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WOLFMAN87

(23 posts)
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 04:02 PM Nov 21

Mark These Words - There will be concentration camps.

They will take pains to give them a innocuous names, and avoid saying the word camps, but in my book a place to hold hated "undesirable" persons against their will are concentration camps, no matter how long they are detained there.
There is just too much money to be earned for the haters not to create a system that will deport the hated.
Speaking of money, you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be innocents whose lives will be ruined by being swept up in this heinous dragnet.

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Mark These Words - There will be concentration camps. (Original Post) WOLFMAN87 Nov 21 OP
Lots of empty prisons in this country... lame54 Nov 21 #1
They'll start with undocumented immigrants. no_hypocrisy Nov 21 #2
I'd like to say: Don't be silly, we're still a fair and loving country. chouchou Nov 21 #3
Post removed Post removed Nov 21 #4
Your words are so very true. Boy..Sometimes a person REALLY wants to wake up.... chouchou Nov 21 #6
"They will take pains to give them a innocuous names, and avoid saying the word camps..." LudwigPastorius Nov 21 #5
Dumb move in a country packed to the gills with firearms. roamer65 Nov 21 #7
G.O.P. will market them as retreats: Air D & P's BoRaGard Nov 21 #8
Yeah they will be FEMA style tent camps. Mostly dreamers and old maids. joshcryer Nov 21 #9
Here's what I want to know - Initech Nov 21 #10
I don't think that's the part of the DOD they'll be cutting. In fact, Eloon... keep_left Nov 21 #16
'concentration camps' are expensive and are the opposite of deportation Bonx Nov 21 #11
They need facilities WOLFMAN87 Nov 21 #13
The private prison industry is for it! Their stock soared with Trump's 'win' travelingthrulife Nov 21 #15
That makes no sense unless they are planning extermination. milestogo Nov 21 #12
Concentration camp does not include killing inmates WOLFMAN87 Nov 21 #17
Why use the term then? Mosby Nov 21 #21
Well... maybe. KentuckyWoman Nov 21 #18
The US put Japanese in concentration camps in WW2 NickB79 Nov 21 #19
Internment camps milestogo Nov 21 #20
"...there will be innocents whose lives will be ruined..." B.See Nov 21 #14

no_hypocrisy

(49,204 posts)
2. They'll start with undocumented immigrants.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 04:25 PM
Nov 21

Then legal immigrants.
Then naturalized immigrants.
Then democratic officeholders.
Then journalists.
Then activists.
Then generic Democrats.
Then us.

Response to chouchou (Reply #3)

chouchou

(1,430 posts)
6. Your words are so very true. Boy..Sometimes a person REALLY wants to wake up....
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 04:58 PM
Nov 21

...and think.."Whoa..THAT was a crummy dream!"

LudwigPastorius

(11,084 posts)
5. "They will take pains to give them a innocuous names, and avoid saying the word camps..."
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 04:35 PM
Nov 21

History doesn't repeat itself, but it sometimes rhymes.

roamer65

(37,231 posts)
7. Dumb move in a country packed to the gills with firearms.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:01 PM
Nov 21

Recipe for secession and civil war.

BoRaGard

(3,177 posts)
8. G.O.P. will market them as retreats: Air D & P's
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:22 PM
Nov 21

for Air Discipline & Punishment "retreats"

To satisfy the repubes anti-christian
vengeance and sadism kink thingy.

joshcryer

(62,507 posts)
9. Yeah they will be FEMA style tent camps. Mostly dreamers and old maids.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:24 PM
Nov 21

It's going to be an absolute shitshow.

Initech

(102,512 posts)
10. Here's what I want to know -
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:28 PM
Nov 21

How are they going to use the military to deport 13 million people when the fucking idiots said they're going to cut the Department of Defense? I can't even with their bullshit.

keep_left

(2,528 posts)
16. I don't think that's the part of the DOD they'll be cutting. In fact, Eloon...
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:43 PM
Nov 21

...made a statement about how they were planning a carve-out or exemption from the radical austerity to which the rest of us "little people" will be subjected.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219744877#post31

WOLFMAN87

(23 posts)
13. They need facilities
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:22 PM
Nov 21

Places to sort them process them, until they can load them on planes.

Countries will refuse them if it is millions. Then where will they go?

Besides the govt will pay high prices to investors.

travelingthrulife

(953 posts)
15. The private prison industry is for it! Their stock soared with Trump's 'win'
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:37 PM
Nov 21

They will use them for very cheap labor and the prison industry gets a slice of that pie.
My brother worked at a metals factory in Wisconsin while taking care of my parents. He said they bussed prisoners in from Milwaukee prisons daily and they worked side by side with him.

milestogo

(18,274 posts)
12. That makes no sense unless they are planning extermination.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 05:45 PM
Nov 21

Deportation does not imply extermination.

WOLFMAN87

(23 posts)
17. Concentration camp does not include killing inmates
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:47 PM
Nov 21

German concentration camps were first used for weeding out undesirables, then forced labor, then the final solution

American concentration camp in WW2. We're used to concentrate the Japanese population of the US, but without the killing

Mosby

(17,643 posts)
21. Why use the term then?
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 11:11 PM
Nov 21

Why not call them internment camps?

We all know why.

Loaded language[a] is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations. This type of language is very often made vague to more effectively invoke an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes.[1][2][3] Loaded words and phrases have significant emotional implications and involve strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.

KentuckyWoman

(6,891 posts)
18. Well... maybe.
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:54 PM
Nov 21
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/deceiving-the-public

At the same time, positive stories were fabricated as part of the planned deception. One booklet printed in 1941 glowingly reported that, in occupied Poland, German authorities had put Jews to work, built clean hospitals, set up soup kitchens for Jews, and provided them with newspapers and vocational training. Posters and articles continually reminded the German population not to forget the atrocity stories that Allied propaganda spread about Germans during World War I, such as the false charge that Germans had cut off the hands of Belgian children.

The perpetrators also hid their murderous intentions from many of the victims. Before and after the fact, the Germans used deceptive euphemisms to explain and justify deportations of Jews from their homes to ghettos or transit camps, and from the ghettos and camps to the gas chambers at Auschwitz and other killing centers. German officials stamped “evacuated,” a word with neutral connotations, on the passports of Jews deported from the Germany and Austria to the “model” ghetto at Theresienstadt, near Prague, or to ghettos in the East. German bureaucrats characterized deportations from the ghettos as “resettlements,” though such “resettlement” usually ended in death.

B.See

(3,825 posts)
14. "...there will be innocents whose lives will be ruined..."
Thu Nov 21, 2024, 08:32 PM
Nov 21

YES, there will. And when that happens who's going to hear them out? The gestapo that rounded them up in the first place? Sure....

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