Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?

https://lemmy.today/post/47026894

Possible, but highly unlikely.
For starters, if that many were killed, I think it’d be really hard to keep a lid on it these days.

Secondly, I’ve done a lot of reading on the atrocities of WW2, and two immediate constraints come to mind:

  • Bodies. While possible, disposing of that many bodies without anyone noticing will be really hard.
  • The gas chambers of ww2 were only planned during the Wannsee conference in 1942, long after the holocaust actually started. The gas chambers were built because the original plan was not sustainable: People killing other people at an industrial scale. No matter how vile a person is, the human mind was not built to deal with having to mow down swathes of humans with a gun. Even the worst SS troops largely couldn’t deal with killing that many defenseless people, even if they were convinced it was “for the greater good”. The amount of SS troops who ended up unable to continue due to the mental after effects is staggering.
I’m not sure that your second point is still a constant, though this is just an opinion and I’m open to discussion on this. They seem to have solved the problem of people not being up to mass killings, through desensitization through social media (I’m thinking of telegram groups specifically). There have been a lot of cases shown recently of people taking outright glee in their and others’ grotesque murders, en masse.
to add to this point, they have driven cars through protestors and approved of people doing so.