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[–] 105 points 6 months ago

The facility where she is being held, run by GEO Group, a multibillion-dollar private prison company, has been the subject of dozens of complaints from current and former female detainees who have claimed they were denied basic medical treatment, hygiene supplies, and edible food.

Others have said they’ve faced sexual abuse and harassment and were subject to forced labor. In December, a former guard pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually abusing a Nicaraguan detainee in mid-2025.

Jfc. :(

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    Go on, soldier. Go deploy, and fight for more of this.

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  • [–] 43 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    That blue cord on his shoulder should mean this facility gets the full experience of infantry training, barrel first.

    Fuck this and FUCK ICE

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (33 children)

    I assume they joined during Biden if he's new now

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  • [+] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (32 children)
  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (28 children)

    You can’t just up and leave the military any time you’d like. You have to have a significant mental breakdown and end up in a psych ward to get out easily.

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  • [+] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (19 children)
  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (15 children)

    I don’t think you realize what I’m saying. You have to literally attempt suicide in order to get out of the military without waiting out your contract or removing yourself from society.

    Like, they need to be able to visibly see that you have attempted to kill yourself, and even then you have to convince them that it was real.

    Would you cut open your arm right now to prove a point?

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  • [+] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    You can simply refuse to deploy.
    No need to mutilate yourself or attempt suicide.
    Just say "No, I won't go".
    You'll get a letter telling you where to meet your unit. Don't go there.
    Or if you're already with your unit, don't get on the plane.
    Maybe you'll spend a little bit of time in a jail cell, but even that is exceedingly rare.
    Most likely, you'll just be dishonorably discharged to get you and your opinions away from the other soldiers as quickly as possible. You will then have to find employment with someone who doesn't care about that.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    German instance

    Knows more about getting out of the American military than me

    I literally did that. I told them I wouldn’t go to Japan. They confined me to my ship until I attempted suicide.

    You are not all-knowing.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Or get pregnant, if that's a possibility for you...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Getting pregnant will not get you out of the American military, just out of a deployment

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    False. When an active duty service member gets pregnant, she is given an option to receive a medical discharge.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I knew so many pregnant sailors that I just assumed the option wasn’t given, never applied to me. Now I know

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    Yeah, a lot of them choose to stay in because they derive a sense of meaning/purpose/job satisfaction from it, and also because civilian life is hard by comparison.

    I mean yeah, waking up at 5AM every day sucks, having to stay in shape sucks, being held to strict discipline, conduct, and grooming standards sucks, being told what to do by people who are often dumber than you sucks, having to stand 24-hour posts once a month sucks, having to do annual qualifications and tests sucks, et cetera, but...

    Having most of your bills already covered so that you don't have to think about them is kinda nice, making a steady paycheck with cost-of-living adjustments and continuous growth is kinda nice, having guaranteed 30 days of PTO per year is kinda nice, having medical and dental covered is kinda nice, having a guaranteed place to live (even if you don't get to choose it or your roommate) is kinda nice, having a chow hall where you can eat three meals a day is kinda nice (even though you technically pay for it when it gets deducted from your paycheck, but you don't really have to think about that).

    Come to think of it, it's a lot like communism. Actual communism, not the botched attempts we see so often in history.

    Of course, now with the whole [gestures at everything] going on, I'm sure the calculus is a bit different. Can't say what's going through anybody's minds right now...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Have things changed. I remember when you signed up for a four year enlistment.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It was never actually four years. The active duty contract is typically two to six years of active service, and then another four years of reserve afterwards. Basically, even after your active duty time is up, they can still call you back in (or just refuse to let you leave in the first place) for another four years.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    It’s, or at least was, an eight year commitment with the typical active cycle 4 years but some would do 2 active 6 inactive or 6 active, 2 inactive. Education or additional active years (6/2) could bump up starting rank.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    As crazy as it sounds, I say let ICE come in and constantly harass the military. Let them take it far enough that the military is willing to shoot any ICE members they see. Hell, have ICE piss them off enough to stage a coup. Ain't no amount of police would be able to stop the military storming the white house.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Because most military coups have been such a rousing success for regaining Democracy.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    On the other hand, most democracies come from military coups. All the recent coups leading to authoritarianism come from the CIA or Kremlin or Islamism. After the cold war more coups led to democracy afain. If the US has an internal coup now it'll be more likely one of those, I'd think.

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  • Well, look at Vichy France and their eventual liberation from Nazi Germany and De Gaulle and the ultimate transition to the 5th republic. Not a “military coup” per se, but still a period in France where strong military-oriented leadership

    Sure, it’s not often that military leadership ends up peacefully transitioning to civilian leadership… but given how our civilian leadership is the problem right now, I’m willing to give it a shot, because it could hardly be less sane that the idiocy that’s happening now. There exists some subset of career military officers and leadership to whom honor and loyalty and integrity actually matter; the same cannot be said for anyone in the regime currently, since their North Star is making a buck and “winning”.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    Get in the box for Israel. No wife for you.

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  • [+] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
    [–] 14 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wait until a bunch of pissed-off soldiers object to ICE kidnapping their loved ones.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago*

    Thank you for your sacrifice.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    She works as a Sunday school teacher and is months away from finishing a biochemistry degree. She has no criminal record.

    What a dangerous woman! Well I certainly feel safer.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    He got what he deserved. Literally he volunteered to be part of the US war crimes and now he's complaining. Instant Karma!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when he was in the voting booth, assuming he voted.

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