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[+] -25 points 6 hours ago (31 children)

Abolishing ICE will accomplish nothing except making moving between cities harder.
We have to improve and expand the network instead to be able to also provide better regional connections.

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  • [–] 35 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

    abolishing ICE would improve city air quality tho

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  • [–] -2 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

    abolishing ICE would improve city air quality tho

    lt would increase car traffic, so quite certainly no.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    by replacing Internal Combustion Engine vehicles with EVs?

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  • [–] 16 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    They’re talking about Inter City Express trains, not Internal Combustion Engines.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

    and the post is about immigration customs enforcement, are we getting on the pun train or what? still waiting for someone to reply "abolishing ICE would make it harder to have a cold drink" to my city air quality comment

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    “abolishing ICE would make it harder to have a cold drink”

    Wouldn't work in the same way because this kind of ice is:
    a) not a unspecified 3-letter-acronym
    b) completely lowercase
    c) not a term being valid only in a limited geographic region

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  • [–] 17 points 6 hours ago (11 children)

    Do you like think ICE is public transportation or something?

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    In some countries it is. Everywhere else refers to internal combustion engines, which also would complicate getting around if abolished. On the other hand, nobody is proposing a ban on outboard motors for cars so there might be a market for those, I suppose.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

    Do you like think ICE is public transportation or something?

    Sure, Intercity Express.

    But apprently we are talking about US inmigration politics instead, as l got from another comment already...

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    Don't you know the whole internet is America™? (only the United States, not the other 34 sovereign nations in America)

    Hawk screech that we pretend is a Bald Eagle Shoots freedom leadnuggets into the air and into middle schools

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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    l already blocked all communities that are explicitely dealing with domestic US-only stuff.

    There are lots of those, so if I stumble upon US-defaulting posts in the remaining general communities, l sometimes can't stop myself bringing some international perspective into them... 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    See, I thought you meant ICE as in Internal Combustion Engine which made your comment about air quality make sense.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago

    We should also try to abalish those...

    Funnily I didn't know of the ICE engine abbreviation until recently.
    Let to some confusion reading an "ICE cars cannot be transported on Rhine" post.
    First thought of the railway cars and after reading the article was convinced it was talking about cars for the immigration guys...

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  • [–] 8 points 6 hours ago* (2 children)

    Is ICE a transit agency somewhere? I know we're often too US focused online but this is clearly a post about abuse of immigrats by ICE...

    Edit: wait like non-ev cars? Fair I guess?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago*

    ICE disambiguation in descending order of relevance:

    • Internal Combustion Engine, the normal kind of engine in cars and heavy machinery
    • In Case of Emergency, privileged phonebook entry to be contacted if you're in the ICU
    • InterCity Express, European high-speed rail service
    • Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United States version of the SA
    • Immigration Compliance Enforcement, the UK version of Frontex
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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

    Excellent comment - the downvotes, lol!

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  • [+] -8 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

    Downvoters too American pilled to consider things might have different meanings in different parts of the world.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 hours ago* (4 children)

    Or, hear me out, they do not know about "InterCity Express" being a thing and just guessed the post was about "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" which makes more sense due to the post mentioning "Agents" especially for the fact we are in c/politicalmemes

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I'm neither american nor European and my first read of the top comment was interpretting it as the american organization. It took me reading several of the response comments to realize that OP wasn't advocating for the nonsense going on in the usa.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    mistaking it for the US agency is part of the joke. The part that goes over the head of the downvoters is instead of going "Hmm, that's weird. Wonder what kind of ICE they're talking about" they go "What an idiot, doesn't know what ICE means".

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