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[–] myyass@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Only trust goats, sheep, cattle, horses, dogs, and donkeys.

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago

I would distrust any woman who would date an ICE agent, too.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

This lemming warns women not to trust any ICE agent trying to date them.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People who really care about trump become eunuchs for maga.

As a bonus, whatever small bit of meat is cut off of you can be mixed in with the ground horse, dog and rat meat that trump is bringing in from South America for that discounted maga meat that walmart is selling.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Damn, haven't seen the word eunuch used in everyday conversation in a while.

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[–] bad1080@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is that what the bestiality clause is about?

[–] TechnicallyWrite@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

FBI previously automatically disqualified people who acknowledged engaging in crimes including prostitution or bestiality, which is sexual activity between a human and an animal

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 212 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Good god this is absolute peak comedy

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mr. Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman, especially if she's interested in you

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[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, I remember how there were women who lured SS officers to their death this way during the second world war.

Nice to see this technique has not been forgotten.

[–] aes@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago

Freddie Oversteegen for the win.

(note to self: I should insert a few of these names into my flashcard deck)

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 180 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While this is pretty funny, there's also this horrifying detail at the end of the article:

What’s likely more of a risk for undocumented individuals is face recognition and commercial ad data. ICE officers can feed a photo of anyone into a facial recognition app called “Mobile Fortify,” monitor social media with apps like SocialNet, and look at vast troves of commercially available location data without a warrant. One surveillance app that includes ICE on its client list is Penlink’s Webloc, a tool which can pull advertising geolocation data for entire neighborhoods and search through photos to locate individuals with face recognition. Penlink explicitly advertises one of its data sources as Tinder. In May, Politico reported that ICE published a request for information (indicating interest in a vendor) to expand use of “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech providers” in investigations.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago

Facial recognition is why I don't attend any political activity without being in costume head-to-toe.

[–] alpha1beta@piefed.social 83 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Imagine, hiring entirely incels and then telling them beware of women willing to date them.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Incels believe that they deserve women, so they can be easily tricked by any woman who is willing to play along.

And of course, when they are inevitably tricked, that just reinforces their beliefs. They are unable to realize that the root cause is their own beliefs and behavior. If they were able to think rationally, they wouldn't identify as an incel in the first place.

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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the same FBI that is now overlooking incidents of bestiality in applicants, as of this week.

“I’m trying to understand why you did this,” [Republican Senator John] Kennedy told Patel. “We’re having a tough time attracting agents, good quality agents we all can trust … Why would you even get into bestiality?”

Patel said the change was recommended to him after he saw various “cases” in which qualified FBI applicants were denied consideration because they had been forced into bestiality as a result of human trafficking.

Ngl, I had a very confused hold the fuck up, what the hell are you even saying second there. Apparently I am not alone:

“I say this with respect to the person who recommended it, why didn’t you just say: ‘What planet did you parachute in from?’” Kennedy replied.

And all this in the same week. Coincidence? 🤔

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago

You KNOW you're behaving crazily when even Senator Foghorn Leghorn is dunking on you like that!

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love the article's description of trad wives:

"...conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss."

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Is this really what the incels want?

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone wanting to date an ICEhole is a piece of shit, fucked in the head, or someone who wants to compromise them. And I'm happy that's their only choice, because it's the least they deserve.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There has been a ton of stories lately of women targeting ICE agents and getting valuable intel on their operations which they pass along to anti-ice organizations, or working to out them to the public and reveal their identity.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On one hand I was hoping they were willing to do the WWII Nazi French Résistance thing and bed them for intel to pass on to the effort. Though, granted, that's super dangerous.

Also it may be that HUMINT is obsolete with data scraping.

On the other hand I'm totally impressed people have come up with this ploy in the first place.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assumed you were gonna mention the ones that would bed Nazi soldiers (or pretend they were gonna) but just assassinate them instead. At least I think I read something like that at one point.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'm sure it's happened happened at least a few times. The tricky part, then, is to dispose of the body and cover any tracks that might lead investigators to you. This was facilitated by the Reich being corrupt AF. Tell the victim you have meet him on the sly for a tryst and he'll cover his tracks for you.

The right intel, however could lead to the demise of many lives.

We had the flip-side problem here in the States. US sailors would get drunk on leave and blab operational info to German honeypots. The intel would quickly be relayed to the Kriegsmarine and U-boat wolf-packs hunting in the Atlantic would be directed to intercept them. The cracking of the German navy's Enigma codes figured into how the Allies traced the information leaks, and uncovered spies in US ports.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

FBI added to this same warning, but animals too, instead of just women. /s

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 74 points 2 days ago (3 children)

So is this implying that ICE is OK with same sex dating, or that there are no female ICE agents?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

they might need to follow fbi's lead on relaxing hiring standards. then they can just keep it 'in house'

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Oh, no, they both have very different ideas of what to do to a dog.

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[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 43 points 2 days ago (3 children)

“The tactic is intended to generate public embarrassment and deter immigration enforcement activity,” the FBI added. It did not provide any specifics on where or when it observed the supposed doxxing operation, and conceded all information in the memo was “not finally evaluated intelligence.”

The origin of the warning may well be a thinly sourced January 2026 post by the New York Post, which cited two TikTok posts from women stating they were using dating apps to identify ICE agents, as well as a single post by another female user urging gay men on Grindr to do the same. That post itself was inspired by another post from LibsOfTikTok, a homophobic and racist account that is ultra-popular with conservatives. The FBI wrote in the memo its information came from a “collaborative source.”

So a couple of people on the Internet joked about this and the FBI took it seriously.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

I'm betting the missing piece of the puzzle is just men and women going on dates, and at some point the guy admits to being in ICE, and the woman leaves and posts about it on social media, as you do after a bad date.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the current administration is the most the most paranoid about public perception, they need to show they have no weakness.

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

True for fascists in general.

...also social media, come to think of it. That's not a worrying connection at all.

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[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 12 points 1 day ago

Should that not be the other way round?

[–] ulkesh@piefed.social 32 points 2 days ago

Incels, Cowards, Embarrassments

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

How far have we come from 2000's Hollywood movies bigging FBI up

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"We hired you because we knew you were cronically unfuckable. Now that you have a taste of confidence and a good paycheck, we can't have some broad giving you a reason to question your role in the gestapo."

[–] Steve 23 points 2 days ago

That's not what's going on here.

It's about women who hate ICE, dating agents, to get inside information for doxing agents and leaking intel on operations.

[–] Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Wow my last post is a lot more fucked up than it was funny and actually has me wondering : What if they started doing forced conscription for the "for-life," prisoners or prisoners on death row to be ICE Agents?

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Look up Oskar Dirlewanger and his group in the Nazis... They literally had murderers in their ranks

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

That's been the case with Russian recruiting since about the start of the second year of the Ukraine war.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess this is why Kash Patel needs to get that bestiality stuff passed.

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[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, unless ICE agents are active war thunder players, women are the biggest threat when it comes to leaked intel

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

ICE ain't got no intelligence to leaki!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Appropriately crossposted to nottheonion lol. This is like a real life version of Lysistrata.

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