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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by kashunstva on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:44AM (#44462145)
> Calling immigration detention “concentration camps” makes no sense.

I don’t think you are paying attention to the abject cruelty in the administration’s own discourse about these facilities. The U.S. president describing with barely restrained delight his anticipation that escapees from the new facility in Florida would be eaten by alligators. I suppose if called out on it, he’d claim it’s a joke. I’m sure many regimes in history had their own euphemistic terms for facilities such as this; but purposeful cruelty is a cardinal feature of concentration camps in my view.

Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by refurb on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:40PM (#44469940)
> The U.S. president describing with barely restrained delight his anticipation that escapees from the new facility in Florida would be eaten by alligators

Do you have a specific quote you can share? I haven't seen what you're referring to.

And I guess I think back to facilities like Alcatraz. It was created such that anyone trying to escape would likely drown. Is that the same thing you're talking about?

Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by foldr on Saturday July 05, 2025 @01:10PM (#44474084)
You can find this by googling "trump allegator escape".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cdxlld0dgxwo

Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by refurb on Saturday July 05, 2025 @09:49PM (#44477120)
I don’t see “barely contained glee at immigrants being eaten by alligators”, I see an attempt at making a funny comment about escaping alligators by not running in a straight line.
Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by foldr on Sunday July 06, 2025 @05:42AM (#44479219)
That seems like a paraphrase of the same thing? He’s joking about prisoners trying to escape the camp and being eaten by alligators.