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    I felt the same way about Room, I was kind of let down overall.
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    Seconded
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    fucking lol we're doomed
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    Adieu, is that tea from Teavana? I might have to give it a try. edit: Post following this is both super gay and slightly homophobic. I'm appalled
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    They missed a trick not making Sisko a shape-shifter. Dude really seems like a man at the end of his wits trying to emulate human behavior and emotion. Like his only prior experience of the species was watching high school Shakespeare productions on public access television.
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    lol he is gruesome man
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    "What set you claim, lil nikka?" "Bridger Capital"
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    deep and raw
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    lol
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    The dark arts
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    RIP Gary Shandling
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    I don't know, but he sure as fuck is white. (I am not aware of any unnatural deaths or torture in the camps btw) Depends how you define "unnatural": people of all ages were warehoused in a overcrowded desert facilities with limited access to medical care and no indoor plumbing (at first). No one can say how elderly/ill prisoners would have fared with access to hospitals, etc. There were also a number of people shot trying to "escape", but I can't find an exact number. Even healthy people would have struggled with these conditions though: "In desert camps, the evacuees met severe extremes of temperature. In winter it reached 35 degrees below zero, and summer brought temperatures as high as 115 degrees." - Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. "At Gila, there were 7,700 people crowded into space designed for 5,000. They were housed in messhalls, recreation halls, and even latrines. As many as 25 persons lived in a space intended for four." - Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.
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    ^ Ballard I'd forgotten all about that movie. do i spy a lovely alsatian???
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    his poetry's deep, he never fails
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    "In societies reduced to blur and glut, terror is the only meaningful act." m8, terrorism has replaced art and lulz forever
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    BLANK I CAN'T CHILL RIGHT NOW
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    oooo that's the ticket
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    What country is jev from? For some reason I assumed the Xmas Island thing to be a joke.
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    Throwing the majority of US citizens who looked Asian into camps sounds far from practical in more ways than one. It was very practical because they didn't have to individually control each of 120 000 people. If I am not mistaken, Asians are doing well in USA today and Japan is doing well too. Or was there a significant negative impact for the USA after the camps? I mean, the whole point of a document like the US Constitution is to protect Human Rights/Civil Liberties from abuses made in the name of expedience. As for the legacy of the camps, the Japanese are a tiny slice of the Asian-American population, so it's hard to say how their internment in particular affected the AA community overall (there are ~18 Million Asian-Americans and ~750,000 Japanese-Americans). The worst impact of the camps is probably the precedent they set for the War on Terror, honestly. Whatever the lasting effects were, American citizens lost their homes, jobs, businesses and lives because of the internment program. The Japanese were an easy target because there were so few of them; Italians and Germans (arguably a bigger threat) were never subject to anything of this sort. Italians a threat? No. A completely different mentality from Japanese at that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans Much lower numbers but still. Re: Italians - Italian-American fascists were definitely less prominent than German American ones, but they were still present here. Would it not have been practical to treat them as the Japanese were treated? Re: The Japanese - You are talking about Japanese-Americans as if they had been subject to a lifetime of propaganda and conditioning in Imperial Japan. These people were shop owners and farmers in the Southwest. Re: German internment - Almost all of the Germans detained were German-born though, and many of them relocated had been subject to investigation beforehand. I don't approve of detaining anyone on ethnic/racial grounds, but that's entirely different from detaining people born here because their parents or grandparents were born in Japan. Those numbers also argue in favor of the camps being fundamentally racist (or the US intelligence being fundamentally incompetent), since the most successful acts of espionage carried out in this country were committed by Germans. Yet only 1/10 as many Germans were detained.
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    Throwing the majority of US citizens who looked Asian into camps sounds far from practical in more ways than one. It was very practical because they didn't have to individually control each of 120 000 people. If I am not mistaken, Asians are doing well in USA today and Japan is doing well too. Or was there a significant negative impact for the USA after the camps? I mean, the whole point of a document like the US Constitution is to protect Human Rights/Civil Liberties from abuses made in the name of expedience. As for the legacy of the camps, the Japanese are a tiny slice of the Asian-American population, so it's hard to say how their internment in particular affected the AA community overall (there are ~18 Million Asian-Americans and ~750,000 Japanese-Americans). The worst impact of the camps is probably the precedent they set for the War on Terror, honestly. Whatever the lasting effects were, American citizens lost their homes, jobs, businesses and lives because of the internment program. The Japanese were an easy target because there were so few of them; Italians and Germans (arguably a bigger threat) were never subject to anything of this sort.
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    Even the Supreme Court found that the camps were unconstitutional - and that was in 1944. This has nothing to do with "modern-day Americans".
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    This is less controversial than your first statement though. edit: that's practically a quote out of a 10th grade US History textbook.
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    Fucking hellllll Apologies for the shit music, it's a football video.
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    flol
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    What was wrong with the camps in the time of war when dealing with a notoriously fanatic enemy nation (at that time)? You have to think in the context of the war. 120 000 of potential saboteurs/terrorists all over the USA in the time of a huge global conflict. I definitely don't try to defend bad/cruel living conditions in the camps (if happened) though. I am just defending the principle. The majority of the people in the camps weren't citizens of an enemy nation though, they were US citizens. And if we're locking up potential saboteurs regardless of US citizenship, why not all the Bund members found in this country during the same period? I mean there was an actual US Nazi party encouraging men of German descent to dodge the draft, but I'm supposed to believe Japanese-Americans were an existential threat? The camps were a gross violation of a US citizen's most fundamental rights, and more than a little racist.
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