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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Does anyone else feel so un-motivated at work ever since Trump became president? I can't sleep sometimes with the anxiety. I don't even want to try to be anything in this American society anymore if it means a criminal can be President. What's the point? Bad always wins. Good always suffers.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 7 points 21 hours ago

My depression has depression at this point.

[–] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

2020 i woke up every morning expecting to see a mushroom cloud over the nearest city. Every. Single. Morning.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He *IS" a convicted, homegrown, American criminal himself! Literally.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Buy a gun. Train.

Get connected with others. Make sure they get armed. Train with them.

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ya dude. It's easy to say. Military has been training everyday for quite a long time with fully automatics

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

Asymmetrical urban warfare is death for all. The last few decades have shown us this.

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[–] firepenny@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck man, how did we get here?

I know how we go here but this timeline seems so quick.

[–] GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Conservative wanted revenge or whatever it is.

[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And of course we will never see these people again. This is so blatently illegal its fucking mind blowing.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

47 doesn't GaF. He's already ignoring UNANIMOUS scotus rulings. The law has failed. Nobody in power is willing to enforce anything.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He can declare them criminals with his mind. More efficient than a trial.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

This is very much how it's going to happen.

[–] WorldwideCommunity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

England 2.0

[–] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How does this not anger the domestic prison industrial complex?

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It's not actually that powerful. Private prisons are all at the state level, and only some states.

They are opportunistic, not monopolistic, and the political pushback reversed the trend toward privatisation in most of the country.

Private prisons are a stain on our national character, they need to be shut down. but we have bigger shit to worry about right now.

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 98 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn’t Trump a convicted criminal? There would be a lot of happier people if they just sent him to El Salvador.

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not for people who were convicted. No due process allowed.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 150 points 2 days ago (34 children)

We knew they wanted to go in a fascist direction, but I doubt many of us imagined they'd have the concentration camps up and running within three months. Bukele says he won't return anyone, even if innocent, from this prison in El Salvador, and the director of the prison says that no one who goes in will ever return to their community. So how do you keep shipping prisoners into a camp without any of them coming out, and without the camp filling up? Maybe we're further along with the Nazi program than most people realize.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 104 points 2 days ago (14 children)

We're on pace with Nazi Germany. If you use that as a template you'll expect:

  • Concentration camps in about 60 days (milestone reached)
  • October we're due to leave the UN/NATO
  • Draft coming in 2027 if Trump remains in power
  • In 2030 we'll annex Greenland
  • By September 2031 we will start WW3

Now a lot can change between now and then and Trump isn't a young guy, but that's the blueprint to watch.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You want to talk about concentration camps? We're already expanding our own Black Site.

America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The average maximum security prison holds 800-1200 prisoners. The largest, Angola, LA, holds over 8000.

Our most famous black site, Guantanamo Bay, located in CUBA (WTF?), currently holds about 120, but that's about to change. HitlerPig has already signed an executive order to build a 30,000 bed detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and a $249 billion contract has been awarded. This will be in a remote corner of an island controlled by a hostile enemy, far out of the prying view of the courts, or the media. Anything could happen there, and nobody at home would ever known about it.

So they are now building a facility there, that will hold 30,000 prisoners. That's nearly 4 times our largest prison, which is already about 8 times larger than average. Clearly, they are intending to incarcerate far many people that they already do. I wonder who those people will be?

Perhaps the most worrisome piece of news is this: It is expected to be finished in 2030. Why would HitlerPig commit to such a facility if he wasnt going to be able to use it? Perhaps he expects to still be in power in 2030.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Uh, weren't y'all supposed to pull OUT of Gitmo?

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

No, not quite "won't return anyone even if they're innocent". It's more old-school witch hunt circular logic than that. It's "if they're in the prison, it's because they're a terrorist, and I will never let a terrorist free".

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[–] carrion0409@lemm.ee 156 points 2 days ago (29 children)

In a sane country people would be ripping the piping from their walls to use as weapons against a regime like this. Instead most people just don't notice or don't care. I actually don't see a future for my country anymore...

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

To be fair, organizing is tough and the United States is fucking big.

That said yeah more people should be mad.

[–] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 83 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

~people aren't doing anything~

literally millions of Americans organizing nationwide protests and resistance events, uniting with friends and co-workers to strategize, with larger and larger turnouts with each passing week....

🤔🤔🤔

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[–] opus86@lemmy.today 63 points 2 days ago (3 children)

With none of that pesky due process to determine who these "criminals" are I suppose.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago

No need to worry about that. Daddy Trump will just tell us who the criminals are!

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] rustbuckett@lemmings.world 14 points 1 day ago

I guess we already filled up all of the for profit prisons in The Land of the Free.

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