Robert ReichJul 6, 2025
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jul 6, 2025

@rbreich

"Not Alligator Alcatraz. Alcatraz held people who had been convicted in a court of law.

This is Alligator Auschwitz, which will hold people who are not charged with anything other than the crime of being brown, just like Auschwitz held those for the crime of being a Jew."
-Керрі Світ
https://bsky.app/profile/carriesweet.bsky.social/post/3lsragabzhs2f

#Trump #GOP #Republicans #AlligatorAlcatraz #AlligatorAuschwitz #ConcentrationCamps #Fascism #USPol #Politics #Florida #US #USA

Show threadHinz_oder_Kunz

@ZhiZhu @rbreich I beg to differ. Auschwitz was an institution of industrial mass murder. Entire trainloads of people (that's 1000+ humans in case "trainloads" sounds too abstract) were killed immediately after arrival in purpose-built facilities. And it was one site in a grand scheme of genocide.

Trump is evil. Alligator Alcatraz must not be. But it is not Auschwitz.

Jul 6, 2025 at 3:42pmWeb
Show threadAaronJul 6, 2025
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich Give them a few months.
Show threadFlock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️Jul 6, 2025
@hosford42 @Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich they won’t start mass murdering people in Florida. Instead they will deport them to countries they’ve never been to, like South Sudan. Or send them to a 3rd country prison like in El Salvador. They won’t kill thrm immediately, but they will severely harm them and likely shorten their lives, deliberately and intentionally. It’s not literally Auschwitz, but the intent is the same
Show threadAaronJul 6, 2025
@FlockOfCats @Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich Until that becomes too inconvenient. Then they will do it right here.
Show threadIan RudderbuttJul 6, 2025
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich so once you spend all summer packing this full of people, what’s the plan for this shoddily constructed abomination when hurricane season hits?
Show threadHinz_oder_KunzJul 6, 2025
@ReasonableMustelid @ZhiZhu @rbreich the fact that hurricanes seem to be part of the plan is extremely disturbing, to use diplomatic language (source:Wikipedia, citing https://web.archive.org/web/20250701192512/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/alligator-alcatraz-set-open-trump-desantis-rcna215943 )
'Alligator Alcatraz' opens, with Trump in attendance

Donald Trump is in the Florida Everglades Tuesday for the opening of a controversial immigrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz."

NBC News
Show threadIan RudderbuttJul 6, 2025
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich @ZhiZhu so yeah, that’s a death camp.
Show threadHinz_oder_KunzJul 6, 2025
@ReasonableMustelid @rbreich @ZhiZhu so far it's a very questionable detention center and some MAGA bullshit talk.
When a hurricane hits, I sincerely hope for an evacuation plan to be carried out largely unrecognized as some other MAGAtrocity sucks up all attention.
Show threadIan RudderbuttJul 6, 2025
@ZhiZhu @Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich keep on hoping, but we can’t even manage evacuation plans for people in regular old neighborhoods. Detention camps don’t stand a chance.
Show threadPasswordsarehard4Jul 6, 2025
@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich what do you think they plan on doing with them if nobody will take them? They don’t plan on letting them back out, I’ll tell you that much. That gang prison in El Salvador isn’t going to hold them all. There’s a reason they called it the Final Solution and not Step One.
Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jul 7, 2025

@passwordsarehard4 @Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich

Nazi #ConcentrationCamps were originally referred to as "deportation" camps, where Jewish people would be held prior to being deported. But actually deporting Jewish people turned out to be slower and more expensive than other options. So... The #Nazis turned to the "Final Solution" which was much more "efficient."

The first US Concentration Camp - #AlligatorAuschwitz - in #Florida will cost $450 million per year to operate. So…

Show threadElizabeth EilerJul 7, 2025
@ZhiZhu @passwordsarehard4 @Hinz_oder_Kunz @rbreich #AlligatorAuschwitz #ICE
Show threadPassengerJul 6, 2025

@Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich

Auschwitz was established in 1939, almost immediately after the German invasion of Poland. It was used to imprison people immediately: initially former Polish soldiers. They didn't start the mass executions until almost two years later, in August 1941 after the invasion of the USSR.

Auschwitz was still Auschwitz for those two years before the mass murders began. Before it was a factory for killing people, it was a prison.

Calling a prison Auschwitz isn't historically inaccurate. It just means that the mass murders haven't started yet.

Show threadFLFJul 7, 2025

@passenger @Hinz_oder_Kunz @ZhiZhu @rbreich

hmmm no. Auschwitz was established in 1939 as a concentration camps.

The purpose of a concentration camp is to kill people through labor.

It was not a prison.