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Naming detention centers with cartoonish branding is Trivializing human suffering, and Reframing state violence as entertainment, toughness, or necessity.
This rhetorical move has clear historical echoes in many authoritarian regimes that used linguistic flair to normalize inhumane policies.
It’s a psychological tactic:
Alliteration makes it stick in the brain.
The quirky names deflect criticism, injecting levity or toughness into something morally serious.
It also distances people from the reality of the suffering inside.
The use of memorable, alliterative nicknames like “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Speedway Slammer” follows a very old propaganda principle:
Make the policy memorable, palatable, and repeatable—even if it’s brutal.
Privatization and Monopolization was always the Republican Plan.
How did they pass a motion, WITHOUT a quorum?
Americans say the Rich are born special, and deserve to pay little to no taxes because they “create jobs” and “work hard”.
The reality is, the Rich are mostly horrifically lazy and entitled welfare queens.
Historically, these tactics fail and fizzle out. It worked at once when Republicans capitulated.
But times are different. The Democrats will be hunted down and arrested. Abbott will vacate their seats and appoint stooges.
America is a fascist nation now.
Americans must take to the streets.
Trump was always a Neanderthal around women.
It was always a grotesque mistake, for America and NATO to demand that Ukraine NOT attack Russia and its factories and supply lines.
But how else do you defeat a country, if not destroying its ability to wage war?
America wanted a long proxy war. This is its guilty sin.
Republicans believe only people who work should receive health care, at their own expense.
Everyone else can die, according to the GOP.