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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

US prisons are lethal.

Plus the body count is in the hundreds of thousands if you include his previous 4 years.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

So there's no genocide because of U.S. prison conditions? That's what you're arguing here?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -1 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry... you're denying the Holocaust happened because of German prison conditions?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

What? No I'm saying the US has been building concentration camps for years where people are routinely raped, tortured, starved, and murdererd.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Unless you are denying that Trump is instigating a genocide, what exactly is your point?

Did you just feel like telling someone at random about conditions in American prisons?

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I think they're just stating that we've already had concentration camps, things are just ramping up ig. 🤷‍♀️

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think anyone is suggesting otherwise. We had them in WWII.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not everyone knows this history, especially people who are not US or Japanese Americans

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You're very snarky today, aren't you

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Providing useful contextual information to a global audience isnt what I'd consider "snarky"

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Eh, that's on me, I think I was reading too much into things, my bad