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.
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
“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
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.
No, it evidently does not. It’s a relative niche initialism so most people not from those 5 or so countries are not familiar with it.
Many more however are familiar with the controversial US agency with the same initialism. Which is the subject of this discussion and more discussions in this community than internal combustion engines.
In fact I should have pointed out that ICE may refer to internal combustion engines in the five or so countries where English is the dominant language sans the US where it refers to the agency of Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
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… 🤷♂️
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…
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
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.
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”.
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.
abolishing ICE would improve city air quality tho
The meth heads don’t cause that much pollution.
lt would increase car traffic, so quite certainly no.
by replacing Internal Combustion Engine vehicles with EVs?
They’re talking about Inter City Express trains, not Internal Combustion Engines.
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
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
someone already went for meth, so we’re good
scratches neck
Y’all got anymore of that ICE?
abolishingICE will also make restaurants serve more drinks per drink
Do you like think ICE is public transportation or something?
In Germany, Netherlands, and Switzerland ICE is the “InterCity Express” that links cities across the three countries.
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.
By everywhere else you mean like 5 countries where English is a dominant language, right?
And ones where we’re currently speaking English because we’re in an English-speaking online community.
No, it evidently does not. It’s a relative niche initialism so most people not from those 5 or so countries are not familiar with it.
Many more however are familiar with the controversial US agency with the same initialism. Which is the subject of this discussion and more discussions in this community than internal combustion engines.
In fact I should have pointed out that ICE may refer to internal combustion engines in the five or so countries where English is the dominant language sans the US where it refers to the agency of Immigration & Customs Enforcement.
Outboard motors are still internal combustion engines. What we need are steam engines powered by coal fires under the boilers.
Sure, Intercity Express.
But apprently we are talking about US inmigration politics instead, as l got from another comment already…
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
I like the level of sarcasm in your comment
I was iffy until the final scene. Goosebumps!
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… 🤷♂️
See, I thought you meant ICE as in Internal Combustion Engine which made your comment about air quality make sense.
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…
I mean… it does involve traffic[1]
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I get it bruh but the thumbnail of this community literally has trump in his tennis outfit
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?
ICE disambiguation in descending order of relevance:
A type of train connection, the ICE-(Intercity-Express)-Network.
Excellent comment - the downvotes, lol!
Downvoters too American pilled to consider things might have different meanings in different parts of the world.
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
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.
Just a SNAFU over ambiguous TLAs. NTSH, as you were.
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”.
Yeah i can see the joke but what you wrote (the comment i replies to) does not match the context at all:/
Now they’re upset at you for the callout. After all these years it never gets old.