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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Immigration detention centers have been around for a while now. Virtually all of them ran by private corporations. People rail against private prisons but they make up a tiny tiny minority of prisoners. Over 90% of immigration detention centers are privately owned.

    So we're going to throw millions of people into camps so that a few corporations can extract a ton of public taxpayer money. They're also gonna stay there for years because it's logistically impossible to move over 10 million people quickly.

    I didn't think fascism would happen again my lifetime. But I guess here we are

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Moving them is expensive, just letting them die in poor conditions or working them to death is far cheaper... Seeing how it happened yet?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    exactly. it escalates over time as things become normalized.

    if there are 10 stages we're like at stage 3

    in 2016 we were at stage 1. back then, Trump wouldn't dare have said "immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country" - that wouldn't have had a good reception back then. too on the nose. but you start with more subtle things and slowly you shift the overton window of what is and isn't socially acceptable

    it's a treadmill and we're jogging

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