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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mirijb2@c18.masto.host ("Real Syntactic") wrote:
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116108520772429346
The sadism described in this article—the shackling of a retired tourist couple in their 60s; the detention of the old woman for the crime of packing her husband’s suitcase (his visa had expired); the guards who swear at her and make her sleep on the floor—is, as many have observed, the point. But it won’t deter all others from visiting the US, because of the canny way it channels libidinal energy: 1/2