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By all criteria, this a concentration camp. Not “concentration camp” as rhetorical inflation, or emotionally manipulative shorthand, or edgy metaphor—but as in: literally.

As in: detention without trial, state control, inhumane living conditions, forced labor, dehumanization, brutal violence, isolation from accountability, psychological torture, and—by every available logical extension—murder.

That last one we can’t yet verify in the strict evidentiary sense, but the circumstances suggest it like smoke suggests fire, and they are already trying to hide their actions and deny what is occurring.

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[–] heartbreaker@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)

How is this all going so fast, tho? Didn't it take the nazis a few years to get to this point?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nazis got to all the points they wanted so lightning-fast that nothing happening now can rival it.

That's one of the reasons for the cultural shock about Nazis - everybody expected such processes to happen very slowly, in small flashes, as they do now. Thus them to be voted out or pressed out as a reaction, or at least for most potential victims to flee Germany, gradual pressure, compromise, all that.

Instead they came to power, almost momentarily changed the internal balance of power (of armed forces, their own paramilitary organizations, veteran organizations and such), anschlussed Austria, "solved unemployment" (organized massive programs of building autobahns and such, not very economically viable, but a symbol and a working mechanism), attracted investments (various scams on enormous scale, but the funds were attracted and it wasn't all scams), scaled the military back to something realistic, performed successful rearmament programs ... And built concentration camps. They started with something like Guantanamo almost immediately after coming to power, then didn't lose any time to learn.

See, they had an apparatus, even a social layer of very well educated people, but with indoctrination of service and obedience, and the legacy of German science and industry and patriotism too. They broke that, but not before successfully using it for a lot of things.

That's the problem with building good systems, they prevent idiots from learning who they are earlier. It's the same with Sun and DEC and other legacy in tech. Everybody still uses their paradigms and products descended from theirs. Vision, architecture, aesthetic (only hidden somewhere deep). So everybody big has now IMHO wrong ideas about how to solve problems, but since everybody also uses solutions made by those who had right ideas 30-15 years ago, they don't get the feedback. Today's tech is a pile of crap reinforced with yesteryear grass, but it doesn't fall apart in your hands because for the main problems you use solutions from a more civilized age.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While this was informative, I don't quite understand the progressive change from concentration camps in nazi Germany to a fanatic escalating hate for.. Uh.. x86 architecture?

Sounds like a really, really wild ride to be on.

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[–] void_turtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

No, Dachau concentration camp was started in March 1933, just a few months after Hitler took power.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago

The El Salvador facility was already built in 2022 during Pres. Bukele's national crackdown on gang violence. Since it was only running at half capacity (and to ingratiate himself with Trump most likely), Bukele has offered to incarcerate deported gang members there, especially those who were refused by their home countries.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The Nazis didn't have the historical context of the Nazis' rise to power to help guide them.

[–] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

It's a very honest article.

It's hard to know how to respond, however. The problem is religion. And believe it or not, compassion and the existence of trans people is the key that has allowed the psychopathic class to gain power.

Many religious types see empathy as a threat to their religious beliefs, which are all innately fake. All people who are kind and empathetic and understand science want to be kind to people who are trans, and for religious people, this threatens the core of their belief system. In the beginning, the Unicorn Sky Man created Adam and Even, not Adam Eve and THEM. So if some people are intersex, and some people look male but feel female, or look female and feel male, it exposes the lies of their religious myths and suddenly makes the bullshit at the CORE of their cult very clear.

These religious people can't admit their beliefs are based on lies, can't admitted they were tricked into believing bullshit, and so they will cling to ANYTHING that supports their delusional moron cult instead of providing empathy to people who are different.

Suddenly, in come the psychopaths who don't give a fuck about anyone, knowing full well they can exploit this situation for more power and money. And sadly they have taken this large core of religious delusional idiots, which makes up about 65% of the country, and they are appealing directly to them: "We will support your religious delusions by hating trans people + we have some other ideas." And the 65% universally voted for it.

The other ideas are all psychopathic ideas to enrich and empower this psychopathic class, which the 65% don't understand because let's face it they are all idiots who mostly don't understand science which is why they believe in religious bullshit, and now the psychopathic class are trying to use subterfuge and obfuscation to hide the fact that the "other ideas" are going to fuck over everyone in order to consolidate power and wealth.

So previously, most cruel movements stopped because of religion: slavery stopped because white women started feeling the hypocrisy of claiming to be Christian while being cruel to black people who seemed similar to themselves, with this similarity in part because white men had been raping black women. The Holocaust stopped because there was a disabled president who felt it was immoral to kill people who were different, backed up by a public who believed Jewish people were part of their religious foundation.

So now, it's different: the others are people that the 65% can't relate to with tattoos who are either ethnically different and not linked to their religious beliefs or are trans people who they simply choose to believe are mentally ill because if trans people aren't mentally ill, it means their religion is based on lies. The psychopaths who have come into power innately understand this. I do not believe for one moment that Trump Vance and their ilk at the top really believe all this religious bullshit. They understand it and they use it.

This 65 percent is a dangerous monstrosity that is destroying the country with their stupid religious beliefs. But there's really no winning in this situation. The 65 percent cannot become "woke" because they are idiots. Would you wake up a camel or wake up a pig? Can you enlighten a rat or a turkey? No, these people will always be idiots, they are a dangerous amorphous blob of idiocy and if you try to wake them up they will cling to their bibles, truck nuts, and beer while yelling about trans people.

What is also happening is the world is currently being environmentally destroyed. At the risk of sounding crazy, but who gives a fuck because it's lemmy, we are also dealing with a strange presence that lives in our oceans with advanced technology and flying crafts. They have bases and can alter time, according to some, unless this is all a lie. We don't know why they are there, we don't know if this planet is just being farmed, or if they have always been there, waiting like cicadas to feast on all of us once become plentiful enough during some orgiastic 10000 year feast, and no one fucking discusses this bizarre situation or why they are there. The military claims they don't know. We also do not know if those beings have somehow infiltrated leadership. Our leaders are not tested for loyalty publicly. For all we know, every single major player in the US right now could be compromised. This may not even be a psychopathic class. This may be Russian compromise at best. We simply do not know who in our leaders is loyal because any adversary of the US can see this "hack" is fairly simple: appeal to the delusional bullshit of religious people by hating trans people and you can own the country, because decent politicians aren't idiots and know that intersex people and people with different gender identities exist. But 65% of the country is actually that fucking stupid.

And so this evil happens, with people being sent to a Latino Holocaust, and there's really no way to fight it because they control 65% of the public through a hack. There can be no religious awakening of these morons now because any consciousness, any awareness or decency or empathy means acknowledging trans people and that means acknowledging their religion is a heaping pile of lies, which it's always been.

The psychopathic class, or possibly a controlled class, that has gotten into power also knows the conundrum that decent leaders feel: if you are a decent leader, do you stop fighting for basic normal rights for trans people to try to get some of the 65% back, thereby ensuring some trans people will feel marginalized and literally die as a result through deaths of despair, or do you refuse to morally compromise, ensuring doom? Eventually, more accepting young people are going to start voting, so this problem will eventually go away in 20 years, but the cruelty and exploitation and viciousness is all happening right now. So what can be done right now?

I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done. I don't see a solution. I am not sure organization will do anything, protests will do anything, the math just isn't on the side of decent people. Does anyone think there is a solution to this problem that doesn't involve waiting 20 years?

[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 8 points 4 days ago

Bases and altering time?

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