• michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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    Why would they keep all of their own prisoners alive in the first place knowing that anyone who would be released is either actually dangerous or an innocent who now hates the state.

    It would save money to continually allow the weakest to die from disease privation templature. A slow motion Holocaust where there isnt any smoking guns of gas chambers where the crematorium fires are always burning but the cause of death is varied

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    I swear I thought maga were dumb enough. Some percent of liberals are also dumb AF. Please don’t reproduce. Dead body pile. Let’s get realistic.

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    I don’t see it. Yes I am legally blind in one eye but my good eye sees pretty damn well and it just looks like a blurry mess

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    When were the satellite images taken (can’t see on mobile I think)?

    The stain might as well be water running out from the building and that pile could be wood, because the size of the things doesn’t make much sense,…

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      This is possible, but you need to consider the context that the place is also a prison and in a hot climate country, it could also be gas or diesel stains reinforcing the idea of burning something.

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        Still, the size of the objects doesn’t match human size if you measure from what might be a head to the other end of the object, might be clearer by measuring next to it

        3m is close to 10ft

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          the size of the objects doesn’t match human size if you measure from what might be a head to the other end of the object

          1)Are you having a stroke?

          2)How the fuck are you using anything for scale from an overhead satellite image?

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          What is the average height of men in the country? Some countries have low height because of sub-nutrition and the google tool could have a minimal error margin, also a large black or crimson stain next to possibly incendiary material is worrying giving the context, maybe they could be some kind of disposal, since the country is hot I don’t think it is for heating if it is wood or something. Anyway this is wild articulation so idk

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              Oh sorry, I was thinking he was indicating that it could not be a human since 3M/2 is about 1,5M and it on the lower end on mens height, but he was saying that whatever it is on the map is 3M, I don’t think it is 3M in a single thing because it seems like a pile.

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                If you go check on Google maps you can more clearly see that what I’m measuring is a single piece of something

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              You’ve never seen a 10ft wide pile of bodies? It’s honestly small for a body pile, but still could easily be just the ones that died in that period when the satellite went over or something.

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                I can honestly say I have never seen a 10’ wide pile of bodies…

                I would hope most people have the same answer.

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                  Okay, but you’ve never seen a 10’ pile of clothes at a donation center, or a 10’ pile of trash?

                  Think about it, assuming average height is 5’ (short, I know) and a person is roughly 1 1/2’ wide, the bottom later of a perfectly laid body pile is only going to be 12 people. The next layers will be smaller because it’s less stable. You could easily have, say, thirty dead to make a 10’ pile. In a prison of that size with those conditions, that’s an easy number. 10’ isn’t a mass grave in WW2 or Syria.

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    Is it possible that kilmar is dead already? And that the recent act is because of that? To cause anger and confusion around the refusal to bring him home is better than people finding out he’s been murdered already?

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    This is horrifying and I believe it’s likely true. Given that there’s a person from the USA who was illegally kidnapped and taken there and now mysteriously no one can see him, I think it’s likely there’s something similar to the Holocaust happening in that evil prison.

    Gang members are people too and dehumanizing people (even violent people who sometimes have become that way due to trauma) is similar to the Holocaust. The same is true for the ethnic cleansing and war crimes in Palestine. Some people are people and, the logic goes, some are not.

    As a white priviledged person in the US, who pays taxes, I am conplicit in war crimes at this point. There’s probably no way to opt out while affording to live.

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    I’m prepared to be downvoted to oblivion over this but… I don’t think it’s a pile of dead bodies and here’s a bunch of reasons why.

    I feel I need a disclaimer like: I’m not an idiot, I have grave concerns for the inmates and CECOT and I’m certain that many have already perished due to violence between inmates or malnutrition or even violence from guards, however… I just don’t think this is a pile of dead bodies.

    • It’s never aliens - Sensational blurry images are never what people think they are. You know, the face on mars, et cetera.

    • There are so many more likely things - It could be a pile of chairs, or uniforms, or boxes, or a tarpaulin.

    • They wouldn’t make a pile of bodies for us to see - This thing is a cash cow for Bukele. They will be doing their best not to fuck it up. Any idiot would know that if you make a big pile of dead bodies oozing blood outside it will show up on some pesky satellite images.

    • They wouldn’t make a pile of bodies outside in the sun - A dead body is a logistically challenging thing to deal with. A pile of dead bodies even more so. Leaving them in the sun even just for several hours would make the whole thing so much worse. The decomp gasses in the digestive tract would make all the dead bodies shit themselves.

    • Industrialised Killing Takes a Toll - Admittedly I don’t know a lot about this but the nazis learned killing too many people in a repetitive waymakes a soldier “undisciplined” or unmanageable. I don’t want to go into detail but they set up a system where the same soldier never saw the same person alive and then dead. If they were systematically killing inmates this wouldn’t be the system.

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      I think with respect to the bodies, you should read up about Noble, Georgia, USA.

      Dead bodies are ABSOLUTELY dealt with in very stupid ways because they are a pain to deal with, heavy, and people doing their jobs aren’t thinking “what will this look like when it is found or on sattelite imagery”. They throw a few bodies on a pile to deal with later, then a few more because they are too busy or the crematorium is broken, or their digger is broken, and then it gets out of hand and it becomes way too big of a job for the people who’s job it is.

      They are not in the middle of a city having to worry about people stumbling on it.

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      I think it is a pile of dead bodies, but I’m not convinced it is a systemic mass slaughter. I think it was a cellblock riot that was put down. I watched the propaganda video where Bukele was introduced to CECOT and it had plenty of lethal weaponry on site. They spoke deliberately and clearly about how the prisoners would be treated with lethal force if necessary and I believe them. If it were a mass extermination, they would have built facilities to do that. It’s well known that the Nazi deathcamps were built to psychologically insulate the guards from the terror they were inflicting - and CECOT is clearly well built based on the designs of other prisons. The designers would have definitely taken notes from the deathcamps if that were their intention.

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        The Nazis also ran work camps which ultimately did mass extermination at a slower simply by virtue of workload and food input. High and low temps also work as well as Poor health and sanitation.

        Easy enough to construct a circumstance where every inmate dies in one to ten years and cheaper the boot.

      • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        You make a good point. I hadn’t considered a riot.

        We know that conditions there are terrible and that lethal force would be used with little provocation, so having a dozen or so dead in a riot is a likely eventuality.

        That said, I still don’t think it’s a pile of dead bodies. Strong claims require strong evidence. A healthy level of skepticism requires better evidence than a pixelated brown and red smudge.

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      The only good evidence against it I think is that, according to the article, these satellite images are from March 2024. But, it makes way more sense financially for these El Salvadorian prisons to have their “showroom” of prisoners that is too many for someone from a distance to tally, and meanwhile, cull the overflow so that taking US prisoners is still profitable.

      There’s a reason we don’t hold them ourselves: it costs money. And the only reasons El Salvador would keep them alive is because of a justice system defending their rights, or 3rd parties auditing them for humane conditions. Neither of which are in place for these prisoners afaik.

      Sure, maybe these splotches are nothing, but also, I’m fully convinced all the ingredients for a holocaust are there, and if it’s ever going to go that far, I’d honestly be surprised if it hasn’t already.

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      If you have any choices at all, with satellites and drones everywhere, you wouldn’t leave anything outside in plain sight.

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      That area is also covered in red clay and dirt, the odds that its reddish earth wash is pretty high.

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      There’s a reason El Salvador is outsourcing and staffing this place with foreign soldiers. Makes it easier to rotate people in and out, makes it easier to keep things hush in-country.

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      What if isn’t industrialized killing, it could be about mantaining the success and order vibes that the prison represents as a solution, couldn’t it be a cover up for internal fights, violence, unusual punishments and other problems?

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      I think this logic (“evil people wouldn’t possibly be this open and sloppy with their evil when there’s more money to be had”) overestimates evil people.

      A red splotch visible from satalite outside of a prison that’s abusing people where people disappear may be from dead people.

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        Yeah it “may” be from dead people, but my whole point is… it’s much more likely to be something far more boring.

        Also, I don’t think you need to be very smart to not make a pile of dead bodies in the sun in view from the air.

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          To me that looks more like body fluids and excrement and debris flowing from a slaughterhouse.

          I just don’t see why it’s more likely to be something boring. That’s also a technical misapplication of statisitcal probability which only can be applied to things which occur repeatedly. Either the prison that has beds in a nearly identical configuration to Auschwitz also has a killing area or it doesn’t.

          However, given the context, it looks like a killing area. That’s why no one is returning that guy, he was likely brought to the killing floor so he couldn’t speak out, he was too high profile and they couldn’t let him talk about what he saw. Hopefully I’m wrong and they bring the guy back and I can apologize to you for my hubris. I want that outcome.

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            I actually looked this up in various mapping apps. In Google Maps it’s super hard to tell (what they show in the videos). In Apple Maps the place is super clean. As an aside, Apple Map’s imagery is typically clearer and sharper. I honestly don’t see bodily fluids or bodies. Looks like 3 separate stacks of wood to form a triangle to me.

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            Well, they did just establish proof of life yesterday, so he’s probably not in that photo.

            Even a toddler would figure out to make orderly stacks of bodies, not just a heap. That’s a terrifying toddler, BTW.

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      Occam’s Razor: what’s the simplest explanation for a red stain outdoors? Rust. But I hope someone makes sure it’s not something worse.

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              Human blood is.

              Cephalopod blood is blue from the copper-rich hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin, which helps them endure the incredible cold of the abyss.

              Also, the Prasinohaema skinks of the island of New Guinea are green-blooded from the high concentrations of biliverdin, a toxic green bile pigment that outshines their hemoglobins’ iron. 🤓

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        Sure is a lot of fucking rust then.

        Or Occam’s Razor: a big splotch of red outside a prison building in a prison complex that’s abusing inmates and making people disappear is from the people who disappeared.

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    I would like to remind you all about some tips with Stranger Danger:

    • Do not share personal information with strangers! Face-to-face or online!
    • Do not accept rides from people you don’t know!
    • Do not go to unfamiliar places with strangers!
    • Do not accept gifts from strangers, like toys and candy!
    • Do not walk alone!
    • Do not keep quiet if a stranger tries to abduct you!
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    Fuck. I don’t know what else it could be besides dead humans or dead animals and I haven’t seen people sending animals to the camp.

    I knew that this was the likely out come but I really was hoping that I was over reacting and it was “just” a lobour camp.

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      How dense are you? Other countries have live satellite feeds with way higher resolutions. If there was something substancial, the world would have already covered it. Fucking reddit level of detective skills you have there.

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        I agree after “cooling down” for a bit it seems more likely that it’s for slaughtering animals.