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[–] 182 points 1 year ago (8 children)

More like Alligator Auschwitz

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    God. The wet-bulb temperatures in August alone are going to murder everyone they send to that concentration camp.

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think the alligators are just a distraction from the fact that they are setting these people up to die in a hurricane or violent storm event. If not just the heat like you said

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  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Without early warning systems, they’ll be hit by an ‘unexpected’ hurricane soon enough. The rising floodwaters will penetrate the cells more easily this way.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    The Nazis used wood. Other than that, I don't see much difference here.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Wait, "alamy" claims ownership of the picture?! As in monetizing the fucking Holocaust!?

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    If I could monetize the holocaust, I don't think I would

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  • [–] 117 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    $45 billion more given to ICE with the bill passed in the senate today. Your taxes going towards (more) ethnic cleansing. They want to strip citizenship from anyone who doesn’t kiss their ass and throw them in these cages. Next step after that will be “lending” the imprisoned for labor.

    Any American who doesn’t have “abolish and defund ICE” at the top of their priority list is aiding and abetting fascists.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Minor correction - the bill passed today increases it's overall operating budget by $175B to over $200B total. ICE will become the third most funded armed forces in the world just behind China. $45B is earmarked for camps.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    And just like that, conservatives have brought us back to some of the most disgusting times in history.

    Conservatives: Making America Great again

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Oh nice, we've discovered new photos of the WWII concentration camps for Japanese Americans."

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    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you wanna see how “great” a society is just look at how they treat their prisoners and the animals they eat.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    Yeah for being in the Florida Everglades that doesn't even look air conditioned. Cages aside.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    I wonder which members of the GOP personally profited from these being built.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm pretty sure it's light-weight psyops. Gitmo got a cutesy name as well. Anyone not directly part of the silly walks ministerium doesn't give a nickname to something so serious.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You are honestly overcomplicating it. It's not a psyop, it's marketing and PR. Evil is terribly banal; it doesn't take mustache-twirling villains, only average people who are willing to do whatever they need to do to avoid being in trouble themselves.

    They need "Alligator Alcatraz" because Republicans figured out 25 years ago that a catchy name goes farther than anything more serious. It is why "Obamacare" is still reviled to this day, despite near unanimous support for the ACA. Nancy Pelosi shutting down Walz for his "weird" label was perhaps the biggest unforced error in political history.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s not a psyop, it’s also marketing and PR.

    Marketing and PR are psyops too. It is very important to those in power that you don't think badly of them. Psychology is really at the root of marketing and PR.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Its a psyop to make media choose for fake ai, high click rate images Rather then real pictures:

    3 ai pictures used by “news” sites:

    Real picture below for comparison, shows the people who made the above do know what the tents look like.

    Also its “build on a runway”, makes you “think” they are using it as temporary place before being deported by plane but no the tents are build ON the runway

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    If I lived in Florida I'd be doing everything I could to burn that place to the ground. Damn the consequences

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I just read what you linked. $450 million annually for 5000 people. Isn't that 90 000 per person per year ?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah incarceration is big business and we lose tons and tons of tax money just keeping people alive in buildings against their will. Thats sorta the point I bet, that aside it looks so much like a commercial chicken coop.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    We have a better A name to describe it than Alcatraz.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Looks exactly as I visualized the first chunk of the book I Who Have Never Known Men

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Evil. I fucking hate how I'm living through a major historical event like this

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    One of my Canadian friends called it "Alligator Auschwitz". I think we should all call it that exclusively and incessantly.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Concentration camps

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    fucking disgrace, all these just to detain migrants. Meanwhile in Wisconin in 2020, a white kid shooting 3 black men gets off scot free. I forgot his name, the chubby kid with a puchable face.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Maybe not just migrants, Trump was literally quoted as saying something like "even some people born here are not so great, that might be the next step." And other officials have already hinted at mechanisms for stripping citizenship from US born people that "pose a threat to the US".

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    found it, kyle fucking rittenhouse. Jesus that case made my blood boiled.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it's any consolation, he has no education, no job prospects, and is getting pushed out of the conservative talk show circuit. He will be destitute soon (if he isn't already).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I watched all the videos, his self defense claim was credible enough from a legal standpoint. The prosecution tried to make an example of him instead of charging manslaughter or even 3rd degree murder, while the media narrative painted the event like a KKK lynching. This is why people still think the men shot were black, were unarmed, and were not attacking him.

    He instantly became the focus for the entire left/right divide, and that kind of "fame" would fuck anyone up. He was kicked out of school, fired from jobs, and only the right wing grifters would have anything to do with him. At 18 half the country wanted him dead, it's no wonder he ended up so fucked up.

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