• Meshuggah333@piefed.world
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    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

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    Just think of the subsidized healthcare that money could buy instead of using it to hurt people.

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    Are they going to be put to work in these camps?, If I concentrate I seem to remember that work will set them free.

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    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?

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      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.”

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      It’s roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can’t we just do that instead?

      😔 Because cruelty is the point.

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        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.

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    5 days ago

    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!