• @[email protected]
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    Both the most US thing you could possibly do AND a gross violation of what the US aspires to be.

    • @cley_faye
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      I’m still not clear what the first “A” in maga is supposed to reference, seeing what’s happening these days. All I know is that it’s clearly not “America” or a reference to the US.

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    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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      They’ll claim they disagree with it and they don’t like Trump (except for -insert all his policies-) and then vote for him for a third term when he makes that legal. They need to pretend not to salivate about oppressing brown people when they are in polite company but that’s about it.

  • Phoenixz
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    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

  • Maple Engineer
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    I’m sure imprisoning 30000 innocent people next to highly trained terrorists won’t come back to haunt the US.

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      Theoretically? Well Manhattan has a population density of about 73,000 people per square mile so it’s certainly possible to safely provide for 30,000 people in the space of Guantanamo Bay.

      In practice? There’s no way they’ll be doing anything like that, and the cruelty is the point.

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      No, they can’t. Guantanamo is a very harsh environment with very small capacity

      Edit: well, I guess if the plan is to starve them and put them in unliveable conditions where disease is rampant and they begin to die in droves…yes it would make sense then.

    • @Itdidnttrickledown
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      Not in any safe manner. Safe for the assholes running the show that is.

  • z3rOR0ne
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    And then the US said to Germany, “We too, can do Auschwitz.”

    • @AFaithfulNihilist
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      They think the problem with Auschwitz is that people could see it.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • @Jhex
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      Because weak people need to tell everyone how strong they are

  • @SuperEars
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    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/

    • @BigBenis
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      I would add something like, “But this is important and the people need to know about it.” at the end. It highlights the gravity of the situation and subtly encourages recipients to do the same.

      • @Event_Horizon
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        To this day we still question how could the Germans watch Hitler and the Nazis come to power. Well we’re learning how, in real time.

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          “I’m still too comfortable, I need to pay my bills” should be the summoning chant for fascism.

  • @gift_of_gab
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    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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      Don’t blame the Russian for what the US is doing. A country that spent years of committing war crimes and establishing laws that invade privacy, haunting down journalist and humanitarian, is destined to use that power to abuse their own people sooner or later regardless of foreign intervention.

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

    • @Eatspancakes84
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      Rather unfortunately, the mass deportations was one of the most popular parts of Trump’s platform. Everybody knows mass deportation comes with concentration camps. It’s not that his voters are unaware of it, they actively love it!

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      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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        Trump and MAGA politics

        Maybe the language we use to describe them is itself normalising and pacifying. Like calling a Nazi salute a “hand gesture.”

        I would suggest “a criminal dictator and fascist politics” as a substitute in your sentence to provoke an acceptable, proportionate reaction.

    • Flying Squid
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      Honestly, I was expecting them in less time. Like 2-3 days in.

  • @Clinicallydepressedpoochie
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    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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    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.