The U.S. government is taking people off the street and sending them to the place in the bottom picture without charges filed, no arraignments, no due process and without notifying anyone of the people’s whereabouts.
El Salvador intends to never release anyone from CECOT.
@davidaugust Fucking heartbreaking.
@davidaugust @Pineywoozle And shameful. And enraging.
@BruceMirken @Pineywoozle I am ashamed my country is doing this.
@davidaugust @Pineywoozle I am ashamed of many things lately.
@Pineywoozle @BruceMirken right there with you.
We have a lot of work to do to make things better. We will, it is just hard knowing bad things will happen between now and then.
It really is. 
Task one, is waking up our neighbors who feel the same revulsion but don’t know what to do. Even the smallest step of resistance now will help, but getting people to take that first step is hard.
Some are scared, some think it only “matters” if they fly to join a big protest & can’t for what ever reason. “Standing up” where they can see us, has such value right now. @BruceMirken
#Resist
#ResistEverywhere
#AfternoonNotesToAmerica
#trump #musk #USPol
That’s what has me this morning, watching even more come undone. 
@MiriShuli we can work to keep the faith and keep pushing back.
@davidaugust The real worrying thing is that the top picture should be labelled 1935, that’s where your country is now, David.
@Linkshaender @BruceMirken @Pineywoozle yes. This rhyme with history has the various stages/components of this sort of thing in various stages of progress.
The sequence of events is slightly different and musk/45 is trying to speed run through them all.
@davidaugust Well, at least the liberating army landing at Long Island will not have to fight uphill like in Normandy, although some gruntled Hamptons property owner having a tank plowing thru the perfect lawn should not be underestimated.
You‘re the writer, would make for a good sketch. 
@BruceMirken @Pineywoozle
Ha!, the reverse of Churchill’s famous speech. The old world coming to save the new. We will fight on the beaches w/ you as you storm the Hamptons,
But before that,
WE shall protest on our beaches & at the private airstrips, we shall protest in the tech fields & in the streets in front of the Tesla dealerships, WE shall protest in Beverly Hills ; WE shall never surrender!
@davidaugust @BruceMirken
#Resist #ResistEverywhere
#AfternoonNotesToAmerica
#trump#musk #USPol
@davidaugust
It's odd how the people who profess not to trust the government at all. Who have no trust in federal law enforcement, seem to have complete faith in some bureaucrat declaring that these people are violent gang members.
@Asbestos agreed, startlingly inconsistent on their part, unless it is something less overt and more based on pure bigotry.
@davidaugust There seem to be only few "differences" between those facilities. May be it takes just time...
@davidaugust oh Mother of God. Any way to point the ICC in this direction and put a spotlight on El Salvador’s criminal President? And while they are at it, consider legal actions against the U.S. President AND the people in his administration who enabled this atrocity ??? This is a crime against humanity.
@annietime @davidaugust Not really, apparently he's very popular because despite some very poor false positives, they've kneecapped the big gangs in El Salvador that had near dictatorial control over the country prior.
@mwguy @annietime @davidaugust The leopards haven't started eating their faces yet.
@annietime @ariaflame @mwguy it also seems likely the extra judicial removal of people from El Salvadoran society into human rights violating hellholes may not be the only, or even key, factor in shifting the perpetration of violence from gangs to the government.
@ariaflame @annietime @davidaugust Unfortunately it was so bad in El Salvador that they may prefer getting their face ate.
@mwguy @annietime @davidaugust
They traded one gang for another one...
@Sfwmson @annietime @davidaugust Tale as old as time; but I think in this case they traded a shifting collection of warring gangs for one stable, big gang.
@Sfwmson @annietime @mwguy centralizing crime and violence is not a step toward making things better.
@davidaugust @Sfwmson @annietime This might be the exception that proves the rule. El Salvador had a murder rate of >100 per 10k in 2015. It's cut to 2.3 in 2023 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/696152/homicide-rate-in-el-salvador/) and even if every murder was a government backed one that's still a crazy improvement.
El Salvador is the edge case's edge case.
@annietime @davidaugust I don’t think keeping US war criminals out of the ICC is going to survive the restoration of democracy.
@su_liam @annietime @davidaugust inclusion in the ICC would annihilate the Republican party leadership and decimate the Democratic party leadership. It would generally be a good thing for democracy in general, and is thus completely opposed by basically everyone in power.
@davidaugust and doing hard labor. Literally sold into slavery.
Deeply worrying…
some may ask if the comparison is fair
to which I say, if we have to dig into
"welllllll the murders haven't started"
(yet)
then yeah
it's probably fair to compare
@xlrobot
The next step: “But it’s only been a few murders…”
@davidaugust
Trump’s always been into #humantrafficking
The audacity-in front of the world, BY AMERICA!! of this inhumane treatment.
#ImpeachTheMotherFucker
File charges already.
Crime wave to end all crime waves.
This is not America.
@RiaResists @davidaugust Sorry, this is very much America.
We are what we do, not what we think we are.
America’s fascist streak goes back to its founding on slavery.
@merileedkarr @davidaugust I’m very aware.
@RiaResists @davidaugust Oh but it is and they have no interest in impeaching their useful idiot - this is their path to implementing Project 2025. It's been their fever dream for decades & they've been diligent in setting it up.
@CodieneC @RiaResists small consolation is they haven’t been that diligent. They have in getting to the chance they are now taking to try to make it real, but they vetted their plans poorly.
Project 2025 has a massive number of internal conflicts. They often want to use the things they are destroying to do the other things they want to do. Even with total control, they work against themselves in their own plan a lot.
The rest of the world who are concerned about this need to apply sanctions to the US.
@grb090423 and perhaps El Salvador too.
@davidaugust @grb090423 We have become a rogue state.
@BruceMirken @grb090423 in many ways we are fast becoming just that.
@mardor @Nike_Leonhard no, they don’t, and you know that.
My server requires posts follow German laws. I believe willful denial of the Holocaust violates those laws. You also disgust me.
Reporting you to my server and muting you for a week.
Be better than this you reprehensible, disingenuous fool.
@davidaugust
So Wikipedia lies?
@Nike_Leonhard
How far off the mark is that impression?
Good question.
Freedom House ranks El Salvador as only partly free: https://freedomhouse.org/country/el-salvador/freedom-world/2025
International IDEA has it as a sort of mix: https://www.idea.int/democracytracker/country/el-salvador
Varieties of Democracy has them declining since the current leader Nayib Bukele took power: https://v-dem.net/weekly_graph/weakening-checks-and-balances-in-el-salvador
Worth noting that Nayib Bukele most recently ran and won in contravention of their Constitution which forbids consecutive terms.
@davidaugust @lispi314@udongein.xyz @pluralistic
Bukele's also a major player in the world of cryptocurrency.
@davidaugust terrible if true, can you tell us your source please for this information?
@johnrhunt since we both know you have internet search technology available to you, and you refuse to use it and instead try to create doubt in reality, we also both know you are trolling.
Don’t do that. Like stop right now.
Both your instance and mine forbid Holocaust denial. So stop it, right this minute. Cut out that n*zi garbage or you will have issues.
For anyone reading along:
Lower image background: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/inside-look-el-salvador-mega-211122859.html
Upper image background: https://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/en/historical-site/virtual-tour/barracks/
@davidaugust I wasn't trolling.
@davidaugust 'doubt in reality'? I'm not from the US and know nothing about you or what you've posted. Asking for a source shouldn't be considered offensive. Pardon my ignorance.
@davidaugust
Ca vaut mieux que d etre interné sans procès dans
plus ancien asile français le bien nommé " la cellette " en haute Corrèze ...
Ah ça oui certes, tu as ta chambre individuelle...
out of time august david
@Canalbaobab “It's better than being interned without trial” the people in at CECOT likely have been detained without trials.
We might be losing something in translation.
@davidaugust
Probablement
mais 1 IA ingérera
Après mon message est que la pire des détentions ,le pire endroit de privation de liberté, en france
pays des droits de l homme c est leurs asiles psykiatriques..en tout cas le plus ancien le bien nommé " la cellette " et que BREF la pire mafia est bien occidentale le vice président américain d Vance
talk right à Munich
(Pourquoi j ai pu m en sortir?
Ma" bonne tête de victime " trop bonne pour eux effectivement et l expérience de mes 50ans)
If there's a similarity between that concentration camp photo and the one from El Salvador's prison, it's because Stephen Miller always does his homework and has a fondness for the old way of doing things.
@davidaugust I see the bad history is repeating itself. What about the good history? What are the stories of the helpers?
At $20,000 per head per year I guess they'll be released when the US stops paying El Salvador to keep them.