• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    201·
    5 hours ago

    I don’t think assuming that NIMBYs don’t want something in “their backyard” for moral reasons is the right take. NIMBYs by definition are selfish and just don’t want whatever it is near them. It’s “Not In My BackYard”.

    The places in these red states are probably more than happy to have some more ICE mega-prisons, just in somebody else’s backyard.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 hours ago

      I took the same thing from this article as you. This is part of why Guantanamo Bay never closed; there was no place where the detainees’ presence was tolerated. People don’t want the object of their fear in their backyard. They want it as far away as possible. This is also why the six extermination camps like Auschwitz were not on German soil. Not in Germans’ backyard.

      • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zoneEnglish
        3·
        38 minutes ago

        Fun fact - when Obama declared that he was going to close Guantanamo Bay, mitch mcconnell decided that he would do whatever it took to keep it open, because his sole purpose for existing at that time was to obstruct Obama’s policies. He did that in part by pushing legislation that made it illegal to transfer foreign detainees to American soil, effectively making it so that there was nowhere else to keep them. It was less to do with people tolerating detainees presence and more to do with mcconnell just gumming up the works because fuck Obama.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Yup. In some cases, I bet it is some of the very same dipshits in the hatriot movement that spent the 90s and 00s telling each other scary stories about FEMA death camps, and how Janet Reno, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and the black helicopters were coming for their penises, er, guns, and throw them into FEMA death camps so that the Socializms could be imposed on Murica.

        I suppose it’s probably all fine if it’s being overseen by shitstains like Miller and Pedonald and if the (first) people being targeted are brown, black, liberal, trans, etc…

        It’s projection. It’s ALWAYS projection. I’d love to see hatriots tracked over time and what they’ve supported under Donvict.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory