• kava@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Immigration detention centers have been around for a while now. Virtually all of them ran by private corporations. People rail against private prisons but they make up a tiny tiny minority of prisoners. Over 90% of immigration detention centers are privately owned.

    So we’re going to throw millions of people into camps so that a few corporations can extract a ton of public taxpayer money. They’re also gonna stay there for years because it’s logistically impossible to move over 10 million people quickly.

    I didn’t think fascism would happen again my lifetime. But I guess here we are

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      8 hours ago

      Moving them is expensive, just letting them die in poor conditions or working them to death is far cheaper… Seeing how it happened yet?

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        6 hours ago

        exactly. it escalates over time as things become normalized.

        if there are 10 stages we’re like at stage 3

        in 2016 we were at stage 1. back then, Trump wouldn’t dare have said “immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country” - that wouldn’t have had a good reception back then. too on the nose. but you start with more subtle things and slowly you shift the overton window of what is and isn’t socially acceptable

        it’s a treadmill and we’re jogging