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[-] jumperalex@lemmy.world 243 points 3 weeks 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.world 61 points 3 weeks 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!

[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] PDFuego@lemmy.world 153 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sure plenty of homeless people will get to stay there 😊

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

God is Jesus all the time. Braise the Lord. Amen in the chat if you Jesus every day in the shower. 🙏

[-] Zidane@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm about to jesus my pants

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 106 points 3 weeks ago

I'm so glad the yellow underline exists in this 60-word screenshot to tell me where I should pay attention. I don't think my poor, dystrophied zoomer brain could sit down for the average 15 seconds it would take otherwise.

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 60 points 3 weeks ago
[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago

Wait I need my subway surfer footage

[-] capuccino@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

And a ton of auto-bad-generated subtitles bumping in the screen

[-] match@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

thanks, you later

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[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

Oooh, a wild "dystrophied" appeared! 😱 So rare, so shiny!

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Rare, and I meant to say "atrophied" but can't now because it's been called out. 😩

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, dialectic morphology has to start somewhere. ✊🏼🤓

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

And what's with the borders?

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Makes easier to understand it's two different posts from two different people. Easily confused otherwise

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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

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[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 72 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks 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.works 14 points 3 weeks 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."

[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 11 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 62 points 3 weeks ago

Provide unlivable caging, you mean. Homeless people don't deserve to be "housed" in something like this any more than undocumented immigrants do. The reason homeless housing takes money and time is that it's supposed to be humane, and put people where they can interact with the resources of the community. Alligators aren't NIMBYs, and the administration ignored environmentalist organizations that protested on their behalf.

[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks 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.world 35 points 3 weeks 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.com 13 points 3 weeks 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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 3 weeks ago

What's a "ground bloomer"?

[-] T156@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

I believe they call them "flowers".

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

oh of course, don't forget to always keep your safety flowers with yourself if you want to escape after being kidnapped

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

They have to survive the swamp and patrols though. Once escaped, then what? They can't get a job etc

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks 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.dk 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 3 weeks ago

elemental mercury itself its the least toxic, its only the ones that are organo-mercury compounds.

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/mercury-has-long-poisoned-gold-miners-new-strategy-helping-change

This toxic chemical has been used in small-scale gold mining for more than 3,000 years and can cause irreversible brain damage.

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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago
[-] SARGE@startrek.website 39 points 3 weeks ago

Bastards and pieces of shit.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 12 points 3 weeks 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.

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I'm sure a human domicile would be a bit more robust than "alligator Alcatraz" so instead of 8 days, it might take more like.... 8 weeks? To build something comparable for the homeless?

Depending on how complex each housing unit is (bathrooms/kitchens/whatever) possibly more or less. Idk.

But knowing that the world runs on capitalist dollars, there's no profit in it. They can't pay rent, they don't have any money, and they would actively cost you money, either in property tax, water, power, and/or food... Not to mention any replacement costs for any fixtures or furniture that's damaged/stolen.

Not saying the unhoused are thieves, but a nontrivial number of them are desperate, and desperate people do things that they otherwise wouldn't consider doing.

In any case, the solution to the homeless "problem" (being that people are homeless at all) is not just housing, but also community services to get any drug users into their respective rehabilitation programs, and anyone willing and able to work, into job placements... Mental health services...

All of these things cost money and don't yield any profits, so I understand why they're not done. That doesn't mean I'm ok with it not being done, it's a shame that we've left a portion of the population to fend for themselves on the streets and we almost universally dehumanize them as less than a person because they're homeless. They're people. We should take care of them because they're people.

No child left behind, but anyone post highschool that's living on the streets, fuck them.... I guess.

[-] acchariya@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] don@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Housing the homeless: I sleep

Build a concentration camp: real shit

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

Or COVID quarantine/vaccination centres similar to those China built in a few days during the pandemic.

[-] luce 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

if the U.S was to ethically and legally house the homeless it would cost much more because criminals, the homeless, as well as some other outgroups are the only groups whose dehumanization is legal, meaning that to ethically house (and therefore humanize) them would be much more expensive as humans require more than just cages to live.

i agree with the tweet though, im just saying that the homeless can and should be provided with adequate housing and that we can and should imagine and work towards better then cages for our future.

[-] Wilco@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

.. and it's already flooding apparently.

[-] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

advertising and bribery are awesome tools to help make your dystopia fetishes into reality

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