Sometimes you see an image so striking that you have to state plainly that there are concentration camps inside the US with kidnapped people in them suffering
@BenRiceM @mathowie Ben, I think you are too young to have seen the Gillian Islands episode where they have logs on the beach to spell SOS but Gillian trips and makes it SOL who happens to be the name of the pilot who is flying the plane and thinks it is just a nice gesture.
@mathowie Bluebonnet?! What a nice name for such a horrible place. Trump just needs to change “detention facility” to “Summer Camp” to make everyone feel better about it, right?!
@GoofNewf @mathowie
It's appropriate because it's the state flower of this fascist place and its a good reminder that we are complicit in this. If we can make people associate bluebonnets with authoritarianism, good. This whole state was stolen to enable the slave trade to continue. Once the US banned importing new slaves, they just trafficked them through independent Texas instead. These were our so-called state founding fathers too, their names and likeness all over the place. Fuck the Alamo!
@mathowie If we had a German government and a German public that really took the responsibility of history seriously, we would have to start cutting relations with the USA now, kick all the troops out of the country and summon the ambassadors or kick them out of the country too. Never again fascism! But this country is not interested in that.

@wackJackle @mathowie

Given that Vance was booed when he visited the troops in Rammstein, I think that European governments should consider offering all US-Americans currently here the possibility of just staying here with their families before the US withdraws its troops.

@mathowie That tells you everything you need to know.
@mathowie The #USIsATerroristState Enter at your own risk. Avoid at all costs. And if you can’t leave, our deepest sympathies.
@mathowie The #USIsATerroristState Enter at your own risk. Avoid at all costs. And if you can’t leave, our deepest sympathies.
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@mathowie We heard of it before something like Guantanamo Bay
@mathowie
I'm sure the punishment for this will ensure it doesn't happen again. Expect the feds to charge the drone operator and anyone involved as terrorists

@mathowie That SOS photo will define Trump like Abu Ghraib defines W.
Shameful.

It's obvious that the GOP does not, in fact, hold these truths to be self-evident.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

@mathowie Didn't take but a hundred days before we're undeniably wallowing in the swill and the filth and the shame of it. Guess we were nearly there to begin with already huh?

@mathowie
Let's be absolutely clear.

A rich man demonized some very miserable people fleeing for their lives to a place they thought was lawful and had always admired. Now that they are unpopular the state of Texas is allowing them to be indefinitely detained, without trial, until they can be deported to a for profit prison in a third country.

And Texas is letting it happen because people think most of this group may have broken a minor law.

Christian Nationalists are coming for you next.