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markpkessinger

(8,800 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 03:50 PM Tuesday

Saw a great Facebook meme about Alligator Alcatraz . . .

It reads:

If they can pivot from "All Lives Matter" to
"Feed them to the Alligators" in 5 years, let's maybe
stop pretending all lives ever really mattered at all.
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Saw a great Facebook meme about Alligator Alcatraz . . . (Original Post) markpkessinger Tuesday OP
Only their own lives matter. Dave Bowman Tuesday #1
Sure all lives matter but not all like lives are at risk MaineBlueBear Tuesday #2
All lives matter, until they are born. JustABozoOnThisBus Tuesday #3
make no mistake Skittles Tuesday #19
To be fair, they also don't give a damn about women who are not pregnant. JustABozoOnThisBus 14 hrs ago #22
Alligator Auschwitz Blue Full Moon Tuesday #4
That's the correct name. MacKasey Tuesday #9
You could also call it Donald's Dachau RazorbackExpat 20 hrs ago #21
Beat me to it... Moostache Tuesday #10
In the making? BidenRocks Tuesday #17
Crimes against humanity vapor2 Tuesday #18
Or...Everglades Concentration Camp. MiHale Tuesday #15
I have thought about names like Auschwitz and Dachau, but ... JustABozoOnThisBus 14 hrs ago #23
I disagree...with no disrespect to the millions of victims of the Nazis ever meant or implied. Moostache 12 hrs ago #24
It shouldn't be called a "detention" camp. Detention is generally temporary. This horror is allegorical oracle Tuesday #5
Amen. From your keyboard to the almighty's "plan"... Moostache Tuesday #11
I refer to it as Everglades Concentration Camp MiHale Tuesday #16
alligators rmac3075 Tuesday #6
'How many people have been killed by alligators in Florida? The number may surprise you' sop Tuesday #12
Let's face it.... oldguy_tls Tuesday #7
All lives don't seem to matter damifino10 Tuesday #8
Only certain lives matter in America. sop Tuesday #13
only fetuses. pansypoo53219 Tuesday #14
Yep, until they are born. LisaL Tuesday #20

Moostache

(10,668 posts)
10. Beat me to it...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:29 PM
Tuesday

Its not cute or funny to use the GOP's Orange Menace's verbiage. Call it what it is... a fucking concentration camp in the making. NO ONE CAN SAY LATER - "I DIDN'T KNOW".... This is your last wake-up call folks! Trump is a fiend and his enablers should all swing next to him when justice is served.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,224 posts)
23. I have thought about names like Auschwitz and Dachau, but ...
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 09:58 AM
14 hrs ago

... to me, those names are forever linked to a tragic horror and should not be diminished by overuse.

Maybe a comparison to the Confederate prison at Andersonville, GA.

Moostache

(10,668 posts)
24. I disagree...with no disrespect to the millions of victims of the Nazis ever meant or implied.
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 12:22 PM
12 hrs ago

The horror of those camps did not start at their naming, but their names remind us all of the depths of human depravity when we do not remain hyper-vigilant to prevent recurrences. I am re-reading Elie Wiesel's Night Trilogy currently and the impact is not made less by the passage of time, but the horror is anew when read in light of what is actually happening in 2025 in these United States...

My thinking is that using the names of Dachau and Auschwitz and talking about the Shoah, its evil architects and its lasting impact on humanity is a way of honoring those lost, and putting teeth into "never again". We MUST feel uncomfortable to stoke action from the reticent, and we MUST conquer that discomfort to ensure the past is NOT prologue again...

We must remind ourselves that unimpeded or ignored on the current trajectory and path leads to absolute horror.
I cannot abide that.

allegorical oracle

(5,334 posts)
5. It shouldn't be called a "detention" camp. Detention is generally temporary. This horror is
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:47 PM
Tuesday

a CONCENTRATION camp. It's comprised of people who are of one singular characteristic -- being born a person that Trump, Miller, Noem, and Homan don't like. Those four people now hold the lives of thousands in their hands. They should be held accountable.

Moostache

(10,668 posts)
11. Amen. From your keyboard to the almighty's "plan"...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:30 PM
Tuesday

I hope that justice is served and falls on them all with full force and vengeance.

rmac3075

(36 posts)
6. alligators
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:49 PM
Tuesday

I am from Houston; alligators don't eat people you can wade past them they just move out of the way.

sop

(15,167 posts)
12. 'How many people have been killed by alligators in Florida? The number may surprise you'
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:34 PM
Tuesday

"Since 1948, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has recorded over 450 alligator bites on people in the state, with 30 of them being fatal...The FWC has attacks listed through 2022, though there were two attacks last year in Florida — one in Largo and another in Fort Pierce...Two of the strangest attacks involved cases from 2007 and 2019. In both cases, the victim was killed by an alligator while trying to evade police in local waterways."

https://www.clickorlando.com/features/2024/01/04/how-many-people-have-been-killed-by-alligators-in-florida-it-may-surprise-you/

oldguy_tls

(20 posts)
7. Let's face it....
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 05:58 PM
Tuesday

...there is an invisible word in that phrase. It's always meant 'All (white) Lives Matter'. And you heard that from a 68-year-old white man, too!

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