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    One of my Canadian friends called it “Alligator Auschwitz”. I think we should all call it that exclusively and incessantly.

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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.

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      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.

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      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

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

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    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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    And just like that, conservatives have brought us back to some of the most disgusting times in history.

    Conservatives: Making America Great again

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      This is the absolute worst time to be vindicated in your “radical end of the world” predictions. I hope everyone who said people were “just overreacting” are welcoming the leopards into their homes with smiling faces.

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    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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    fucking disgrace, all these just to detain migrants. Meanwhile in Wisconin in 2020, a white kid shooting 3 black men gets off scot free. I forgot his name, the chubby kid with a puchable face.

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        Hate to break it to you, but everyone involved in that case was white. They also over charged trying to make an example of him due to the media circus.

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        If it’s any consolation, he has no education, no job prospects, and is getting pushed out of the conservative talk show circuit. He will be destitute soon (if he isn’t already).

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          I watched all the videos, his self defense claim was credible enough from a legal standpoint. The prosecution tried to make an example of him instead of charging manslaughter or even 3rd degree murder, while the media narrative painted the event like a KKK lynching. This is why people still think the men shot were black, were unarmed, and were not attacking him.

          He instantly became the focus for the entire left/right divide, and that kind of “fame” would fuck anyone up. He was kicked out of school, fired from jobs, and only the right wing grifters would have anything to do with him. At 18 half the country wanted him dead, it’s no wonder he ended up so fucked up.

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      Maybe not just migrants, Trump was literally quoted as saying something like “even some people born here are not so great, that might be the next step.” And other officials have already hinted at mechanisms for stripping citizenship from US born people that “pose a threat to the US”.

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    Yeah for being in the Florida Everglades that doesn’t even look air conditioned. Cages aside.

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      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

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        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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      Unfortunately, religion is wide enough for interpretation, that one can use it to justify all kinds of horrid things in the name of it.

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

      Or they would if it was real.

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      ‘Fake’ Christian just means any Christian that doesn’t believe what you do. Christianity is great at dividing people and creating prejudice, bias and fear.

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      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.

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

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