the declining, but still somewhat held belief in the general populace of the United States of America that Nazis were and maybe are bad, in order to rally people against a fascist movement with too many similarities to it, I'd argue that it's necessary to use people's rightful anger about current day events to educate about our history and our violence. That violence isn't new or foreign, many of our PoC, queer, or feminine peers have experienced it for their whole life.
It didn't just become an issue recently, you just began recognizing that violence recently, the lies became so obvious recently that our propagandization became impossible to deny, and and you've just recently stopped listening to the media perpetrating these lies anyway. Our world, our countries, they didn't change, you did. That's good, but you need to go further than that and unlearn the entire basis on which the western world relies.
Of course there's way more legitimacy to comparing a western fascist force inspired by American segregation, the Nazis and their secret police the Gestapo, to a different western fascist force and their secret police, MAGA and ICE, than to use a comparison from the global south which is simply the result of our imperialist policies. Additionally, many people asked about the necessity and accused me of pedantry after my statements, and again, I can see that argument given we're speaking of two western powers, but generally this is very important. I once said that:
A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that is going on right now.
— Erik Uden, 29th of November 2023.
I'd update this sentiment by arguing that a liberal is someone who can oppose today's war and support today's civil rights movements, but only by continuing to use the framing, the methods, and still adhering to the morality of our oppressor. That in itself turns my original statement true once again, as none of that can ever be opposition to war nor support for the right cause.
Dancing ICE away, peacefully protesting outside of the internment centers, arguing for better training of ICE officers. When ICE throws someone into an unmarked van, never to hear from them again, liberals will yell “mark the van!” In doing so liberals and their conservative parliamentary arm, which in the United States of America is the Democratic party, serve as a legitimization of the status quo by smothering true opposition. Instead of unlearning all of our propaganda, instead of beginning to question our economic power structures, our so-called rules based world order, our so-called representative democracy, the liberal project reaffirms the entire path that lead up to our violent reality today, and offers miniscule, surface level impractical opposition. A not too uncomfortable option for change, instead of a revolution, that's what a liberal offers.
ICE isn't like Gestapo, because it were the Germans whom were inspired and amazed by American segregation, not the other way around. ICE is more like Slave Patrol. We shouldn't compare something fascist to Germany, when fascist authoritarianism and racism is as American as it can be.
The continuous use of propaganda against China, the Soviet Union, communism, to describe and criticize current day American events that have too many domestic precedents to count, fall right into that category. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and Kamala Harris, the leader of the Democratic party, calling Trump a communist, surveillance and censorship methods of the US government being compared to China, the disappearing of people through a secret police like ICE being compared to the KGB: all examples of our imperial projection. When in reality, the United States of America has two far right political parties, accusing each other of being communist, because they both were educated on the simple propaganda that communism is bad, and that's all they wish to express. The United States government having always built the most expansive surveillance and disinformation system in world history, utilizing that to make political opposition, journalists, and immigrants vanish, yet we continue the framing that these actions make us like China.
What are we, a bunch of Asians? Arabs? Muslims? Russians? (Barbarians)?
To add insult to injury, the middle east never came to us in the west, China or the rest of South East Asia never came to us in the west, South America never came to us in the west, Africa never came to us in the west. The indigenous people of Australia, or generally Oceania, and the Americas, never came to us in the west. We came to the so-called global south and either turned it into the west during the age of colonialism and apartheid, or now turn it into our imperial periphery in the age of neocolonialism, basically making entire continents into our personal quarry. The constant wars, far right and conservative sentiment, religious fundamentalism are the result of our colonialism and meddling. That is the destruction we caused. From women's subjugation having no precedent before colonization in most of Africa, to native Americans being far more civilized than the European settlers. Women were allowed in universities in Africa, their expulsion wasn't even a debate, before the colonizers came. The Iolani Palace in Hawaii had running water, plumbing, and electricity before the White House did, but certainly we must uphold the lie that they were the barbarians, after all, if they weren't, wouldn't that illegitimize our entire existence on their continent? Yes, it does, and a truth should not be silenced because it's uncomfortable, especially then it must be stated. Imperialism wasn't done due to the racist beliefs that those we were colonizing are barbaric, the lie that they were barbarians was invented as a tool to justify the capitalist necessity of colonization. Yet exposing that is not the political purpose of the moderate, and hence they will never bring forward any meaningful change.
The term “imperial boomerang” ties into this analysis perfectly: The idea that our war efforts abroad are a testing ground for crimes against humanity that will sooner than later be used against us in the west, is no longer an idea but a fact. From Palantir to Palestine, our actions speak for us, not them. The terrorist organizations we back and build in order to defeat the terrorist organizations we backed and built, exist not to defeat any enemy, but for the war to be continuous, for the expansion to be justified, for profits to be made, and for constructed enemy figures to allow us to rinse and repeat endlessly. The victims of this act are the working class, and the winners are the bourgeoisie. Ideological justifications for imperialist actions, such as “feminist foreign policy”, manifest destiny, zionism, western values against “barbarism” (Arabs), the constant pinkwashing of, for example, Israel's genocide, are simply the bread crumbs the ruling class throw at us to manufacture consent for their war efforts. They couldn't care less about women's or oppressed people's rights, but they can use the support for these ideas to selectively establish moral superiority in a war they are fighting for completely different reasons, yet those are reasons that don't interest anyone in the working class, whose support you need. The done to death and almost self-satiric idea that western intervention will “bring freedom” to a nation is just the tip of the iceberg of this tactic. You were educated to like freedom, wouldn't you also like freedom in Iran?
“Why China Is Suddenly Obsessed With American Poverty” is a New York Times article from the 16th of January 2026 which perfectly capsulates another aspect of imperial projection. If a singular policy were to lead to slightly worse living conditions in a part of a city of a province in a 1.4 billion people country, we wouldn't hear the end of the coming death of China's economy blasted by all media institutions. The west is completely obsessed with portraying the enemies that capitalism demands to be such, as the most morally and economically decadent people on earth. From historically Cuba, Vietnam or the Soviet Union, to the modern day also Cuba or China, or even the victims of their foreign policy, the starving people of Gaza. Western media has predicted the end of China's economy for decades, simply as market manipulation. The question shouldn't be why China is “obsessed” with American poverty, the question is: why aren't we? China's cost of living is going down, Chinas housing policies lead to over 95% of the country owning the room they live in, China's economy is growing and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty, all the while access to medicine and inadvertently life expectancy in the country is going up. Why aren't we obsessed with China's success and asking ourselves how we can reproduce it at home? Because that's not the goal. The role that corporate media plays in both foreign and domestic policy is to get you to support actions that go against you and your classes interests. A socialist island like Cuba, which despite the historically unprecedented international blockade offers free medicine, housing, and education to all of its citizens, exists only a few sea miles off the coast of Florida, and subsequently must be a thorn in the side of the capitalist state. Hence, propaganda against it is necessary. If there is no alternative, how come they built it?
The reason our society is the way it is isn't due to incompetent politicians, but our governments never working towards what they are sometimes preaching. No one can represent the working class except for ourselves. The system isn't broken, it's working as intended! Ideology is what the poor are fed to support what the bourgeoisie need and, as we've long recognized, can be bent or twisted at will. Bombing schools is democracy, deporting foreigners in unmarked vans is freedom, ignorance is strength. That's why fascism is the absence of ideology, as it's the death of the euphemism which no longer tries to hide the blatant support for the profit motive of bourgeois politics, nor the carrierist power grab of useful idiots in parliament to make it happen. No longer must we be managers of crisis, so any socialist movement must remain as a fundamental opposition, with zero concessions unless they completely and long term benefit the working class.
Our world is possible, so of course the moderate must work against it, because if they'd be able to view our solutions by facts alone, we'd win by a landslide.
Attached: 1 image The US fails to address racism, capitalism, and the military-industrial complex that MLK fought. Hawaii was the solution - anti-racist, socialist, anti-imperialist prosperity even at the height of colonial empire. The US tried to kill our dream, but we rise nonetheless.
"ICE should rather be compared to the American „Slave Patrol” than the Gestapo"
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