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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

El Salvador's regime has already sent 80k people to gulags since 2022, and capitalism found it cheaper to outsource US gulags to poor countries, the same way it did for manufacturing. Rather ironic, really.

Also, Trump's definitely making money off the deal somehow. It isn't realistic to airlift tens of thousands of Americans there though. This is just the start. They'll probably start building domestic death camps soon; to disappear the bulk of the undesirables.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 50 points 1 week ago (15 children)

capitalism found it cheaper to outsource US gulags to poor countries

It is more of a way to sidestep the judicial process. The executive branch can act faster than the judicial branch in removing someone from the country before appeals. Once the person is in a foreign country, they are no longer in custody of someone under the control of American judges.

It isn't a cost saving measure, it is a legal loophole.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Good point. But is there any meaningful difference between capitalism and its legal system?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

This is more of a case where capitalism decays into fascism.

Capitalism relies on a decent legal framework to function. It doesn't have to be equal, but it has to be consistent. It is usually why a lot of nations defined by capitalism are generally not dictatorships; monied interests are given ways to influence policy.

Fascism concentrates power and frees that power from restraint in order to benefit a part of society. The ability for a person to imprison anyone without legal checks is an extraordinary power.

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