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[–] sleepyleaf@sh.itjust.works 17 points 14 hours ago

Loan forgiveness for ICE already exists. It's called Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Work for the government or a qualifying nonprofit for 10 years while making student loan payments, get the rest of your student loans forgiven.

I don't see anything saying this is a new program - just our billionaire overlords spinning a benefit Congress created for everybody as a special reward just for their loyal soldiers. Lying as usual.

Remember, men like Trump and Vance hold ICE agents and cops and soldiers in as much contempt as they do criminals and "illegals". In their eyes, anyone not in the billionaire caste is trash.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Providing social services but only to the worst of our society.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Service guarantees citizenship!

But like, not ironically.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The satire has been completely stripped away.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

There was a whole thing about it recently. Fortunately I was already blackpilled from Covid and understood that some large segment of our population has no conscious thinking capability, or it would have been really disheartening and sad to learn how many people thought the movie was serious and the humans were the heroes.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Been the American way for a long time now

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago

I wouldn't trust shit coming out of this admin.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 98 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

OK this is sick. Oppress Latinos or suffer crippling debt. Fuck kinda choice is that?

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 69 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Guess why the military has (shitty but more than none) social safety nets like socialized medicine and student loan forgiveness? And why the elite continuously refuse to raise the standard of living of the poor?

As long as these benefits are just slightly better than poverty, recruiting numbers will stay up.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Crumbs for bombs. That should be the new slogan.

[–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Definitely gonna be a song on my next album!

[–] School_Lunch@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

They don't raise the standard of living for the poor because they view labor as a commodity. If we made things less difficult for the poor then the price of labor will go up because people wouldn't be as desperate. Their goal is to make the price of labor as low as possible.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 22 points 19 hours ago

High school drop outs don't have student loans silly! lol you goober, you just want to twist the knife you stuck in college grads since you forced their loans back up don't you. You don't have to say it. We know :D so silly

(I hate it here)

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 51 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I have to admit, educated is not the demographic I had imagined them going for.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago

Gotta have an at least semiliterate middle management.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, I would have thought student loan debt to be disqualifying for thugs. Maybe they're focused on dropouts.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

Traitors helping traitors

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Which they won't have to pay out after they thank their workers for throwing people in camps by throwing them in camps.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Okay guys, here me out...join ICE, get student loans forgiven...and then be a bumbling idiot at your job. Let people get away bcz youre out of breath. Fuck up the paperwork bcz youre too incompetent to read. Just be the absolute worst employee at your job, like ever. And then when they ask you about it just shrug and say, IDK, I guess I'm stupid..

[–] brandon@piefed.social 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

My guess is that the benefits only pay out after you've been employed a certain number of months or years. So if you get fired for incompetence you probably won't get the benefit, or you'll be required to pay it back.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 19 hours ago

It's worse than that. You need to get results based on the videos we're seeing. In other words, you would need to deport people and break up families to earn your debt forgiveness.

[–] Mcdolan@lemmy.world 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone have the details on these benefits? Payout time etc.?

If a whole fuckton of people with sense and morals overwhelmed their hiring department and became maliciously complaint ICE agents we stand a chance to break the system. Get names of everyone we can, build profiles and map out the line of command.

The riots are going to need targets. I'm not sure how to put words to this, but if I were caught in the crossfire I just need to know at least one actual fascist fuck was going out with me. If I could take two it'd be a net positive.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Told my wife that I wanted at least a 2.0 k/d regarding fascist and if I do I wanted written on the grave stone.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Oh so they're struggling to hire? I guess there's a finite number of psychopathic boot lickers, and it's a bit lower than I expected

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 14 points 23 hours ago
[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 11 points 23 hours ago

The new Nazi army is very good at helping eliminate your debt. Join us.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

And now we're arriving at near literal national socialism.