Let's be clear what this image represents.
Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.
THAT is the reference here.
Normal fucking country
That is not real police. That is impersonation. No ID, no warrant, that mask?
Wouldn't a swastika armband be more comfortable?
They all ant to be CoD characters. It’s cisplay for idiots
Makes me think we do need a domestic terrorism law. Unfortunately, that is not likely to happen anytime soon.
These are actual U.S. federal law enforcement agents. Masked, no ID, unmarked cars, unaccountable, anti-American
Now I know why I've always had a visceral reaction any time I've seen those skull masks.
What does he pick up children. Like to scare people? Children?
Surprised that there are no cool shades to go along with the other garb
I never felt I needed a weapon in my life until now - trump has left me feeling unsafe in my own country
When the military is not my friend
When law and order is the whim of a madman
When dictators are admired
and folks are tortured & jailed, families separated, and boats & people blown up
So... what happens if we claim that those masks are excellent at minimising covid transmission and thank them for wearing them and being so conscious of vulnerable people?
Same dudes. They can just expense the mask now.
Wimp.
No Amnesty.
And they were very obviously referencing the Totenkapf, the "death's head" of the Nazi SS.
He looks like a dumbass.
And they are Nazi Gestapo
“Some of those who join forces…”
I have yet to see any investigation into the plain clothes ICE agents - does anyone know of any documentation explaining who authorized it/issued the order/its intent etc? We all know what purposes it serves but who issued the order and can its legality be challenged?
Good God I can't imsgine how young children would react to this man! And the cops going around to schools telling kids to trust them. Huge programs in every city. Now they're like 'never mind kids! You're in a horror movie now! We're straight out of your nightmares!'
These USA nazis have planned attacks against synagogues, nuclear facilities and other energy infrastructure and now they get this "red carpet" from Terrorist Trump ...
Well fk.
That's a man-sized target. Dispose Of Properly. 🫡
As soon as you feel you have to hide your identity to carry out your ‘public service’, surely you know you’re doing something to be ashamed of?
Oh, I thought that he was just expressing his desire to look as dead on the outside as he feels on the inside.
Oh, I thought they wanted to look like Ghost from Call of Duty because they’re man-children playing dress up.
Whether it's a Nazi reference or not, it's totally inappropriate for any official to wear something like that. It's a clear move to intimidate.
I really hope that the next Democratic president is a militant anti-Nazi. I want no mercy.
When was that? Recent?
Yep. How do you spot a Nazi without a swastika or armband or SS logo crap? This is a reliable tell.
The Clown Posse is coming! And, it's illegal as fuck.
Secret MAGAFORCE police owning the libs from behind their brand new badges! Waiting for a chance to knock some heads and cuff some kids! But frightened their identity might get out! Abusive cowards! Dump Trump! Defeat MAGA!
"ICEhole" is an appropriate label here...
He's basically wearing a swastika.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
Are you sure that that is so? Like here a French soldier in Mali sported this kind of skull cloth. In 2013 Now he /could/ have been a Nazi but its not clear. www.reddit.com/r/pics/comme...
My dad thinks I’m being alarmist saying unless the Democrats take this situation more seriously that we will have an authoritarian regime within the year.
When you side with militia groups and the kkk you end up with this.
Trump is a criminal. He belongs on prison. So he hires a militia to defend his cowardly fat ass
He won‘t look that smug and tough anymore once he and his ICE and MAGA pals dance the Tyburn Jig for their crimes.
Or get lined up against the wall.
Nice eyebrows, dude. (?) Is that like the scary clown thing? I feel like I never got what that was about.
Last I checked, Atomwaffen is (supposedly) made up entirely of police & military, so this should surprise no one.
Fucking embarrassed to be an American? He’s obviously not, but I am.
Also CoD
As you probably know, a KING 5 News reporter, and others of color in Washington State experienced harassment buy this group. I makes me sick to see the masks. No masks, ICE!
Masks have to be made illegal. We have crossed the line into a dark place from which we may never return
"Are we the baddies?"
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Side note; hate that fascist appropriate all kinds of iconography and taint them thus.
They are proud nazis. Their leader brought them out of their sewers back in 2016.
It’s one reason I never got one. I thought about it in the height of Covid, but I always saw the being worn by fascist assholes. They look cool but they’re not a cool association. At all.
weren't they also popular among, um, Narcos?
This is why I pay attention to symbolism.
This is why I pay attention to symbolism.
Watch the first 18 seconds this YouTube channel is called Anonymous News they wear the Guy Fawkes masks but when he removes the mask it's the Skull mask for AWD youtu.be/AvoFdT__BwM?...
Yup! Frightening.
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The mask and his ammosexual tendencies is only evidence he is a NAZI in training. He could also be a domestic abuser, serial killer in waiting, Sunday School teacher, all the above.
Trump goons are using skull masks against American civilians. Not violent criminals and extremists, but civilians.
Do your thing @socialistdogmom.bsky.social
Does it though? These people are very stupid, notoriously under-read and they have seized upon obscure icons known largely by historians? Not the very familiar far-right symbols?
Correct this should be viewed as a very clear escalation of the fascism. Lest we forget that Riley Williams - who stole Pelosi’s laptop on Jan 6 - posted an explicitly neo-nazi aligned accelerationist video wearing the same mask. www.bellingcat.com/news/america...
Video has surfaced of Riley Williams, a 22-year-old from Pennsylvania, appearing in a video where she can be seen making a Nazi salute.
Nazi cowards… time to howl! Howl at the cowards, chicken shits gotta dress out militarized to take in nonviolent hard working immigrants; pathetic despicable human beings.
Expected to take; do we break?
Translation Nazis wear them, ICE just making the grave bigger days are numbered
. Well, who knows who is a police officer or a Neo-Nazi in Trump's disgusting America . . .
... maybe it's all the same now !
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The scene in V for vendetta when everyone walks out in the same Guy Fawkes mask comes to mind for some reason.
Well I do doubt he's commemorating Dia de los Muertos.
they are out and out nazis now. and americans are still just yelling ‘show us your faces’? they are nazis…rip the damn masks from their faces. they have already ‘escalated’ beyond the point of bearing.
You’re giving a dummy who took a quick what-80k?-a LOT of credit. Doubt he’s that well read! You’re nicer than I.
an enemy uniform
Thousands of people have been warning for months if not years that a thuggish Nazi-like fascist dictatorship would be imposed by the Trump/MAGA regime.
It's here.
Right now.
So what is the US population going to do about it? So far, they seem to be doing... not very much!?
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This man is making more money than a teacher in the USA. Think about that!
How many of the insurrectionist Trump pardoned are now in ICE?
Why isn’t the left organizing its own militias?
It still shows he's a fucking bitchboy. What a tiny pissbaby.
do you know where this is?
The country being run by a terrorist, Nazi leaning, cult.
Deathsheads - some history 👇
Skunk n punk
…& when you try to stop them & get justice, systemic corruption gears up with gusto
Have ICE impersonators started committing robberies , assaults and other crimes under a cloak of anonymity? Is it possible to distinguish between Trump’s state sponsored Gestapo and criminal freelancers? It’s why British cops have serial numbers. Is there no statute to prevent such abuses?
Completely unprofessional and fascistic. Who are these guys, actually?
The photo is not real as it has been photoshopped! Regardless of what side you are on,...thats pretty low!
I understand that a lot of people won't like that, but i would rather be on the side of truth than not
How odd... I have one but I wear it when I'm riding my motorcycle. I never knew I was supporting NAZI terrorism.
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I believe he's wearing it for the fascism. And understands the meaning, even if he's not a formal member.
However soldiers and hitmen for Mex & CA drug cartels wear them. They won't give him the benefit of the doubt.
Well, he has to wear that. It's a fashion faux pas to wear white hoods after Labor Day.
Strip out the Nazi history and it's still a design meant to instill fear and intimidation. Another reminder that cruelty is the point.
I re-watched the 3-hour extra episode The Final Solution from the 1973 series 'The World at War.' There they delve deeper into the history of the SS, and there were certain parallels to what we are now seeing with ICE. Cities were seen as 'centers of race chaos.' archive.org/details/the-...
This is a well-documented movement that spread like wildfire on a series of Nazi Telegram channels that dubbed itself "Terrorgram."
Feuerkrieg Division, Atomwaffen, The Base, and a number of wannabe clone orgs all used skull masks to signify terrorist Nazi intent
You know who else wears a mask to hide identity (because they otherwise walk among us)? The Ku Klux Klan. ICE seems to be the KKK’s descendants.
They’ve been used by Polish far right for years too
In a recent Chris Hedges interview with Tony Aguilar he states some of the contractors were wearing balaclavas with a skull face. It made me shudder thinking of starving Palestinians who’ve seen so much death having to get aid from contractors dressed up as death.
Those masks always make me sing this song in my head. youtu.be/2mKN6PDZTmc
Moronic coward.
Not going to work in the USA…just looks like a bad Halloween costume.
I had no idea.
Isn’t ICE a handy acronym.
Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
A bit like GEheime (secret) STAats (state) POlizei
Aka, Gestapo.
You can practically smell the 💩azism.
We never should have stopped talking about Nazis. They never fucking went away.
Fake ass punisher
Proud Nazis
If I see someone like that busting in my house, he’s gonna get a gut full of buck shot.
Not far off the familiar Nazi Totenkopf insignia. Yup, here we go.
I'll tell you what it reminds me of: Haiti's Tonton Macoute under Papa Doc.
It required very little brain power to avoid doing something this stupid.
It might be time for states to form that “well regulated Militia” that the Constitution talks about in the 2nd Amendment.
The media won’t admit it.
But anyone paying attention can see it for themselves.
Wearing those masks, while employed as a member of law enforcement at any level should be grounds for dismissal. Same for anyone in the National Guard, military service, or any other governmental body
My wife just had to walk through a gauntlet of 12 ICE agents at MSP this morning at her gate for LGA. The reason, Trump at US Open. ICE is truly his Gestapo now.
The fact is, to the person wearing this has no idea what it represents, he is ignorant and wears this accoutrement because he thinks it makes him look "bad+a$$"- And it hides his face- because he is a coward and doesn't want the blowback if he is recognized by anyone.
It’s a nightmare. And these clowns think it dress-up.
Nazi motherfuckers.
I'm honestly a bit amazed that they think it's such a great idea to make themselves look like the faceless mooks from a thousand FPS games.
Democracy is being killed in America by each of these horrid actions.
It’s crystal clear.
Need a skull mask to combat the crime of strawberry pickers
Well, if I was violating in the Constitution, I would wear a mask also
to be fair it’s also a call of duty thing. you wouldn’t argue all of call of duty is fascist would yoy
Hans...have you looked at our masks recently?
Fuck all the Nazi's that think our dads spent their defending their asses. Quite the opposite.
This is a specimen of a bottom feeder in his environment.
Fuck him.
Guy behind the Mask is Asian! Should be Ashamed of Himself!
Even if it weren't a nazi symbol, is this the kind of image you're trying to project if the actual reason you're there is to protect the citizens of a city?
The mask says, ‘I’m scary’ : the vest says, ‘I’m scared’ 🍄🟫
Is that Elon?
The KKK Nazi’s in this country are in their glory with Trump as their cult leader.
The masks first came into pop culture in Call of Duty Modern Warfare.
