• @whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    132 months ago

    It’s not a legal black hole, it’s illegal according to the constitution, and senators should be going there to take pictures and video to show the public what actually happens there.

  • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    312 months ago

    Im going to go out on limb and assume it’s because the place has always been a legal black hole for everyone sent there.

  • Maple Engineer
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    -82 months ago

    The expanded prison at gitmo is going to come in handy when the US starts rounding up Trumpists and billionaires for reeducation and wealth redistribution.

      • Maple Engineer
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        22 months ago

        That’s how this ends. The French perfected the process with the invention of the guillotine.

        • Flying Squid
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          They perfected it so well that Napoleon was crowned emperor with even more power than the King had 15 years later.

          • Maple Engineer
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            32 months ago

            Revolution is never perfect and things often get worse before they get better but the current path that the US is on leads to a bloodbath.

            • Flying Squid
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              32 months ago

              One comment ago:

              The French perfected the process

              This comment:

              Revolution is never perfect

              I don’t think I want someone this inconsistent leading the glorious uprising.

                • Flying Squid
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                  12 months ago

                  Which is going to happen? The perfect thing or the thing that’s never perfect?

  • Dem Bosain
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    622 months ago

    Just remember that Bush sent “terrorists” to Guantanamo Bay so they would not have constitutional protections.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      122 months ago

      And Dems never put an end to it…

      You could argue the base does other stuff like agriculture washes of equipment before returning, but good luck explaining to the Cubans we need a part of their island to hose off shit too dangerous to be hosed off in America.