5 year old post is suddenly relevant again

I was going to say it’s obvious, because obviously kids don’t need soap and beds within an hour…. Then I realised that’s actually not true at all!

And for those wondering why it’s relevant, ICE is holding people for weeks without soap, toothbrushes or blankets again, despite the fact the courts declared that was illegal last time Trump was in office.

Wonder how long it’ll be before our government starts arguing that detained people don’t need air. Or if they try to give them spicy air to “lower the cost of housing detained people”.

America’s direction is so fucking disappointing to me…

In a just world, this official would be locked up without soap, a toothbrush or a bed.

holy shit 977 days ?

Has something happened recently ? Did we learn something awful about detained people’s QoL ?

There’s something uniquely perverse about cruelty performed by people who will never experience the consequences of their own ideology. Unlike the Somali pirates or the Taliban—groups operating in extreme conditions, driven by survival, ideology, or desperation—the architects of modern American cruelty live in comfort. They do not suffer. They are not struggling for food or security. And yet, they choose cruelty, not as a necessity, but as a luxury.

This is performative suffering, an aesthetic of toughness projected by people who have never known real hardship. It’s the lawmakers who gut welfare programs while vacationing in gated resorts. It’s the TV pundits who sneer at working-class struggles from air-conditioned studios. It’s bureaucrats who deny migrants soap and toothpaste—not out of logistical necessity, but because cruelty itself is a flex, a demonstration of power detached from material reality.

It has no greater purpose beyond LOOKING ruthless. It is the political equivalent of posing in tactical gear without ever seeing combat, of calling for war from the safety of a country club. It is not the brutality of warriors or the desperation of insurgents. It is the decadence of empire—violence for the sake of self-image, cruelty as a luxury good.

Additional fun fact: Keeping these children in cages, without toothpaste soap and beds cost the tax payer 750$/child/day AND they couldnt account for all the children.

cruel

I like how “Somali pirate” is the new yardstick we now have to use to measure our ethics. What a time to be alive! Here’s to hoping some day we will surpass that goal!

and yet this is the man the “Christians” support

this is sad

Lmao, reddit literally resorting to “taliban were good guys” rhetoric now.

Absolute cesspit.

Thus the difference between being desperate and being a monster.