The Nazis wanted to force all Jews out of the country. Turns out there’s a lot of insurmountable financial and bureaucratic hurdles associated with housing and deporting several million people all at once.
Make no mistake, these conservative ghouls are fully aware that it is not feasible to do the same thing with 10x as many people and they’ll eventually need to come up with a more… “Final solution” to the problem they’re creating.
The terrifying thing is that with modern construction and the wealth the US has at is disposal, we could afford to just lock up tens of millions of people and forget about them. Maybe the Nazis couldn’t, but we could. We have that ability.
CECOT takes 850 staff to house 40,000 people. That’s roughly one staff member per 50 prisoners. Let’s say detention staff in the US make $75k per year including pay and benefits. Let’s say staff cost is half the cost of detaining someone. That would mean that we could detain people in CECOT-like conditions for about $3,000 per person per year. To detain 100 million people would cost $300 billion a year. That is well within the capability of the US to pay for if there was will to do so. That’s less than a third of the US military budget.
The typical cost of housing prisoners in the US is around $40-50k per year. But that assumes normal prison conditions. Actual proper prisons with 2-3 prisoners to a cell, with various ancillary facilities such as libraries, gym space, etc. available to prisoners. If you just instead lock people in a big open warehouse, the cost per prisoner drops immensely.
This could easily be the end game for the neo Nazis. No need to create death camps. No need to dig mass graves. No risk of Tiktok filling up with images of thousands of corpses. No risk of the minorities realizing they have nothing to lose and taking up arms to resist being sent to the death camps. Just millions of ‘criminals’ being sent to prison - nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing to see here.
And for the “final solution?” You can have a non-lethal final solution if you’re patient enough. These millions would be housed in sex-segregated facilities. If you simply lock up all your ethnic minorities in sex-segregated facilities and wait? Well, eventually you won’t have any more ethnic minorities. The next generation will simply never be born. Hell, even if the regime can only manage to do it for 10-20 years, an entire generation would be missing. Even if the regime were toppled relatively quickly as far as these things go, you would still be looking at an eventual reduction of the ethnic minority population at a level proportional to what Jewish Europeans experienced in the Holocaust. It would still represent a massive permanent altering of the nation’s ethnic makeup. Keeping every racial minority from having kids for a decade would do that, even if no one was ever actually sent to a death camp.
It is sobering to realize that with modern technology and the staggering wealth of modern economies, we actually could afford to just lock up a third of the population and throw away the key. Ethnic cleansing without ever directly taking a single life.
The Nazis wanted to force all Jews out of the country. Turns out there’s a lot of insurmountable financial and bureaucratic hurdles associated with housing and deporting several million people all at once.
Make no mistake, these conservative ghouls are fully aware that it is not feasible to do the same thing with 10x as many people and they’ll eventually need to come up with a more… “Final solution” to the problem they’re creating.
The terrifying thing is that with modern construction and the wealth the US has at is disposal, we could afford to just lock up tens of millions of people and forget about them. Maybe the Nazis couldn’t, but we could. We have that ability.
CECOT takes 850 staff to house 40,000 people. That’s roughly one staff member per 50 prisoners. Let’s say detention staff in the US make $75k per year including pay and benefits. Let’s say staff cost is half the cost of detaining someone. That would mean that we could detain people in CECOT-like conditions for about $3,000 per person per year. To detain 100 million people would cost $300 billion a year. That is well within the capability of the US to pay for if there was will to do so. That’s less than a third of the US military budget.
The typical cost of housing prisoners in the US is around $40-50k per year. But that assumes normal prison conditions. Actual proper prisons with 2-3 prisoners to a cell, with various ancillary facilities such as libraries, gym space, etc. available to prisoners. If you just instead lock people in a big open warehouse, the cost per prisoner drops immensely.
This could easily be the end game for the neo Nazis. No need to create death camps. No need to dig mass graves. No risk of Tiktok filling up with images of thousands of corpses. No risk of the minorities realizing they have nothing to lose and taking up arms to resist being sent to the death camps. Just millions of ‘criminals’ being sent to prison - nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing to see here.
And for the “final solution?” You can have a non-lethal final solution if you’re patient enough. These millions would be housed in sex-segregated facilities. If you simply lock up all your ethnic minorities in sex-segregated facilities and wait? Well, eventually you won’t have any more ethnic minorities. The next generation will simply never be born. Hell, even if the regime can only manage to do it for 10-20 years, an entire generation would be missing. Even if the regime were toppled relatively quickly as far as these things go, you would still be looking at an eventual reduction of the ethnic minority population at a level proportional to what Jewish Europeans experienced in the Holocaust. It would still represent a massive permanent altering of the nation’s ethnic makeup. Keeping every racial minority from having kids for a decade would do that, even if no one was ever actually sent to a death camp.
It is sobering to realize that with modern technology and the staggering wealth of modern economies, we actually could afford to just lock up a third of the population and throw away the key. Ethnic cleansing without ever directly taking a single life.
“Ethnic cleansing is SO DAMN EXPENSIVE!!!”