Kilmar Abrego Garcia said he suffered severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation and psychological torture in the notorious El Salvador prison the Trump administration had deported him to in March, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
He said he was kicked and hit so often after arrival that by the following day, he had visible bruises and lumps all over his body. He said he and 20 others were forced to kneel all night long and guards hit anyone who fell.
His own lawyer requested to keep him in jail because they fear the moment he is released he will be immediately deported again.
Our system is so broken that sitting in jail is preferable to being on release because of DHS.
Removed by mod
Not voting will surely help.
I’m doing my didn’t!
Voting didn’t. We ended up with a guy who invited an insurrection.
So “not voting” must surely be the answer.
Hey, jackass. I voted for Harris
The pound is that it wouldn’t have mattered because by that time the Dems had fucked up so bad they had to switch their candidate mid race
That’s what fucking happened.
Not voting happens in every election with the same fucking results. We just happened to have Hitler 2.0 to take advantage of it.
Think before you type
Hey, Jackass, then I’m not talking about you am I? 🙄
I’d rather vote 3rd party than for a Corprocrat. They’ve done nothing but shine the shoes of fascists, which is even less than I expected of them. They normalize pure evil and pretend that they haven’t already lost America, because without the illusion of liberalism, they have no power.
Unless the Democrat has the guts to take a stronger stance against fascism than democratic socialism, they’re less than worthless. They’re not even liberals at this point, but spineless neo-feudalists with no soul or heart.
Many I remember my late teens when I thought this was sooo edgy…
I say this shit knowing full well the cost of third parties. I know they vote split and I know our system punishes it. Yet I’ve learned a valuable lesson from the death of our liberal democratic system: the Democrats will never change. They lost the election by ignoring the youth, assuming they would always have that support even if they repeatedly told us that our opinions don’t matter. They pretended the economy was fine and that people shouldn’t complain because their measure for a healthy economy was far beyond what people could actually tolerate. They chose capitalism over democracy; simple as that.
Call me an edgy kid, but I’ve been a voter from the day I was eligible; someone who never missed an opportunity to fulfill my civic duty. And yet I’m the now the one saying that the Democrats are not people we can work with. I’m the one saying that they’re closer to the Vichy government than the resistance. We need to break from them because working with them will bear no fruit. They only do good things to serve their own interests, not as payment for left wing support.
I look forward to reading your zine.
People haven’t learned anything, huh?
If you think the Democrats will change without serious challenges to their hegemony, then you really haven’t learned. They’ve taken the wrong lessons from the last election, and doubling down on following fascism rightwards. They kick out people trying to reform the party while dismantling environmental protections at the state level where they still have power. They’re increasingly throwing minorities under the bus and serve capitalism harder than ever because they’ve taken this loss as an excuse to be worse, not a call to improve.
I’ve been a long proponent of damage mitigation, which is why I don’t advocate not voting. Unfortunately, the Democrats’ response to this has actively made the situation worse by making people believe that voting for them can change things. Even with a large majority in both houses, Trump is already equipped to override their will using everything from the yesmen courts to his personal Gestapo.
I’ll repeat the sad truth of our situation till the day I get shipped off to a death camp: Trump’s death is the only thing that will stop him. We’re in the endgame, and there is no snapping the people he’ll kill back to life.
Correct. Not sure what that has to do with voting for 3rd parties with no chance of winning though. That’s not even close to a serious challenge, and all it does is strengthen the hegemony of the actual fascist party.
Trump is a symptom. If he is gone, ghouls like Thiel will gladly place another puppet into the role.
The GOP and its backers, all of them need to hang together. Otherwise, they will take the intermittent loss of their fellows as an opportunity to climb the ladder on the backs of their dead, rather than as a warning.
You misunderstand Trump. He might be a symptom, but he is not a sustainable strategy. He rode the wave and no one else will be able to; that is how strongman dictatorships tend to pan out. Everyone from billionaires to normal people will be sick of fascism after this. The billionaires will want a yes man who doesn’t extort them or make business volatile, while everyday people will want peace and safety.
In that environment, everyone will want the return of liberal democracy, only US institutions will be permanently weakened. We can’t know how the situation will unfold, but oligarchs will seek to solidify their gains while only restoring what benefits them. I personally think a feudal era will occur, with a weak central government that eventually allows for fiefdoms, which could eventually lead to actual civil wars.
Look. The Dem and Republican ghouls don’t want a third party. Who knew? Selfish fucks
Its nice when people make it obvious you should just block them.
They’re so terrible at it that they’ll have to learn in the next 18 months. It’s gonna get worse.
That’s true. Unfortunately the Democrats have been practically useless but as I’m beginning to see they have always been kind of practically useless
it’s not just democrats; it’s americans in general. they have a difficult time accepting that they’ve been propagandized so thoroughly, they even deleted the comment you’re responding to for trolling even though it’s 100% the truth.
Yeah thats also a problem. Living in the Imperial core definitely has some disadvantages.
– but not for enough people to cause change.
I disagree. Plenty of people want change but just don’t know where to go.
I’m creating a local communist group to help with that. 😄
Cheers comrade