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
Also I don't see how the neoliberals can't see that within a few years of implementation, productivity would jump massively as more people would be able to participate in the economy and therefore generate so much more value.
I should stress, that shouldn't be the reason for implementation, you know the usual ones about why decent healthcare should be available for free/at subsidiesed cost (depending on which style of universal healthcare implemented): it's the morally right thing to do under the hypocratic oath, every other developed country does this, etc.
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.”
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
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.
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.
Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.
How it ended:
Parsons walked into the cell. He was wearing khaki shorts and a sports-shirt.
This time Winston was startled into self-forgetfulness.
‘You here!’ he said.
Parsons gave Winston a glance in which there was neither interest nor surprise, but only misery. He began walking jerkily up and down, evidently unable to keep still. Each time he straightened his pudgy knees it was apparent that they were trembling. His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance.
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Meshuggah333@piefed.world · 71 pts · 200d
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
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 200d
Exactly!
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 50 pts · 200d
Immigrationbrown citizens and political dissidentskescusay@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 200d
Jailsconcentration campsDeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 200d
protecting the countryfree labourerserrer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 200d
free labourersslaves100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 1 pts · 199d
It's in the Constitution! /s
RyanDownyJr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 200d
My bow.My axe!
leitblitz@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 200d
Concentration camps...
reddig33@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 200d
Just think of the subsidized healthcare that money could buy instead of using it to hurt people.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 200d
you can just skim the money from the 800bn for defense and it would fund universal.
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 199d
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
Also I don't see how the neoliberals can't see that within a few years of implementation, productivity would jump massively as more people would be able to participate in the economy and therefore generate so much more value.
I should stress, that shouldn't be the reason for implementation, you know the usual ones about why decent healthcare should be available for free/at subsidiesed cost (depending on which style of universal healthcare implemented): it's the morally right thing to do under the hypocratic oath, every other developed country does this, etc.
But it's a cold economic reason that makes sense.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 199d
They certainly can see it. But the corporations that hold their leashes don't want it, so it doesn't happen.
rogsson@piefed.social · 1 pts · 200d
But… but… that would make it not evil. We can’t have that!
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 200d
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?
mracton@piefed.social · 13 pts · 200d
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 · 8 pts · 200d
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 · 5 pts · 200d
Sure, but then they don't get to torture minorities.
bcgm3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d
😔 Because cruelty is the point.
Zink@programming.dev · 4 pts · 200d
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.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 199d
Remember the "he’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" quote? https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316
n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 200d
This is almost double the funding of NASA (1 year)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 200d
wanna bet the money will be laundered to his contractors and some in his pockets, much like the ballroom and the alligator alacatraz.
Linktank@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 200d
Wouldn't it be ironic if all of the trump voters ended up being put into them?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 200d
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.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 6 pts · 199d
How it started:
How it ended:
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 200d
That would be great, they'd really get what they voted for!
M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 16 pts · 199d
Are they going to be put to work in these camps?, If I concentrate I seem to remember that work will set them free.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 200d
Private contractors:
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 200d
*concentration camps
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 200d
The first step to genocide is usually forced displacement
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 200d
Fixed it for them.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 200d
FTFY:
Immigration JailsConcentration Camps like in Nazi Germany during WWIIhateisreality@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 199d
This is why people don't have healthcare‽
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d
Where is that 40B from in the congressionally approved budget?
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 199d
I think I remember this mission from Deus ex human revolution...
kokesh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 199d
Hey tRump - you can redirect the heat from AI centers to the facility and use it for burning of bodies! You'll save on gas!