• America@sh.itjust.works
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    Alright, so follow me here. In Germany, they did this to steal money and assets, and feed fervor. Here in the US, what assets do these people have? The average person has a slightly negative net worth and puts more into the economy than they have. So not only is this utterly abominable, morally unquestionably vile, it’s also economically stupid. They’re pulling us over toward the edge, toward instability. And for what? To make fascists feel like we’re doing something as a country? Disgusting.

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      • The fascists have a quota of 3000 people abducted a day nationally, so they don’t care what their status is.
      • For-profit concentration camps (like this run by GEO Group) are paid per person enslaved.
      • They actually are enslaved, as they are normally never convicted of a crime but instead forced to work what is called “optional” labor. However, the labor is far from optional as refusing to do it will land you in solitary confinement or other forms of punishment.
      • the fascists get to do their racist agenda, and the capitalists get to make money. The only people that lose is everyone else.
    • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
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      It is being done to intentionally destroy the country.

      What is happening to America is what we saw start happening to businesses in the 70s and 80s. Corporate raiders buy up a business to saddle it with their own debt, transfer all wealth out, and eventually bankrupt it and part it out.

      The wealthy finally have enough money and power to start doing this to big countries. The end result they are going for is several smaller countries, each controlled by a different corporate structure, none of which will be able to stop them as they go after other countries.

      This is not “trump’s plan”. He is just doing what he always does, destroying a business while he remains legally clear of showing that he is doing so intentionally, enriching himself and the people who paid him to do it in the process.

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      wow… what? If you are not saying, those actions would be justified if y’all would profit, what was this all about?

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        That’s not what i read at all. More an observation that they don’t have any reason.

        Like a blind person walking up and punching you for no reason. If you knew that they thought, they had a reason; you could understand why it happened, but it doesn’t mean that it’d be justified.

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          Maybe OP meant it that way.

          BTW, if someone is looking for reasons, they skipped important history lessons.

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            I mean, I stated the reason. Fueling feelings of vindication and wholeness in a deeply shitty minority. Strengthening group mentality.

            And I’d only be saying they’re justified if it read sympathetic to the holocaust. I don’t think it reads sympathetic to the holocaust, but you might have a different definition of vile or unconscionable than I do.

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    These jerkasses need to be tarred and feathered on main street. Wtf are we doing?

  • W. Pilecki@piefed.social
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    JFC, tire shop workers are some of the hardest working dudes. It feels like we’re playing that mesoamerican rock football game where the best players were sacrificed.