Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency? | Common Dreams
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History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.

Cable news people call them “prison camps” or “Trump prison camps,” but look in any dictionary: prisons are where people convicted of crimes are held. As Merriam-Webster notes, a prison is:

“[A]n institution for confinement of persons convicted of serious crimes.”

But what do you call a place where people who’ve committed no criminal offense (immigration violations are civil, not criminal, infractions)? The fine dictionary people at Merriam-Webster note the proper term is “concentration camp”:

“[A] place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard.”

    • Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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      2 days ago

      Not exactly. Please read up on gerrymandering and the Electoral College. These two factors have been increasingly rigged over the past decades in order to enable a large and vocal minority to put fascists in office. It wasn’t just simple majority votes, it’s been a sustained systematic attack.

      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I don’t like it either, but Trump literally got more votes than Kamala and there is no democratic system on earth that wouldn’t result in calling that a win.

        The house is certainly subject to gerrymandering issues, but not the white house or the senate and both of those belong to fascists too, so its clearly what the American people want.

        • Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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          2 days ago

          Right, but I’m saying those votes didn’t just come out of thin air. The GOP has been tipping the scales to give themselves more and more power for decades, to where it’s now evident they basically own all major US media. They seized control of the senate and representative seats that let them funnel more and more bribes, buy out the media, and control the narrative. Eventually that led to presidential wins.

          The average person just wants to get by. They vote for whever convinces them it’ll be less painful, or convinces them that the pain (e.g. resurrections on freedom, austerity, destroying diversity) will somehow be worthwhile.