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[–] Meshuggah333@piefed.world 71 points 4 days ago (1 children)

News outlets should start using proper definitions, it's a concentration camp :

concentration camp

noun

1. a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 16 points 4 days ago

Are they going to be put to work in these camps?, If I concentrate I seem to remember that work will set them free.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 4 days ago (2 children)

~~Immigration~~ brown citizens and political dissidents

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

~~Jails~~ concentration camps

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

~~protecting the country~~ free labourers

[–] errer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 0 points 4 days ago

It's in the Constitution! /s

[–] RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

~~My bow.~~

My axe!

[–] leitblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 days ago

Concentration camps...

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Just think of the subsidized healthcare that money could buy instead of using it to hurt people.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

you can just skim the money from the 800bn for defense and it would fund universal.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

He's increasing it to 1.5tr in 2027 instead.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also I don't see how the neoliberals can't see that within a few years of implementation, productivity would jump massively as more people would be able to participate in the economy and therefore generate so much more value.

I should stress, that shouldn't be the reason for implementation, you know the usual ones about why decent healthcare should be available for free/at subsidiesed cost (depending on which style of universal healthcare implemented): it's the morally right thing to do under the hypocratic oath, every other developed country does this, etc.

But it's a cold economic reason that makes sense.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

They certainly can see it. But the corporations that hold their leashes don't want it, so it doesn't happen.

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

But… but… that would make it not evil. We can’t have that!

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is almost double the funding of NASA (1 year)

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

wanna bet the money will be laundered to his contractors and some in his pockets, much like the ballroom and the alligator alacatraz.

[–] OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Private contractors:

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Short article but still hard to get through. The banal cruelty and pointlessness of all this…

It's roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can't we just do that instead?

[–] mracton@piefed.social 13 points 4 days ago

It’s 2 years of the entire USAID budget that kept 100,000s of people alive and healthy. It’s 4 times the amount of money the President want from the taxpayers so he can “give it to charity.”

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

average priced homes yes but things like small sized apartments could likely be built for like 100k each, so 400k homes, enough to house about half of the us homeless population

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 5 points 4 days ago

Sure, but then they don't get to torture minorities.

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can't we just do that instead?

😔 Because cruelty is the point.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think for some of the scumbags in control the cruelty has gone far beyond a side effect of their hatred, and into a focus of how they validate themselves and one-up their friends. They need so badly to feel superior that they will do horrible things just to show that they can. That would help explain how blatant and comical things have been.

They need to show that they are at the pinnacle of the group the law protects but does not bind.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago
[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

This is why people don't have healthcare‽

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Wouldn't it be ironic if all of the trump voters ended up being put into them?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Many of them will. All fascists think they're safe from their fellow fascists until the day they find they're not, and then it's too late. No one is safe under fascism.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 4 days ago

How it started:

Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.

How it ended:

Parsons walked into the cell. He was wearing khaki shorts and a sports-shirt.

This time Winston was startled into self-forgetfulness.

‘You here!’ he said.

Parsons gave Winston a glance in which there was neither interest nor surprise, but only misery. He began walking jerkily up and down, evidently unable to keep still. Each time he straightened his pudgy knees it was apparent that they were trembling. His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance.

That would be great, they'd really get what they voted for!

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

*concentration camps

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

The first step to genocide is usually forced displacement

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

FTFY: ~~Immigration Jails~~ Concentration Camps like in Nazi Germany during WWII

[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I think I remember this mission from Deus ex human revolution...

~~Immigration Jails~~ concentration camps

Fixed it for them.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Where is that 40B from in the congressionally approved budget?

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Hey tRump - you can redirect the heat from AI centers to the facility and use it for burning of bodies! You'll save on gas!