President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass deportations: acquiring massive warehouses across the country to use as immigrant…

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago

Anything but housing.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Massive Immigration Jails

    The term you're looking for is "concentration camps".

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    [–] 70 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    News outlets should start using proper definitions, it's a concentration camp :

    concentration camp

    noun

    1. a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz

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  • [–] 49 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Immigration brown citizens and political dissidents

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    protecting the country free labourers

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    you can just skim the money from the 800bn for defense and it would fund universal.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Also I don't see how the neoliberals can't see that within a few years of implementation, productivity would jump massively as more people would be able to participate in the economy and therefore generate so much more value.

    I should stress, that shouldn't be the reason for implementation, you know the usual ones about why decent healthcare should be available for free/at subsidiesed cost (depending on which style of universal healthcare implemented): it's the morally right thing to do under the hypocratic oath, every other developed country does this, etc.

    But it's a cold economic reason that makes sense.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Short article but still hard to get through. The banal cruelty and pointlessness of all this…

    It's roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can't we just do that instead?

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    It’s 2 years of the entire USAID budget that kept 100,000s of people alive and healthy. It’s 4 times the amount of money the President want from the taxpayers so he can “give it to charity.”

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    It's roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can't we just do that instead?

    😔 Because cruelty is the point.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think for some of the scumbags in control the cruelty has gone far beyond a side effect of their hatred, and into a focus of how they validate themselves and one-up their friends. They need so badly to feel superior that they will do horrible things just to show that they can. That would help explain how blatant and comical things have been.

    They need to show that they are at the pinnacle of the group the law protects but does not bind.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This is almost double the funding of NASA (1 year)

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Wouldn't it be ironic if all of the trump voters ended up being put into them?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    How it started:

    Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.

    How it ended:

    Parsons walked into the cell. He was wearing khaki shorts and a sports-shirt.

    This time Winston was startled into self-forgetfulness.

    ‘You here!’ he said.

    Parsons gave Winston a glance in which there was neither interest nor surprise, but only misery. He began walking jerkily up and down, evidently unable to keep still. Each time he straightened his pudgy knees it was apparent that they were trembling. His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    Are they going to be put to work in these camps?, If I concentrate I seem to remember that work will set them free.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    *concentration camps

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    The first step to genocide is usually forced displacement

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    Immigration Jails concentration camps

    Fixed it for them.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    Private contractors:

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    This is why people don't have healthcare‽

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    FTFY: Immigration Jails Concentration Camps like in Nazi Germany during WWII

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I think I remember this mission from Deus ex human revolution...

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Hey tRump - you can redirect the heat from AI centers to the facility and use it for burning of bodies! You'll save on gas!

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