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[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] randomblock1@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

If it's blood, it's red for the same reason, though

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Unsure why the downvote, I think you are technically right. Oxidation makes blood and rust red.

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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.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yep, Occam's razor says that it is a pile of wood or debris and that TikTok sleuths no better than Reddit sleuths.

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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 5 points 1 month ago

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.

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.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

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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[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

I mean, the place is bad enough without resorting to conspiracy theories based on blurry ass photos.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

No they didn't. Until there's real evidence, please stop fucking speculating on bullshit.

[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

This is the equivalent of Republitards talking about Covid and masks. Seriously people do better.

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[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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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[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Tiktok: conspiracy theories for adhd

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Still looks available:

And in the ESRI that little hut didnt exist:

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

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,..

[-] dryfter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

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

[-] secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 complicit in war crimes at this point. There's probably no way to opt out while affording to live.

[-] scintilla@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It almost looks like a slaughter area. But that's just a guess.

[-] scintilla@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I agree after "cooling down" for a bit it seems more likely that it's for slaughtering animals.

[-] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Wow, this is escalating at such a rapid pace now. I truly fear for the world.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You are part of the problem. There is 0 evidence yet of this being a pile of bodies.

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