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$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.
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.
There's about 10M undocumented immigrants in the u.s. This is about $20k each. They're not just going after immigrants.
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
200b This is insane amount of money. They're gearing up for something huge.
They knew the military wouldn't fight civilians, because it has a command structure, but ice will
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.
That is an interesting point, but they'll just leave prisoners in the cells to die like they did in Katrina.
Free cleaning, or something.
God. The wet-bulb temperatures in August alone are going to murder everyone they send to that concentration camp.
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
Eventually, concentration camps always turn into death camps.
My country has a reckoning coming and it can not come soon enough.
Amen.
Yeah for being in the Florida Everglades that doesn't even look air conditioned. Cages aside.
I wonder which members of the GOP personally profited from these being built.
The fucking mosquitoes. Cruel and unusual.
Hey whatever happened to cruel and unusual anyway???
5 to 4
It's a blueprint now.
Do it enough and it's not unusual anymore.
The Nazis used wood. Other than that, I don't see much difference here.
Wait, "alamy" claims ownership of the picture?! As in monetizing the fucking Holocaust!?
If you wanna see how “great” a society is just look at how they treat their prisoners and the animals they eat.
the animals they eat
Looks exactly as I visualized the first chunk of the book I Who Have Never Known Men
Do they have to give some fucking stupid name to everything like some 5 year olds? I can't stand we have the shittiest, dumbest people in charge.
I'm pretty sure it's light-weight psyops. Gitmo got a cutesy name as well. Anyone not directly part of the silly walks ministerium doesn't give a nickname to something so serious.
You are honestly overcomplicating it. It's not a psyop, it's marketing and PR. Evil is terribly banal; it doesn't take mustache-twirling villains, only average people who are willing to do whatever they need to do to avoid being in trouble themselves.
They need "Alligator Alcatraz" because Republicans figured out 25 years ago that a catchy name goes farther than anything more serious. It is why "Obamacare" is still reviled to this day, despite near unanimous support for the ACA. Nancy Pelosi shutting down Walz for his "weird" label was perhaps the biggest unforced error in political history.
It’s ~~not~~ a psyop, it’s also marketing and PR.
Marketing and PR are psyops too. It is very important to those in power that you don't think badly of them. Psychology is really at the root of marketing and PR.
Its a psyop to make media choose for fake ai, high click rate images Rather then real pictures:
3 ai pictures used by “news” sites:
Real picture below for comparison, shows the people who made the above do know what the tents look like.
Also its “build on a runway”, makes you “think” they are using it as temporary place before being deported by plane but no the tents are build ON the runway
I mean, Alligator Auschwitz would probably be more apt anyway.
So many fake Christian’s are going to burn in hell. I’m here for that tea.
Unfortunately hell is a mind construct and they are most likely to just be gine 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
Unfortunately, religion is wide enough for interpretation, that one can use it to justify all kinds of horrid things in the name of it.
If I lived in Florida I'd be doing everything I could to burn that place to the ground. Damn the consequences
Just start spreading a rumour it's made of meth ..
It actually does double as a drug storage facility.
It's chain link. How's it going to burn?
Drones and a shitload of thermite. Same as everything else.
Anything burns if the fire is hot enough.
That'll be tree fitty... million dollars
Well, it's not the worst concentration camp, but I'd rather be in a POW one.
Somehow the amenities look worse than concentration camps from the 40s.
Monkey Paw: Wish granted, you are now in an Isreal IDF run camp for suspicion of being a Hammas Insurgent .
Good luck
Israel: puts food out for the Palestinians to eat
Palestinians: goes and gets the food
Israel: "what the fuck?"
This years Fyre festival looking neat.
As horrible as this is, those are fences with plastic zip ties. That won’t keep them very long.
The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Reminds me of Scarface
They have to be exterminated. You HAVE the 2A
