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.”

  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    Because America is the Greatest Country in the World, and the beacon of freedom and democracy. A beacon of freedom and democracy wouldn’t build vast concentration camps, therefore we cannot acknowledge that that’s what America is doing. We need to keep acting like Trump’s biggest failings are liking fast food and stumbling over words.

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      and because big money controls the news agencies.

      and Americans live a month of horrors every fucking week

      and average americans are too poor to deal with their own personal healthcare needs

      Or to buy food.

      Who are facing very real possibility of being murdered in the streets for daring to speak up, and even if they dont get murdered today, its always been openly bragged about that facial recognition is being used to build vast databases of anyone who dare protest der fuhrer so that they might have to face the horror of some time, months down the road, gestapo thugs could kick in their door and send their underage daughters to oligarchal service camps while the rest of them are, at best, dumped in hostile countries or at worst disappeared and executed.

      and despite all that, people are still fighting in the streets. People are still confronting this. They are doing everything they can, while NOT giving trump the excuse he needs to masturbate furiously over his war president fantasies by triggering civil war 2.

      But you keep sitting there, serving your masters agenda of trying to paint the opposition as lazy, and feckless, who are doing nothing more than making fun of what he eats.

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        Yeah, 100%. Just one little clarification. Once they are done with whatever they are going to do to those brown people, they aren’t going to close the camps and shrink their wealthy agency, they’ll just alter their mission…

        Which will be slavery. The 13th Amendment allows prisoners to be used as slave labor, and PeeWee Himmler and Trump can’t wait to get into the slavery business. Imagine how supercharged the economy and the stock market will be, when 90% of the labor force can be replaced by AI, Robotics, or Federally-managed Slave Labor?

        Except this time, they aren’t going to racist about it, the Federal government will be an equal opportunity enslaver. Anybody is welcome, all you have to do is be a political critic, or a Democrat, or even a MAGA, if you aren’t rich enough. The only ones who will be safe from enslavement will be Sociopathic Oligarchs and their Nepo-Babies.

        Here we thought the Mexicans, et al, were going to take all our jobs, when in reality it will be Official Government Slaves.

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          They’ve literally openly talked about, for over a year, about wanting to send all the sick and mentally ill to “work farms”

          and what are they trying desperately to say is a mental illness? Opposing trump.

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      We need to keep acting like Trump’s biggest failings are liking fast food and stumbling over words.

      Please identify a single person who does this.

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        No one.

        But him, and his masters, have never given care or concern to truth… Only to what serves their purpose.