• jonesey71@lemmus.org
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    Those who deny life and liberty to others don’t deserve it themselves. They should all keep their oath to the constitution or they should die fighting against it.

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    francesca fiorentini called it Alligator Auschwitz, which i like because it keeps the alliteration while conveying the concentration camp idea.

    edit: i heard it from her first but many leftists seem to be calling it that; my bad.

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      Alligator Auschwitz

      Bum-Fuck Buchenwald

      Crocodile Kraków

      DeSantis Dachau

      Everglades Esterwegen

      Gator Gross-Rossen

      Hillbilly Hinzert

      MAGA Mauthhausen

      Redneck Ravensbrüch

      South-Florida Sachsenhausen

      Trump Treblinka

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        Here are some scary facts about Treblinka: it was in operation for about 18 months, was staffed at any one time by about 25 German officers and soldiers and 100 civilian workers, executed people with the exhaust from a single salvaged Russian tank engine, and murdered about 900,000 people in total. People tend to assume that the Holocaust was a massive industrial-scale operation that used up a huge fraction of German resources, but in fact it was a remarkably low-cost operation for the most part. Even the transportation aspect largely made use of supply trains returning otherwise empty from the front. If Hitler had not been stopped militarily, Germany would have had no technical difficulty in carrying out his goal of literally exterminating the nearly 200 million people of the Soviet Union.

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    THEY’RE SELLING MERCHANDISE LIKE IT’S A GODDAMN AMUSEMENT PARK! HUMANITY HAS FAILED! WE ARE A FAILED SPECIES AND WILL PROBABLY GO EXTINCT FROM THE SELFISHNESS AND GREED OF A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE POPULATION

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      So… the rest of us aren’t perfect but IDK if id say “humanity” has failed. America certainly seems that way.

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      hey don’t rope the rest of the world in with your fuck up. Humanity hasn’t failed, you failed. Americans failed. Just because I live above a Nazi Bar doesn’t mean I go down there to have a pint. Fuck at this point if I did your SS would probably arrest me.

      So stop being a bunch of Nazi’s that you claim you aren’t and go start rebelling.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I don’t actually want to say this but the USA was founded on genocide. It literally killed the native americans to take their land, same as hitler attempted to do with the polish people.

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      i see this sentiment a lot, and i just wonder if there are some people unaware that America was colonized by europeans

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        I think it’s more that we are way into blissful ignorance in this country.

        If you polled the citizens to ask whether America was founded/discovered by European explorers, the vast majority would agree. But of course, even if 80% or 90% get it right that still means tens of millions got it wrong.

        But if you polled the citizens to ask whether US territory was simply discovered or stolen from existing inhabitants by murdering/genociding them, I bet you would flip the numbers.

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    Wasn’t “concentration camp” a euphemism, too?

    I mean, most people know people are not doing any “camping” at such a place, but…still.

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      No.

      Camp means encampment. Which refers to temporary or light shelter, usually for a group. And the term “concentration camp” is from the 1800s.

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        Concentration camp did indeed start as a euphemism but it’s not the “camp” part that was but the “concentration” part.

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      People died in concentration camps too - they are still distinct from death camps. There may be death camps in the near future, but there aren’t yet.

      Concentration camps are bad enough as is, and calling facilities like Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps has the advantage that it’s the truth - they check all the boxes in the concentration camp definition checklist. If you make stuff up for dramatic effect your argument is no longer factually correct - which means it can be disputed using facts.

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      I’m convinced this place is designed to kill people. I mean, they defunded noaa, cancelled FEMA, and built a hastily constructed, non-storm rated facility and dropped it in hurricane alley. It’s already flooded once.

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        Unfortunately, the Nazis were only removed from power by an external military force much greater than them. Even after the war was utterly lost and the Allies were closing in on all sides and literally turning their cities into heaps of rubble, the Nazis never lost their chokehold on Germany. What external power is coming to remove Trump and his cronies?

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          The fascist regime in Portugal was overthrown by their own people. It didn’t require an external force.

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      Because they want everyone to use their name for it. Magats love that name. It hides what it really is and lends a celebratory air to the base at the same time as an intimidating effect to potential victims. Remember, they want people to ‘self-deport’ and this is part of that strategy, in addition to its obvious use. So they’re going to make more places like this with more names like this.

      Don’t help them. Don’t go along with what they want. Resist them in every way possible, including not using their terminology–whether it’s what they call concentration camps or what they call the bills they pass, like the huge hideous bill signed yesterday.

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    Where is united nations organisation ? Why are they not saying anything against USA policies ?

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      oh boy the UN sends another strongly worded letter.

      the UN is just a dog and pony show, they have no power at all, anywhere.

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      The UN has no power against the United States. The UN was setup to favor western powers and ideally prevent them from having direct war with one another again. Until the US bombs another Western country in the UN there is so reason to look to the UN for anything but empty condemnation.

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        This is some of the stupidest shit I hear on a regular basis. All my childhood, we were taught the phrase ‘checks and balances’ and then you come across shit like this. No one thought about any one of the UN powers becoming a problem? Does no one plan for these systems designed to prevent abuse to be… abused? “Sorry. Can’t tell them to stop the genocide. Go ask your mother.” Complete enabling bullshit.

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        Yes, they can veto, but others should at least be going on the record and REQUIRING the US to use its veto.

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    And like the Germans in WW2, the Americans are also starving and beating these people, but they’ve outsourced that shit to nations like El Salvador to obscure the atrocities.

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      Behind the Bastards did a good piece on the arguable complicity of the Times in the Holocaust over journalistic “neutrality”.