In other news, the prisoners at Abu Ghraib were torturing themselves, the guards had nothing to do with it.
Does anyone really think ice isn’t torturing these people to death?
Me, your average masochist on a random Wednesday. Y’all don’t enjoy a bit of ball torture with car batteries?
The only thing the US military learned from that shit was how to not get caught as easily
You forget. America doesn’t even see it’s own citizens as humans to be valued. What do you think they think about none Americans. Its obvious to the world that America and everything it actually stands for is only providing for those with excess.
There are no American citizens, just American consumers and the American workforce.
Don’t forget the oligarchs!
Most of them aren’t American, one of them is South African.
Some are though, but they don’t really participate in America.
If Germany did send Trump’s grandfather over here to infiltrate America and destroy it within. They were wildly successful.
Wouldn’t that plan have had to began in like the late 1800s? His father was born in the Bronx in 1905. Are you insinuating this started with Otto von Bismarck!?!
Shhh, batshit conspiracy theories are only bad if the wrong people say them.
Think care whatever
Ah… “suicide”… yes…
doubt
Do you doubt that suicides are on the rise? I don’t at all and I’d argue that’s even worse than death from abuse or negligence.
I know we’re comparing the lesser or two evils here but people choosing to take their own lives really stresses the direness of detention to me. They might get sent to another country. They may never get released. They are so hopeless, they’d rather die.
The culprit is the same so I’m not shifting blame. I just completely believe that people are killing themselves. If I was in their situation, I might, too.
Do you doubt that suicides are on the rise?
Nope. For reference, however, U.S. military personnel and defense contractors attempted to claim Abu Ghraib prisoners’ injuries were ‘self inflicted’. As in the prisoners were torturing themselves.
I sincerely doubt these “suicides” are being truthfully represented.
AP has the wrong word in apostrophes on this headline. It should read: ICE detainees are dying by ‘suicide’ at an alarming rate.
Agreed, except in the US we (edit: usually) use quotation marks for that, unless the whole thing is already in quotation marks.
ICE detainees are dying by “suicide” at an alarming rate.
I’m aware many other places use apostrophes, but ICE is a US peacecrime.
Tangential question, how many fingers do people use for “finger quotes” (‘finger quotes’) where you live?
Two, on just one hand. We’re too lazy to lift both hands to quote someone, so the other hand stays firmly planted in the pocket (speaking on behalf of millions of Norwegians, of course).
I can confirm that 100% of Norwegians do this.
Sensible! I use two on both hands, but that could either be because I live in a warm climate or because I’m old.
My understanding is that quotes are used to relay what someone said verbatim, and apostrophes are used to emphasize words, to quote them informally, or to express sarcasm. Even here in the US. But this differences have become fuzzy over time.
Hmmm… In the article, ‘alarming’ (as written in the headline) turns out to be a direct quote from Dr. Sanjay Basu. But as you say, fuzzy.
I’m aware many other places use apostrophes, but ICE is a US peacecrime.
Which can be written about from other places. A better argument would be that AP is based in the US, yet they still use single quotation marks.
Americans don’t give a shit
ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation findsUmmm…
ICE detainees are dying by “suicide” at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds
ICE “detainees” are dying by “suicide” at an “alarming” rate, and AP “investigation” finds.
The whole thing is pretty bad
Wait, the ICE that’s filled with white supremacists are allowing detainees to commit suicide? I’m shocked. Now I suppose you’ll tell me that a vast majority of those that died are POC/minorities.
/s
“allowing”?
/s???
