They’ve amassed missiles armed with warheads. Let that sink in and realize what they really are, because it’s not a force for immigration enforcement, it’s an army simping for Trump. They will be weaponized at a much greater scale in the future certainly.

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    I thought the whole “missiles and warheads” thing was a debunked claim from a misunderstanding of less-lethal launchers and their ammunition. Rubber balls and teargas sorts of stuff.

    What they’re buying seems to be the same shit that any podunk small-town PD has been buying for the last 15 years with their budget surplus. Which is a problem in and of itself, but it’s not an escalation beyond what is unfortunately the norm.

    If they’re picking up heavy machine guns or Hellfire missiles, let us know.

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      That’s the trouble with raw stories. They’re often inaccurate. Yet if they say what will get people riled up, they’ll get engagement and praise here.

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        OP is the one who fabricated the “missiles and warheads” to rile people up. The article says nothing of the sort.

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        Actually it’s looks like the summary below the source is what’s inaccurate. Neither the title nor the story talk about warheads.

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        Raw news is the hyperbolic left leaning version of News Max… designed to get you upset but accomplishes nothing.

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      Maybe I’m not reading your tone correctly, I get you’re maybe trying to correct some misinformation about “missiles topped with warheads”, but this seems to be really, REALLY downplaying the threat here, especially with the last line of “if they’re buying this other shit, let us know” like what they currently have access to isn’t bad enough for the threat to US civilians?

      I’m just wondering why you took this take. Again, unless i misread your tone here. It just seems extremely dismissive of basically a shadow army loyal to Trump.

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        So more than one thing can be evil at a time. Posting with a title that is clearly not even implied by the linked article is the kind of evil misinformation that got us in this mess. That is as close to a “tone” in what he wrote. It’s nowhere near extremly dismissive of anything. Doesn’t even mention anything about a threat.

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          🤷‍♂️ I guess you’re right, but the take away I got from their last sentence was ICE buying more weapons isn’t something they are concerned about or want to hear about, unless its machine guns and hellfire missiles. That’s the dismissive part to me. They’re saying it’s not news worthy unless it’s an escalation from the weapons regular police departments already have.

          I was the one saying this [ice buying more weapons] is a threat. To U.S. civilians.