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El Salvador forcibly disappearing nationals deported from the US, rights group says

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https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/el-salvador-forcibly-disappearing-nationals-deported-us-rights-group-says-2026-03-16/
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Far_Radish7752 Mar 16, 2026 +1044
From a related in-depth article on Human Rights Watch: >Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 relatives and lawyers of 11 Salvadorans who were deported from the United States between mid-March and mid-October 2025 and then immediately detained in El Salvador. Like most detainees in El Salvador, these men have not been allowed to communicate with their relatives or lawyers. >None of the relatives or lawyers have had any indication from the authorities that the men have been brought before a judge since their arrival. Some have not been informed of where their loved ones are held, or why. In five cases, relatives learned about deportees’ whereabouts only though litigation at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). >The Trump administration has alleged that several of the Salvadorans are members of the MS-13 gang. The United States disclosed that one of them is César Humberto López Larios (“El Greñas”), a known MS-13 gang leader. Neither US nor Salvadoran authorities have provided evidence or information to substantiate the claim that any of the others are gang members. https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/16/us/el-salvador-deportees-forcibly-disappeared
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r0ndy Mar 16, 2026 +550
Outsourcing state sanctioned murder to other countries Edit: standard mafia tactic, have someone else do the dirty work so you don’t look as guilty and maaaybe some plausible deniability
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Robo-boogie Mar 16, 2026 +151
I remember reading about a guy who is a canadian but was flying through the US, when he entered the US they detained him because there was a flag on his name. he is a refugee in syria - if he goes back they will prosecute him. The US sent him to syria, syria did their interrogation thing and sent him back saying there was no issue. that was sinister, this is worse
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DouchecraftCarrier Mar 16, 2026 +97
My stepdad used to work in Law Enforcement. He had a defendant from another country who informed on his coconspirators in exchange for a lesser sentence, and in doing so became basically a walking dead man if he ever returned home. After he got parole my Stepdad helped him get asylum in the US and get established here so he wouldn't have to go back. He's practically become a part of the family. Guess who the FBI detained at his last parole meeting and is now in a facility waiting to get sent back to his country, where he will - by the admission of our own government - almost certainly be immediately murdered? My stepdad is a diehard conservative. I can't imagine the cognitive dissonance he must be going through.
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Memerandom_ Mar 16, 2026 +38
Maybe if you press him into thinking about where his morality aligns with politics and looking at the reality he'll wake the f*** up. I'm probably being optimistic, but there has to be a road back for these people. This country can't function with 70 million cultists ready to do their overlords bidding.
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itsrocketsurgery Mar 17, 2026 +3
There wasn't a road back for Confederate supporters. There are still people out there today that defend chattel slavery and the brutality against black people. They also completely ignore the genocide against the Native Americans and how that is a direct line to all of the problems in native communities today. The only way forward is for these people to be forcibly beaten back and forced back into corners so that we may educate the next few generations based on reality.
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Impossible-Fig-8463 Mar 17, 2026 +7
Without self reflection he may not even be aware that he is feeling cognitive dissonance.
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obeytheturtles Mar 16, 2026 +77
"The death camps aren't literally in Poland". <--- You are here
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Niceromancer Mar 16, 2026 +4805
People reporting on this like that wasn't the entire point.
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RonaldoNazario Mar 16, 2026 +1859
Right? El Salvador openly acknowledges that basically nobody ever leaves this prison…
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Die_Revenant Mar 16, 2026 +1124
Death camps. If you are sent there, one way or another you will die there.
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Edythir Mar 16, 2026 +234
Death camp with an occasional time delay on the death part.
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eragonawesome2 Mar 16, 2026 +236
That's what a death camp IS. They use you until you're not worth it anymore, then you die.
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sllop Mar 16, 2026 +97
No, that’s still a work camp, like the MittelWerk factory Camps like Auschwitz are death camps; where some people go to work, and everybody else goes to the gas chambers on arrival.
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tnstaafsb Mar 16, 2026 +72
This is why I think the term *extermination camp* is more descriptive/accurate. Work camps try to get labor out of prisoners before they die, while extermination camps don't. There's plenty of death in both cases, but with work camps the death is just a side effect instead of the entire point.
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Suraru Mar 16, 2026 +41
Don't forget that they weren't originally death camps either. They were holding camps to manage deportees before they got sent to other countries. But because of the sheer volume of deportees arriving they quickly became overcrowded. So they decided killing those that would "waste space" would optimize the room they had for workers. The word concentration literally meant a lot of people were concentrated into a small space, and that's what made them so deadly. Once El Salvador gets to about 200-400% capacity, they'll start killing people too in rates that will equal how many they're getting in... Which atm seems low cuz the Trump admin has actually been pretty shit at deporting people, I'm talking a few hundred vs the Nazis hundreds of thousands.
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userdoesnotexist22 Mar 16, 2026 +24
Nazi work camps did *not* feed their inhabitants enough to exist on long-term, guaranteeing that eventually they would be worked to death (if they don’t perish from illness first). They weren’t merely work camps. Despite how many the Nazis at Auschwitz killed straight off, they still provided a shit ton of slave labor. Their long-term plan was to kill all Jews and then focus on doing the same with Slavs.
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0vl223 Mar 16, 2026 +29
Ausschwitz had a 97%+ rate of death. Normal concentration camps (and sowjet pow camps) were around 60-70%. This is a death camp.
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TheAskewOne Mar 16, 2026 +10
The people who will physically leave will be dead inside anyway.
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TheAskewOne Mar 16, 2026 +305
The media fully dropped the ball. They carry a lot of the blame for what’s happening. They report the administration’s failures as mistakes, naivety or lack of planning when it’s clear that destroying everything and hurting people has been the clearly defined objective from the start. 
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SkunkMonkey Mar 16, 2026 +248
Dropped the ball? Son, they are in on it.
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willstr1 Mar 16, 2026 +67
Didn't the new leader of "See BS" news can a completed 60 minutes report on this almost a year ago?
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popularcolor Mar 16, 2026 +22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
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InTooManyWays Mar 16, 2026 +9
What this guy said. The news corps is owned by fascist billionaires. They get off to this 
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PythonRegiuss Mar 16, 2026 +64
Look at the fuckin headline dude "forcibly disappeared"?? Thats f****** murder 
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pornalt4altporn Mar 16, 2026 +26
Yeah, but unless they have confirmed bodies they don't accuse them of murder outright because sometimes they have been detained in any of several secret prisons for torture before murder. Disappeared was a common term in cold war latin america.
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Discount_Extra Mar 17, 2026 +2
You don't need a corpse to convict of murder. Push someone off a cruise ship mid ocean, you're still going to prison.
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pornalt4altporn Mar 17, 2026 +9
Sure but that's completely irrelevant as the journalist hasn't got Investigatory powers and isn't being asked to definitively rule on the disappearance in order to serve justice. Just think for a moment, what about families? How many of them want to be told their relative is dead on the naïve, even mindless assumption all the disappeared have been killed already? Thousands of the disappeared were released eventually.
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cjandstuff Mar 16, 2026 +19
Dropped the ball? You can see the orange stains on their lips. They are loving the ratings and 24/7 supply of content. 
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Capable_Kiwi2514 Mar 16, 2026 +14
You guys get that reacting to a media report on your country disappearing people by complaining about the media instead of focusing on the whole "disappearing people" thing is much more problematic behaviour, right?
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jimgress Mar 16, 2026 +19
People can do both.
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TheAskewOne Mar 16, 2026 +7
It’s not, because there’s no disappearing people if there’s no selling a fascist regime to the people first. If the media had bothered to accurately describe Trump and the risks of voting for him, we wouldn’t be where we are now.
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_fenwoods Mar 16, 2026 +120
Be that as it may, we need to keep hearing the reports. They are valuable.
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Own-Secret2028 Mar 17, 2026 +5
They are only valuable if we act on them. There's no point in a fire alarm if you stay in the building when it goes off. 
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stevedore2024 Mar 16, 2026 +70
ICE and all the backroom deals that led to this third-country extrajudicial rendition system are guilty of crimes against humanity. Need Nuremburg 2.
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StrobeLightRomance Mar 16, 2026 +12
Better than not reporting it at all. But yes, the "nobody is going to be doing that" argument technically always wins until there is evidence of said thing transpiring.
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yhwhx Mar 16, 2026 +1057
Anyone who still supports Dear Leader Donald is either an idiot or an evil a******. __ *edited to fix typo
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BeautifulFather007 Mar 16, 2026 +253
Why not both?
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yhwhx Mar 16, 2026 +58
It was an inclusive "or".
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Hvarfa-Bragi Mar 16, 2026 +27
It wasn't, "either" means exclusive and english doesn't have an inclusive "or" without supporting language that indicates it's inclusive. The "either" here *explicitly* makes it exclusive. You're 'either' one or the other.
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inosinateVR Mar 16, 2026 +2
This is such an unnecessary thing to be trying to start a semantic argument over
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Hvarfa-Bragi Mar 16, 2026 +7
You either fight the tide of ingorance and illiteracy or you don't.
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wgrantdesign Mar 16, 2026 +10
Anyone who uses "either" incorrectly is either dumb and stupid!
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inosinateVR Mar 16, 2026 +1
Ignorance and illiteracy? Because they said the “or” was inclusive? Come on man, it obviously wasn’t supposed to be taken this literally.
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arthurno1 Mar 16, 2026 +5
Found a hacker.
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baconburgerrrO_o Mar 16, 2026 +8
Also applies to the idiots still supporting Dear Leader "Nayik" here in ELS.
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_TheWileyWombat_ Mar 16, 2026 +29
What do you mean "still"? Any decent person knew what he was from the beginning.
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1_ofthesedays Mar 16, 2026 +9
And anti American
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Mindless-Peak-1687 Mar 16, 2026 +4
if only, but USA,s history have had to many camps.
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ImTedLassosMustache Mar 16, 2026 +11
why not both?
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[deleted] Mar 16, 2026 +919
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zzztoken Mar 16, 2026 +358
I’d say most Americans don’t even know about that so…pretty small stain unfortunately.
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Wyden_long Mar 16, 2026 +121
I live in a city that had several of them. We didn’t learn about that at all.
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VariationDry Mar 16, 2026 +47
My school in Canada sits on what was an internment camp. Students there had grandparents who were in the camp. 
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goodtrackrecord Mar 16, 2026 +2
As a fellow Canadian, thank you for being aware of your surroundings. Americans play dumb when it comes to their own atrocities.
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Longjumping-Rough891 Mar 16, 2026 +26
I am an American historian, it’s not the people as a whole playing dumb, it’s our powers that be leaving out those parts in our education. Thats why we’re in this mess now, most got all their holocaust information from Anne Frank in 7th grade and then indoctrinated with how the US saved everyone out of sheer benevolence but also how we weren’t really involved at all. Japanese Internment is mentioned maybe 1-2x over 12 years of education and framed as they were the bad guys and its over, we won, the end. Our current political climate is almost a century of focused nationalist indoctrination and intentional misguiding. The people and organizations perpetuating this are fully aware of the atrocities and rely on the peoples ignorance and how reliant we are on a “good education”.
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Luckiest_Creature Mar 16, 2026 +9
I grew up in California and I didn’t learn about the Japanese Internment until I read some books my mom got me in middle school, like *Farewell to Manzanar*. Never learned about it in class until senior year of high school
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inspectoroverthemine Mar 16, 2026 +4
80s - northern ca, we covered it in 7th grade. It sounds like it must have been individual teacher's choosing to include it though. I remember her being fairly passionate about it. FWIW its unlikely she had any Japanese heritage, and there wasn't a Japanese community in our town.
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CaryHepSouth Mar 16, 2026 +9
I learned about Japanese Internment camps in public high school in Texas, even took a field trip to a preserved POW camp nearby
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Rakastaakissa Mar 16, 2026 +6
The only reason it was ever brought up at all in my school was because someone did a presentation on it. Nothing from the teachers AT ALL before or after.
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Longjumping-Rough891 Mar 16, 2026 +2
Same, it was a topic a student chose for a history course I took. Most of us were confused and that was as sophmores in high school.
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tinteoj Mar 16, 2026 +34
> Americans play dumb when it comes to their own atrocities. Kind of like how many Canadians refuse to acknowledge the issues that Candian First Nations peoples have had to endure?
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VariationDry Mar 16, 2026 +6
Where I grew up discussing the residential school program started in grade 6. It wasn't even in the curriculum in Alberta until recently. 
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GringoinCDMX Mar 16, 2026 +10
And where I grew up Japanese internment camps were covered in elementary, middle and high school at varying levels. Broadly stating "x country doesn't care" usually is ignoring a significant amount of the population who does.
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Baulderdash77 Mar 16, 2026 +2
My grandmother and a couple of my Mom’s siblings were in residential school and I didn’t learn about any of it until I was in University. It was such a faux pas to talk about any of it until the last 20 years, like culturally forbidden until years after they all closed.
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NorthernFrosty Mar 16, 2026 +2
> Kind of like how many Canadians refuse to acknowledge the issues that Candian(sic) First Nations peoples have had to endure? Individuals might refuse, but the government and the country as a whole do acknowledge. One big difference between the two is that the US freaked out when it was suggested they add critical race theory or discuss the internment camps. Whereas in Canada, things have been added to the classroom and the curriculum discussing specifically First Nations issues and [The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada](https://nctr.ca/about/history-of-the-trc/truth-and-reconciliation-commission-of-canada/) has a mandate to inform all Canadians about what happened in residential schools. The TRC documented the truth of Survivors, their families, communities and anyone personally affected by the residential school experience. Or, in other words, while Canada might be moving slower than preferred, they are moving in the right direction to attempt to right those wrongs. Whereas the US is moving the opposite direction, refusing to acknowledge historical wrongdoing.
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2001em2 Mar 16, 2026 +16
Holy tone deaf....
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Jimmy_Trivette Mar 16, 2026 +6
You're right about Americans but acting like Canadians are any better on that front is laughable.
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ConformistWithCause Mar 16, 2026 +2
Some of us aren't *playing* dumb. Like I had to learn about the Tulsa Massacre like most Americans from the TV show Watchmen. I learned about Red Summer on here like a double week's ago. This is sort of a feature, not a bug
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inspectoroverthemine Mar 16, 2026 +3
Rural nor cal in the 80s- we learned about them in junior high. A much more honest look than the civil war. I was going to say there was an internment camp, but now I'm thinking it may have just been POWs locally.
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Boysandberries0 Mar 16, 2026 +3
We learned about them in middle school. We learned their businesses and personal belongings were lost other than what they could carry. Locals "bought" their vacant businesses. I remembered. We did it to Italians and Germans as well but did not target their ethnic groups 100%. It was more of a focused "non-white" or "non in-group" effort. It could happen again.
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nuclearbearclaw Mar 16, 2026 +2
My cousin, [John Lesesne DeWitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._DeWitt), is responsible for the internment camps. Can't control who you're related to I guess. I learned about the camps in school at a rural city in Texas when I was young. I hear a lot about how people don't get taught controversial topics but most of the schools I went to, taught about them, and I went to shit-hole conservative schools. Most of my family wasn't aware of what he did, only that he was a General during WWII.
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fresh-dork Mar 16, 2026 +3
had a japanese teacher who was in one. also found out some other stuff: * all camps were on the mainland, where there was no collaboration * no camps on oahu, where there was collaboration * smaller camps for some germans * way bigger registration requirement for germans
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LadyPo Mar 16, 2026 +11
Thinking back to my public school U.S. history classes, I believe we had to memorize every major battle of the civil war and who won/lost and why, but internment was given maybe 10 minutes during the Pearl Harbor and nuclear bombing part of the WWII unit. It’s been a while since I was in school, but I definitely didn’t understand or retain the significance of internment until I went to college.
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zzztoken Mar 16, 2026 +9
Same here, but the framing was very….wrong lol. I distinctly remember my class actually asked our teacher “uh, aren’t these kind of concentration camps? Why are they called internment camps?”
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LadyPo Mar 16, 2026 +3
Good on the kids for asking questions!
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kaisadilla_ Mar 16, 2026 +5
I hate that history class (in every country, not just the US) isn't actually a class about history - but simply indoctrination into each country's national myth disguised as some sort of valuable formation.
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LadyPo Mar 16, 2026 +5
This may sound tinfoil-hat to people who are very under-informed on the Epstein stuff, but it’s worth pointing out that McGraw Hill, the textbook company all over our schools, was partly owned by Ghislaine Maxwell’s father until 1993 (he died in 1991). Dude had a ton of other media companies across the UK and US. He’s now buried in Israel. Their family background and scope of control is wild. It makes sense they would want to have massive control over media in education. Not to mention how embattled the school system is because of conservatives pushing for *more* one-sided indoctrination.
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sapphicsandwich Mar 16, 2026 +3
Even among those who do know, usually don't know they did it to Italians too.
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goodtrackrecord Mar 16, 2026 +2
Germans living near concentration camps said the same thing. Ignorance is not a defense. The rest of the world can see the stain quite clearly, while Americans delude themselves everyday.
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zzztoken Mar 16, 2026 +7
Wasn’t saying it was?
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RoswellRedux Mar 16, 2026 +32
It will be more than a stain. This is not only a US constitutional crime, but state crimes were committed and international crimes against humanity. Because inter-agency coordination is required to have put those people there, Bondi, Miller, and Noem are likely to be charged with serious crimes post-Trump. (btw, this is also why all three live on military bases right now.)
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External-Orchid8461 Mar 16, 2026 +11
One can dream, but sadly the US have a long history of pardoning crimes from their leader. It might be Trump dies, leaving the Republicans leading the country thanks to a election process made unfair and Supreme Court in their favour. Then, some decade later, one of their more "moderate" member might reach power and just make a lukewarm apologies and pardons the criminals who are still alive. Of course, one should not let this happen and prosecute the hell out of these ghouls, but I'm afraid the power to do so is already gridlocked. 
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Jealous-Wall-9453 Mar 16, 2026 +154
It will leave a stain, but nobody will notice because of the lead poisoning inhibiting their ability to think.
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blogoman Mar 16, 2026 +32
That isn’t fair! We also have forever chemicals and cultism!
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Mobile-Bar7732 Mar 16, 2026 +10
>It will leave a stain, but nobody will notice because of the lead poisoning inhibiting their ability to think. They must be making MAGA hats out of lead.
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Soft-Skirt Mar 16, 2026 +4
Too expensive. You've heard the expression "Born with a silver spoon in their mouth", well imagine that but with a lead coated wooden ladle and Fox news instead of cherubs.
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Jealous-Wall-9453 Mar 16, 2026 +2
Nah, older houses and toys have lead paint. Paint chips and ends up as dust you breath in. Also the water pipes are made of lead still today.
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bluexy Mar 16, 2026 +4
The big issue is that ICE's concentration camps honestly aren't much worse than our existing prison system, and most Americans don't realize our prison system is based around racism, slavery, torture, r***, and ensuring high recidity. If even Democrats won't campaign on making changes to the prison state, then how do things get fixed?
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Pxel315 Mar 16, 2026 +2
Is if that stain made the US shameful or learn anything lol. They have been terrorising latin america since WW2 ended. We just didnt have internet and the vast information we have today but what the US is doing to Iran it has been doing to everyone since its inception
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Polar_Reflection Mar 16, 2026 +3
Much bigger is hyperbole. Internment was horrific and at least so far, much larger scale 
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Past_Key_1054 Mar 16, 2026 +359
Who could have foreseen that outsourcing migrant detention to an authoritarian regime would result in human rights abuses?
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PunfullyObvious Mar 16, 2026 +85
An authoritarian regime that wants plausible deniability of their atrocities
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DisasterNo1740 Mar 16, 2026 +39
Yeah but have you considered my authoritarian regime is epic and based and I don't care about human rights and due process because crime rate stats?
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FadedVictor Mar 16, 2026 +34
I've seen so many Salvadorians praise their government because they cracked down on the cartels. I saw the same shit with Filipinos and Duterte. I hate to say this but humanity is so f****** stupid we don't even know what's good for us. I lose more and more hope for the future everyday.
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Kadak_Kaddak Mar 17, 2026 +3
And you are the smart one which is not wrong. Let the Salvadorians choose for themself. You haven't lived in LATAM and don't know how their life and how the gangs acted on the population
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EsotericMysticism2 Mar 16, 2026
The first world privilege in your comment is insane
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DisasterNo1740 Mar 16, 2026 +4
Just say it then. “I support human rights abuses and a lack of due process because cartels are bad.” Go on, just say it. Don’t try to harken to my experiences, just admit it. You don’t care about other people or dues process or human rights. As long as some fall guy for the gangs in your country take a minor hit. Go on. Admit it. Admit it to the faces of the victims of this autocracy and their families. Go speak of privilege to people. Please just admit it, for fucks sake it’s so tiring dealing with people who pretend otherwise. Just admit you do not care.
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ManInTheBarrell Mar 17, 2026 +2
The people who desired it
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cookiestonks Mar 16, 2026 +2
A regime that the US installed years ago by the way. They are a client state to the US. That's why our companies have a stranglehold over there.
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furrysalesman69 Mar 16, 2026 +233
Hey, Supreme Court, how goes your decision for Americans to be sent to concentration camps overseas now?
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Curleysound Mar 16, 2026 +139
6 of em are pretty good with it
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Sircamembert Mar 16, 2026 +81
Uncle Clarence just got a new RV~
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SusAdmin42 Mar 16, 2026 +6
Uhhhh, you think they care? Why would they if they’ll never face consequences?
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Repulsive-Durian4800 Mar 16, 2026 +25
To those who voted in favor, it's working as intended.
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Missterfortune Mar 16, 2026 +134
It is hard for me to believe that people who “follow” Jesus are okay with any of this, yet the party responsible is predominantly Christian. Hypocrisy is the biggest reason I turned away from Religion. How could I believe in something that has no love or care for me? I am not ruled by fear, nor will I be.
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bishop375 Mar 16, 2026 +61
None of the evangelical right are actual Christians. And I also refuse to believe in a benevolent being that creates or allows childhood cancers.
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continuousBaBa Mar 16, 2026 +38
I have an issue with this. Christians in the US from all congregations overwhelmingly vote Republican and voted for Trump. Only blaming Evangelicals just gives cover to everyone else. Someday the overwhelming majority of Christians are going to pretend like they didn't bring this upon the world and I'm not going to accept that. They will just do it all over again like they always have.
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snl07 Mar 16, 2026 +27
Always and every time. Christians don't get to No True Scotsman their way out of the reality that they live in direct opposition to Jesus.
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bishop375 Mar 16, 2026 +2
It's true. But you'll notice I didn't blame just them. But they are his targeted voting base. They are the lunatics standing with him in the oval office. They're where it starts. And are the loudest and most dangerous of the sects.
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chronoflect Mar 16, 2026 +8
"Those Christians aren't actual Christians" - Christians talking about other Christians since the beginning of Christianity.
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bishop375 Mar 16, 2026 +6
Sure. But the truth is these assholes are certainly not following the path of Jesus in any meaningful way. They get hard at Leviticus because they all need a punishing sky daddy, and just ignore that the entire point of the sequel was that he was undoing all of the first part.
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jcooli09 Mar 16, 2026 +12
Christians by and large do not follow the teachings of christ. They pretend to.
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angiosperms- Mar 16, 2026 +16
Let me add this to the pile of things I was "overreacting" about. It was obvious what was happening from the beginning, but people are deep in denial. They saw most people didn't care and went about their lives and now they feel comfortable doing this locally in the giant warehouses they bought.
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Ange_the_Avian Mar 16, 2026 +42
Don't worry some assholes will come out of the woodwork to tell us how much of a hero Bukele is and how crime has dropped in El Salvador - it's so safe now!!!! 
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Dieselsen Mar 16, 2026 +17
Now only the state can extrajudically kidnap and murder you without any reason or recourse.
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[deleted] Mar 16, 2026 +5
Call him bukkake its funnier
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numbmumpleb1ister Mar 16, 2026 +11
“Disappearing” = murdering, with the knowledge and consent of the GOP.
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Yuukiko_ Mar 16, 2026 +10
the US is complicit in this
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FrogsJumpFromPussy Mar 16, 2026 +37
"Forcibly disappearing"? Can't they just call it murder?
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Environmental-Rub933 Mar 17, 2026 +2
Or sold as essentially slaves to various militant groups and criminal organizations
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HelloFellowKidlings Mar 17, 2026 +20
It’s going to take decades to sort out all the bullshit this administration has caused in just one year.
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fleurgirl123 Mar 17, 2026 +5
And these kinds of things will never be figured out
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Zanos-Ixshlae Mar 16, 2026 +49
We are outsourcing our concentration camps.
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JanGuillosThrowaway Mar 16, 2026 +33
Germany built them in Poland for a reason 
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Zanos-Ixshlae Mar 16, 2026 +11
After they invaded Poland, though. But yes.
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ArbitraryMeritocracy Mar 17, 2026 +2
Dachau is considered the oldest (1933) but there were smaller ones before that. >Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and emigrants were sent to Dachau after the 1935 passage of the Nuremberg Laws which institutionalized racial discrimination.[21] In early 1937, the SS, using prisoner labor, initiated construction of a large complex capable of holding 6,000 prisoners. The construction was officially completed in mid-August 1938.[19] More political opponents, and over 11,000 German and Austrian Jews were sent to the camp after the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938. Sinti and Roma in the hundreds were sent to the camp in 1939, and over 13,000 prisoners were sent to the camp from Poland in 1940.[21][22] As the German military occupied other European states, citizens from across Europe were sent to concentration camps. Subsequently, the camp was used for prisoners of all sorts, from every nation occupied by the forces of the Third Reich.[23]: 137  Representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross inspected the camp in 1935 and 1938 and documented the harsh conditions.[24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp
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Jerdanhowell Mar 16, 2026 +9
Concentration camps in action/ prisons in name only
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chihuahuaOP Mar 17, 2026 +7
History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
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meleecow Mar 16, 2026 +12
I do believe that Republicans do not view certain people as actual human beings.
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sklerson89 Mar 16, 2026 +58
ICE are proud boys, white supremacists, dropouts and rejects of all kinds. They are unfit for a real job, they are hired goons to serve as Trump's gestapo. They kidnap, abuse, and traffick their victims. Sending people to foreign torture prisons without warrant. They murder civilians in cold blood. They are traitors to our country and traitors to humanity!
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bishop375 Mar 16, 2026 +12
In any sane, rational country, known associates of domestic terrorism outfits would be unqualified.
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radome9 Mar 16, 2026 +21
Where are all the Bukele fanboys now?
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SuccessfulRaccoon957 Mar 16, 2026 +8
It's actually really funny that everyone loved bukele, an objective fascist, up until the moment trump and he became friends. That apparently was the final straw. People can excuse this guy being a dictator and imprisoning his own people but the moment it's us citizens suddenly everyone was always against him.
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RussiaBrasileira Mar 16, 2026 +3
In my country (Brazil) it's even more bizarre the fact that the Bukele fanboys are all either libertarians or AnCaps. Like... why are the "no state" guys simping for the guy who created a police state that jails anyone with a tattoo, banned haircuts and is cracking down on drug use (one of the victimless crimes I thought libertarians were in favour of legalising)?
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Henhouse808 Mar 16, 2026 +4
The little we already know is horrifying. Imagine the things we don't know.
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spankdaddylizz Mar 16, 2026 +5
If El Salvador does the disappearing, then trump can deny any connection to that event.
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JackHughman69 Mar 16, 2026 +5
Doing the gas chambers here would probably be a bad look, so we’ve outsourced that to other countries!
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Demonokuma Mar 17, 2026 +4
Its been over a year of this shit, it should be clear as day no one actually cares. If we did we would have done something by now instead of throwing parades to highlight all the shitty stuff theyre doing. We all know what theyre doing, its been on goddamn display for the world to watch. Every single Epstein file could be fully released, unredacted and people would think someone will stroll in and arrest the bad guys. The bad guys hold the power. Its all on the citizens to save the country but here we are waiting for some imaginary hero to come save us all, because were way too spoiled to go out and do it ourselves.
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PythonRegiuss Mar 16, 2026 +18
"Forcibly disappearing" is a wild way to say murder 
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willargue4karma Mar 16, 2026 +10
Yeah. When do we overthrow the government? It feels like we are the germans in the late 1930s ignoring the fact that our neighbors are being "disappeared"
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Own-Secret2028 Mar 17, 2026 +2
If the analogy follows, you don't. We do nothing until a coalition of countries bands together to stop us.
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PixelsGoBoom Mar 16, 2026 +7
Yeah they are gone. They already got their money for taking them in, why waste it on feeding them.
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alexfi-re Mar 16, 2026 +5
And more billions wasted to transport them and the camps in the us, all people getting rich to hurt others. It's a horrible tragedy.
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traitorgiraffe Mar 16, 2026 +8
forcibly disappearing?? is this like the tiktok word for murder
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bestintheclass Mar 16, 2026 +3
damn. it's almost like imprisoning people in prisons whose selling point is how inmates are treated less than animals and no one who enters gets out alive is actually a bad thing regardless of context. it's almost like this has been a bad thing despite the whitewashing the media has done about CECOT and nayib bukele. it's almost like it is bad to excuse literal torture in the name of preventing crime. it's almost like we should keep the dignity of the human sacrosanct. it's almost like we should know better than that. we quite literally saw people whose crimes we did not know, only told to us as "dangerous criminal gang members" without evidence or trial and people who have the judicial sense of lemongrab from adventure time clapped like f****** seals.
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urmom1739 Mar 16, 2026 +5
what does disappearing mean bro, is this some censor bs?
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Dimas166 Mar 17, 2026 +3
A dictatorship "disappearing" people who were sent to their concentration camp? Who could've think of that happening?
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DisasterNo1740 Mar 16, 2026 +8
Don't you get it? This dictator uses his dictatorial powers to imprison gang members (and here and there anyone who he dislikes or is a possible enemy but who cares haha!), surely these are just the evil gang members Trump talked about and thats why they were deported to El Salvador. Bukele is so awesome guys, he cuts deals with the very gangs he supposedly is against, sorry I mean he is a super hard liner against gangs and totally gives a f*** for human rights and due process. But the crime rates guys, if crime rates go down then outright human rights abuses and dictator behavior is totally excused!
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fiero-fire Mar 16, 2026 +7
So this 3rd destination deportation is working as intended for this racist regime
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Reasonable-Turn-5940 Mar 16, 2026 +5
Best case scenario: They're in a concentration camp Probable case scenario: Sold into slavery in the new U.S. Slave trade Worst case scenario: Mass graves in the new U.S. born Holocaust Either way you can bet Trump is personally profiting off of it. Capitalism on crack
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Emotional-Channel-42 Mar 16, 2026 +9
sending humans to foreign concentration camps for life imprisonment or murder without any due process. Every Conservative and Nazi’s wet dream. 
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mayasux Mar 16, 2026 +11
Nazi citizens did not know about the concentration camps. The Nazis specifically outsourced their camps to other countries (Auschwitz is in Poland) that the Jews were “supposedly from”. It was framed as remigrating them “where they came from”.
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O-o--O---o----O Mar 17, 2026 +3
Concentration camps where ALL over the place. Extermination camps (Vernichtungslager) were mostly in Poland though. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:WW2_Holocaust_Europe_map-de.png
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Yakassa Mar 16, 2026 +3
Forcibly disappearing? New euphemism for Murder?
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ibrown39 Mar 16, 2026 +3
Genuinely curious if the next admin, if not aligned with Trump will act against El Salvador's complicity. Based on the last US election and admin, and especially given current attitudes and events towards this issue and admin, ICE for sure will be scrutinized to likely an existential extent (if not, at least massive reform) but it'd be hard to think to not also direct a similar level of scrutiny to the country enabling a good portion of the worst parts (especially as it's increasingly openly critical of said opposition to Trump and party). I imagine even basic sanctions on such a country would be devastating and that prison is a cornerstone of the Bukele's support (and arguably legitimacy). Any pressures that interrupt that alone could very likely dismantle his current power structure too. I'm speaking theoretically and questionably because I really don't know. I could 100% see Dems forgetting about El Salvador the second Trump's out of office too. I'm also not sure if there's current precedent either (like I'm not sure if Rwanda faced much post-Sunak backlash...but that's the UK and not the US).
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2this4u Mar 16, 2026 +3
And amazingly people were fawning over the place in r/travel the other week, the same community discouraging people (rightly imo) from visiting China or North Korea but El Salvador is pretty so go ahead 🙄
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Calm-Maintenance-878 Mar 16, 2026 +3
Of the bad options, ideally you’re sent to an African country that is helping us with human trafficking. It seems like you’ll either go to prison or actually just be sent to your native country. Amazing that skipping due process is fine when it’s convenient, and it’ll continue for years.
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NotSoGentleBen Mar 16, 2026 +3
And the biggest “no f****** shit” headline of the day goes to…
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Wizardof1000Kings Mar 16, 2026 +3
Hopefully most El Salvadorian nationals that were in the US have escaped to Canada by now.
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Shradow Mar 17, 2026 +3
Well yeah, that's why they were sent there. Republicans can't get enough of this sort of thing.
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alexfi-re Mar 16, 2026 +2
Owners get richer, The more people they put in, Concentration camps
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SnakeOiler Mar 16, 2026 +2
I never knew. but the name of this place is literally "terrorism confinement center"
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Agreeable-Mention403 Mar 16, 2026 +2
I bet Trump is selling them as Slaves.
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PanzerSloth Mar 17, 2026 +2
I hate the term "disappearing". If the state is in charge of someone and cannot prove that they were safely delivered somewhere before leaving their care they didn't "disappear" they were f****** murdered.
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Tyler10274 Mar 16, 2026 +5
Forcibly Disappearing. I despise how stupid we are becoming. Why is this a general term now? Abducted. Kidnapped. Taken. Hostage. English is a lost art, I swear.
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TOMC_throwaway000000 Mar 16, 2026 +4
That’s kinda the whole point behind an out of country concentration camp right? To disappear people
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jcooli09 Mar 16, 2026 +3
Adding to the trump body count.
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Drops-of-Q Mar 16, 2026 +4
Has anyone ever been non-forcibly disappeared?
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Roundcat89 Mar 16, 2026 +2
Between the war and the Epstein files, we really did forget that we were sending residents to death camps abroad.
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DeadbeatJohnson Mar 16, 2026 +5
"Forcibly disappearing"? ....oh, you mean murder but want to make it sound nicer.
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GPTMCT Mar 16, 2026 +5
We are calling genocide "forced disappearing" now?
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Syssareth Mar 16, 2026 +3
...Do you even know what genocide is? Because as heinous as this is, this is not that. Words have meanings.
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MexGrow Mar 16, 2026 +3
A few weeks ago, POS Bukele was gloating how he's amazing and that Mexico is stupid because they can't "solve" the narco problem like he did. Conveniently leaving out that the CJNG, one of Mexico's largest cartels, funded him. Human scum all around.
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SusAdmin42 Mar 16, 2026 +2
Is the next admin invading El Salvador to free US citizens? 🤭
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izzgo Mar 16, 2026 +7
> next admin Hope is a good thing.
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reddit5674 Mar 16, 2026 +2
What forcibly disappearing. WTF am i even reading.
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digihippie Mar 16, 2026 +1
wish they stayed on the Bitcoin timeline vs. doing shit like this for loans.
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