This is amazing. DHS bought a warehouse in a city called Social Circle, Georgia. When the city council asked DHS how they planned to use the warehouse, DHS refused to answer.
So, the city cut off water and sewer services and put a lock on the water meter, and said that services will remain off “until ICE indicates how water and sewer to the facility will be served without exceeding the limited infrastructure capacity.”
Outstanding. We need more of this! This is how we stop fascism.
@QasimRashid This is how we *delay* fascism.
Bureaucracy can't stop fascism because it requires the fascists to play by the rules, which fascists don't do.
There is no solution to fascism that doesn't involve violence because this is the only language fascists understand.
This was the lesson of WWII - a lesson the West still hasn't learned.
@blueorchestra Well, taking the edge off of capitalism seems to have worked pretty well for decades after WW2. If you can stop rich capitalist's influence on politicians without using violence, you might not even need violence at all.
(Fully agreed on the "play by the rules" part.)
@fennek And how do we stop the influence of capitalists on politicians when the politicians themselves are capitalists?
The ruling class gave us concessions during the Cold War to stave off the allure of socialist ideology. They then rescinded those same concessions when they got sick of them - even before the Cold War was over.
The system favors capitalists because it was designed by and for capitalists. There's no way to 'fix' that because it's a feature; not a bug. A system is what it does.
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if this would be russia or similar country. pro-government goons would come to persuade the locals.
u.s. is heading that way.
@softspeak @QasimRashid One should note that "camps for anyone with skin-color" could be camps for all of us: take anyone whose ancestors were from Europe and hold their hand up to a piece of white paper, and you'll see an obvious color difference. It's as crazy as making a big deal about hair color or eye color.
I figure I'm "gulag fodder" anyway for writing a short, funny book making fun of The Donald.
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Or re-cycle the sewage into drinking water, and truck away the sludge (which is the technical term, at least in the UK) for use (sale) as fertiliser.
Très Soylent. Or ... isn't that how the Matrix started?
I think that idea would work on data centers too. Take any big box store and cut off at utilities and tell them to go fuck themselves.
Yes, more of this.
I also wonder why cities aren't closing these places / preventing them from opening on the basis of #zoning or #permits. Warehouses, in general, are not certified for human #habitation, and zoning laws generally prohibit this sort of conversion without #rezoning.
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