• jontree255@lemmy.world
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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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    God. The wet-bulb temperatures in August alone are going to murder everyone they send to that concentration camp.

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      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

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

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    17 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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

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      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

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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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      ‘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 I lived in Florida I’d be doing everything I could to burn that place to the ground. Damn the consequences

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    The people doing this are evil. What can I do, I’m trapped in NYC by a job I can’t leave, and I have a family, so I’m not going to be a guerilla… but I give it 3 months before idiots on the right start posting their Florida gas chambers

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      There are still things you can do that will drastically help.

      1. find local communities and get involved to make connections, this is essential, as resisting alone without a community makes you much less effective, and easier to suppress. Any real resistance requires community.
      2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
      3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

      This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

      Union Suggestions:

      1. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

      If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.