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tishaLA

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10. I was just about to post something very similar

Reply to BaronChocula (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 01:58 AM

Jul 17

Call it the everglades internment camp or detention center. Journalists too willingly use their discursive paradigms, like the did with the budget bill that's gutting Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP. Even our names for it, like big ugly bill or whatever, used the administration's name as a referent.

I know this is somewhat tangential but I feel like the reflexive use of their terminology puts us at an immediate disadvantage.

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Crimes against humanity! vapor2 Jul 16 #1

When it comes to unwilling participants, I'm cynical and even jaded. Igel Jul 17 #15

Trump and Noem find practically unlimited money for cruelty. Most likely kickbacks too. Norrrm Jul 16 #2

IOW Torture they think they can get away with. Cha Jul 16 #3

Considering all the possible deadly diseases and ailments... ananda Jul 17 #4

Literally just wondering about malaria Alice B. Jul 17 #18

Also: typhus, dengue fever, leptospirosis (also known as swamp fever), and pythiosis ananda Jul 17 #19

I don't know who or what we are anymore. Alice B. Jul 17 #20

Monstrous cruelty is really hard to fathom. ananda Jul 17 #21

We don't even hear anything from the U.N. or red cross fujiyamasan Jul 17 #5

So, it's pretty much an annex to Mar-a-Largo... Hugin Jul 17 #6

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Oh fuck canetoad Jul 17 #11

When the press calls it by that name in quotes BaronChocula Jul 17 #9

I was just about to post something very similar tishaLA Jul 17 #10

Not tangential at ALL BaronChocula Jul 17 #12

See also: Obamacare JonAndKatePlusABird Jul 17 #13

Evidently it is official in Florida dalton99a Jul 17 #16

Also official in florida BaronChocula Jul 17 #22

I predicted malaria, dengue malaise Jul 17 #14

Goes to show me, All Lives Matter was just another bullshit slogan Torchlight Jul 17 #17