I’d all but guarantee this isn’t happening anywhere, but it sure makes for a good meme.

Would be hilarious,if true, but I'm highly doubtful.

This sounds like something ICE would publish, hoping to catch someone dumb enough to try this.

Everyone in the comments is wrong. It doesn't need to be a funny and clever meme, and it isn't trying to convince anyone to do this. It's trying to get in front of ICE eyeballs to sow distrust, and you should help.

This requires a pretty crazy media diet for ICE agents. Also seems literally opposed to the community topic.

Even the most jank ass crew will notice when a random joins the huddle, come on now.

Nobody is describing the bastard pigs' media diets as "sane", that's for fucking sure.

In what way that won't get me at risk of being thrown into an federal facility or shot?

Crazy as in 'absurd from the known facts'.

It is not. Just your regular social media disinformation.

I won't support disinformation just because it is supposedly for the good side.

You're not going to be there silly, you just share the meme where chuds will see it.

Homer thought bubble: [memes can be shared in multiple places]

But would it actually be illegal to try this? It’s illegal to imitate an officer but ICE doesn’t wear uniforms and badges so IDK if dressing in Cabela’s cosplay really counts? I’m not in any way suggesting that this is a safe activity, ICE shoot people for no GD reason, but I’m also not seeing an actual crime

S-tier play

Normally yes, but the levels of jank and asses involved in ICE have not been possible to test until now.

I agree but also there are times where 30 agents show up with random shit. Who's gonna know?

#Bruh...

Not everybody wants to die or get tortured for their values. If that were the case, I would have been dead by now.

Right, much better to admit defeat right out of the gate. Amazing values you have there.

There's 0% chance this is true

Remember that it's them who decides what's legal or not until maybe a judge/jury say otherwise.

I'm not a law-man, but my laypersons understanding of the law against impersonating a police officer hinges on intent. If you intend to deceive someone into thinking you're a LEO, and that can be proven (or can't be disproved beyond a reasonable doubt) it's illegal. Doesn't matter if you're in a suit trying to convince someone you're Special Agent Mulder, or if you're in body armor and a mask trying to convince someone you're ICE.

Also as an American I 100% agree with magikmw's point, that illegal or not it doesn't matter if ICE decides they don't like it - until you can manage to get in front of a judge, which may not be guaranteed. Then again even if you do, it has to be something you can reliably prove.

Fedposting to try and get gullible youths into 'impersonating a federal officer' charges

You do you. If you want to act by any means necessary, nobody's stopping you. I can handle risk management properly, unlike you. This conversation is over.

Cowards get blocked.

Of course, if ICE actually wore some standardized uniform with identification, then sure, impersonating a federal officer.

But since ICE is generic whatever tacticool, seems it's too easy to 'accidentally' impersonate and it's unfair to accuse someone of impersonating.

Of course 'unfair' is their whole strategy anyway.

By 'crazy media diet', it means in context. ICE agents reading a lemmy instance feed seems... unlikely.

The absurdity of their lack of consistent uniform and identification aside, in this hypothetical the people start impersonating not simply because of their tacticool cosplay like ICE, but by being among them and accusing others of being the fakes, implicitly asserting they are the genuine ones. So if you happen to be tacticool cosplaying in the vicinity of ICE agents without taking action, then maybe you are in a defensible. But acting on that adds an element.

Of course, this would mean something except when dealing with a 'shoot first, ask questions never' scenario...

Got an org that's actually ready to go?

Adventurism solves nothing.

Virginia passed a law to require them to wear unique ID and not wear masks unless there was a medical reason that made it necessary. The federal government took them to court and it's currently suspended due to a judge approving an injunction.

There's nothing more cowardly than telling other people, presumably in a different country than you, to throw their lives away from the safety of your computer chair

So clearly the best thing to do is shit-talk and distance yourself from those who understand direct action

They’ll beat and punish them regardless of the law. Haven’t you been paying attention?

I'd believe people are dressing like them and causing confusion. Might even work for getting better footage of their actions. But they start fighting with each other like they don't recognize the people they work with... That seemed dumb.

If you're encouraging people to act without being part of an organized and disciplined revolutionary party, you're the one who doesn't understand direct action, but do go on.

God you nerds are so stupid and gullible

Yeah go ahead and try that line in court see how it goes after prarieland

That's literally how you started this thread

i can tell your heart's in the right place in that you want to stand by your beliefs to the point that you're committed to risking your life for them, especially because clearly you are encouraging people to fight fascism which is (the FIGHTING of fascism) the correct side of history. it bums me out that people are piling downvotes on you.

that said, when you do walk as you have talked, and the regime turns you into one of the most principled corpses to ever fall in defense of civil rights, i for one won't be looking down on you. in the calculus of maximal efficacy, however, most people's lives are less 'well spent' on risky maneuvers than yours. there are many cases in which a person is capable of doing more for their community while alive.

in my case, for instance, and strictly hypothetically speaking, it would be equally as productive for me to physically attack fascists as it would be for me to slash open my own brachial and femoral arteries and simply bleed out in a bath tub. Even though it's obvious that real life is not any kind of role playing game, it serves illustrative purposes to metaphorically describe me as a unit with an attack power of zero and a defense power of zero. what i do have, though, is a mediocre quantity of disposable income and a vehicle that is very fuel efficient. As long as I am not actually dead, there are logistical purposes I can fulfill (and HAVE fulfilled!)

if i were to be shot by the pigs, of course, my ability to contribute materiel or logistics will abruptly cease.

If one were to believe that it would do more to support the cause by getting me shot in the street and thus depriving people of access to my transportation and resource support, well, we shall simply have to agree to disagree.

may your efforts on the front lines bear fruit, though!

It’s almost like it requires more than one person

Source: straight out of poster's ass.

This is a Lemmy repost of a TikTok repost of a Twitter nobody paraphrasing an unknown news story, with a weird font that looks edited.

Or it's a great psyop - it doesn't even need anyone to try this but if it gets in front of the right eyes it'll sow seeds of mistrust in the eyes of many ice agents anytime they see someone they don't recognize in their ranks. If it gets them looking at each other with suspicion, then it only takes a couple of fragile egos to start a fight.

Looks like this story hit a nerve with you.

Then let's share the true one's here please, and flag the lies.

yeah everyone.. I'm with this guy. instead, stick to sawing down cameras, not talking to cops at all, practicing jury nullification as much as you can, and thoroughly ostracizing anyone even secndarily related to law enforcement. All cops are bastards, and ICE are below cops somehow. Bunch of idiot clowns. Right Wakmrow?

The nerve is called "watching tiktokers use ICE to content-farm like psychopaths instead of abolishing them"

Given they shot a woman in her car, disarmed then shot a man on the ground, abduct people from their homes, have disappeared thousands of children and run concentration camps with the highest rate of teenage pregnancies anywhere, I dont think they'd be above just blowing your shit smoove off then having the highest members of government label you as a domestic terrorist to hide their crimes.

Gonna block VetOfTheSeas. This is the ~third post of theirs which is clearly false, poorly cited, and yet gets so much attention. I don't need clickbait in my feed, thanks.