SAY THE WORDS: AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP
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We are sending people there and they are not coming back.

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.

  • jaschen@lemm.ee
    221·
    12 hours ago

    One thing I noted is that the majority of the people that got deported had tattoos.

    Are they intentionally seeking people like that?

    • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      I mean, this is a level too generic. They aren’t going after 60 year old women with the Rolling Stones logo tattoo’d on their thigh. However, if you are heavily tattoo’d and from a certain part of the world and a certain race, you should be pretty jittery. There’s been some collateral damage in all the ICE sweeps. The current administration is far from highly competent, and their error rate is carrying over to these arrests and deportations. I don’t trust Trump and co. with the smallest of operations, so I definitely don’t trust them with life-or-death, potentially citizenship-violating mass arrests.

        • LittleLemming@lemmy.world
          392·
          6 hours ago

          “I don’t like what they put on their own bodies so I don’t care what happens to them” must be the most brain-dead sentence I’ve read all year

            • angband@lemmy.world
              302·
              6 hours ago

              stupid. half the college grads I know, a good number of vets, and none who have ever been in trouble, ever, have tattoos. you are just sick in the head. I don’t have tattos, don’t like them, but I don’t choose my friends by it, or use it as a moral compass.

                • jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  143·
                  5 hours ago

                  i know no good people named shuhsha, and one bad one, therefore we should fucking find and kill them, lock you up and let you suffer the most inhumane fate known to mankind.

                  yeah it sounds pretty stupid?

                  or are you different? this isn’t a real argument, it’s in bad faith as a matter of category.

                  man i’ll stop feeding the troll but whoever you are i hope you know you’re stupid, vile fucking human garbage and partly responsible for the destruction of western society, not whatever weird bizzaro rhetoric you might have in turn to explain why it isn’t “like the good ol days”.

                  i’d type more but im frankly not even sure you can fucking read, idiot. lmfao.

            • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
              152·
              6 hours ago

              So where does the jump from “people that I should avoid” to rounding up and being sent to concentration camps happen? I don’t really care if you avoid people with tattoos, but where do you get off using that as a basis for persecution?

                • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  61·
                  5 hours ago

                  I’m not using it as a basis for persecution. I’m saying that I don’t care if they are persecuted

                  Those things are the same thing.

                  First they came for the Communists

                  And I did not speak out

                  Because I was not a Communist

                  Then they came for the Socialists

                  And I did not speak out

                  Because I was not a Socialist

                  Then they came for the trade unionists

                  And I did not speak out

                  Because I was not a trade unionist

                  Then they came for the Jews

                  And I did not speak out

                  Because I was not a Jew

                  Then they came for me

                  And there was no one left

                  To speak out for me

            • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              111·
              5 hours ago

              I never liked tattoos and they’re more-often-than-not an indicator of people that I should avoid.

              I never liked bootlicking, individualistic, snowflake fascists and they’re more-often-than-not an indicator of people that I should avoid.

            • Siegfried@lemmy.world
              112·
              30 minutes ago

              I never liked glasses… People who wears glasses think they make them look more inteligent, and it’s true.

              And that’s why I’m OK with putting every g*asses wearer in the meat grinder.

              Yeah, totally normal train of thoughts

            • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world
              102·
              6 hours ago

              I really hope you’re a child. If you are an adult with this opinion, I feel bad for anybody you come into contact with

        • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
          112·
          5 hours ago

          Everyone: stop feeding the troll or at least treat them like the lame troll they are. A 22 day old account whose first comment can be summarized as “I’m okay with people with tattoos going to concentration camps”.

          There are many very stupid people in the world, but few people this stupid. It’s likely a troll.

          Edit: see, even their response to this comment is designed to encourage engagement by making an easily verified false claim. Obvious troll is obvious and not even particularly creative.

            • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
              22·
              4 hours ago

              LOL you’re going to have to up your game kid, your trolling is much too obvious. I suggest sandwiching the baiting comments you want people to “rage correct” between plausible statements a person of normal intelligence would make. When every comment makes you appear implausibly stupid, it just becomes laughable. Once someone points out how you’re trolling, you’ve hit the rocks.

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          5 hours ago

          Holy crap I can’t believe you think this is about tattoos and not about atrocity. “I am okay with people being sent to concentration camps, tortured, and murdered because I don’t really like tattoos. If you find this view objectionable, it’s just because you have the tattoo mind virus and cannot tolerate criticism of tattoos.” I cannot express how fucked up this is to say. Like you may be completely detached from reality in this moment and should probably isolate yourself until loved ones can help you. You may be in danger.

        • Ickabod Kobain@lemm.eeEnglish
          41·
          5 hours ago

          Well by that logic I don’t particularly like beards therefor, all men with beards must be avoided.

        • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
          41·
          1 hour ago

          You joined April 2, 2025. I believe you are just here for thread drift, purposely derailing the topic into a meaningless discussion of tattoos by sharing ragebait.

          Uh-oh! Looks like the mods agreed! lol. Thanks mods!

        • EySkibidiBabBab@feddit.dk
          2·
          5 hours ago

          Can i ask where in the world you’re from? I’m personally from Denmark where tattoos are pretty common – i have some myself. But as i’ve come to learn, the perception of tattoos differ widely around the world.

        • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          6 hours ago

          I’m honestly ok with sending you to a concentration camp with no regards for your safety or wellbeing after that comment.

          Tattoos are a form of free speech that applies to one’s body, and should be afforded all of the protections of the first amendment.

          I cannot believe we’re having this conversation in 2025.

    • Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      10 hours ago

      This facility, built under President Nayib Bukele’s “war on gangs,” houses over 40,000 men, most of whom were arrested en masse without any process resembling justice—just tattoos, zip codes, or looking nervous.

      Not just American deportees…

        • Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          3 hours ago

          The salvadoran government was significantly supported by the US during their civil war. The war lead to mass migration of Salvadorans to the US. MS-13 was originally an LA street gang that the US deported to El Salvador, an act which launched it into an international cartel. They didn’t “make their culture this way”, the US sluffed it’s own problem upon them.

        • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          41·
          5 hours ago

          Tattoos are not a sign of a culture getting bad.

          Your behavior of intolerance is a sign, however.

          People like you are why I wish the US had re-education camps like China. You need to unlearn your bullshit.

            • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              11·
              4 hours ago

              most of whom were arrested en masse without any process resembling justice—just tattoos, zip codes, or looking nervous.

              That’s the price they pay for letting their culture get that bad.

              Why are you talking about tattoos here?

              The person you’re responding to highlighted some text from the article, pointing to injustice of the regime by believing tattoos automatically = jail.

              You said their “bad culture” is the price they pay, implicitly grouping tattoo, zip codes, and looking nervous defined by the previous comment all under “bad culture” of those who do go to jail.

              You then gaslight me for pointing out your fascism and disregard for civil liberties by avoiding any correlation with tattoos because you didn’t mention them explicitly.

              Every knows what you were talking about bro. The fact you asked this question makes me think you’re a troll with no convictions for attacking modern fascism. Thanks for giving that away so all of us can treat you as such.

    • altphoto@lemmy.today
      72·
      12 hours ago

      Or more interestingly evil…could they be given tattoos forcible to make them look like that?