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CubitOom
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1·14 hours agoI don’t need to see either to know that is not true.
19·16 hours agoMore accurate headline:
Third person [José Chajón-Raxón] dies at New Jersey [concentration camp called Delaney Hall]
More accurate headline:
Third person [José Chajón-Raxón] dies at New Jersey [concentration camp called Delaney Hall]
5·2 days agoI think games are one of the best mediums to question and test your beliefs in.
For example, it’s easy to win at tropico if you just pay people a living wage and make housing cheap.
Well, look, I like the
ChristmasAI Jesus with a piss filter best when I’m sayin’ grace. When you say grace, you can say it to Grown-up Jesus, or Teenage Jesus, or Bearded Jesus, or whoever you want.
We can blame multiple things. But I think we have to remember that capitalism and greed has been the leading cause or excuse of this behavior for most of human history.
Hitler became wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
The slave trade was extremely lucrative for the Dutch east India company.
Most empires in history traded humans they conquered as commodities.
This is to say, the point isnt only just cruelty.
I think the more abstract power concept is also very much the point, but it might be harder for some people to grasp. It is hard to quantify power, but easy to quantify money. And money is traded for power in our society.
3·2 days agoThe family included women recording on smartphones and children who had already been sprayed with chemical irritants for asking questions.
Please correct me if this incident is unrelated
Turns out, for-profit concentration camps want to keep getting paid.
What do you think it is?
Good point.
Please note, I replaced the article, here is the article that was being quoted above.
But two weeks ago, a federal judge ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release him, ruling that agents did not have probable cause to make the arrest. In the courtroom, Judge Julie Rubin rebuked the ICE officers for failing to follow due process and described the incident outside the school as a “stomach churner.”
No way he fit in that
4·4 days agoWhat does the surveillance state exist for?
More accurate headline:
ICE extends no-bid contract for major [concentration camp] in Texas, rejecting calls for closure [after repeated human rights abuses and deaths]