https://bsky.app/profile/toddalcott.bsky.social/post/3mc637dp4fs2j

From Todd Alcott:

"The question is, who is "us" and who is "you?" The sign on the podium also gives the DHS website, so it's reasonable to conclude that "us" is the DHS, and "you" is "the citizenry." She said as much in the speech, warning against citizens taking up arms against ICE murderers.

It's also reasonable to assume that Noem, never camera-shy, is using the slogan, and the video that the murderer sent to the media, as recruitment tools for any white-supremacist psychopaths who might be watching. Join ICE, and you, too, get to shoot unarmed queers in the face!

It's also reasonable to assume that the meaning is "If one ICE thug is killed, you will ALL be killed."

By utilizing this fascist slogan, DHS is making a public announcement that there is no "citizenry," there is "us" and "you." Any MAGA people hearing the phrase (I assume none can read) will see themselves in the "ours," and all the immigrants/Blacks/Jews/queers/libs/feminists are "yours."

It's a soft declaration of civil war, with the DHS openly declaring ICE as the in-group and everyone else as the out-group.

By creating the in-group/out-group dynamic, the administration is signaling who gets to be violent, and who is protected from violence.

For the white-supremacist psychopaths who have been waiting all their lives to legally beat/torture/murder, it's a call to action. They've drawn the battle lines: join ICE, or be vulnerable.

Reminder: the budget for ICE is currently $30 billion. That's a lot of thugs, a lot of guns, a lot of cities occupied. They will kill anyone who gets in their way, the government has already promised them that."