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The facility where she is being held, run by GEO Group, a multibillion-dollar private prison company, has been the subject of dozens of complaints from current and former female detainees who have claimed they were denied basic medical treatment, hygiene supplies, and edible food.

Others have said they’ve faced sexual abuse and harassment and were subject to forced labor. In December, a former guard pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually abusing a Nicaraguan detainee in mid-2025.

Jfc. :(

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  • [–] 51 points 7 months ago

    Go on, soldier. Go deploy, and fight for more of this.

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  • [–] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That blue cord on his shoulder should mean this facility gets the full experience of infantry training, barrel first.

    Fuck this and FUCK ICE

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    Get in the box for Israel. No wife for you.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Wait until a bunch of pissed-off soldiers object to ICE kidnapping their loved ones.

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    As crazy as it sounds, I say let ICE come in and constantly harass the military. Let them take it far enough that the military is willing to shoot any ICE members they see. Hell, have ICE piss them off enough to stage a coup. Ain't no amount of police would be able to stop the military storming the white house.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Because most military coups have been such a rousing success for regaining Democracy.

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  • Well, look at Vichy France and their eventual liberation from Nazi Germany and De Gaulle and the ultimate transition to the 5th republic. Not a “military coup” per se, but still a period in France where strong military-oriented leadership

    Sure, it’s not often that military leadership ends up peacefully transitioning to civilian leadership… but given how our civilian leadership is the problem right now, I’m willing to give it a shot, because it could hardly be less sane that the idiocy that’s happening now. There exists some subset of career military officers and leadership to whom honor and loyalty and integrity actually matter; the same cannot be said for anyone in the regime currently, since their North Star is making a buck and “winning”.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    On the other hand, most democracies come from military coups. All the recent coups leading to authoritarianism come from the CIA or Kremlin or Islamism. After the cold war more coups led to democracy afain. If the US has an internal coup now it'll be more likely one of those, I'd think.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    She works as a Sunday school teacher and is months away from finishing a biochemistry degree. She has no criminal record.

    What a dangerous woman! Well I certainly feel safer.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Thank you for your sacrifice.

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  • [+] 38 points 7 months ago* (32 children)
  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (31 children)

    I assume they joined during Biden if he's new now

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (26 children)

    You can’t just up and leave the military any time you’d like. You have to have a significant mental breakdown and end up in a psych ward to get out easily.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Or get pregnant, if that's a possibility for you...

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Getting pregnant will not get you out of the American military, just out of a deployment

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    False. When an active duty service member gets pregnant, she is given an option to receive a medical discharge.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I knew so many pregnant sailors that I just assumed the option wasn’t given, never applied to me. Now I know

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    Yeah, a lot of them choose to stay in because they derive a sense of meaning/purpose/job satisfaction from it, and also because civilian life is hard by comparison.

    I mean yeah, waking up at 5AM every day sucks, having to stay in shape sucks, being held to strict discipline, conduct, and grooming standards sucks, being told what to do by people who are often dumber than you sucks, having to stand 24-hour posts once a month sucks, having to do annual qualifications and tests sucks, et cetera, but...

    Having most of your bills already covered so that you don't have to think about them is kinda nice, making a steady paycheck with cost-of-living adjustments and continuous growth is kinda nice, having guaranteed 30 days of PTO per year is kinda nice, having medical and dental covered is kinda nice, having a guaranteed place to live (even if you don't get to choose it or your roommate) is kinda nice, having a chow hall where you can eat three meals a day is kinda nice (even though you technically pay for it when it gets deducted from your paycheck, but you don't really have to think about that).

    Come to think of it, it's a lot like communism. Actual communism, not the botched attempts we see so often in history.

    Of course, now with the whole [gestures at everything] going on, I'm sure the calculus is a bit different. Can't say what's going through anybody's minds right now...

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  • [+] 7 points 7 months ago* (17 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (13 children)

    I don’t think you realize what I’m saying. You have to literally attempt suicide in order to get out of the military without waiting out your contract or removing yourself from society.

    Like, they need to be able to visibly see that you have attempted to kill yourself, and even then you have to convince them that it was real.

    Would you cut open your arm right now to prove a point?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    I have heard of resistance. I resisted.

    I was in the military, I refused to go to my deployment. They confined me to my ship until I attempted suicide.

    You’re an asshole, and you don’t know as much as you think

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  • [+] -1 points 7 months ago* (9 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    You’re the reason the world is how it is

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Blaming America is totally reasonable.

    Blaming random individuals just because they happen to live there, with no consideration for what that individual has done, is nationalism. You believe you are superior just because of the nation you’re from. Thats not a good position to hold.

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  • [+] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    You don’t even know where I’m from and what I have been through…

    And it literally isn’t relevant to this discussion. However, you not knowing shit about me is relevant because you are casting judgement.

    You don’t know if I have protested, or how I did it. You don’t know if I sabotaged things while I was in the military. You don’t know shit. If not for the fact I told I used to be in the military, you wouldn’t even know whether you were talking to an adult. Could you imagine saying what you just did to a literal child in real life? No, you’re protected by your anonymity which allows you to say whatever you want without repercussions.

    You’re assuming I am weak-willed and haven’t done anything because of the nation I am from. You’re casting judgement on a person, not through the lens of reason but through the lens of hatred.

    You are a hate-filled person who cannot see beyond a flag to see a human being. You are actually just as bad as the people who put Trump in power, and talking to people in the way you do will encourage them to be even more apathetic instead of getting them to do anything. You are literally helping Trump stay in power by shitting on Americans alongside him, instead of encouraging Americans to do something. Make sure to send him your invoice, bro

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You went into the military, knowing full well the military is primarily used to oppress others.

    You ARE weak-willed.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    I signed my contract as a literal child who had been fed propaganda for their entire life. Once disillusioned by the reality, I fought for an entire year to get out so that I could avoid going and doing precisely that. I had familial and societal pressure to join.

    I literally attempted suicide to avoid actually being used to oppress others. I’ll ask you the same question I asked the other - would you slice yourself open as a protest against the unjust or would you just hide behind a keyboard belittling people who have actually fought this government?

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    It's honestly been refreshing yankistanis losing their collective minds and threatening to leave fediverse, when faced with a different opinion that isn't stroking their predisposition and ego.

    The fragility of so called stewards of "freedom of speech", when they're out of the platforms catering to their faux supremacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Have things changed. I remember when you signed up for a four year enlistment.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It was never actually four years. The active duty contract is typically two to six years of active service, and then another four years of reserve afterwards. Basically, even after your active duty time is up, they can still call you back in (or just refuse to let you leave in the first place) for another four years.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    It’s, or at least was, an eight year commitment with the typical active cycle 4 years but some would do 2 active 6 inactive or 6 active, 2 inactive. Education or additional active years (6/2) could bump up starting rank.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when he was in the voting booth, assuming he voted.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    He got what he deserved. Literally he volunteered to be part of the US war crimes and now he's complaining. Instant Karma!

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    [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    I hate to wish further suffering on the...otherwise...innocent wife here (i.e. a dead or incarcerated husband)...but boy I hope this makes this guy a fragger.

    I hope we see a lot of fraggers.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Nothing like kidnappings the families of your owned armed forces before shipping them off to a war they don't wanna fight.

    This will go well, I'm sure. /s

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    I feel like pissing off the people you have trained to kill other people is not a very wise decision.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    They raided a military base?? Wtf how does anyone raid one of those?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Probably "Easier" due to some sort of "Its all federal so less warrants" sort of nonsense.

    The real problem, the headline says "Newly wed". If she is married to a Citizen then doesn't that make her out of ICE's area of authority?

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  • The real problem, the headline says "Newly wed". If she is married to a Citizen then doesn't that make her out of ICE's area of authority?

    Contrary to popular belief, marriage isn’t an automatic green card. You still need to apply and get approved. It certainly expedites the process, (the normal timeframe for approval is measured in years, not months), but you still need to go through the process.

    And they can deny the application, even if the couple is married. They’ll interrogate both her and her husband, to try and determine if the marriage is just for immigration purposes. They’ll ask things like “what is your husband’s favorite color”, “what street did he grow up on”, “what was his childhood best friend’s name”, “does he have any birthmarks or notable scars under his clothing,” etc to see if they actually know each other or if she’s just a mail-order bride. And if they think that she is a mail-order bride, her application will get denied.

    Even worse, she needs to leave the country after marrying him, and then re-enter with her new application. Because she can’t apply for a green card while she is on a visitor’s visa, which she would be on when they got married. So applying requires traveling, just to get a new stamp in your passport. And if the husband is about to be deployed, I doubt the military would be willing to give him leave to travel outside of the country with his wife. So her only realistic option is to travel by herself, after they just got married, just to get a fresh stamp.

    If she was newly married, chances are good that she was in the early stages of applying, but hadn’t officially received her green card yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Will he vote for retardicans again?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    How is that all that relevant?

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