• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    It’s cute that you think senators have any power anymore. I’m guessing you think the next election won’t be Russia-style too.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 hours ago

      I don’t know why you’re being downvoted, when will Americans understand this? Their political system is done, there’s no turning back at this point, it’s gone beyond the event horizon. The only question is how long will Americans continue to bicker and bitch while they see how much worse things get. You have concentration camps now, 10 days in, what will it take? Where is the line that they cross when you know they’re a threat to your life? When the soldiers are already banging your door?

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        18 hours ago

        Concentration camps killed and tortured millions.

        At this point, you’re very much still exaggerating. Is it possible we’ll get to concentration camps? Sure. But we aren’t right now, as you are spreading. As of now there’s not much different than his first term, remember the kids in cages? Also terrible, but very far from concentration camps, where they killed and tortured millions.

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          So people should only start any action after the damage is done? After the torture and death of millions? Because only then it is undeniably similar to WW2 concentration camps. I would propose not to wait for that.

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          Concentration camps killed and tortured millions.

          The first concentration camps were established by the British during the Boer War. There were deaths from malnutrition and disease, but no poison gas or bullets in the head. More malign neglect.

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          18 hours ago

          Concentration camps killed and tortured millions.

          At this point, you’re very much still exaggerating.

          This is exactly how it happened.

          From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of incarceration sites to imprison and eliminate real and perceived “enemies of the state.” Most prisoners in the early concentration camps were political prisoners—German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats—as well as Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay men and men accused of homosexuality, and persons accused of “asocial” or socially deviant behavior. Many of these sites were called concentration camps. **The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. **

          Explain to me how sending people to Guantanamo Bay, already infamous for torturing inmates, is somehow not exactly this?

          I cannot BELIEVE people will hand wave stuff like this or Elon’s Nazi salute so we have to wait until they’ve killed a million people before we’re ALLOWED to say what we KNOW is happening.

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          18 hours ago

          Thank you for proving my point, bicker and bitch while you see how much worse things get it is then. Americans like you truly deserve what’s coming, because the rest of the world is trying to scream at you but “it’s not bad enough yet.” I’ll ask again, what will it take? Where is the line that they cross when you KNOW they’re a threat to your life?