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by joering2 2927 days ago
The was a good book the title I forgot about, how IBM almost went bankrupt before thriving because of political contracts with Nazi party to design and deliver system to clasify prisoners in concentration camps during Hitler’s era. Seriously this is not a poor-taste joke!!
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malvosenior 2927 days ago
That book is called IBM and The Holocaust and it is indeed very good. IBM wasn't going bankrupt before working with the Nazi's though. It talks about how IBM rolled out punch-card technology originally developed for the census to the Nazi's via its German subsidiaries.

I don't see the parallels here though. Nazi's were detaining and murdering their own citizens. ICE is enforcing existing laws against illegal immigration and it's doing so with transparency. The laws it is enforcing may be controversial to some, but it's not the executive branch's place to write new laws.

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joering2 2927 days ago
> The laws it is enforcing may be controversial to some, but it's not the executive branch's place to write new laws.

I just showed this to my grandfather (he is German) and he told me to tell you that it was exactly the same reasoning when Nazis started War War 2 in September of 1939.

Many of his friends and family members were saying back then that if you have something against executive branch murdering Polish people, then you should vote Chancellor Hitler out in the next election, because German soldiers are only executing given orders.

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malvosenior 2926 days ago
We're talking about enforcing an existing law against illegal immigration (which every company has a concept of) and not murdering our own citizens so the two are in no way comparable.
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s73v3r_ 2927 days ago
ICE is ripping children away from their parents, and locking them in camps. No matter your political affiliation, you should find that abhorrent.

And there is exactly no law which requires this. It is entirely a Trump administration directive.

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malvosenior 2927 days ago
As I mentioned to you in my other comment...

People are breaking the law and their families are suffering because of it. It has nothing to do with Trump, it's a conscious risk these people are taking as they attempt to bring their families into the country illegally.

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s73v3r_ 2927 days ago
No, this is entirely about Trump. It is Trump's administration that is enacting this. There is absolutely no reason for it to happen other than their own cruelty.
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