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  • tbergstbergs Posts: 10,365
    mace1229 said:
    brianlux said:
    How incredibly low we have fallen...
    From Heather's letter 7/12/25:
    Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said: “These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it justice. They are essentially packed into cages. Wall to wall humans. Thirty-two detainees per cage…. There are three tiny toilets that…have a sink attached to it, so…they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit." Nine hundred men are currently in the facility.

    The person whom wrote this has obviously never been to prison.  The toilets and sink are always a combination unit.  They must also have some crazy bathroom where the sink isn't next to their toilet...
    I built an outhouse in the backyard  for this reason.
    Huh, you built a whole enclosed structure? I just dug a hole and put a piece of plywood over it when not in use. Beats throwing it out the 2nd floor window every morning.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,564
    Sounds like we need a pooping thread.  

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  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 41,733
    brianlux said:
    Sounds like we need a pooping thread.  

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  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,642
    mace1229 said:
    mace1229 said:
    But if it’s a need to keep score and the point is to say, "look Obama and Biden too", then fine. Obama and Biden too were wrong. 
    If it’s always wrong, is it wrong in jail, prisons and drunk tanks too? Because that’s been common use for about 75 years there. But I’ve yet to hear a single member of congress complain about someone in a drum tank washing their hands where they poop.
    One reason it seemed so out of place to play the race card and call me racist. I’m not saying immigrants deserve less, I’m saying it’s been common practice for a very long time. And only now, and only for ICE detention centers is anyone complaining about it. If it’s wrong and inhumane, then it’s wrong for everyone, right?

    Now a lot of people took my comment on the sinks to say I’m normalizing everything Trump is doing. I’ll say it for about the 6th time, I’m not. I don’t agree with his rhetoric, the round ups, the mass deportation, the concept of alligator Alcatraz, etc. But when the main complaint I keep saying is calling them cages and saying they poop and brush their teeth in the same unit, when they haven’t said anything about it in the last 15 years, I can’t help but roll my eyes at those comments.
    By your logic when Obama & Biden were doing the same thing I ask why didn’t the GOP hierarchy cry foul? Like the Democrats are doing now? Could it be they don’t give a fuck how immigrants are treated so if they were it’s all good? 
    You’ve missed the point and that’s an easy answer. They didn’t cry foul because there isn’t anything inherently wrong with using those combo sinks. That’s why they’ve been used for decades in several different capacities. Why do people only complain when it’s an ice detention center and only when Trump is in office? If it’s that bad, go stand up for the jails, prisons and any other place that uses the same thing.

    It’s hard to take a politician seriously when they show up on tv in tears saying people and brushing their teeth out of the toilet when they’ve never said a word about it before. That’s the one complaint I hear more than any other.

    And, to be absolutely clear again, I disagree with a lot of the other things going on. But the complaint I hear most is about those combo sinks.

    Better yet, write a check to Uncle Sam. Start a go fund me. Put their money where their mouths are. Demand better and pay for it. Taxes solves everything. Mamdani for prez. They only yell when it’s the Rs doing it because they’re hoping to score political points. Otherwise they’d be yelling at Biden. Which they should do,  He’s the one that brought us trump2
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 9,335
    Mamdani can’t run for president. 
  • Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 41,733
    Mamdani can’t run for president. 
    I admire your patience.
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 31,406
    Fuck the toilet & sinks for fucks sake that’s not what is horrible! I’m sure at Riker’s they get to go outside I’m positive there’s not 32 inmates per cell they get to use their phones and your not crapping in front of 30 inmates! 
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,564
    ^^^ Spot on.
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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 14,047
    No phones. Hard beds, crappy bedding, bad shoes, and the worst food you will ever eat. You do not want to be incarcerated. Scary that some people think the US is kind to inmates. Imagine what that means outside the US.
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 31,406
    Get_Right said:
    No phones. Hard beds, crappy bedding, bad shoes, and the worst food you will ever eat. You do not want to be incarcerated. Scary that some people think the US is kind to inmates. Imagine what that means outside the US.
    Yet Alligator Alcatraz is ten times worse 
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 31,406
    https://www.governing.com/archive/tns-free-calls-for-inmates-nyc.html
    While conditions are terrible in most jails I still believe Alligator Alcatraz is worse 
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  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,642
     Tim Simmons said:
    Mamdani can’t run for president. 
    I admire your patience.
    Geez do they even have mirrors in the country you live in?
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 31,406
     Tim Simmons said:
    Mamdani can’t run for president. 
    I admire your patience.
    Geez do they even have mirrors in the country you live in?
    Do they in yours 
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  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,642
    Mamdani can’t run for president. 
    Thanks, I’ll be more careful noting his country of birth. Hopeful trump signs an EO extending Article II section 1 to nyc. 


  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 9,335
    hmmmmmm
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 31,406
    Socialist are coming socialist are coming get your $$$ out of banks hide it underneath your mattress 
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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 41,235
    mickeyrat said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    How incredibly low we have fallen...
    From Heather's letter 7/12/25:
    Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said: “These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it justice. They are essentially packed into cages. Wall to wall humans. Thirty-two detainees per cage…. There are three tiny toilets that…have a sink attached to it, so…they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit." Nine hundred men are currently in the facility.

    The person whom wrote this has obviously never been to prison.  The toilets and sink are always a combination unit.  They must also have some crazy bathroom where the sink isn't next to their toilet...
    Did you watch her presser? Go ahead tell me how it makes sense for you to say this^^^^
    Jose I built prisons for 15 years.  This isn't anything new or obscene. We installed these as common industry practice.  Again, this congresswoman must have her sink in another room from her toilet.  My toilets are next to my sinks as I'm sure yours are too.
    Jose I am used to this, nothing new to me. Below is a typical combi unit. This is the uproar. Below that is a toilet right next to a sink in a house that is typical for millions of people... Imagine people at home brushing their teeth where they poop...
    It's a bullshit uproar.
    I still think the administration is going to get sued to the teeth for how they are apprehending people. They did this in NY a few years back and the counties paid out millions.

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    prison cell holds no more than 2.

    how many are in these chain link cells at one time? not to mention no walls at all for some modicum of privacy. 
    County holding cells have many people in them.  This has been going on forever.  

    Holding cell and prison cell are two different things but they both will have this same combi unit.

    Is your sink next to your toilet?

    county workhouse cell I was in , the separate toilet, next to the sink , was behind a wall , 4 ft high. 

    holding tanks had no facilities.
    Must have been a long time ago.  This is common practice now.

    So is your toilet in your house next to your sink like most houses have?

    did I make that argument against? hmmm?
    Honestly I was expecting you to fall in line w everyone else.  My apologies for thinking that.

    my concern with that facility in particular and I expect it will be the same with the rest of them that will be built, is this was done extremely cheaply. blatant grift. 
    They claim its rated to a Cat2 hurricane. I call bullshit on its face. 
    health problems from the garuanteed insect bites, sure to come. reporting says lights on 24/7. assume l.e.d , so overall conditions detrimental to mental health. 

    lack of congressional oversight. both the turn a blind eye by the sycophants of fuckstick and the denial of those opposing legal right to entry at will. 

    then theres the reported probable damage to the ecosysyem that will be done.
    I don't know if you remember when I posted about the tent city they made at Floyd Bennett Field over in Brooklyn?  It's basically in the middle of nowhere and the outskirts of Brooklyn.  They posted it for the Migrants and asylum seekers.  They also made tents for them over on Randals island.  The people in them weren't very happy considering they were putting people up in hotels.

    What I am getting at is they were using the same thing pretty much here in NY.

    I still think they get the balls sued off of them.

    Environmental impact?  If the people can't leave the facility and only stay on the grounds the ecosystem should stay in tact no?
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 41,235
    Mamdani can’t run for president. 
    Lets see how he handles NYC first.
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 9,335
    I’m fine with rhat
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 31,406
    Me too 
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 44,068
    mickeyrat said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    How incredibly low we have fallen...
    From Heather's letter 7/12/25:
    Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said: “These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it justice. They are essentially packed into cages. Wall to wall humans. Thirty-two detainees per cage…. There are three tiny toilets that…have a sink attached to it, so…they get their drinking water and they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit." Nine hundred men are currently in the facility.

    The person whom wrote this has obviously never been to prison.  The toilets and sink are always a combination unit.  They must also have some crazy bathroom where the sink isn't next to their toilet...
    Did you watch her presser? Go ahead tell me how it makes sense for you to say this^^^^
    Jose I built prisons for 15 years.  This isn't anything new or obscene. We installed these as common industry practice.  Again, this congresswoman must have her sink in another room from her toilet.  My toilets are next to my sinks as I'm sure yours are too.
    Jose I am used to this, nothing new to me. Below is a typical combi unit. This is the uproar. Below that is a toilet right next to a sink in a house that is typical for millions of people... Imagine people at home brushing their teeth where they poop...
    It's a bullshit uproar.
    I still think the administration is going to get sued to the teeth for how they are apprehending people. They did this in NY a few years back and the counties paid out millions.

    Willoughby LavToilet Combo CCS_1546-Series
    Mylan 4-Piece Bath Hardware Set 18 to 24 in Towel Bar Toilet Paper Holder Towel Ring Towel Hook

    prison cell holds no more than 2.

    how many are in these chain link cells at one time? not to mention no walls at all for some modicum of privacy. 
    County holding cells have many people in them.  This has been going on forever.  

    Holding cell and prison cell are two different things but they both will have this same combi unit.

    Is your sink next to your toilet?

    county workhouse cell I was in , the separate toilet, next to the sink , was behind a wall , 4 ft high. 

    holding tanks had no facilities.
    Must have been a long time ago.  This is common practice now.

    So is your toilet in your house next to your sink like most houses have?

    did I make that argument against? hmmm?
    Honestly I was expecting you to fall in line w everyone else.  My apologies for thinking that.

    my concern with that facility in particular and I expect it will be the same with the rest of them that will be built, is this was done extremely cheaply. blatant grift. 
    They claim its rated to a Cat2 hurricane. I call bullshit on its face. 
    health problems from the garuanteed insect bites, sure to come. reporting says lights on 24/7. assume l.e.d , so overall conditions detrimental to mental health. 

    lack of congressional oversight. both the turn a blind eye by the sycophants of fuckstick and the denial of those opposing legal right to entry at will. 

    then theres the reported probable damage to the ecosysyem that will be done.
    I don't know if you remember when I posted about the tent city they made at Floyd Bennett Field over in Brooklyn?  It's basically in the middle of nowhere and the outskirts of Brooklyn.  They posted it for the Migrants and asylum seekers.  They also made tents for them over on Randals island.  The people in them weren't very happy considering they were putting people up in hotels.

    What I am getting at is they were using the same thing pretty much here in NY.

    I still think they get the balls sued off of them.

    Environmental impact?  If the people can't leave the facility and only stay on the grounds the ecosystem should stay in tact no?

    were those migrants held against their will there?
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 31,406
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna218855
    Harden criminal my ass Fuckface is more of a criminal then 75% of the incarcerated immigrants! 
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  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,642
    Mamdani can’t run for president. 
    Let’s see how he handles NYC first.


    it’s rigged in NYC, a place completely full of Ocasiocrats. Would love to call them Mamdanicrats, but thx to TS, they reminded us mamdani can’t ever be our potus.
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 9,335
    edited 1:49PM
    it comes across as just the weirdest of bitterness
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,642
    it comes across as just the weirdest of bitterness

    If that’s what you call fighting against the extremist  direction of the party after a horrible loss, in a direction that’s never proven itself (especially in the places Dems have been losing ground the last ten years), within a sea of blind loyalist bias, so be it
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 9,335
    But their policies are popular. Could it be that they haven't proven themselves (other than where they have) because the Democratic establishment (the ones who HAVE been losing) want to aim for the middle with limp policy?


  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,859
    But their policies are popular. Could it be that they haven't proven themselves (other than where they have) because the Democratic establishment (the ones who HAVE been losing) want to aim for the middle with limp policy?


    americans do like dem policies over gop policies, but they do not like the dem messengers. see the new made up dem slur "ocasiocrats".
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  • static111static111 Posts: 5,002
    Lol ever heard of the New Deal?  Very popular socialist policies that were beloved for years until they were distorted as bad by am radio, neoliberalism and Milton freedmanites.  When the types of policies that progressives propose are put into effect they are very popular, the problem has always been misinformation and gate keeping.
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  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 9,335
    But their policies are popular. Could it be that they haven't proven themselves (other than where they have) because the Democratic establishment (the ones who HAVE been losing) want to aim for the middle with limp policy?


    I mean, look at all the attacks (or lack of support) Mamdani has gotten from within his own party.
  • Lerxst1992Lerxst1992 Posts: 7,642
    But their policies are popular. Could it be that they haven't proven themselves (other than where they have) because the Democratic establishment (the ones who HAVE been losing) want to aim for the middle with limp policy?



    With ai, it’s very easy to understand why this fails so often. But y’all continue to laugh at Hal’s absurd partisan buffoonery 


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