Damn tankies smh my head

It's a total mess. I believe the original 196 (i forgot the instance) was a spin-off from reddit. At some point, it ended up on blahaj, where I first encountered it. For the last year or so, it's basically been a meme channel barely above shitposts but often with a lot of trans memes.

Then recently the mod just unilaterally tried to "move" the community by locking up the blahaj instance and opening a new 196 on .world. The community backlashed, someone started onehundredninetysix and people spammed it heavily for a few days. Then, I believe, the old mod reopened the blahaj one or the admins gave it to someone else or.... I dunno, my attention span for lemmy drama runs put around this point.

tl;dr, a bunch of mod drama has resulted in no less than 3 different 196 communities all of which are basically meme communities with low standards.

Idk but I blocked one on lemmy because it was a bunch of whining about tankies with memes pretty much exactly like the above, in both reasoning and format. I don’t even know what they think a tankie is; I could never figure it out from the context or comments.

There's a 196 on Blahaj (or at least there was, there was a whole thing about moving to .world, but idk)

Prisons are closer to a hybrid financialized gulag system than concentration camps. The ultimate goal of concentration camps is permanent removal. The ultimate goal of gulags was economic extraction. US Prisons and Jails function in this way in the sense that many governments in the US use prison labor. However this goes further in the sense that the bodies of prisoners are typically commodities in and of themselves when you're looking at the interplay between private for-profit prisons and the various governments they contract with.

But we've had actual concentration camps for immigrants along the Southern border for decades, these camps are also hybrid financialized systems because some of them are also run by for-profit companies.

America is simply the synthesis of the horrors of humanity with a financial twist!

Yes, amongst many others who never ever did. There was one conservative commentator who actually did it and admitted it was really scary and unpleasant and that in the moment he felt sure he was going to drown, but the idea that his version of it (choosing to do it willingly, for not more than a few seconds, in a friendly environment surrounded by people who do not wish you harm, and a full medical and psychological support staff on hand) was even close to the experience of victims is absurd.

Water boarding wasn't even the most common form of torture at Gitmo. And one of the worst wasn't the sort of thing that got focused on by the press (like sleep deprivation, pressure holds, mock execution, dogs etc).

Almost 50 prisoners a day were force fed twice a day each, with each session regularly continuing for 2hrs at a time. Yasiin Bey / Mos Def worked with Reprieve and the guy who made Senna to film him undergoing the procedure (again in a closed environment with people who knew and trusted, other doctors on hand etc) and it pretty much completely broke him in minutes.

The footage is really disturbing, so I won't post it here, but going through 4 hours of that a day at the hands of people who kidnapped you off the street and hate you on principle and even enjoy subjecting you to it is honestly impossible to grasp in it's horror.

Hitchens (rip bozo) did it and changed his mind and said that it's torture