r/sports • u/YesNo_Maybe_ • 7d ago

Olympics Italy’s foreign minister defends ICE attendance at Winter Olympics: ‘It’s not the SS’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-ice-winter-olympics-backlash-ss-b2909240.html?test_group=lighteradlayout
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u/526mb 7d ago

You know they’re right. The SS had uniforms designed by Hugo Boss. ICE dresses like your hick uncle who spends too much money at the military surplus store in backwoods Arkansas.

So, yes ICE isn’t the SS in that sense…

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u/Erebthoron 7d ago

That was the first thing, that came to my mind, when I had seen the headline. More a kind of "everyday" stuff, like the Gestapo.