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"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31800514

“There’s no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don’t think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It’s easy to put tents in Florida. But they’re putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why.”

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    80·
    24 days ago

    They can get away with a concentration camp on the mainland. That’s not the problem.

    What they want is secrecy. That concerns me considerably more because it means there’s something they want to do in it that they won’t be able to keep secret on the mainland. It’s not just a concentration camp.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        33·
        23 days ago

        Maybe? Elon wants to put chips in people’s brains doesn’t he? He’s gonna have tens of thousands of people to medically experiment with like all the monkeys he killed.

        Wasn’t there an interview where some billionaires quizzed a marxist on how to control people in their survival bunkers post-collapse and one of the suggestions one the billionaires had was brain chips? I might be misremembering but someone might know the article I’m talking about.

        EDIT: This is the one I had in mind. Brainchips not mentioned so I misremembered. But I think it still fits.

        Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked: “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the Event?”

        The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr Robot hack that takes everything down.

        This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed in time.

        • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          18·
          23 days ago

          How do I secure the viability of my tiny society of post-apocalyptic survivors?

          Do I set up a fair and equitable system that benefits all and promotes the building of community and solidarity?

          Nah… I’ll just put bombs around my armed goons’ necks.

    • Cammy [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      26·
      23 days ago

      It’s horrifying what is happening. I can only imagine what will be revealed after someone risks their life to expose it.

      • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        17·
        23 days ago

        And then - at best - the libs will be mad about it for a couple of news cycles. It will have absolutely no consequences to the people responsible.

        If anything it will start a “open-minded debate” on whether non-Aryans deserve human rights. Most people will thing they don’t.

    • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      23 days ago

      I remember in Australia they moved our refugee/immigrant camps because the local ones got harrassed a lot. It apparently doesn’t take that much to put it far away