Alligators and crocs can eat some pretty horrible things with no ill effects, but I bet she would give them terrible indigestion, and other GI tract probs…
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So, this has a very long set of twitter screen shots that would be unwieldy to post them all here, so I’m gonna put the first one and then you can follow the link for the rest…
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- Upon arrival at CECOT, the detainees were greeted by a prison official who stated, “Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn’t leave.” Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.
- In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.
During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. The detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.
- While at CECOT, prison officials repeatedly told Plaintiff Abrego Garcia that they
would transfer him to the cells containing gang members who, they assured him, would “tear” him apart.
- Indeed, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia repeatedly observed prisoners in nearby cells who he understood to be gang members violently harm each other with no intervention from guards or personnel. Screams from nearby cells would similarly ring out throughout the night without any response from prison guards on personnel.
- During his first two weeks at CECOT, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia suffered a significant deterioration in his physical condition and lost approximately 31 pounds (dropping from approximately 215 pounds to 184 pounds).
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That sounds like another variation on the Nazi Bar analogy, only IRL. And this prescient gentleman was absolutely correct. This is where we are. “You can’t call them Nazis” because reasons has gotten us to the place where the not-Nazi fascists have control of pretty much every facet of government and working on the other levers of society. We are rapidly running out of time to realize exactly what they are, I am of the firm opinion that 2025 off-off year elections will go a long way to deciding where we go. Here is my prediction (keeping in mind how utterly wrong I was about 2024!) Either Dems seriously overperform and the MAGAts panic, resulting in efforts to cancel or modify the midterm elections to protect themselves, or the fascists do well and it is a death spiral from there. If that happens, I fear there is no peaceful way out of this (and yes, this does assume that there is still a peaceful way out now…)
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I can’t see this administration posting something from Four Freedoms or The Problem We All Have to Deal With…
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In 1933:
Following the Nazi rise to power prisoners were initially taken to existing prisons and workhouses, but these institutions were soon unable to cope with the scale and rate of arrests. Camps then appeared wherever the SA , SS and police could securely detain people: from SA pubs, to airfields, to vacant hotels, to castles, to sports grounds, to apartments.
Facilities such as toilets, heating, and washrooms were lacking in these camps. Where these facilities were present, they were usually in a poor and unsanitary condition.
https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/the-first-camps/
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I shall refer to it as The Old Glory Hole Club
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advocate measures including “cancellation insurance”
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appealed for donations to OGC in a podcast, saying that the money “will one day be used for mutual aid for our friends that get doxed or fired…"
That’s really not a bad idea (IIRC, war resisters have used this strategy). Except, if one is the type who goes around with a big boner for “self-reliance” & “rugged individualism,” then it just makes one look like an abject chump. (I’d venture it’s a grift, anyway)
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Hmm. Respectfully, please don’t? I get what you’re saying, but it still carrying a feeling of homophobia. (Also, properly run glory holes are for good intentions, these clubs are very much not.)
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essential for draining reservoirs fast in an emergency.
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Thinking back to Oct. 2012 when Chris Christie got viciously attacked by his fellow Republicans for interacting amicably with Pres. Obama when he came to inspect the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy. A party like that was ripe for a takeover by a divisive hater like Trump.
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