Nyarlathotep7 [they/them,comrade/them]

You think it’ll coincide with a US attack on Iran?

I knew there would be a take like this, and I understand. I get it. All I can say is that I worked there until very recently. I described the camp as evil, but not overt. There really isn’t a place for there TO be abuse. I’m telling you these guards, these BP and ICE agents? Mostly trying to hook up with the women guards, that IS evil. They are detached from the severity of any implication of what is happening there. But TORTURE? I don’t know.

We used to describe the rooms as a sort of game of cops and robbers, because really, there is nothing that can be done if anything were to happen. How about I explain it to you, as someone who has been in every room in this facility, a very brief layout? Each room has two plasma tvs (youtube, netflix, hulu), a shit ton of bunk beds, and I think 20 tablets with min. functionality. One guard armed with mace is at a podium by the door. Built in showers and toilets, thats a room. Now the camp is literally 3-4 gigantic hallways of these rooms, copy+pasted. There are shitty little rec outside areas and barber stations where they can cut each other’s hair. Nurse stations, and that is it. These friends of mine? Mostly kids, I’m talking 20-25. I HAD to ask them because I KNOW them. This isn’t rhetoric for me. I’ve been in these camps, I’ve talked to the people at these camps. Those reports were crazy to me because there would had to have been a gigantic escalation. These people are meant to be there for a week max.

You are speaking from pure hearsay, I am telling you I literally worked construction here.

where’s the f-22 when you need it

Regarding this, I’ve heard back from my friends who work at this camp. They confirmed what I originally thought, there is no torture going on at the east montana camp. As part of the construction crew who built it, there are no spaces off limits for employees. There is literally one guard per room of 50-70 residents. Level 2 btw so no gun. The majority of the people here are prisoners, I say that because there was a certain danger to working here as construction. Kids are not accepted here from what I saw. Now I’ve talked to a lot of them, had chill conversations with them, but I worked before at a camp without prisoners, the vibe is incredibly different.

January there was a death, I don’t know the circumstances but I’m inclined to believe its due to the fact that there is NO training for anyone. These guards treat the site as a hook up place more than anything else. This is a mundane evil. But there is nothing as overt as beating or torture.

To emphasize, this site is essentially 3-4 long hallways. There are no interrogation rooms.

White House is saying the cartel flew a drone over, total horse shit. Manufacturing consent?

They have officially reopened the space.

I worked there at that time. I have been to every section in the camp as construction. If there was a change, its happened within a month.

I’m going to be careful here. I have friends who’ve worked at this site. In fact, I worked construction at this site. I don’t work there anymore. The biggest danger I’ve seen is neglect but I’ll ask friends who still work there if things have changed.

The vast majority of the guards who worked here and at the old detention facility are literally kids. We are talking 18-24. There is also a lot of older guards. ICE were the boss but they were hardly seen. No jokes, they were mostly seen trying to hook up with the younger guards. Same for BP.

When I worked construction, these guards were pathetic, the people at the east Montana were mostly from prisons beforehand. (They would arrive in their prison uniforms, colored based on severity of the crime.) I’ll see if anything has changed.

I don’t know, city council is saying military is not exempted.

El Paso has grounded all flights until the 20th. The airspace is reclassified as National Defense Airspace.

Honestly what a relief. I know what did happen is depraved but I was genuinely at a loss these past couple days. Legit put me through an existential crisis.

Is it not true? I thought that part was confirmed?

I’m so confused, one second they’re shutting down on opposition, the next they’re letting prisoners go. Rhetoric is fuck the USA, I dont know what to expect from them.

I’d agree with you if the US was not a rabid dog. People don’t want to die, if the US bombs Cuba, it’ll fall because there isn’t really a choice. I’m not saying these countries are jumping to their knees, I’m saying that the US will only escalate and since there is NO counterbalance, no alternative. They will win, this applies mostly to latam. I don’t think the same for the DPRK (and luckily they have nukes).

At some point, historical platitudes stops providing any sort of purpose or emotional sustenance. We’re all comrades here, we ALL know the history.

When we have a modern day event that can parallel the Soviet, Chinese, or Cuban revolution in strength and significance, maybe then those words will mean something.

what did hezbollah say? im not trying to be negative, i just literally dont see an alternative

believe it or not, the doomerism comes from the inaction of the world against a mostly successful genocide, the fall of syria. this event isnt taking place within a bubble

its not that i think the capture of Maduro is the fall of Venezuela, its the fact that i dont believe any substantial blowback will come from this. its not that they can kill diaz canel and win, its that they’ll kill him and occupy and even if they fail to maintain a regime, the revolution is in tatters.

whats the endgame? we dont have a counter-weight, the US can AFFORD to do this. There isn’t any reckoning coming, china and russia will watch this happen. its not about the fall of Venezuela happening today, its about the momentum we need to survive as opposed to the energy the US requires to maintain its hegemony