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The canto's opening presents Lucifer first as a distant looming structure seen through darkness and wind, then as a gigantic presence half-risen from ice who pushes language to the edge of inadequacy.
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model
Another student proposes that Lucifer's frozen state means his being itself cannot communicate, because he is immobilized from the midpoint outward.
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He says the real test for Mamdani will be how he responds when Donald Trump sends ICE into New York City to round up undocumented immigrants.
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He argues ICE is not mainly about illegal immigration but about normalizing armed soldiers in American streets and building the conditions for a police state.
diagnosis
Jiang says the infrastructure for a police state is already present in the United States through ICE, Palantir-style surveillance, and a vast data-center buildout he interprets as AI-security capacity rather than consumer technology expansion.
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He says Trump is turning ICE into a private secret police, expanding federal force, and could use war or a false flag to suspend normal constitutional limits.
diagnosis
Jiang argues Trump is creating paramilitary or loyal coercive forces through ICE, the National Guard, and possibly Delta Force, because those forces depend on his support for their brutality.
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Jiang expects ICE provocations, random shootings, National Guard intervention, martial law, and agent-infiltrated insurrection groups to be plausible escalatory mechanics over the next few weeks.
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"Okay. Canto 34. Vexilla regis proteunt in fiat. Farni toward us and therefore keep your eyes ahead. My master said to see if you..."
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"Just as when night falls on our hemisphere or when a heavy fog is blowing thick, a windmill seems to wheel when seen far..."
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"...The emperor of the despot. The kingdom so towered from the ice up from mid chest that I matched better with a giant's breath..."
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"The lake in which he's frozen flips no matter what aspect you look at him. So he's frozen from the middle, to either extremity..."
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"...be the Democratic nominee for President. The real test is when ICE arrives in New York City, right? Because Donald Trump is going to..."
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"...You already have the ingredients in place, right? You already have ICE, which is basically the Gestapo. You already have Palantir, who can easily..."
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"...state in order to help them see the light. Right? So, ICE, guys, okay? ICE. People believe that ICE is being sent to the..."
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"And the reason why we think this or we can suspect this is look at their budget, man! Look at this budget. Before, the..."
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"...in place for his third term so for example he's turning ice into the into his basically private secret police it's private uh police..."
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"he'll have like like a solid majority um so again i don't know the specifics of what they have have in mind i think..."
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"...States as well, where Trump is creating these paramilitary forces like ICE and possibly the National Guard that are loyal only to him because..."
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"...than under Trump, even though you have this paramilitary force called ICE going around and supposedly run up, running up immigrants. I think their..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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