Zone of Interest 2025: Alligator Alcatraz

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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I tell myself that there is good in everyone but the world has been testing me these past few years

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

    Remember that people are often stupid, not evil. You can do pretty awful things if you're dumb enough. Someone's razor, forgot who's

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    I know a lot of stupid people who choose to be good as well. Stupid people who know to trust scientists and who want to share and all that good stuff. Then there are the violent, monkey-brained goons whose only method of communicating is unfiltered violence. The latter are pathetic in all senses and no amount of being stupid will be an adequate enough excuse for their actions.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's razor

    One of my favorites

    For the people in the image though, the only solace I find is knowing that they are motivated primarily by fear.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    The people who really deserve to be kidnapped

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    Imagine the sludge in their shriveled little hearts to feel anything but profound sadness and/or rage looking at that sign. I used to think there was good in everyone. I was wrong.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Totally not a cult

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

    Were Auschwitz and Daschau tourist destinations or are we on our way to being worse than the Nazis?

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

    the nazis didn't have the benefit of learning from a previous regime that their actions are abhorrent; we do.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Quite the opposite in fact, they were directly inspired by previous settler-colonialism and successful genocide.

    Writing in “Mein Kampf” in the 1920s, Hitler praised the way the “Aryan” America conquered “its own continent” by clearing the “soil” of “natives” to make room for more “racially pure” settlers and lay the foundation for its economic self-sufficiency and growing global power. Indeed, the concept of Lebensraum was coined and popularized by Friedrich Razel, who said his theory of colonization and racial replacement drew inspiration from the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis” and its identification of “colonization of the Great West” as central to American history and identity.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    The new "Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is even more depressing.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That can't be a real sign...

    Is that seriously what we're calling it? The official name is Alligator Alcatraz? America is a parody of a real nation.

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

    New mobile public toilets just dropped

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    One is covering his face in a very weird way

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I see 4 fascists.

    What do we do with fascists?

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

    Fascists celebrating the concentration camps. Christ.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago

    I wonder if there were similar treks during the holocaust?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wonder if they think of themselves as good Christians?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    Jesus just flooded a Christian camp; it may be a sign Jesus does not approve of Christians in America.*

    *poor joke expressing my general frustrations, I confess. Indoctrinated children shouldn't be responsible for the ignorance of their parents or state and federal officials who stupidly gut weather services and deregulate to the point a camp can be built literally on a fucking dry river bed.

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

    What's the context?

    I'm not American

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Drumpy has been promoting their brand new "rapidly assembled" ICE "detention facility" (read: concentration camp) that they (themselves) nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the middle of the Florida Everglades (middle-of-no-where swamp land)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I call it Alligator Auschwitz Concentration (soon to be death) Camp

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I didn't know so much "no contact" could exist in such a small space.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago