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[–] 264 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It's sorta like a camp, but concentrated on one type of person....

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    [–] 163 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I knew the concentration camps were coming, but just after ten days? Holy shit

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    The faster they move the more they can get done before their opponents can mobilise resistance.

    I would say that so far, there appears to be much less public resistance to Republican policies than in previous years. The Democrats appear to be at sea. The left's working class base is split. Public institutions are too busy protecting their turf, making gestures at cooperating with the new world order rather than trying to resist.

    It feels like last time there was an assumption that Trump and MAGA politics a criminal dictator and fascist politics were a blip or aberration from the norm, now there's an acceptance that they're institutionalised.

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    [–] 114 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    As an added note, they deported multiple children to Colombia the other day. Half the people they've arrested in specific areas have zero criminal records. Some are even US citizens. This is not for immigrants, this a Latino concentration camp.

    I know two people first hand who have been here for over 30 years with no criminal records who are being detained. These are the people being sent to Guantanamo.

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    I don't know anything but isn't Guantanamo Bay, like, kinda small?

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  • [–] 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    At it's peak it held about 800 prisoners, kinda impossibly small for the numbers discussed here.

    Edit-- Well, trump did say "Most people don’t even know that we have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo", I guess file me with most people. Must be incredible how they scaled up while simultaneously closing camps and losing facilities to disrepair, apparently.

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    [–] 92 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Call your senators

    https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm?Class=1

    Call your representative in the house

    https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

    It's "illegal" migrants now. But it will be us eventually! Do not let it get to that point. They did not win this election by a landslide, and they can only do as much damage as we let them!

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    It's not eventually. The 'problem' with being overly aggressive on migration is how easy it is to ignore someone's "documentation". And then it is a quick move to a camp where they've determined that, for efficiency, you don't have any right to representation. License? Fake. Passport? Fake.

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    [–] 78 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    Mark my words- queer people will be next.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Homosexuality Queerdom is a Jewish immigrant plot against Germany the US.

    It's practically fascist mad libs.

    The path to that easier than you might think. Just get the propaganda mill talking about Thai ladyboys and black-market hormones a bit. They love little talking points that are are rooted in preconceptions and tiny slivers of half-truths that they can contort to fit their agenda...to expand on and then justify their actions.

    They are fun to pick out. The other day Trump claimed that the ominous "they" were sending water directly to the ocean to save an endangered fish instead of to LA to fight fires.

    That endangered fish is called a Delta Smelt. "Delta", as in a river delta, as found at the end of a river....you know, that thing that carries said water to the ocean.

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    [–] 76 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    My grandmother fought in the Dutch resistance, helped people who were Jewish escape, and was put in a camp. She died a few years ago. This is how that happened, too. And we're all watching. Even with americas vaunted 2nd amendment, Russian-backed fascists just walked in and took over, and everyone is just watching them. No riots, no fighting back, just passive resistance.

    I wish all of you the best of luck. I'm going to go hug my kids.

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    [–] 51 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Concentration camp/torture camp.

    Lots of people fantasize about what they might do if they had the opportunity to act to stop what was happening in WWII Germany but here we are.

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    [–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wasn't trump one of the Obama critics demanding him to close it?

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    [–] 49 points 2 years ago

    Bloody sickening.

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

    MAGA has a hardon for cruelty. It's about hurting people. They love the idea a rounding up non-white people, loading them into boxcars, and shipping them off to concentration camps. Everything that Trump has done so far is going make billionaires richer and regular Americans much poorer but as long as he's hurting non-whites they will sit around giving each other rage handies and praising him.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Doesn't seem like misreporting. I found other sources reporting it too.

    I sent a text to those I love in any capacity, even former coworkers who've probably deleted my number. Not a group text - one by one. I think it'd be prudent for all US readers to consider doing the same.

    Knowing some of you are like me, in that you might not know how to word such a text to someone not expecting it from you, I offer you my copy/pasted text:

    America has a concentration camp now. I won't send you anything more...it's kind of rude that I'm sending this one. https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/donald-trump-announces-plan-to-send-migrants-guantanamo-bay/

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Speed running the third Reich over here. Has the doctor given him bad news?

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm sure imprisoning 30000 innocent people next to highly trained terrorists won't come back to haunt the US.

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And then the US said to Germany, "We too, can do Auschwitz."

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Both the most US thing you could possibly do AND a gross violation of what the US aspires to be.

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    [–] 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Fucking hell. We were sooooooo close to finally releasing the poor souls caught up from 9/11 shit stuck here. I'm so fucking disgusted by the ruling class in this country.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    America's first camp.....in 83 years.

    Thanks conservatives.

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    [–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Colombia, which eventually backed down, slammed the US' treatment of migrants since Trump came to power.

    Why do they continue to repeat this narrative? Colombia wanted the migrants to be deported under humanly conditions. The US did that, now Colombia will take them. The threats of sanctions has nothing to do with it but it makes Trump look strong.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    If these people are "the worst of the worst" then we already have infrastructure to deal with that. Gitmo is for extrajudicial punishment that should have been outlawed decades ago. "Thanks Obama"

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The way I understand it we have these places in the US call prisons and they are used to house criminals. I guess the only problem with that is in order to put people in them they have to be guilty of a crime.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Guantanamo Bay... the blacksite for literal terrorists that is considered highly controversial for literal terrorists? What the actual fuck.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

    for those of you who live in the US: there must surely be Republican voters being appalled by this too, right? Right?

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So trump is going to build "housing" for 30.000 people, plus possibly hundreds of guards, who all need food, guards will need actual housing with maybefamilies who will need recreation too..

    Just saying, this sounds like a VERY expensive distraction from the fact that they're working hard on robbing the US coffers blind...

    Now make this for the 20 million or so, and you get to understand why the US will be bankrupt and over 4 years from now if this idiots continues this

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