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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

when this is over, could we use this to house all the ICE thugs and MAGA politicians?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

The Weimar Republic isn't coming back, my friend.

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

What do thé showers look like?

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

These fucking things are held together with zip ties. Jesus Christ. It's both evil and at the same time incompetent.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

There are rednecks with guns hoping for an excuse. So it's just plain evil.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean there's no fucking roof either and those beds are 3/4 of the height of it, I think they've been watching too much Squid Games. Actually maybe there is a roof.

These fucking things are held together with zip ties

so are the hands of the detainees!

[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is there any air conditioning in these units??? Jesus fucking Christ it’s the Florida’s Everglades. They are trying to kill people through heat exhaustion

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

They are trying to kill people through heat exhaustion

That's a risk they're willing to take (with other people's lives)

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Ugh, I have that linoleum in my house.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

DEATH CAMP!

[–] msprout@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago (3 children)

God. The wet-bulb temperatures in August alone are going to murder everyone they send to that concentration camp.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Eventually, concentration camps always turn into death camps.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the alligators are just a distraction from the fact that they are setting these people up to die in a hurricane or violent storm event. If not just the heat like you said

[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Trump canceled hurricane season by turning off the monitoring software. Can't have em if you don't track em!

/s

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[–] Buske@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They are already dying.

[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago (3 children)

$45 billion more given to ICE with the bill passed in the senate today. Your taxes going towards (more) ethnic cleansing. They want to strip citizenship from anyone who doesn’t kiss their ass and throw them in these cages. Next step after that will be “lending” the imprisoned for labor.

Any American who doesn’t have “abolish and defund ICE” at the top of their priority list is aiding and abetting fascists.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Minor correction - the bill passed today increases it's overall operating budget by $175B to over $200B total. ICE will become the third most funded armed forces in the world just behind China. $45B is earmarked for camps.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's about 10M undocumented immigrants in the u.s. This is about $20k each. They're not just going after immigrants.

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[–] dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

wtf. It’s almost ENTIRE Chinese army budget ($246 billion). And china has aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines! It’s a budget for a new army

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[–] Supervivens@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

They actually edited to bill so it has to go back to the house again to pass there before it’s law. There’s a chance of it failing with how close the first was but it’s still pretty slim.

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[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (8 children)

So many fake Christian’s are going to burn in hell. I’m here for that tea.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If you think these thugs should be punished for this heinous shit, it's your job to make sure it happens in this life. Hoping for karma or divine justice is wishful thinking, and worse, a cop-out to excuse inaction.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I’ll do what’s needed when the response begins. More states need to mobilize to thwart this shit.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So many fake Christian’s are going to burn in hell.

Or they would if it was real.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yup.

The only suffering they're going to do is here on Earth if we choose to hold them accountable for their actions.

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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

I'd rather they burn before they die, tbh. in the scorching heat ofc, of a detainment camp

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately hell is a mind construct and they are most likely to just be gone after death with no punishment whatsoever.

That's the one thing perhaps that's sad about religion being made up by humans instead of being something real

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Punishment in an afterlife always seemed like a petty human idea to me. Better for people to gain true understanding of why what they did was wrong and how it hurt others. Supernatural abilities are available, and the system set up is to just punish people? Very small-minded.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you wanna see how “great” a society is just look at how they treat their prisoners and the animals they eat.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Without early warning systems, they’ll be hit by an ‘unexpected’ hurricane soon enough. The rising floodwaters will penetrate the cells more easily this way.

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