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U.S. sending nonviolent, "low-risk" migrants to Guantanamo, despite vow to detain "the worst" there (www.cbsnews.com)

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

First "Violent" undocumented immigrants.

Then "Non-Violent" undocumented immigrants.

Then trans people?

Then documented but deemed undesirable immigrants?

Maybe citizens who have done the worst possible crimes?

Citizens who disagree too loudly with Trump or Musk?

When do you suppose they'll build the next camp?

When do you suppose they'll get to "the gays" or "the blacks?"

When will they get to your neighbor? Or to you?

When will it finally be enough for those who voted to put him in power? Ever?

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

I recently saw a meeting of my school district's board of trustees and they were essentially asking the superintendent about this and what do we do? How do we assuage fears? How do we keep kids and families safe?

The answers pretty much boiled down to we won’t see roundups here like we’ve seen in other cities because of rules. We're woefully unprepared for what's to come and I frankly have no clue what to do. I'm so fucking scared.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, okay, rules. This administration will certainly obey these rules. Wow.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Friendly reminder that about 2lbs of sugar ruins about 2 tons of concrete.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Is this a sugar in gas tank reference, or a general sabotage ref? Does sugar actually destroy concrete?

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

It delays the setting time.

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

You would have to add it while it's still mixing right?

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Lol, yeah you can't mix sugar into already set concrete. 🤣

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

You could pour it on while it's wet, but would that do much?

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm no expert, I looked it up. It won't destroy concrete unless crazy large amounts are dumped in the mix.

Yes, while mixing. Like any other chemical reaction it requires contact to make the reaction. If the contact is limited to a certain area only that area will be impacted. It's not magic. The sugar doesn't multiply and move itself through the median.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Mercury on aluminum on the other hand...

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That creates an alloy. A mixture of metals. Concrete and sugar are not metal.

Edit to clarify:

Sugar is organic; Concrete is a mixture of minerals

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Is mayonnaise a metal?

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Egg whites and oil . . .

Idfk

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't it move via osmosis?

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Would sugar move via the act that is water moving? No, sugar is not water.

Movement of water towards to more concentrated compartment Osmosis is the spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively-permeable membrane from a region of high water potential to a region of low water potential, in the direction that tends to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides. Wikipedia

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Excuse me, diffusion not osmosis.

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Sugar is a solid. It's not a gas or liquid. Cement is a liquid mixture of solids.

No, I don't think sugar will have enough time to diffuse through Cement without actually mixing it in. If you poor sugar on top of poured cement it may diffuse a bit, but not throughout the whole thing.

Cement doesn't even flow like water for the most part.

Again, not an expert, I understand basic physics and the properties of things. I could be wrong.

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

What if it was simple syrup? I think we're on to something here.

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think the effects will be seen in a decent amount of time for the effort involved.

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"First they came for the communists..."

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 30 points 2 years ago

A concentration camp. When do we start calling it what it obviously is!?

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago

My partner was watching “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” at the time i encountered the first photograph of the tents they are putting up “to house thousands of immigrants”

They have no official plan what to do with them after they are there.

The resemblance is uncanny and impossible to ignore.

The correct time to call them concentration camps is the exact second you learn of there existence. One cannot be mistaken. They are what they are and we all know it.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When do we start calling it what it obviously is!?

Only when the democrats aren't in office.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 years ago

Hey Dems! Here is a slam dunk. This should be on every front page, local and national. The start of concentration camps.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

Imagine believing that the dems would care.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago

Feels like no one cares except for their 4 and no more.

[-] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Not only a concentration camp but also a black site! No rights, no questions, no record.

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

It always strikes me as odd when people's reaction to seeing a news story on mainstream media is to complain about it not being reported by mainstream media.

Also, the Democratic Party does not determine what's on the front page of newspapers. In fact it seems a lot of media is being told handle Trump with kid gloves since the news isn't a big money maker for the huge corporations that own them and their owners are worried about reprisals from Trump against the more profitable parts of their corporations.

NY Times is independently owned tho, and they had a good piece on it a few days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/gitmo-migrants-trump.html

Didn't make the front page because of some stuff in Gaza and below the fold they had a story explaining some of the nuances of birthright citizenship.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Incredibly disgusting to see.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Undocumented immigrants, this is your "Get out!" moment right here. Hate to see you leave but I hate for you to be tortured for essentially not filling paperwork.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

As everything collapses here, it reminds me just how awful the conditions really are for so many people back home. They would rather stay in (or even come to) this cesspool, even with these high profile risks.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 8 points 2 years ago

I think the plan is simply to fill it up ASAP so they can start “temporarily” holding deportees in domestic prisons and using them for cheap labor. It doesn’t even need to stay full, it just needs to incite a “change of plans”.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

How long before someone calls it a happy camp not ever having seen south park?

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

What's the point of having concentration camps if they don't use them? \s \s \s

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Obviously he meant the people who are on “the worst” position of his list of undesirable.

I wish i could say that ironically but its absolutely what he meant.

Once he runs out of ~~jews~~ immigrants it will be the ~~roma~~ gender diverse.

People like myself are quick to follow, everyone who does not comply will eventually.

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

When you’re a racist asshole, all of the non-white people are “the worst”. I’d expect nothing less from TFG.

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