When I worked for DoD. This was CBP and Other three letter groups biggest fears. Having their private lives invaded.

Might be unwise to frighten them before you have something to substantiate that fear with, they have weapons and an organization.

Cause frightening them without such basis is how you accelerate fascism. They would want to just enjoy their newly gotten power and - for the top - stolen money, but fear compels them to also press against threats to that.

Like after Bolotnaya protests in Moscow the Russian regime started doing various crap with increased tempo. They might not even have attacked Ukraine without it.

Night of Broken Glass, dude

It’s Kristallnacht, Christel has nothing to do with any of this.

.308 is expensive.

You want to know what else is expensive? Body armor.

The marines ran into this issue a while back. A lot of causalities were caused by groin shots. The chest armor they were wearing was fine for stopping 7.62, but they’d get tagged in the pelvis and bleed out anyway.

Now the marines have crotch armor too, but that’s also expensive and uncomfortable to wear.

Just a little tidbit.

I’m wondering how long until the ICE agents who drag me off are all on H1-B visas.

Red Hat losers

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We know what they want to do with the money because we saw WWI and WWII;

We might. Unfortunately, they purposely stopped teaching this shit to zoomers. And Boomers are a lost cause at this point.

Yeah, the govt spun the story of Abu Ghraib as being a few bad apples that didn’t represent American values. And of course it’s bullshit, because it’s so incredibly predictable what outcomes you will get from doing things like this. Torture and abuse are American values, because that is what America consistently and repeatedly engages in.

I’m a former gun salesman, and while I don’t condone pre-emptive violence, I am happy to advise people about the process of purchasing a firearm and selection of a first firearm for hunting, recreation, or self-defense.

The biggest piece of advice for a beginner on a budget is to get something affordable but reliable over something overly fancy and expensive. Put the savings on the firearm into ammo for training. A $400 Canik plus a few thousand rounds of training ammo is more effective at making you a good shooter than a $1500 pistol and a single box of ammo.

I have a $7000 custom precision rifle with a $3500 optic on top. With my years of experience, I can shoot about 1% better than with a $700 rifle/scope combo.

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It’s looking pretty catastrophic, the future. The climate catastrophe, the AGI singularity, and techno-feudal fascism are all imminent. Then, less imminent there’s the altered nuclear threat, antibiotic resistance, societal collapse (due to all of the above, plus unprecedented wealth inequality) to name a few.
Revolution in some form is inevitable, but it’s not guaranteed to be effective in making things better.
We’re about nine historical turning points deep already, but I think the big ones are yet to come and I hate it.

This is exactly the Nazi playbook from the 30s. And the American public is letting him do it.

Technically this is American playbook. Between USA and Germany one country doesn’t have a history of facilities for returning slaves to their owners.

But honestly I’d expect these and other people to do whatever they want until stopped.

They have the technology for a concentration camp of the future, with such a degree of control that it can be relied to guard itself and arm its owners. They are using it. Want to fix something - look for holes.

Look on the bright side! All this money is going to be contracted out to companies that these new oligarchs control, and by the time they funnel most of the money to their wallet only a handful of new prisons will actually get built. We will have to hope the grift can get in the way of the the new Holocaust that Stephen Miller is planning,

To not be American and watch this all unfold truly shows us what Americans are all about. Around the globe we’ve listened for a long time about how dominant they are in everything but when it comes to standing up for themselves and their fellow man, they sit down.

Funny fact about a cage, they’re never built for just one group, so when the cage is done with them and you’re still poor. It come for you.

For comparison, the Trump Admin just approved a 5000 bed tent camp at Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. The contract was awarded to Acquisition Logistics for $1.26B.

That’s $252k per bed. There’s easily enough money there to build single family homes for every one of them, and even that would be wasteful. (And yes, even in high cost of living areas, the sheer scale involved would almost certainly bring costs below that number).

When we say “the cruelty is the point”, this is why. There’s a lack of other explanations for their actions.

They are already constructing a 30,000 bed facility at Guantanamo. The EO was signed, and the $250 million contract awarded, months ago, with absolutely no peep from the media, then or since.

For context, Guantanamo currently has a capacity for up to about 250 people. The average maximum security prison in America holds around 800-1200 people. The largest prison in America is in Angola, LA, and holds about 8000.

So this new facility will hold almost 4 times as many as our biggest prison, and about 30 times more than our average prison. Guantanamo is in a remote corner of Cuba, so if they are so hot to deport all the illegals, who do they intend to house there, out of sight of the courts, their lawyers, and the media?

I suspect it will be AMERICAN political prisoners - media, opposition candidates, protest organizers, loudmouth celebrities, etc.