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[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any air conditioning in these units??? Jesus fucking Christ it’s the Florida’s Everglades. They are trying to kill people through heat exhaustion

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 22 hours ago

They are trying to kill people through heat exhaustion

That's a risk they're willing to take (with other people's lives)

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Ugh, I have that linoleum in my house.

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[–] msprout@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (3 children)

God. The wet-bulb temperatures in August alone are going to murder everyone they send to that concentration camp.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

Eventually, concentration camps always turn into death camps.

[–] Buske@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

They are already dying.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the alligators are just a distraction from the fact that they are setting these people up to die in a hurricane or violent storm event. If not just the heat like you said

[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Trump canceled hurricane season by turning off the monitoring software. Can't have em if you don't track em!

/s

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[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (8 children)

So many fake Christian’s are going to burn in hell. I’m here for that tea.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

So many fake Christian’s are going to burn in hell.

Or they would if it was real.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Yup.

The only suffering they're going to do is here on Earth if we choose to hold them accountable for their actions.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 points 19 hours ago

Don't worry, we are making it real!

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 18 hours ago

I'd rather they burn before they die, tbh. in the scorching heat ofc, of a detainment camp

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately hell is a mind construct and they are most likely to just be gone after death with no punishment whatsoever.

That's the one thing perhaps that's sad about religion being made up by humans instead of being something real

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Punishment in an afterlife always seemed like a petty human idea to me. Better for people to gain true understanding of why what they did was wrong and how it hurt others. Supernatural abilities are available, and the system set up is to just punish people? Very small-minded.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, religion is wide enough for interpretation, that one can use it to justify all kinds of horrid things in the name of it.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

It's almost as though it was created for that purpose

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[–] jontree255@lemmy.world 107 points 1 day ago (3 children)

$45 billion more given to ICE with the bill passed in the senate today. Your taxes going towards (more) ethnic cleansing. They want to strip citizenship from anyone who doesn’t kiss their ass and throw them in these cages. Next step after that will be “lending” the imprisoned for labor.

Any American who doesn’t have “abolish and defund ICE” at the top of their priority list is aiding and abetting fascists.

[–] Supervivens@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

They actually edited to bill so it has to go back to the house again to pass there before it’s law. There’s a chance of it failing with how close the first was but it’s still pretty slim.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Minor correction - the bill passed today increases it's overall operating budget by $175B to over $200B total. ICE will become the third most funded armed forces in the world just behind China. $45B is earmarked for camps.

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[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's about 10M undocumented immigrants in the u.s. This is about $20k each. They're not just going after immigrants.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If you wanna see how “great” a society is just look at how they treat their prisoners and the animals they eat.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Without early warning systems, they’ll be hit by an ‘unexpected’ hurricane soon enough. The rising floodwaters will penetrate the cells more easily this way.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

The rising floodwaters will penetrate the cells

...and bring the 'gators.
There, no evidence.

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