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    Are they going to be put to work in these camps?, If I concentrate I seem to remember that work will set them free.

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      wanna bet it will be laundered to his contractors and some in his pockets, much like the ballroom and the alligator alacatraz.

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    Hey tRump - you can redirect the heat from AI centers to the facility and use it for burning of bodies! You’ll save on gas!

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    News outlets should start using proper definitions, it’s a concentration camp :

    concentration camp

    noun

    1. a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labour or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz

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      How it started:

      Parsons was Winston’s fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms — one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.

      How it ended:

      Parsons walked into the cell. He was wearing khaki shorts and a sports-shirt.

      This time Winston was startled into self-forgetfulness.

      ‘You here!’ he said.

      Parsons gave Winston a glance in which there was neither interest nor surprise, but only misery. He began walking jerkily up and down, evidently unable to keep still. Each time he straightened his pudgy knees it was apparent that they were trembling. His eyes had a wide-open, staring look, as though he could not prevent himself from gazing at something in the middle distance.

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      Many of them will. All fascists think they’re safe from their fellow fascists until the day they find they’re not, and then it’s too late. No one’s safe under fascism.

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    Just think of the subsidized healthcare that money could buy instead of using it to hurt people.

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        Also I don’t see how the neoliberals can’t see that within a few years of implementation, productivity would jump massively as more people would be able to participate in the economy and therefore generate so much more value.

        I should stress, that shouldn’t be the reason for implementation, you know the usual ones about why decent healthcare should be available for free/at subsidiesed cost (depending on which style of universal healthcare implemented): it’s the morally right thing to do under the hypocratic oath, every other developed country does this, etc.

        But it’s a cold economic reason that makes sense.

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          They certainly can see it. But the corporations that hold their leashes don’t want it, so it doesn’t happen.

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    Short article but still hard to get through. The banal cruelty and pointlessness of all this…

    It’s roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can’t we just do that instead?

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      It’s 2 years of the entire USAID budget that kept 100,000s of people alive and healthy. It’s 4 times the amount of money the President want from the taxpayers so he can “give it to charity.”

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      It’s roughly enough money to just build 100k homes. Why can’t we just do that instead?

      😔 Because cruelty is the point.

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      average priced homes yes but things like small sized apartments could likely be built for like 100k each, so 400k homes, enough to house about half of the us homeless population