The Incel to ICE Pipeline (with F.D Signifier and Caroline Kwan)

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

ICE is many things — chief among them, an outgrowth of a seemingly neverending masculinity crisis. The U.S. government has devised a billion dollar strategy to recruit aggrieved young men into ICE with the promise of giving them a purpose: to “restore the homeland.” And their masculinity. The results have been devastating. A parallel crisis of manhood is unfolding in the form of looksmaxxers, a booming online community of men injecting meth and breaking their bones to enhance their perceived physical beauty. Today, YouTube essay legend F.D Signifier, Twitch culture streamer Caroline Kwan and I explore the evermore bizarre ways patriarchy is setting men up to fail while everyone else pays the price. Listen to bonus episodes on Patreon! Thanks to today’s sponsors! Protect yourself online, wherever you go. Get a discount on NordVPN at https://www.nordvpn.com/fruity Work smarter, not harder, with Factor meals ready in two minutes at https://www.factormeals.com/fruity50off Watch F.D Signifier on YouTube. Watch Caroline on Twitch. Find me on Instagram. Find A Bit Fruity on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yeah, the masculine urge to just kill a woman.
0:03.5	That's fucking bleak.
0:10.6	Hello, hello, and welcome back to A BitFrudy.
0:14.5	I'm Matt Bernstein.
0:15.3	I'm so happy that you're here.
0:16.5	After Ice Agent Jonathan Ross filmed himself murdering Renee Good, a married lesbian poet who was legally observing the ongoing ice crackdown in Minneapolis,
0:26.6	Ross muttered to himself two words.
0:29.0	Fucking bitch.
0:30.8	I haven't stopped thinking about those words since he spoke them, and they immediately brought me back to a vastly different time and place in American culture.
0:39.5	2014, California, where a 22-year-old man named Elliot Roger was stewing in an online cesspool
0:46.9	known as the In-Cell ideology.
0:49.5	Elliot was struggling with relating to women and finding a girlfriend and found community online with other
0:55.1	young male in cells who believed that if they could not attract women, they should simply
1:00.4	dominate them. In one post, Elliot Lambasted the quote, oppressive feminist system. And on May
1:07.0	23, 2014, Elliot Roger drove to a sorority house at nearby UC Santa Barbara and
1:12.9	shot three women outside of it, killing two of them.
1:16.1	He then drove around the town of Ila Vista and killed a total of six people before turning
1:20.2	the gun on himself.
1:22.1	And I'm not saying Jonathan Ross and other ICE agents are all wielding their guns explicitly
1:27.1	to avenge the women who rejected
1:29.0	them like Elliot Roger did. But we do have reason to believe that the Trump administration
1:34.3	is specifically seeking out men just like Elliot Roger to work for ICE or immigration and
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