r/CoolAmericaFacts is a great subreddit
:amerikkka:
Come on Jack, Biden said he’s gonna close it.
The administration hopes to transfer a handful of the remaining terrorism suspects to foreign countries the people familiar with the discussions said, and then persuade Congress to permit the transfer of the rest — including 9/11 suspects — to detention on the U.S. mainland. Biden hopes to close the facility by the end of his first term, the people familiar with the discussions said.
Huh. Well, I’m sure Obama released most prisoners, after all it was a promise of his -
By the end of his second term, Obama had reduced Guantánamo’s population from 245 to 41 detainees, transferring many to foreign countries but the prison remained in use.
Oh.
Kidding aside, I’m ever so glad the media seems to believe that just transferring them to a blacksite in Germany is better than the blacksite in Cuba.
I don’t know if you were just picking random countries, but Poland and Thailand were (and probably still are) home to US blacksites lul. Former CIA head under Trump headed the Thailand one, which became rather well known for ‘enhanced interrogation’ back in 2018 when that all flared up.
Brief listing of some countries that ‘participated in CIA rendition program’ (e.g. probably have a warehouse for the CIA to ‘use’)
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.
It really feels like people don’t even make these thinking that someone is going to fall for them and google the thing and learn something new anymore.
gulag is just a labor camp prison, made into a scary myth by fascist liars like Solzhenitsyn
Guantánamo Bay is worse than any gulag was
Reminder that MGS:GZ is the only good game where your character has to go against non-“rogue” US forces because you aren’t forbidden from lethal options
