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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Mark my words- queer people will be next.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trans women specifically, the others are safe for a few more years then it will be their turn.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (3 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, the place is gonna so quiet without all the US citizens, we'll finally be able to talk about stuff that isn't related to the US!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a concentration camp, we're past the point of calling.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So what are you going to do about it? Just sit there and let it happen?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's cute that you think senators have any power anymore. I'm guessing you think the next election won't be Russia-style too.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Yes, but that's because he apparently wanted it cleared out so that American citizens could be "accidentally" put there instead.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago

But it’s OK because it’s Trump doing it not Biden.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 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"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obama did not put anyone in gitmo

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obama had a campaign promise to close Gitmo and then didn't. It was made difficult by Republicans, but it was still just sort of abandoned because it would have cost political capital and they didn't want to have that fight.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He actually tried though. Don't come for me on the details, I don't remember

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Congress.

But he did take it from a couple hundred prisoners down to about 50. Of those 50, something like 20 were cleared for release, and the remaining 30 were going to trial for various terrorism charges (helping plan 9/11, for example).

Thats about the end of what I remember though.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Wow, I kinda suspected the camps would be in Texas not out there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They might be able to escape in Texas. Trump's cronies know this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't be seen trying to lower emmisions by having shorter flights to their concentration camps, that is teetering dangerously on the edge of woke... probably, it's hard to nail down where their version of woke is.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This is the Bibby Stockholm all over again

[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Yes, it's a camp where he plans to concentrate people.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This feels like "how many dead babies can you fit in a trash can?"

Depends on how good your blender is.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that's a bonus for Trump. Also, Cuba should reject our lease on the land.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To the best of my knowledge, although the U.S. makes “lease payments” on the land the prison sits on, they do not have the authorization of the Cuban government, which in turn has not cashed those checks.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 day ago

That’s only an issue if you assume they’ll be treated with any humanity

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't worry, they'll find a way to pack people in. Maybe some kind of high energy weight loss system like their role models used in the 1940s?

This is bad juju. The detention camps from the first cycle with this fascists was nothing on what we're seeing ramping up here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don’t worry, they’ll find a way to pack people in. Maybe some kind of high energy weight loss system like their role models used in the 1940s?

I'm sure they are already working on the final solution.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Now I want someone to ask trump "what's your final solution for these people?"

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[–] [email protected] 262 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There should be a name for such a thing

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe a motto.
Maybe something like "Work will set you free."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was written on the gate at the Buchenwald concentration camp ("Jedem das Seine")

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Ah, I didn’t know this one. I only knew work will set you free. Thank you

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