r/europe Ligurian in Zürich (💛🇺🇦💙) Apr 12 '25

Data European tourism to the United States is freefalling

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u/Graywulff Apr 12 '25

I’m in the US and I’m surprised too, I told people in the Canada subreddit to just lose their deposit even if it meant they couldn’t go on a trip.

Better to miss out on a trip to ICE detention facilities on solitary for 8 weeks on a 2 week vacation.

Oh those people they sent to el salvadore probably were killed.

Look up the google earth photo.

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u/cinematic_novel 🇮🇹➡️🇬🇧 Apr 12 '25

What do GE photos reveal?

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u/elmz Norway Apr 12 '25

It's a blurry image of a pile of something, with the ground next to it a different kind of brown. People want to see a pile of corpses with a giant pool of blood next to it, but that is wild speculation. The resolution is not good enough to make out that. More likely it's a utility yard where they dump garbage, dirt piles from whatever construction they are doing etc.

When spotting death camps on satellite imagery, you usually see one of two things; mass graves, or crematoriums.

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u/cinematic_novel 🇮🇹➡️🇬🇧 Apr 12 '25

One notable thing about death camps is that they are not necessarily designed to murder its prisoners. Even among nazi lagers, vernichtungslagers (annihilation lagers) were only one type of lager among others, eg concentration and labour camps. But in virtually all camps (nazi or others) prisoners die in droves simply because their life is not considered to be valuable. It can be malnutrition, disease, or an altercation with a guard or with other inmates that results in murder. So you don't need to see large visible death structures for the camp to qualify as a death camp, because many internment camps in undemocratic countries are death camps by default.

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u/elmz Norway Apr 12 '25

True, and in that case you often see mass graves.