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speak easy

(11,947 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 12:30 AM Jul 2

The 'Alligator Alcatraz' is more like an 'Alligator Auschwicz*'

Last edited Wed Jul 2, 2025, 03:49 AM - Edit history (2)

This


is not a prison


it's a concentration camp

Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Poland.

EDIT: The Abominable Sadism of “Alligator Auschwitz”
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sadism-alligator-auschwitz/

*Auschwitz consisted of both concentration camps and extermination centers. The extermination centers were built after the first concentration camps.

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rubbersole

(10,095 posts)
1. This is sick shit.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 02:42 AM
Jul 2

I can't believe this is happening here. I don't know how we're going to stop them but we have to. For our children. For us.

Godot51

(538 posts)
5. A great opportunity
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 02:54 AM
Jul 2

They missed a fine chance to lock up a convicted felon today; one with many crimes committed and many yet to be discovered.

speak easy

(11,947 posts)
6. The concentration camps come first, then
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 03:37 AM
Jul 2

as time goes by they begin to look into 'special treatment.' I do not take the word 'Auschwitz' in vain. The sacred trust is Never Again.

eppur_se_muova

(39,408 posts)
7. I wasn't looking at the captions. I just thought "Damn, those really are laid out just like the barracks in the ..."
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 04:54 AM
Jul 2

"... concentration camps."

Only difference is in the materials.

Then I say the caption about Birkenau.

Then I scrolled up to see the other captions, suddenly unsure.

Because in America in 2025, that's where we are.

Vinca

(52,364 posts)
8. I know. Hard to tell which is America and which is Nazi Germany. It's hard to believe, but there it is.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 07:30 AM
Jul 2

LetMyPeopleVote

(166,210 posts)
10. The new facility is not an extermination camp but this facility clearly meets the definition of a concentration camp
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 03:02 PM
Jul 2

trump and DeathSantis have built a true concentration camp and trump is "joking" about feeding detainees to alligators. This new concentration camp scares me. There are several good comparisons of the Auschwitz camp and living facilities compared to this facility














I am former member of the board of my 2400 family temple and have got to listen a good number of holocaust survivors over the years. trump/DeathSantis' new facility is a concentration camp where it is likely that normal law abiding detainees may end up (over 60% of the ICE detainees have no criminal record).
This facility is not Auschwitz but could be just the beginning




LetMyPeopleVote

(166,210 posts)
12. The Trump Regime is following the Nazi Playbook to a tee.
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:22 PM
Jul 2


The Trump Regime is following the Nazi Playbook to a tee.

They have their own private Gestapo of unidentified masked marauders and are building Concentration/Death Camps nationwide to imprison the ICE Gestapo’s human bounty.

Do not be deceived. These camps are not only for black and brown immigrants. They will soon house the Trump Regimes domestic enemies.

This is only the beginning. Want to know their next move? Study the history of the Third Reich.

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