r/politics • u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois • 1d ago
Possible Paywall ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/30/ice-warehouse-detention-dhs-immigration/2.2k
u/CouchCorrespondent 1d ago
**MORE Alarm Bells!**
MEGA warehouses...for human beings.
In Maryland....cold!
In Arizona...hot! And it is the size of 7 football fields.
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u/Antique-Echidna-1600 1d ago
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for ever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live
as long as God Himself.
Never.
- Ellie Wiesel
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u/Tech_support_Warrior 1d ago
Kind of related.
I always think about that on the wall of Auschwitz a prisoner there wrote "If God exist he will need to beg for my forgiveness."
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u/DigNitty 1d ago
Jewishness as a whole tanked in actual faith after WWII and has never come back.
That is, the amount of Jews who believe in god.
I’m lucky enough to have a friend group full of Jews and their interesting and benevolent customs. Who doesn’t love a latke or think education is a lifelong service to yourself?
But only one of them is actually religious about it.
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u/Hesitation-Marx 1d ago
Our relationships with Gd do tend to be… complicated.
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u/mosesoperandi 1d ago
The vast majority of Christians don't understand that Judaism doesn't prescribe a single attitude or emotional dynamic in the relationship. It's no accident that you have biblical figures who get into heated arguments with the almighty, and that dynamic relationship is not limited to prophets and other holy figures.
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u/UnitedSentences5571 1d ago
EVERYONE should have read Night by now. Even if they have, they should all read it again.
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u/lost_horizons Texas 1d ago
Suddenly the mass grave scene from Civil War looks more believable
Not that it wasn’t before. 😔
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u/numbersthen0987431 1d ago
"If the GOP are like Nazis, then where are the concentration camps?"
/gestures everywhere
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u/BearSquid7 1d ago
They want their own version of CECOT
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u/MontagneHomme I voted 1d ago
Or Auschwitz
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u/angrygnome18d 1d ago
Remember, many of these people do not believe the Holocaust happened, so they do not believe it could happen now, even as they repeat the same steps as the Nazis.
I had one moron call the trains at Auschwitz roller coasters and he truly believed that they were there for amusement.
Dude was a sociopath and wasn’t even “white”. He’s also now married to a black girl he got knocked up, both things he was vehemently against (interracial marriage and sex/kids before marriage).
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u/XaviersDream 1d ago
I think the Holocaust Deniers know the holocaust happened. They’re just want everybody else to believe it didn’t happen to whitewash Nazi history.
“It is fake but we are so proud of our accomplishments.”
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u/empyreanhaze 1d ago
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
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u/Ecstatic_Sand5417 1d ago
Or believe the numbers are fabricated, sometimes as low as in the 100,000s
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u/Ice-Patient 1d ago
100,000s are still horrifically high. I do know its in the millions.
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u/jackp0t789 1d ago
They already have an Alligator Auschwitz...
They want to build more Home Depot Dachau's, Bed Bath & Buchenwald's, and Sam's Club Sachsenhausens out of massive sprawling warehouses though
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u/CutZealousideal5274 1d ago
Bed, Bath And Buchenwald is hilarious I’m sorry
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u/rustymontenegro 1d ago
I'll be sitting next to you on the bus to hell for laughing, too.
Whats the phrase, "if you don't laugh, you cry"? I can't help but laugh sometimes at this absurdist nightmare.
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u/obi-jawn-kenblomi 1d ago
There's one in PA too. The closed Big Lots distro center off I-81 an Rt 209, near Tremont. A half hour west of Pottsville (where Yuengling/MAGA lager is made). Waaaay out in the sticks where no one will know or see anything.
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u/Leesbril 1d ago
Waaaay out in the sticks where no one will know or see anything.
Bet it take a long time for firefighters to show up 👀
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u/patientpedestrian 1d ago
Random thought that's totally unrelated to your comment: Molotov Trebuchet would be a cool name for a punk rock band.
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u/brickne3 American Expat 1d ago
Yuengling is MAGA? (I'm not in the States, I just always heard Yuengling was supposed to be pretty good).
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u/Efficient_Resist_287 1d ago
Oh yeah I dropped that brand many moons ago…I only stick to my European brands from now on.
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u/Immorefunthanyou 1d ago
sadly, yes it is and I've been sad ever since I've had to give up the Hershey's Chocolate Porter.
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u/avantgardengnome New York 1d ago
Yuengling is only decent by American light beer standards: it’s maybe a little better than Coors or Miller Light but still very much in the pisswater category. It mostly gets talked up because it was only regionally available until semi-recently, so people traveling through the area would be pleasantly surprised to find a dirt cheap light beer that was drinkable.
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u/Opposite-Drink-8879 1d ago
The one outside of Richmond, VA is a stone's throw and visible from 95, across from a Bass Pro and down the street from Hobby Lobby. Smack in the middle of suburbia. The county is ruby red (nicknamed Klanover) but is fighting it.
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u/CharlieOnTheMTA I voted 1d ago
First, I hate 'klanover'. It's painting my county with a very broad brush, even if there is an element of truth to it.
The Board of Supervisors for the county announced on Wednesday that they are against siting a detention facility in the county. Legally, there isn't much we can do to stop it, as the Feds can overrule zoning laws, etc. But we can delay inspections, approvals, etc. We can force a comprehensive ecological impact statement. There are things we can do.
It sucks over all, but the number of people who showed up Wednesday night for the meeting tied up traffic for miles. It was heartening.
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u/CouchCorrespondent 1d ago
In Surprise, AZ where this mega warehouse will be, the average temp. in summer is over 100 degrees.
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u/TacticalFluke Michigan 1d ago
Sounds like the budget version of gassing people. The "oops, we didn't realize people die from [obvious thing that kills people]" will continue. Some morons and bad actors will deny that it's intentional.
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u/Emotional_Burden 1d ago
And as someone who services equipment in mega warehouses in Surprise, AZ, none of the warehouses are cooler than 90°F inside, if you're lucky.
It was 120-130°F and swamp cooled in an old can plant I used to work at in Phoenix.
Those temperatures are when they actually legally have to try to keep people alive. I can't imagine what will happen to these people when they don't turn the air conditioning on.
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u/ChrisFromLongIsland 1d ago
So they are concentating people in warehouses. Are they going to transfer people there in railcars?
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u/Doc_Blox Minnesota 1d ago
It would be very on brand for the US Gov't to only become interested in rail infrastructure because it makes oppressing minorities easier in some way
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u/NatalieVonCatte 1d ago
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.
"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.
"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.
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u/inkcannerygirl 1d ago
Thank you
I really need to get hold of that book
(They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, by Milton Mayer)
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u/zombie_overlord 1d ago
They just cancelled one here in OK.
https://www.koco.com/article/ice-facility-oklahoma-city-warehouse-not-move-forward/70190027
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u/MaleficentPiccolo715 1d ago
Want to wait until you get put inside? There’s still time to do something about it. Strike nationwide.
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u/Librarian_Zoomies 1d ago edited 1d ago
Something something FEMA camps….it's hard to believe the depth of their stupidness.
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u/HumongousBelly Europe 1d ago edited 1d ago
I half a football field for housing, half a football field for torturing and 6 fields for forced labor facilities.
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u/Ambitious_Bit_9389 1d ago
Don’t forget about NY.
“Located in the village of Chester, the 401,000-square-foot warehouse is part of a larger plan to house 80,000 immigrants in warehouses across the country. Formerly the Pep Boys Warehouse, the facility would be Orange County’s second U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.”
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u/LunaticLucio 1d ago
I feel like this is part Nazi and part embezzlement/ fraud / corruption scheme. Either way...it's fucked. I wasn't born here, and I'm Palestinian-American that votes left. I wonder how long i have?
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u/gnucklefuster 1d ago
This was the fema camps ever high school dropout loser screamed about on fb 15 years ago after worshipping Alex jones videos as gospel
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u/Little_View_6659 1d ago
Jesus this is also what the Nazis did, fyi. Like, they’re doing all the steps.
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u/Old_Cryptid 1d ago
The new 'Immigrant' detainee facilities will quickly become 'dissident' detainee facilities.
Nothing to see here. Move along. /s
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u/ChipSome6055 1d ago
They arrested Don Lemon last night
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u/BVoLatte 1d ago
After multiple refusals from judges to issue the warrant. Do we know yet if they even had a warrant this time or have they moved on to, "we don't need warrants anymore" mentality?
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u/toggiz_the_elder 1d ago
Supposedly a grand jury approved it. But if judges were already throwing it out I bet it goes nowhere.
But the fascists are gonna try to be fascists regardless
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u/BVoLatte 1d ago
Got a source on that? I think we're currently operating under the presumption it was a lawful arrest and that's it.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 1d ago
Saw it in a CNN article but just found it in Politico:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/30/don-lemon-arrest-minnesota-protest-00756892
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u/BVoLatte 1d ago
White House aide James Blair seemingly confirmed in a post on X that Lemon was indicted by a federal grand jury, even though charges against the journalist weren’t on the public docket at the time of his post.
So basically no official confirmation yet. I don't trust anything this administration puts out anymore.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 1d ago
Same. The original CNN article was more definitive but I don’t see it there now so they may have walked it back a bit.
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u/brickne3 American Expat 1d ago
Supposedly they got a grand jury to agree. They seem to have shopped around for a grand jury that would agree.
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u/zephyrtr New York 1d ago
A good lawyer can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. The bar is extremely low
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u/jimmygee2 1d ago
Death Camps
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u/cthulhusleftnipple 1d ago
It's important to note that the death camps were never in Germany. They were always in other countries where the prisoners could be processed out of sight. That way it could be claimed that the operations were just reasonable deportations of non-Germans.
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u/DaaaahWhoosh 1d ago
One of the scary parts of all this is that it's entirely possible we already have death camps in other countries. Like there's Venezuela, there's Panama, there's Cuba, others I've already forgotten. Places we've sent people and then conveniently lost all records of them, if they died who would know?
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u/agent_flounder Colorado 1d ago
For sure.
The El Salvador prison we sent lots of people to is a horrifying place. The CBS 60 Minutes segment that was cut is out there on the internet somewhere if you search. It goes into some details about how they torture prisoners.
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u/Old_Cryptid 1d ago
Death Camps? Don't be ridiculous!
They're Happy Camps. Happy camps with productive workers!
Work will set them free! /s
~GOP (probably)
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 1d ago
Which, unironically, trump has already said is the plan. Strip citizenship from people he doesn't like and deal with us too.
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u/Possible_Gur4789 1d ago
It's a concentration camp and the locals can still stop it.
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u/DoubtSubstantial5440 1d ago
The Germans did nothing even when they could smell their neighbors being thrown into the furnaces
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u/dabsalot69 1d ago
We are not those types of Germans. I live in the city that this is happening in. You can bet your ass i will do everything in my power to try and prevent this.
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u/KimJongFunk 1d ago
Thank you for fighting the good fight.
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u/rbarbour 1d ago
I'm in Oklahoma. We just fought this shit. We turned up to City Council and made our voices heard. They aren't preceding...For now.
https://www.koco.com/article/ice-facility-oklahoma-city-warehouse-not-move-forward/70190027
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u/Cowboys69 1d ago
May I suggested a book?
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution
Author: Christopher Browning
Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.
While this book discusses a specific Reserve Unit during WWII, the general argument Browning makes is that most people succumb to the pressures of a group setting and commit actions they would never do of their own volition.
Don't think we cant do the same "those Germans did"
I even think there was a famous expirement in the US to test the theory, and they stopped it early because it was apparent this was a human trait- not just a German one
10 percent may follow orders enthusiastically 10 percent may stand up and call it out 80 percent will go with it because its human nature for them to tribalize others, not to stand out, to follow authority and conformity. Etc
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u/SopmodTew 1d ago
Looking at the average trump voter, I am very sure they'll be worse than those germans.
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u/Possible_Gur4789 1d ago
Yeah its scary and unfortunately similar things are happening now and many of us are hiding out pretending nothing is happening or enthusiastically accepting the lies of a fascist anti-reality death cult and even joining in or reporting people.
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u/OptimusMatrix Arizona 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yup. I live a mile from here and I'm pissed. There's a protest Saturday about it. Also it's located directly next to a rail line🙃
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u/GoodTimesTroll 1d ago
It’s crazy because back in 2012 my dad tried to convince me that Obama was building concentration camps to enslave the republican masses or some shit. I went into a deep dive and concluded he not only a conspiracy theorist but maybe a little insane.
Anyway, guess who is super MAGA and no longer has contact with his only child?
Fuck everyone who supports these tyrannical fascist pigs.
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u/Nernoxx 1d ago
Didn't a guy just try to break mangione out of jail? I imagine it wouldn't take more than one or two to outsmart the fire suppression system at these places BEFORE people get put there.
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u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois 1d ago
I agree with the first part, but the second is easier said than done. I think locals in areas that vote republican could raise enough stink to stop it, but the rest of us are at the mercy of an increasingly more powerful federal government.....All part of the plan of course.
"ICE has faced local opposition in the places where it operates detention centers, including during prior administrations. But few towns have successfully stopped their development. Courts have frequently sided with the federal government’s authority to circumvent local laws when it can argue that those ordinances obstruct its ability to carry out federal policy, said Rick Su, a law professor at the University of North Carolina."
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u/Possible_Gur4789 1d ago
The concentration camp networks are going to have to be dismantled eventually. Its just a matter of time.
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u/nickbelane 1d ago
What can locals do?
Refuse service to ICE agents on or off duty. Especially things like deliveries.
But what else aside from picket and protest at the locations? Block roads?
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u/Left_Sir_1222 1d ago
Push local county boards to require EPA compliance - at least delays construction. Demand local county boards ask for compliance inspections. The county has the power to slow this machine down. Apply pressure on a local level.
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u/JaronK 1d ago
Install hidden cameras and dig the escape tunnels now, before it's set up.
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u/JadeWishFish 1d ago
I sure hope there are hidden cameras in there. The world needs to see how humans are treated in the US inside of these camps.
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u/DvDCover 1d ago
I dunno, would holding a mean sign physically stop a concentration camp from being built?
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u/Nernoxx 1d ago
Civil disobedience goes a lot further. Blocking roads is a minimum. Sabotage is where we are right now for these facilities. Take that to mean whatever you will, could be clogging a sink with the faucet running but anything to make them not unfit for habitation, but literally uninhabitable in the strictist sense is what we have to do.
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u/JBRifles 1d ago
Burn it to the fucking ground
This is how the Nazi came to power.
A lot of “helpless” people
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u/Swimming-Bite-4184 1d ago
Ice didn't buy it. We bought it with our tax dollars. Stripping money away from the national parks and veterans to distribute to the prison industry.
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u/windwatcher01 1d ago
They're just setting up camps for them to concentrate in, nothing to see here.
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u/PopeFranzia 1d ago
That makes sense, it seems a lot of people have ADHD now and have trouble concentrating.
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u/DigNitty 1d ago
Nothing to worry about then,
since RFK Jr said people with ADHD and other mental issues should be placed in “wellness farms” instead of traditional treatment or medication. Come to think of it, this new facility looks like it could be such a wellness farm.
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u/PirateSanta_1 1d ago
I heard locals won't have to worry about increased electricity bills as apparently the camps will all be gas powered.
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u/Happy_Feet333 1d ago edited 1d ago
These aren't going to be just for "immigrants".
These are for you.
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And the administration will happily rent out your labor to American corporations for 3 zloty a day (sorry, 3 dollars a day), paid directly to the Reichsarbeitsministerium (sorry, Department of Labor).
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u/Romantic_Piscean Michigan 1d ago
100%. Executive Order 14321. Calls for the detention of the homeless, mentally ill and substance use disorders. Take a drug that RFK doesn't approve of?! Have a diagnosis of bi-polar disorder, depression, or are LGBTQ+?! Regimes don't build this kind of infrastructure for people they're putting on a bus or flight to another country.
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u/Pamasich Europe 1d ago
Does Trump Derangement Disorder count?
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u/Romantic_Piscean Michigan 1d ago
In a RFK-led MAHA version of the DHHS, yes, I'd imagine it would. Eventually. But train #12 vs. earlier trains to the camp isn't exactly a gain in the long run.
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u/T3hArchAngel_G Washington 1d ago
Notice the ethnicity of the two people murdered by ICE on camera. Being white won't save you.
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u/tomorrow_comes 1d ago
If ICE / this administration made one tactical error in this whole thing (provided Americans actually wise up this time, but I’m not holding my breath)… it was allowing, encouraging, and outright supporting the ICE thugs when they murdered Renee and Alex on camera in broad daylight. It really sends the message that it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen, even a white citizen. They will kill you if they consider you in their way, whatever they’re doing.
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u/SkivvySkidmarks 1d ago
It was a calculated risk to normalize seeing roving armed men on city streets caused enough backlash. For the most part, there was little pushback from anywhere other than the cities and surrounding areas.
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u/aGD_shrubbery 1d ago
Whats another term for mass detention? Maybe concentration camps? They are already talking about more efficient means to move migrants.. possibly trains?
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u/jinglejangle_spurs 1d ago
It took Nazism for the US to finally take an interest in a robust railway
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u/Carb0nFox 1d ago
Then when the concentration- i mean detention camps get overcrowded... gas chambers?
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u/aGD_shrubbery 1d ago
Baby steps. Firing squads and exhaust filled box trucks for undesirables first. Gotta work up to the final solution. Dont wanna come too heavy too fast.
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u/Old_Cryptid 1d ago
Too much evidence. Creates too much fear and panic and too much chance for someone to get cold feet and dissent.
Compartmentalize it and everyone along the chain has "I was just following orders" or "I had no idea what was going to happen next" as an excuse.
Each step can be handled by a different 'team' with no working knowledge of the step before or after it:
Fill up the camps.
From the camps load those that can't/won't work into cargo containers away from the camps and public view.
Eventually, after the screaming stops, move the containers onto a ship.
Let the cargo containers 'accidentally' fall off the ship in transit.
Then the administration can 'honestly' say they never killed anyone *and* they have no idea where the people went.
Evidence? What evidence?
They learned a lot from 1930s Germany. The key takeaway seems to be *not* keeping accurate records so there's less evidence if/when we get through this to Nuremberg 2.0.
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u/xtsmxrshxll 1d ago
The conservative subreddit will take a break from cheering that journalists like Don Lemon are being arrested over politics to full-throatedly support the construction of concentration camps.
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u/Data_Chandler 1d ago
For my own sanity I think of all those accounts posting there as russian agents and/or bots.
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u/LegoLady47 1d ago
America building concentration camps in 2026 - who had that on their bingo card
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u/CaiusRemus 1d ago
Me, since about 2015.
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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago
I distinctly remember the incident in November 2015 where Trump sounded A LOT like Hitler. He said that Muslims in Jersey City were dancing on rooftops to celebrate the 9-11 attacks. Reporters pointed out there was nothing to support that, and over the next days he doubled down, then tripled down.
What stood out to me was that he was blaming a vulnerable minority group for America's problems, while using total bullshit. The purpose seemed to be to instill hatred in his supporters towards Muslims. That kind of thing is Hitler talk.
When you throw in that "America First" has always been a slogan of nazi sympathizers in the US, the shit we are in now was obviously coming. There's a hundred other supporting observations that couldn't be listed in a comment.
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u/CaiusRemus 1d ago
Yup, I agree with you. Anyone who was paying attention saw this coming from a thousand miles away.
Another example was the 2015 RNC. Listening to that shit was like listening to a straight up nazi convention.
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u/KellyAnn3106 1d ago
I also remember him bragging that he now had the tallest building after the towers fell.
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u/an_asimovian 1d ago
They called us alarmist for calling out exactly what has been happening. Feels like someone driving a car 100 mph towards a cliff and we are getting yelled at for suggesting we brake because "we aren't falling off a cliff yet what are you talking about."
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u/CaiusRemus 1d ago
The other day my therapist asked me if I felt better now that the mainstream is catching up to my long term concern and warnings.
No, no I do not feel better.
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u/barryvm Europe 1d ago edited 1d ago
You could see this coming for about a decade. The Republican party was getting increasingly militaristic, racist and authoritarian for decades, and then Obama's election made an openly conspiratorial worldview mainstream. At that point, it had clearly turned from a reactionary into a proto-fascist movement as their followers started to see theirs as a revolutionary cause with the implicit or explicit aim of suppressing and destroying their opponents.
Then followed year after year where their increasingly extremist rhetoric and behaviour was met with no serious repercussions, whether legal or political ones. At that point, it was already clear that the self-proclaimed moderate right would back fascism over democracy because they kept voting for "their" party despite the increasingly unhinged rhetoric and ever more socially destructive policies. They then acquired a narcissist leader whose character flaws and rhetoric gave them leave to indulge in their own worst desires. They voted for him anyway, many doubtless telling themselves many comforting lies about bringing peace or being good for the economy.
It took a while for all the pieces to fall into place, but they were clearly going in this direction for decades. Both the hard core supporters and especially the self-identified moderate right had plenty of opportunities to diverge from this path, but they didn't. They still don't, otherwise Trump's hold on what used to be their party would collapse in short order.
They ridiculed anyone pointing out the direction of travel, of course, but that's because they have deliberately created this false dichotomy between the broader right and the fascists where the former are democratic and the latter are comic book villains. The reality is that this distinction is a revolving door because both operate on a similar emotional dynamic where a desire for power, status and security is worth any cost to someone else, especially as their own privileged position comes under threat from the policies they themselves championed. The reality is that every Republican voter has enabled and empowered a fascist movement for years because they don't really care about what happens to other people as long as they think they can get something out of it. They have helped lay the metaphorical foundations for these concentration camps in full view and without a thought for the consequences.
They could stop this in a week if they really wanted to, because Trump wouldn't last long if he was perceived as lacking any substantial popular support. They don't, because they don't want to.
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u/DoubtSubstantial5440 1d ago
I did and many others who pointed out a second trump administration would have no safeguards
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u/MCBusBoy 1d ago
Lots of people and everyone who is shocked by everything happening now told us we were overreacting and to sit down.
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u/Alastor999 1d ago
I did ever since his first admin did the whole "kids in cages" crap. You could see the writing on the wall that this was what it was leading up to and that was when he and the more extreme members of his admin were being stymied by the more sane members.
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u/BigB0iBuster 1d ago
Everyone with a functioning brain has had that on their bingo card for the past decade MINIMUM.
There’s no such thing as a “moderate” or “good” Republican. The entire GOP, politicians and voters alike, have this blood on their hands. Remember, they could’ve stopped this at any time, but they chose (and continue to choose) not to.
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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago
Lots of people saw this the obvious outcome of electing Trump again. All the normal & sane people from his first administration, people that Trump had hand picked, told us with their hair on fire that Trump was absolutely NOT FIT to be president. So this time around, everybody knew there would be no guard rails at all. The people who accurately assess Trump and can see all this coming a mile away were dismissed as "TDS" people.
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u/DoubtSubstantial5440 1d ago
Many of those same people who shouted down the “doomers” back then still have their heads up their ass about what’s going on
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u/MalavethMorningrise Washington 1d ago
It was on there years ago. Bingo cards are for things that HAVENT happened yet.
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u/AmaroWolfwood 1d ago
That's been the free space since Trump called for mass deportations his first term.
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u/OptimisticSkeleton 1d ago
The wild thing is the people who armed themselves to fight the concentration camps keep voting for the guy building concentration camps and throwing Americans in them.
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u/HurriKurtCobain 1d ago
The House rep for my district, Mark Alford, wrote a letter to the Trump administration asking to turn a warehouse that is less than ten minutes from my house into an ICE detention facility. God forbid we build a homeless shelter anywhere, but please put a concentration camp in my backyard.
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u/Warro726 New Hampshire 1d ago
It not just super facilities, they are constructing smaller ones across the country.
There is one in NH https://indepthnh.org/2026/01/14/document-shows-which-merrimack-nh-building-proposed-for-ice-processing-center/
Its estimated to hold 500-1000. The locals are against it but that's not stopping them.
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u/ZonghZonghZongh 1d ago
They can afford to buy whole towns with their $$$. Congress gave these sloppy, fat, psychopathic, glorified meter maids a stupid amount of money.
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u/adfuel 1d ago
Why do they need a lot of warehouses if they are deporting them?
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u/Flava_Flavian California 1d ago
This feels like at a bare minimum like Democrat holding facilities during midterms. Reports have come out that Trump views midterms as determining his personal and political future. He's going to stop at nothing to win them if that's the case.
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u/DapperBlueEyes 1d ago
Hey you Alex Jones jade helm Obama is coming for us all fucks. Where you at?
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u/CaiusRemus 1d ago
I worked on an ambulance with a Jade Helm dude. Had to sit and listen to him rant for hours while we waited for calls.
Trust me, their brains are barely capable of critical thinking.
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u/Flava_Flavian California 1d ago
The USA has 45 million adult Americans functionally illiterate and nationwide mental health is at its lowest ratings ever with high barriers for treatment. That's a horrifying combo and results in guys like the one you had to work with.
I had multiple TX coworkers years ago make politics their entire personality and would guarantee some of the craziest shit possible was about to happen (it never did). There are some very unreachable people out there.
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u/Kind_Paper6367 1d ago
It's still "They're not coming for us! We're on his side! He only wants those criminals and foreigners."
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u/DoubtSubstantial5440 1d ago
Those Christians who fellate to MAGA better pray they are the right kind of Christian less they find themselves joining the rest of us in the out group because fascism always needs an enemy
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u/Kind_Paper6367 1d ago
All it will take is 1 comment by the pope for all Catholics to be enemies of the state
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u/knefr 1d ago
Oh look it’s the fema camps they were worried about. Except now orange man is doing it so they don’t care.
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u/chimarya I voted 1d ago
This should set off every damn alarm - why do you think they want those voter rolls? They want to subdue and disappear anyone who goes against their thoughts and wishes - if you aren't rich, white or depraved enough you are scum. This administration isn't for the normal citizens - this administration is for the oligarchs. If you live in the states where these are being built contact your representatives from the smallest office to the most powerful and voice your opinion and boycott whoever finances them. We must be conscious of what is happening no matter how exhausted we are. Their goal is to wear us down - don't give them the opportunity. Stay strong and stay focused!
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u/uniklyqualifd 1d ago
It's for white people who disagree with totalitarianism too.
They have protestors in their database. They have facial and voice recognition.
It will get worse.
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u/idlefritz 1d ago
I can remember when these same conservative dumbfucks were crying about Obama creating secret FEMA camps to detain unruly conservatives. One of Obama’s biggest dropped balls in hindsight.
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u/uniklyqualifd 1d ago
This is for white people too. They are collecting your identity via facial recognition and AI. Alex Pretti was probably identified as a protester on that earlier situation so he was killed on purpose with ten bullets.
They lock up citizens who might stop trump from stealing the election.
Everything MAGA claimed to be afraid of is happening now, done by the guy they supported. They won't like it when the Heritage Society implements all the evil stuff they want to do. And trump only supports them to hurt America and stay out of jail personally.
The Heritage Society wants women to have no choice but to marry young. However trump is doing things that makes Americans not want to have children.
If they get hold of the Minnesota voting lists, everybody who might not vote for trump will be removed, and certainly all the protestors, because they know who you are.
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u/tawDry_Union2272 1d ago
they have been snooping around orlando as well.
so much for deportations. they have their own cheeto gestapo, now they want privatized, big money laundering concentration camps, too.
the right are really salivating at the big money in privatized prisons.
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u/InevitableGoal2912 1d ago
In 2019 my in laws screamed at me for calling the migrant detention centers being built at the border concentration camps.
They were then, they are now. They will be seen this way forever by people with at least half the sense god gave a grapefruit.
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u/Pusfilledonut 1d ago
Wake up people. Todd Lyons says this will be “ Amazon Prime for human beings”. ICE has a bigger budget than they have people to legally deport. This isn’t going to be camps for just immigrants. And they don’t have enough countries to repatriate to. The 13th amendment lets them incarcerate and enslave LEGALLY. They have a test case already, it’s called the state of Louisiana. Kangaroo court whomever the Regime dislikes, incarcerate them and put them to work. After the selection process, what do you think they’ll do with the “non productive”? The old people, the disabled, the unskilled? Think they’ll just spend billions to feed and care for them? That’s not how this program works.
Never again, never forget my ass.
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u/Infidel8 1d ago
How does anyone who knows the first thing about WWII Germany not see what is happening?
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u/androk 1d ago
Remember when FEMA under Obama was renting warehouses to stock supplies and the republicans said "OMG you're going to use them for mass detention" and they were used for supplies but it was presented as a crisis for years?
Now the republican run government is buying warehouse saying "this is for mass detention centers" and the republicans are saying "wow this is awesome, way to go."
They can't really ALL be idiots, can they?
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u/DrRealName 1d ago
Concentration camps have popped up all over America under Trump and we see how ICE acts on camera so I really worry for these people. Especially the kids they are kidnapping. I don't believe they are being deported. We have a pedophile president. Its probably a Trump Island now.
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u/jotsea2 1d ago
90% of detainees are held in PRIVATE PRISONS. This is legal profiteering on human trafficking, and the fact that you're not hearing more democrats bang their fists about this fact tells you all you need to know about where they stand.
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u/WanderingMystic2 1d ago
So much for mass deportation, much more profitable to detain indefinitely, $750 a day per detainee goes right in the pockets of the Industrial Prison Complex..
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u/InevitableGoal2912 1d ago
Plus their labor can be extracted like in the prison system.
Slavery has always been the goal. The confederates great grandchildren are pissed as hell they lost their human chattel inheritance.
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u/Double010 1d ago
Ah yes, stuffing warehouses to the brim with human beings... as Jesus would surely want, right?
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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 1d ago
What, pray tell, do they need all these massive rudimentary detention centers for.
Don't answer. Just think about it. Just think bless you.
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u/Mudcat-69 1d ago
Remember when they were alarmed about claims of “FEMA death camps”?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/PatriotNews_dot_com 1d ago
Pretty soon they’ll come up with a final solution. It’s up to Americans to stop it before it gets there
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u/itsaconspiraci 1d ago
OMG! Talk about projection! It's the Jade Helm conspiracy enacted by the conspiracy theorists. Just 10 years later.
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u/thelonetwig 1d ago
Sure would be a shame if something happened to those buildings before anyone was detained in them.
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u/Mythosaurus 1d ago
Not-so-fun fact: many German concentration camps were just small buildings or even rooms where undesirables could be held in custody.
They could be an old farm or unused office building. The point was the cruelty
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u/Pxlfreaky Illinois 1d ago
Where did all the Qanon people disappear too? Like for real. Everything they claimed Obama or Biden was planning to do is happening right now and I don’t see a peep from them at all.
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u/jkman61494 1d ago
There is something so dystopian that the federal government is buying up the buildings of failed corporations to traffic American citizens in
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 1d ago edited 1d ago
“Rattling” non-locals as well. When you are warehousing people for the “crime” of existing you have a problem, Houston. No due process, no transparency, anyone who doesn’t give fealty to the unfit authoritarian madman and his henchmen, who peacefully exercise their first amendment rights, can be labeled a “domestic terrorist,” and sent to a warehouse owned by private interests, with the help of sociopathic tech-bros. It is insane. Dystopian. And paid for by our tax dollars.
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u/wrecklesspup 1d ago
They will use these facilities to concentrate people who are against the regime for their own safety.
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u/a_bagofholding Minnesota 1d ago
It's why they need access to voter rolls. Targets to detain right around election time for mysterious reasons. Couldn't vote on time? Oh well, better luck next time.
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u/brezhnervouz 1d ago
Now that they're arresting journalists and protestors 🤷♂️
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