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Voluntaryist, privacy nut, pissed off would be radical optimist. Software architect, developer, "hey you" by trade.
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sister_sam 6 days ago
Not a conspiracy theory any more. The “camps” are here in all but name ICE is actively buying and converting at least 20–23 massive warehouses around the country into detention “mega‑centers,” each projected to hold between roughly 1,500 and 10,000 people. These sites are on top of an existing network of more than 200 detention facilities, including tent camps like Camp East Montana and “Alligator Alcatraz,” which have been cited for dozens of violations and reports of abuse, medical neglect, and overcrowding. With new funding from the 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill,” ICE capacity is on track to nearly double, from about 70,000 to potentially 150,000 people locked up at one time, overwhelmingly in for‑profit facilities. How it matches the old “conspiracy theory” Journalists and historians are now explicitly describing this as a system of mass incarceration of civilians outside the ordinary legal process, with warehouse‑scale sites and tent cities whose stated purpose is to enable faster mass deportations. ​ The key elements people used to call “tin‑foil hat” ideas—repurposed prisons and warehouses, large‑scale camps in the desert, legal gray zones where people can effectively disappear for months—are all now documented features of U.S. immigration enforcement. This is not misreading the moment: the infrastructure, funding, and legal doctrines to “toss people into” mass detention already exist, and they are being actively expanded under color of law even as conditions and abuses are being documented in mainstream outlets. Feeling horror and a profound loss of trust in this context is not catastrophizing; it is an accurate moral response to what the record shows is actually happening
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sister_sam 1 week ago
Exactly right. The dark "conspiracy theory" of government building interment camps and disappearing people are true and with what is basically a beyond stopping army of the POTUS gathering up people. AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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sister_sam 1 week ago
Translation. Team Trump weaponizes media in fewer hands that support Trump. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed Nexstar Media Group's $6.2 billion purchase of broadcast rival Tegna, an apparent reversal from earlier criticism of the deal. “We need more competition against THE ENEMY, the Fake News National TV Networks,” Trump wrote on social media. “Letting Good Deals get done like Nexstar - Tegna will help knock out the Fake News because there will be more competition. ... GET THAT DEAL DONE.”
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sister_sam 1 week ago
The world of AI, robots, automation is very two-faced. On one hand there is all the excitement about purported hyper-abundance just around the corner and life of plenty for all. OTOH we act as our evolved psychology leads us to that Scarcity is the base reality. So if each individual doesn't scratch just the right itch that won't be replaced overnight then so sad, too bad for them. On the one hand the big beautiful dream and on the other hand complete uncaring can't afford to care because there is not enough, never enough and well it is too bad. This is a very explosive juxtaposition. It is a deep problem how humans overcome their evolved deep expectation of scarcity and do it fast enough. Otherwise we go out of our way to create scarcity even where there is abundance either fully present or easily in reach.