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[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In today's news, people can think about more than one thing at a time. Border policy doesn't negate the fact that the Climate Bill and the Infrastructure Bill were objectively good, historic pieces of legislation.

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think that answers my question? How many children are still locked up in concentration camps on the border? What is the number? Do you even know or are you just completely checked out from the issue because you are morally reprehensible? Let me illuminate it for you, 1 in 3 of all migrants held in america's concentration camps is a child.

The fact the US has concentration camps on the border and that liberals have just conveniently forgotten about it and gone back to brunch as soon as Biden became president is the problem here. You make claims before an election about issues and then do nothing about them when you have every power to do so. Then you wonder why nobody is enthused to vote for a gaggle of liars.

Pretending that the US is doing literally anything about climate is also a joke. The bill is worthless because it does not change the fact that fossil industries have a higher rate of profit than renewables and until this is resolved every single action on climate is completely performative that only brings us closer and closer to the inevitable disaster that capitalism has caused. What you are doing is greenwashing concentration camps.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, here's the funny thing about the internet: No one is obligated to engage in questions posed in bad faith.

Here's what the climate bill contains for anyone actually interested:
https://youtu.be/qw5zzrOpo2s

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wasn't asked in bad faith. If you knew the answer beforehand I would have happily conceded you do in fact care about having concentration camps. Not knowing is absolutely a sign of being checked out, which is half the issue here, none of you actually do anything except vote. You see politics as something you do once every few years and as a spectator sport the rest of the time. You have no concept of electoral vs non-electoral politics, you literally do not take part politically except as entertainment consumption outside of voting. You all have this embarrassing mindset:

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The definition of a concentration camp is: "a place in which large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities".

They are concentration camps. Calling them "migrant detention facilities" does not change their function. It also does not change the fact that the US has been forcefully sterilising women in them either.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"If families were detained, they would be held for short periods of time, perhaps just a few days, and their cases expedited through immigration court"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/07/biden-migrant-families-detention

Not concentration camps. You don't get to leave a concentration camp after having your day in court. Are detention centers ideal? No. But neither is leaving people in the desert without food, water, or shelter, (or worse, leaving them prey to local vigilantes).

Yes, the Trump administration was keeping people in horrific conditions, forcibly sterilizing women, and separating children from their parents without cause and without tracking. If you have some specific evidence that those abuses continue to this day under the Biden administration, please feel free to share.

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

55 days is the average amount of time people spend there. This is not a "small amount of time".

Stop replying to me. I don't want to hear this apologism for literal concentration camps anymore. Get a grip. You're defending the fact that one third of these people are literal children getting locked up for 2 months at a time as if that's normal, fine and good. If you were a German in Nazi germany you would have defended your government every single step of the way.

If you want to learn about the abuses LOOK IT UP, it is nobody's responsibility to educate you. You know how to use google.

Now stop responding to me with concentration camp denial.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

"If families were detained, they would be held for short periods of time, perhaps just a few days, and their cases expedited through immigration court"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/07/biden-migrant-families-detention

Not concentration camps. You don't get to leave a concentration camp after having your day in court. Are detention centers ideal? No. But neither is leaving people in the desert without food, water, or shelter, (or worse, leaving them prey to local vigilantes).

Yes, the Trump administration was keeping people in horrific conditions, forcibly sterilizing women, and separating children from their parents without cause and without tracking. If you have some specific evidence that those abuses continue to this day under the Biden administration, please feel free to share.