• Wilco@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    9 minutes ago

    There is no profit in sheltering the homeless. Those ICE camps are all the rage amongst investors … particularly private equity firms. Private equity firms will do literal evil to make a few dollars.

  • hansolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    41 minutes ago

    The absurd irony of all these “Good Christians” testing the limits of their own religion’s capacity to incarcerate hypocrites, liars, and golden idol worshipers in a hell they would certainly end up in after they die.

  • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v@feddit.nlEnglish
    19·
    3 hours ago

    ‘The land of the free’ has one of the highest incarciration rates world wide (source). It must be exceptionally safe around there, no?

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    10 hours ago

    Not just for the homeless, people in North Carolina are literally STILL FINDING BODIES, living in tents and cars, and can’t swim in any river or lake due to run off pollution

    This just shows the government is fine killing us via exposure to the elements

    • Nangijala@feddit.dkEnglish
      20·
      9 hours ago

      Your food too. The more I learn about American food production the happier I am that I have never set foot in the states. Way before all this crazy shit started happening, I already had many issues with the idea of visiting the country and one of the main ones was that I really didn’t want to eat any of the food or drinking any of the water over there. They are literally poisoning you guys your whole lives.

      • LustyArgonian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 hours ago

        Glyphosate, DDT, lead, mercury are huge issues in the US. Imo mercury is the biggest issue with what is happening in NC because that’s all old gold mining territory and back in the 1800s they used mercury extensively to extract gold (severely poisoning the water supply and imo to this day it impacts us). But there’s ofc lead in buckshot, and all the houses and cars that washed away had tons of different materials, oil, gas, MDF, etc etc

        Corporations wont let us (via lobbying) have Medicare for All - because that would detect cancer (and toxins) and allow us to class action sue companies for them. Can’t sue if it was never detected. Thats why they find carcinogens and lead in kids’ products so much - their products dont have more lead in them, but kids all can be on Medicaid and that catches it. Flint, MI, water poisoning was detected by a kid on Medicaid.

        They don’t want us to all have healthcare because that is public science and it will absolutely detect what theyve been lying and poisoning us with. It would probably destroy all the big companies like Nestle, Johnson&Johnson, Colgate, etc…

        Yeah, don’t blame you for not coming here.

  • bcgm3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    14 hours ago

    “Built a 3000 bed federal prison in eight days” almost sounds like they finally actually did something, until you realize:

    • The compound is located at the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, so there was already infrastructure
    • The area for detainees is a tent
    • Inside the tent is bunk beds, portapotties and a chain link fence

    But yeah, I also would have preferred our government take care of the unhoused (or just done nothing at all) instead of… this.

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    13 hours ago

    Haven’t seen it pointed out, yet, but it should be noted that a chain link fence and some tents are structures that have been completely toppled by far less than 3000 people many, MANY times. These are very fragile things they are building.

    On an unrelated note, bolt cutters are not expensive and neither are ground bloomers, tape, and plyers.

    • MrShankles@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      12 hours ago

      It’s the surrounding Everglades that becomes the problem. But idk, I don’t think I’d give a fuck vs staying there and dying from West Nile, flooding, heat stroke, hurricane, atrocities, etc… and with 3000 people, you have a much better chance

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    611·
    15 hours ago

    Daily reminder to all ICE agents. By signing up for ICE, you have signed yourself up for a lifetime of fear and criminal liability. There are Nazi concentration camp guards that were tried for their crimes in their 90s. There is no statute of limitations on crimes against humanity. Your names are recorded; your deeds are known. And you will face justice for your crimes.

    I want every Democratic politician to be repeating this every chance they get, a modern day “Carthage must be destroyed.” My greatest fear is that when this is done, and Democrats are eventually back in power, that they will fall back on the same suicidal tendencies that got us here in the first place. Obama came into power on the back of the criminal Bush administration, and his first act of office was to declare “it’s time to move on,” and to announce that no members of the prior regime would be prosecuted. And Biden did the same after the first Trump term. We need to be willing to hold people accountable. And we need to be talking about this now. We need to fully embrace the idea of prosecuting ICE agents for their crimes against humanity. We cannot declare it’s time to move on and to let them get away with what they have done.

    And no, “I’m just following orders” is not an excuse. Anyone who says that deserves to hang.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      1·
      48 minutes ago

      Yeah but in a country dumb enough to elect Donald Trump twice? And before that Joe Biden? Obama? Bush? TWICE. BOTH BUSHES. Maybe a bit harsh to throw Obama in there, because the other options were bleak too.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yes, but that needs that we actually win, and not just be in the period of the slow death of the “free world” and the “rules based world order”, instead of heading towards a dark age of globalized neofascism and neocoloinalism.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      241·
      15 hours ago

      This needs to be (if it isn’t already) a copypasta that finds its way onto every post and comment board concerning ICE and the current administration’s barbarous acts towards people who’s only crime was not being a white person who was born here.

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        14 hours ago

        I suppose I should add to this, “and do not count on a blanket pardon saving you. Crimes against humanity are violations of international law that cannot be pardoned.”

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    13 hours ago

    I don’t suppose anyone thought of humane conditions while building a concentration camp in a Florida swamp. Even prisoners deserve something to control the heat, the humidity, the mosquitoes, or were causing yet more needless deaths

    And yes, employees overseeing obviously inhumane conditions should absolutely face justice for those illnesses and deaths

    • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      12 hours ago

      Even Especially prisoners deserve something to control the heat.

      part of the problem is that so many are OK with these concentration camps because they believe criminals deserve whatever happens to them in prison.

      if people stopped indulging that false dichotomy between criminal and upstanding citizen, we might not be seeing such a large-scale kidnapping.

  • jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2301·
    21 hours ago

    “The director tells me it could have been done in 72 hours if we were allowed to make it even more inhumane / unsafe”

    Fixed that for you.

    • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      57·
      19 hours ago

      Don’t forget to make the working conditions inhumane and unsafe for the workers building the place! That could probably shave off a few hours, too!

      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        17·
        14 hours ago

        Built by and built for it’s occupants planned occupants I bet :/

        Edit: Its not it’s (and autocorrect tried to correct me again)

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        15 hours ago

        Honestly, if you build or work at a place like this, you deserve to die. If you’re a guard at a concentration camp, I hope you die quickly. You don’t deserve to live.

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    14 hours ago

    Sure, they can provide quick housing for the homeless… As long as your standards are “puppy mill” or “chicken farm”.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    18 hours ago

    It’s not that difficult to build a concentration camp with shitty cots, inadequate facilities, and hazardousness as a feature built in on nearly unlivable land in the Everglades.

    It likely is slightly more difficult to build housing for homeless people unless you’re trying to build death trap, concentration camp housing for them as well.

    • original_charles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      unless you’re trying to build death trap, concentration camp housing for them as well.

      Just you wait, I’m sure that’s in the works too.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah, I get the point they’re trying to make, but this is a pretty silly comparison. It’s like “oh, so you can eat a 6” sub but not an 18" pizza? Pff, fake hunger".

  • don@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    13 hours ago

    Housing the homeless: I sleep

    Build a concentration camp: real shit

  • acchariya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    14 hours ago

    This might be where they ship homeless people when they run out of immigrants

    I haven’t seen much mention of this but putting people in camps like this in south Florida is a very bad idea. WW1 veterans were housed in hastily constructed camps like this in 1935 in the Florida keys and many were killed by a powerful hurricane that rolled though. There is a reason for the strong building codes and tents do not meet them.