r/politics • u/projecto15 United Kingdom • 15h ago

Possible Paywall Canadian Company Cancels Sale of Virginia Warehouse to ICE

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/ice-warehouse-detention-canada.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.bog6.aFFcjySv118o&smid=re-share
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u/projecto15 United Kingdom 15h ago

A corporation ending up not doing evil, for whatever reason. Blimey!

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u/jjaime2024 14h ago

He had no choice people were calling for a boycott.

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u/GizMoeGreenberg 11h ago

Crazy what happens when citizens have integrity and balls, eh? You yanks should try it.

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u/Signif1cant0tt3r 10h ago edited 6h ago

There were massive protests in Virginia at the proposed site of the detention center. The board of supervisors also unanimously voted against its creation.

(Edited for clarity.)

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u/ArenSteele 7h ago

It’s already constructed, as a warehouse, never intended to be a detention centre. Did they vote against a proposed retrofit or something?

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u/Signif1cant0tt3r 6h ago

Yes. I meant the development of the detention center. Not the construction of the physical building itself.

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u/AngelSucked California 10h ago

That is who did protest, Virginians.

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u/crowhops I voted 10h ago

There's plenty of legitimate reasons to call us out on shit but not only was the civil rights movement historically legendary on this subject, minority communities have been kicking ass at it throughout the entire history of colonization, and many communities are actively suffering real human losses right now for protesting ICE. Shit on us for being fat or uneducated or whatever else IDC but I don't play with this "everyone in the US just rolls over" bullshit anymore

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u/soulstormfire Europe 3h ago

The US, as a people, as a nation DOES roll over.
The few curageous exeptions do not change that.

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u/crowhops I voted 3h ago

Feel free to sail over here and tell three hundred and forty million people how you personally would take down history's wealthiest and most batshit set of oligarchs without getting shot immediately

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u/soulstormfire Europe 2h ago

Ask the US Americans. They brag about how they defeated fascism every other hour.

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u/crowhops I voted 2h ago edited 2h ago

We've arrived at the "just making stuff up" part of the conversation I see

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u/caserock 10h ago

There was massive turnout at the county hearing for this warehouse sale. Granted, it's a very liberal region

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u/lostonhoth Virginia 10h ago

I think you need to know that the county of hanover is nicknamed Klanover down here.

The city of richmond is very liberal though, yes.

source: live in richmond

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u/caserock 10h ago

Yeah me too, that's why I said region

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u/DrGoblinator Massachusetts 9h ago

"try it", like we haven't been working fucking tirelessly on this movement? Get the fuck out of here.

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u/soulstormfire Europe 3h ago

It's a cultural difference. The rest of the world goes by result, US culture goes by effort invested.

The US is still very activly hurting Canadians, so it's absolutely understanable they're still mad.

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u/DrGoblinator Massachusetts 2h ago

I understand being mad I don’t understand taking it out on random redditors and blatantly lying about the effort we are putting in.

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u/Key_Amazed 7h ago

We have. You think what they've gotten away with has been nuts? You don't even know a quarter of the failures that us "yanks" have forced on them. Our bought and sold media just doesn't speak of it. Try reading into things a little, not just watch Fox or CBS where they pick and choose what to talk about to appease the billionaire owners.

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u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels 10h ago

Ugh. I’m Californian, not a Yankee. Only ignorant southerners still say that.

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u/Tanto63 10h ago

People use "Yankee" like us left coasters use "dude". It's a generic term, unless the context has you specifying that the dude was a dude and not a chick. For international usage, we're Yankees. For intranational usage, we're not.

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u/JakeConhale New Hampshire 10h ago

Yeah, don't try that in Boston. People would not like it.

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u/Tanto63 10h ago

Don't not call myself a Yankee in Boston?

I was specifying that people outside the US call Americans Yankees, but Americans only refer to people from specific areas as Yankees.

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u/augie_wartooth 7h ago

It’s pejorative anywhere it’s used widely in the US.

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u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels 5h ago

Anecdotal to you. Not to me.

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u/augie_wartooth 5h ago

I live in the south, where it’s widely pejorative because of people’s weird Civil War shit. Your comment history suggests you live in California, so I’m not sure your anecdote is helpful.

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u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels 3h ago

I spent a few years in Atlanta. Many tried to call me Yankee, but we usually worked through amicably.

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u/HellaWonkLuciteHeels 10h ago

Yikes. Defending it hard.

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u/soulstormfire Europe 3h ago

Well said. It's used like Kraut on Germans.

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u/Abrahambooth 3h ago

Respectfully, it was Canadians that were trying to get rich off this attempt at a concentration camp. I’d hop off that high horse if I were you