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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 16 days ago

ICE spending on “small arms" - a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives - increased by 700% compared to 2024. [short thread]

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ICE spending on “small arms" - a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives - increased by 700% compared to 2024. [short thread]

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 16 days ago
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1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels
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    I wonder what big arms are. Litteral tanks?

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      Dem congresspeople: “According to this information. ICE purchased attack helicopters, RPGs, tanks, fighter j—”

      ICE: “Yeah. So?”

      Dem congresspeople: “Why do you need this matériel for immigration enforcement?”

      ICE: “'Cause we do. God Bless America and all that crap.”

      Dem congresspeople: “Oh.”

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        We need defensive nukes to protect ourself from all those latino waiting in front of home depot.

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          I saw an old lady selling wheels of homemade goat cheese out of a styrofoam cooler. I called Super ICE. The blast could be seen with the naked eye from the moon.

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            If it can’t be seen with the naked eye from Pluto, it didn’t happen

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              get out of here with your fake planet ahah

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                Counterpoint: The Moon is also a planet

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      Basically. things that need more than small arms to carry them

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        Gonna be great seeing ICE vehicles stuck in sinkholes and crushed by collapsed bridges thanks to the US’s neglected, crumbling infrastructure.

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      Really, really depends on definition used but a good rule of thumb is small arms can be carried and used by one person (sometimes up to 3) and heavy weapons is anything that requires non-human-propulsion to get anywhere

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      Crew serve at the smallest, like 50. cal machine guns and MK19 automatic grenade launchers.

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