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[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

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

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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

[–] Meshuggah333@piefed.world 32 points 6 hours 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

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 25 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] rogsson@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

~~Immigration~~ brown citizens and political dissidents

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 39 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

~~Jails~~ concentration camps

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

~~protecting the country~~ free labourers

[–] errer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

~~free labourers~~ slaves

[–] RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

~~My bow.~~

My axe!

[–] leitblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 8 hours ago

Concentration camps...

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours 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?

[–] bcgm3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours 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 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] mracton@piefed.social 8 points 6 hours 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 7 points 6 hours 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 4 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago

~~Immigration Jails~~ concentration camps

Fixed it for them.