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Controversy-tarred congressional candidate Maureen Galindo this week pledged to transform a site south of San Antonio now used by the Trump administration to detain migrants into an internment camp for “American Zionists.”

“She’ll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking,” Galindo wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, referring to herself in the third person. “It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists.”

Galindo maintained she only has an issue with zionists, or those advocating for the existence of a Jewish state in their ancestral homeland, rather than Jews in general.

“I think it’s actually the zionists who are putting Jewish people at the most risk,” Galindo told the Current last week.

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[–] belunos@lemmus.org 0 points 17 minutes ago

Someone needs to lob you lemmy.ml nut cases off the fediverse

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago

Someone with have a brain involved in US politics? Unbelievable.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 11 points 12 hours ago

Holy shit fiinally killing nazis for a change.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Alright folks, I'm gonna put my money where my mouth is and illegally immigrate to Epsteinland and vote for her a couple dozen times. Gonna take someone's job and eat a dog while I'm at it. Wish me luck.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 10 points 13 hours ago

I like the spirit.

[–] deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml 18 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I mean, she ain’t wrong, and like others said zios deserve worse, but I think we should abolish the camps as they are altogether. Build our own reeducation centers but no way I really want to use the framework designed to torture people & children. That kinda is zionazi shit.

Like I get it but establishment dems r always saying stupid inflammatory shit that they don’t mean, 100% bet if she won she’d be acting like AOC in under 5 years. Just arrest Netanyahu already n give him the sleepy shot 💉on live TV

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 14 points 15 hours ago
[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

Way too many of y'all are excited about the idea of concentration camps. It doesn't matter if they're your political enemies, concentration camps are bad.

Edit: I appreciate all of the shining examples of my point.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Over the last three years I've seen the most depraved carnage imaginable at the hands of the most gleefully inhuman humans imaginable. I want them gone forever and I dont care how it happens. And if you're gonna say "oh that sounds like what they say about Palestinians, isn't it ironic, doesn't it make you think" yeah that's the whole point, that's the golden rule, they should be treated like the monsters they treat others as. When they dehumanized others, they dehumanized themselves. This goes beyond what we are taught to think of as "political": they are my existential enemies, as are all fascists, because they consider us all animals to be killed.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml -5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

WTF, do you hear yourself talking.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yes, and it sounds like someone with a clear understanding of both the threat and the stakes

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You are far too cowardly to call yourself any variation of the word assassin.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 8 hours ago

Lol okay bud

[–] somename@hexbear.net 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I don't support throwing people without due process into some kind of confinement. But I do support genocide enablers getting prosecuted and thrown in prison.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

and into the same prisons that they threw others into, no less. lol

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's a reasonable take. Rounding up people and putting them in concentration camps isn't

[–] somename@hexbear.net 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

People just speaking with energy, with frustration at the powerlessness of the situation. None of this is stuff is materially possible right now to implement. It's just venting.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Right right right, just locker room talk. Nothing concerning about calling for your enemies to be put in concentration camps, we all do that when we're frustrated.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What do you propose instead

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Not calling for people to be put in concentration camps. I think that's about as clear as I can make it. Concentration camps = bad. Jesus fucking christ.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

If you still believe in superstitious childish notions of universal good and bad, you have no business making plans that concern the future of life on earth.

Reeducation, where possible, is good.

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

Not really an honest response. What is to be done about those committing a genocide.

[–] somename@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

When the polical opposition is committing genocide, sometimes we do

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Let me quickly replace the word "Zionist" with "Nazi" to check how it sounds

"Put all Nazis in internment camps"

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah man, that's like one of the biggest problems with Nazis. We really just shouldn't be putting anyone in internment camps. If you wanna fight Nazis, fight Nazis. Slavery is not really ever a reasonable response.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Stalin sent Nazis to the Gulags. The West kept Nazis in their political system. One of them still has a Nazi problem.

Now I agree that sending every single person who supports the existence of the Apartheid to an internment camp would be a bit impractical, but I don't mind some prominent Zionists going to jail for a decade or two.

[–] Loco_Mex@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Russia has Nazis even today and they were the victims of Nazis.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's not impractical, it's barbaric. We have legal systems for a reason. The court systems may have issues, but that doesn't mean the solution is rounding people up into slavery. Just because Stalin did it doesn't make it right, that's a stupid justification.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

We have legal systems for a reason.

That's what she's suggesting. Legally sending Zionists to internment camps.

[–] Futterbinger@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You're right but only because it's a waste of resources. All ICE agents current and former should be rounded up, knelt over a ditch, and shot.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Kneeling them takes too long.

[–] Futterbinger@hexbear.net 4 points 12 hours ago

Watching their former coworkers forced to their knees before being unceremoniously shot rather than being allowed to stand on their feet and meet their end in a dignified manner plays an important role in breaking the spirit of the ICE agents waiting in line for execution.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)
[–] axont@hexbear.net 17 points 16 hours ago

Zionists deserve worse but it's a good start

[–] giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 16 hours ago

running for the house? yeah she ain't gonna do shit tbh.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree but that phrasing is probably not going to lead to a victory

[–] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago

I haven’t looked too deeply into her, but from what I can tell the phrasing she uses and how she sometimes frames things isn’t the best. But I would definitely disagree with those (AOC, for one) who are slandering her as an antisemite.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 4 points 14 hours ago

Hope to jail most of those in gov't or Capital.

[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

I wish that American centrists were between her and social democrats.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like someone with a good head on her shoulders

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago

Part of me wishes that I still lived in Texas so that I could give her my vote