So, some sort of a holding camp? One where they can concentrate a specific type of people defined by political or other genealogical identifiers?
"They're not concentration camps, if we call them internment camps" taps head
Just yesterday I sarcastically referred to the upcoming American concentration camps as "round up ranches." I didn't mean it to be a prophecy
And if they work hard enough, they may be set free.
Holy shit
I wonder if they will eventually gather so many they need to install "showers" to cycle "prisoners" through?
Maybe someone can come up with some sort of brand to help identify and track specific people and their reasons for choosing to be concentrated
Maybe a yellow star, it would be bright and big and very visible. You could wear it on your sleeve maybe?
Or just tattoo a number on their arm.
Interesting. When the topic is punishment, there are plenty of resources. When the topic is helping people, it's "who's footing the bill for that?!" I never saw a headline about a 1400 acre ranch being offered up to house people in poverty, but it gets offered up to imprison people with the "wrong" names and skin color. And they have the audacity to parade out "America first!" as a slogan to prioritize helping Americans before worrying about solving problems around the world.
Punishing people for allegedly coming here illegally will do nothing to help me. Them allegedly having come here illegally never hurt me. Help people who have been unhoused or addicted to harmful substances or traumatized by abuse to get to a place where that can be productive in our society. That would obviously help them, and then they would be able to help their communities. It's complicated and it's difficult, but it's work worth doing. I'm tired of lazy politicians and leaders looking for quick and easy solutions to fabricated problems so they can maximize the number of boxes that get checked. And that's a generous read on it. The reality is that they're greedy whores accepting money and power in exchange for punishing certain people while rewarding certain companies.
Republican politicians don't give a flying fuck about you and yours.
All this whining about Ukraine aid but they'll immediately blow 10x that amount to use the military to round up civilians
I don't think you could have said this any better. Thank you.
Don't worry RFK said he's going to send people on adderall and mental health drugs to a cozy summer camp. And Trump has previously blamed immigrants for the homeless problem, so obviously all he needs to do is go through the homeless camps and deport anyone without documentation.
See? How dare you say they don't have plans to place ~~Billionaires~~ Americans first!
Get your first look at the future site of our next holocaust museum!
Good guys have to win at some point to actually get to that step.
Fascism never wins in the long run. It has to keep inventing a new enemy to keep people from noticing the fact that their policies aren't making anybody's lives better. This means it has to cut some people out of the in-group, and thus their base of support shrinks further and further.
Also, Trump is 78 years old, in poor health, and eats a lot of McDonalds. Going by the social security administration actuarial table, a 78 year old man has a 5.3% chance of keeling over in the next year. For him, it's probably a lot higher than that. Projecting out his next term to when he's 82, he has about a 30% chance of dying by then going by SSA numbers.
The only question is how much they fuck up before it gets to that point. They can fuck up quite a lot. The OG Nazis burned their whole country to the ground and took most of Europe with them. But they lose in the end in some way or another.
You think Vance and company won't be right in there behind him to continue things? Trump laid out the populist approach, the only reason others have failed is because MAGA is personally loyal to Trump. Of course there would be a PR struggle to win that loyalty but someone like Vance or DeSantis is going to win it and then we're still in the same boat. Trump's popularity isn't an inherent trait, in person he's widely reported to be a narcissistic idiot. He's a built personality, after him they'll just build the next one.
Trump’s popularity isn’t an inherent trait,
It is, actually. Fascisim is about The Guy. It is only about The Guy. Everyone else is expendable. Vance will not pull the kind of support that Trump can, and neither will DeSantis.
You can see this in how people voted. There are a bunch of states this cycle where Trump won their EC votes, but a Democrat won a statewide election. What appears to have happened is that a whole lot of people marked Trump on their ballot and walked away. There's no push to support anyone other than Trump.
The Germans kept fighting until Hitler offed himself. Then they capitulated almost immediately. Italy was done as soon as Mussolini ran away; almost all fighting that continued to happen inside Italian territory was with German units, not Italian.
Vance would try to take over, but he can't conjure up the kind of loyalty Trump has. The MAGA brownshirts are behind Trump enough that news media figures and politicians are fearing for their own safety. That dissolves the moment Trump is gone.
Nope. They don't have personalities like Trump. Trump has been a known name since before I was born. Vance? DeSantis? They can't replicate the cult of personality. They might thing they can, but that's the thing about cults. Once the head of the snake is off, it stops acting like a snake
And more like a gross belt
Well it's either that or a slow and steady decline into complete global extinction of all large animal life including us.
So let's hope for the museums
Buy a gun today, before people are banned from owning them based on political affiliation
There is a small Holocaust museum in the town where I currently live. It was founded by Eva Kor, an amazing Holocaust survivor (and Mengele victim) who preached forgiveness, even publicly forgiving the Nazis who tortured her and killed her family. She settled here in Terre Haute, Indiana and eventually opened the museum.
https://candlesholocaustmuseum.org/
Except when school buses are there to force the local kids to go (and I'm sure they aren't really interested), the parking lot is almost always empty.
People don't give a shit about the last Holocaust. No reason for them to give a shit about this one.
There's a reason why a lot of my family tree doesn't fork and it's why I'm getting the fuck out.
FUCK EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO TOLD ME TRUMP IS NOT GOING TO PUT PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS.
FUCK
ALL
OF
YOU.
Texas Offering LAND to someone who wants to DEPORT people has NOTHING to do with building Concentration Camps!
In a letter sent Tuesday, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham notified Trump she had purchased a 1,402-acre ranch along the U.S.-Mexico border, about 35 miles west of McAllen. She also assured him that her office would work with federal agencies to construct a detention center.
This wasn't just empty land sitting around that Texas already owned, she purchased it specifically to give to trump so he could build a concentration camp. Is she the world's biggest brown noser trying to get a pat on the head from trump, or is she a deranged fascist who gets off on ruining lives? Maybe both?
Could be both but could also be financial. I'm sure this has the potential to earn her a lot of money. This detention facility could be there for 10+ years as countries reject receiving these people. That on top of the legal battles that will inevitably slow everything down while people are detained. That's a lot of rent to be collected, on top of all the other exorbitant fees I imagine will be in the contract. All you have to do is be morally bankrupt.
Yup! What's extra "funny" is that the federal government will probably foot the bill and thus these dirty immigrants will cost the regular Joe exorbitantly more - both in lost contribution to the economy and taxes but also in fees for being detained - than they would have if they would leave them the fuck alone. It better yet give them a realistic path to citizenship.
Right wingers are either fucking dumb as shit or 100% morally depraved. It makes my blood boil to the point that I cannot follow the news. And I ain't even living in the US. Just pisses me off to no end still how absolutely heartless and fucked people can be.
Strange that Texas, which wants a large population of people deported, would also be the first to choose to "open it's doors" and say "bring them all here"
They offer land freely in their backyard to build what essentially could turn into the equivalent of a slum or ghetto.
I would imagine more like concentration camps.
When the paperwork, effort and/or cost gets too much they'll just start killing them.
Its Texas. They just have to leave it open during the winter. Or the fall. Or the summer. Or probably the spring in a year or two.
Climate change and the inevitable week long power outages because of a self "managed" grid is more than enough to cause mass deaths.
Correct, and keep cashing the federal checks for "border security" Trump will arrange with them.
I can't imagin a neighbouring country accepting a large influx of people quickly or willingly. So Texas may find themselves "looking after" the people they send here for a long time.
I may be wrong on the process, but in Germany i believe it started with a community or neighbourhood being walled off. Think of a suburb or maybe a few large city blocks. People had to come and go through checkpoints and some were not allowed to leave.
After which these walled communities became slums or ghettos. Then the Nazis began to ship peoples from these walled communities out to Poland and neighbouring countries (that they invaded) into concentration camps.
History always repeats itself unfortunately.
They need a camp where they can concentrate on helping them!
The German news reported the Holocaust in a similar fashion. It was just something that was happening. Germans had the ability to shut it out and pretend nothing was happening. Mass deportation turned to mass executions.
Europeans, Canadians, everyone, take these people before my countrymen murder them
If any state was gonna offer up a huge patch of land for concentration camps, it would have to be texas.
Texchwitz
They kept the concentration camps hidden, so they’ll probably call these something else that sounds juuuust safe enough for the news outlets who are brave enough to report on them. ?until those news outlets have their funding cut)
... so they’ll probably call these something else...
How about RoundUp places?
If you were to see a article that said Texas is offering land to build a affordable housing neighbourhood, people would probably loose their shit in the USA.
Trouble is the plan is to send full families to these camps. These individuals will be waiting here a long time without the agility to freely leave.
Unless they plan to split women, men, and children apart. That means these camps will need to be built like walled neighbourhoods with schools for the kids while they wait. Housing with AC and heating, electricity, plumbing, fire protection. Streets to get around inside the complex, stores or shops.
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