• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Alcatraz was a ridiculously expensive prison. That is why it closed down. Meanwhile as a museum it is actually generating millions of dollars every year in revenue.

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      5 days ago

      which is not based on real events but dumnald is so stupid he cannot tell the difference

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    7 days ago

    So… You take a prison which:

    • Generates $60M yearly from being currently a museum;
    • Needs serious rebuilding and modernization;
    • Needs a way to be supplied with safe water, plus constant deliveries of all other necessities, likely by boat.

    And you get:

    • A prison which generates little to no revenue, while needing to be kept functioning.
    • Only has its name and somber history going in its favor, because “prisoners should be afraid of the historic evil prison”.

    Yes. Brilliant idea. Hopefully by the time the prison is ready Trump and his cronies get to be the first “tenants”. And whoever comes next declares the prison closed again and leaves them rotting there.

    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Nobody in the trump regime is ever going to prison because you wont elect me president…I, the only candidate who would actually guillotine traitors, imprison their cucks, and take all the wealth from criminally active billionaires and their labbyists, and cap wealth accumulation.

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        At this point you’re gonna have to do that first, and then I’ll elect you after, because we can’t trust any words spoken on the campaign trail by anyone anymore.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      But it is a typical Trump deal, selling vibes of “doing it the rough old way, with guns and hookers and lead paint and gasoline that makes your windows rainbow-colored”.

      That’s what he sells. His fans know it’s not achievable, they want a mess sufficient for something better to evolve, and vibes for them signify that mess. It’s a bit like Shadow ideology in Babylon V.

    • mriswith@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Yes…?

      It was literally NEVER about the money being spent by the government. Anyone who actually believed that is by dictionary definition, dumb.

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        Beachside property after all. Rockside.

        Actually would be a cool idea, make there a combined prison-museum with luxury cells like the one Brejvik spends his time in. If it goes together with a prison reform to in general make American prisons more like Norwegian ones, would be cool.

        I mean, inmates shouldn’t pay for that, I just caught a thought.

        It’s more interesting after all, inmates can talk to tourists and not feel too isolated, but live in more comfortable conditions than their historical colleagues, and you still have a profitable museum.

        Sort of a prison entertainment park. On an island. One can even have a small computing history museum with an IRIX machine there, next to a few dinosaur pics.

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          You can spend the night in a cell in Alcatraz already. I did it as a little scout. I would absolutely not call it luxury lol.

  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Trump announces a new King’s decree that toilets shall now be 75% larger after trying to fit his fat fucking ass on a regular toilet.

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    The good thing about this is that everyone who saw the rock movie knows the timing for the boiler room doors so they can easily escape

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      Yes, the whole democratic party and voters were flim flammed by a brainless person.

      Not scoring many points in there chief. Just makes the Dems look even worse

      • Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
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        European here. It makes all of you look worse but from what I’ve seen so far only the orange asshat and his cult have brought this much chaos worldwide.

        Bring back boring, boring is good. Otherwise you’re speedrunning the president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho timeline

      • Whateley@lemm.ee
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        “Haha, you Dems stepped in shit”, says the Magat wearing shit warpaint.

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    He didn’t announce it reopening, he said he wanted it to be reopened. Shit headline.

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    Consider how stupid Donald Trump is, then consider how stupid one would have to be to vote for him, then consider that those people are all around you, all the time.

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      5 days ago

      Don’t do that. Consider how intelligent and belligerent all humans you interacted with are. Consider the few rotten eggs. Consider that they are lost and need guidance. Stop being an asshole if you don’t want to be subjected to asshole. The golden rule and karma are concepts that arise naturally as an objective truth that we collectively don’t understand yet can easily observe in personal trials everywhere

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        Consider the few rotten eggs.

        The majority of voting Americans aren’t “a few rotten eggs”.

        Consider that they are lost and need guidance.

        It’s 2025. This has been going on for a decade. We already went through one term with this dumbfuck as a trial run. There are no excuses now.

        The golden rule and karma

        Karma does not exist. The golden rule is only a rule if it is followed.