• @ClinicallydepressedpoochieOP
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    Oh, so the expectation was always that a authoritarian was going to seize control of the federal government and open a concentration camp there? Funny, cause I never heard that argument but, yeah, sure, completely salient now.

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      Bush II was already fascist and used gitmo for exactly that. It’s specifically outside the US border so they can make an argument that American civil rights laws don’t apply there. At the very least, press and public can’t reach it.

      People were screaming from the top of their lungs about this exact scenario. Yes, this was expected and we cared too much about the economy to care.

    • GodlessCommie
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      168 days ago

      You’re talking like it hasn’t always been a concentration camp. If liberals bothered to hold their own people accountable and have an actual red line that couldn’t be crossed, someone like Trump could have never made it into office.

      • @ClinicallydepressedpoochieOP
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        The most gitmo ever held was maybe 700-800 people. Trumps talking 30000. Just because it’s a building and war crimes are done there doesn’t mean it’s a concentration camp.

        • GodlessCommie
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          48 days ago

          People are still being held there, with no due process for over 20 years.

          1 person being held with no due process is as bad as 30000.

          Liberals and their fucking trump derangement syndrome keep fighting the wrong things.

          • @LengAwaits
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            “Once a cop is responsible for 1 murder he may as well continue to kill because 1 murder is the same as 30,000 murders.”

          • @LengAwaits
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            1 person being held with no due process is as bad as 30000.

            Please explain this one to me, because I’m not understanding your math.

            • GodlessCommie
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              If one person is being unjustly denied their right to freedom under law it’s just as bad as if 30000 are being denied their right to freedom under the law.

              • Logi
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                So if there are 30000 unjustly imprisoned people then freeing 29999 of them is pointless since no improvement has been made.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes, actually. Edward Snowden risked hanging for treason by leaking the NSA mass surveillance program for just this reason. He’s the last true patriot, imo, and I wish he’d stayed and made the government take him to trial over their blatantly illegal program instead of ending up as a trophy on Putin’s shelf.