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True but evidence seems to indicate they just murdered him by dropping a blind man off outside of a closed coffee shop without any shoes on right before a blizzard was going to hit.

Wouldn't be surprised if nobody actually paid his bond. Maybe they just needed to make sure the elderly blind refugee didn't speak out about being detained in a detention center for a year for no reason.

4d ago

Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say | CNN

I wouldn't do that to an animal, let alone another human being no matter how much they definitely deserve it.

Put them on trial for murder and let them spend the rest of their lives in gen pop where everybody knows who they are.

4d ago

Nearly blind refugee found dead in New York days after immigration agents dropped him at a coffee shop alone, officials say | CNN

“The Border Patrol officers had no protocol of what to do with a disabled man who doesn’t speak English, who is confused and lost. And you know what they did? They dropped him at a closed coffee shop. That’s why we do not cooperate with ICE, Homeland Security and Border Patrol,” Ryan said.

Fucking evil pieces of shit. Would not be surprised learn DHS's official stance is that having protocols in place to handle disabilities is "woke."

I'm over 1000 miles away, and even I knew NY was preparing for a catastrophic snow storm. Even border patrol can't be fucking stupid enough to believe this guy was going to just somehow find shelter or figure it out. They just had to release him that day? After holding him for a fucking year? Hard to believe they didn't intentionally murder this man.

Shah Alam, a refugee from Myanmar, had spent much of the previous year in custody awaiting trial on criminal charges that were ultimately resolved with a misdemeanor plea deal, Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane told CNN in a statement Thursday.

According to preliminary information, Shah Alam did not have shoes on, just orange booties from the detention center, when he was dropped off by agents, Ryan said.

Absolutely atrocious.

It’s unclear who posted bond for him or what changed to lead to his release.

It should be pretty fucking easy to figure out who posted it, or is all non surveillance record keeping "woke" too?

4d ago

Apologies if I'm making an incorrect judgement, but does anybody else get dystopian propaganda vibes from the Working with Cancer Pledge?

It seems that having a continued sense of purpose is helpful when it comes to suffering from any chronic illness.

It feels a bit disingenious to imply a sense of purpose has to be tied into your employment, and coming from an advertising agency with a shady history shifts it from disingenuous to dystopian.

I honestly enjoy my job sometimes, but it is very stressful and there have been many times (like right now) that I should have just taken paid leave that I have earned over the years and was entitled to take, but didn't. Even now I have to continue working for several complex reasons. Some of these reasons are just general long standing problems of the American work place, but many are hyper specific to America in 2025-2026 vs America in 2021-2024. One being the fact that if I just suddenly left in the middle of a project, it would place a financial burden and several downstream consequences on other people that could be catastrophic to them.

The stress of having to continue working while I should be on medical leave and avoiding stress, not only has taken an unnecessary toll on my health, it's made me really dread having to go to work. I've never been a gungho let me die for my employer type, but I've accepted the downsides to my current job because there are (or at least used to be) more positives than negatives, I'm good at it, and it's sometimes really interesting and exciting.

Being forced to continue to poorly perform a job i'm just physically not able to continue doing, at the moment, has made it a really miserable and stressful experience on top of the misery and stress of the chronic health issues that I have been trying to resolve.

I'm not even dealing with the burden of cancer, but if I was in my current situation while dealing with a cancer diagnosis, I would be even more outraged at the suggestion that channeling my resources and strength into forcing my body to continue going to work while it's under attack, instead of focusing on recovering and navigating the hellscape that is American healthcare, is somehow in my best interest. Frankly, it's insulting.

5d ago

What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?

https://www.neworleansunsolved.com/

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

Listen to this podcast and let me know if you don't end up convinced Season 1 of True Detective was based on these crimes.

From the pedophile ring coming into town for Mardi Gras down to the mentally ill brother and sister who were products of inbreeding, and living in an abandoned plantation home with a cistern where victims were kept.

Warning it it covers extremely disturbing content and can be very difficult to listen to.

5d ago

NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 5d ago

This guy is my hero

6d ago

What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?

Friendly Fascism is about the dangers of fascism, focusing primarily on the United States, but being aware that monopoly capitalism needs to be understood internationally since capitalism "is not a national mode of production".

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 6d ago

it is now a mathematical certainty that they believe is already beyond their control.

Exactly, and this logic is at the heart of why they will always fail. Mathematical certainties are great predictors of a lot of things, including large scale human behavior. However, they're pretty notoriously shitty predictors of individual human behavior (spontaneity and the internal drive towards freedom), which then always carries with it a snowball effect.

rising fascism, a term coined by a man who said it might be more aptly named “corporatism” a system of governance where the wealthy corporatists control the government, and on their behalf, they control the population.

Also, is this from Friendly Fascism? If not, definitely another highly recommended book that seemed to predict much of America circa 2026 back in the 80s.

Even back then, the author saw the problems we would be facing but he also knew the obvious solution. It's exactly what the oligarchs fear most: regulations and consequences for corporations and reinforcing democracy to remove power from the faceless corporations run by oligarchs.

I don't disagree with you at all on how the elites view this. I also agree that society will definitely be shifting, but I don't believe that shift will be going according to their plan.

The internet is actually a perfect example of human spontaneity interfering with the intended outcomes of the elite. Even if you consider it a weakness of humanity and a technological tool meant to spy on people (which it definitely does quite successfully), it's also become a technological tool used by society to subvert authority and work together to find ways around the roadblocks authorities put up to control the masses.

The entire reason I'm talking to you on Lemmy is because I left Reddit. The elites buy up all forms of popular social media and communications with the belief that once they control a monopoly, people will have no other choice but to use whatever they offer (elimination of competition).

But this strategy also assumes all competition will be relying on the same incentives that drive their own decision making. However, if even a slightly better alternative becomes available, people will flock to it. That's how a free market is supposed to work, and how it would work if not for oligarchs. This is also why oligarchs hate competition and love heirarchies that protect their monopolies and oligopolies from competition.

Over time, the spontaneity of humans and their drive to be free, makes the technology the elite are dependent on for maintaining their control, essentially obsolete. They will then attempt to purchase and control whatever new technology has replaced the old technology (they're investors, not inventors) but the drive to be free will always lead to some other work around. Necessity is the mother of invention.

The elite's dependency on algorithms to predict human behavior is definitely useful for their own ends in terms of wealth hoarding, but eventually the one track mindedness of the elites traps them in their own endless cycle of digging a new hole to fill an old one. Without regulations and reform to rein them in, we're all stuck living in this endless cycle with them.

This is certainly unsustainable, but again, the blame for the unsustainability lies entirely with the paranoia and pathological drive of the elites who attempt to alleviate their own anxieties by trying to control everyone else.

Life really doesn't have to be this way, but oligarchs are so isolated from the rest of society, they believe this is normal. They're also narcissistic enough to believe that they were born with almost supernatural abilities and traits that destined them to rule over everyone else. Rather than viewing their own privileges and circumstances as providing them with an unbalanced advantage due to social inequality, they convince themselves it's evidence of genetic superiority.

The pathology that they view as a positive attribute, is essentially a form of self destruction. As long as society allows them to keep repeating the same (regulation and consequence free) behavior, they will eventually destroy the entire planet (including themselves) in their never ending cycle of digging new holes, rather than just taking a breath and giving therapy a go.

The genocide in Gaza is a great example of the intention of the oligarchs to control. They have successfully controlled the narrative for some time, and by buying up most major news outlets, they continue to have a very unbalanced advantage. However, even that control has begun to slip due to work arounds in communication, and push back from the masses.

No matter how many atrocities they commit, it never makes them look stronger, it just makes them look less human. They will eventually face backlash and a weakening of their grip on power because despite their alleged obsession with natural order, they fail to see that what they want to create is at odds with the nature of humanity.

They blame this backlash on democracy rather than a fault with themselves, because they're only capable of understanding internally motivated predictions, and completely incapable of any self reflection of their place within a larger world that they cannot control.

You should definitely check out Ellul's Technological Society if you get a chance. He actually touches on corporations too and Marx. Mainly in terms of Marx's predictions that automation of technology would be a helpful benefit to the working class. That wasn't necessarily an incorrect prediction, however, clearly when it's exploited by the wealthy and viewed as simply a replacement for workers, it just becomes a new hole.

7d ago

What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?

•Although he officially sanctioned the operation, President Harry Truman forbade the agency from recruiting any Nazi members or active Nazi supporters. Nevertheless, officials within the JIOA and Office of Strategic Services (OSS)—the forerunner to the CIA—bypassed this directive by eliminating or whitewashing incriminating evidence of possible war crimes from the scientists’ records, believing their intelligence to be crucial to the country’s postwar efforts.

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 7d ago

International trafficking and pedophile rings existed long before Epstein ever became involved in the 80s, and it's very naive to believe it just suddenly ended when he was "suicided" in his jail cell. Many of the most infamous busts that occured before his involvement can actually be connected via archived news articles from the 1970s and 80s: Eye of the Chickenhawk (2023)
Conspiracies about the "dangers" of a "one world government"/U.N. new world order/Greta Thunberg is the "antichrist" have always mainly been fueled by propaganda campaigns of wealthy conservatives around the globe who want to destroy the existence of international law in order to avoid prosecution for their crimes.

•Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East

•People should be more aware’: the business dynasties who benefited from Nazis

•Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution

•American Business Consultants Inc., the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag. All of these creators had connections to the intelligence agencies of the United States government, kept detailed research files on individuals and organizations, and were part of a right-wing research and information network that monitored Communists and other perceived threats to their interpretation of the American way of life

•TIL current ICE contractor GEO Group, was originally Wackenhut Corrections, owned by hard right warlord and government contractor, George Wackenhut, who claimed to hold largest collection of files on suspected American dissidents

•Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

•Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

(Also, there (/s)hockingly seems to be quite a lot of overlap with these wealthy conservatives who oppose regulations at home and abroad, and members of the international pedophile ring who view other human beings as disposable objects.)

7d ago

What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?

Basic Glitch @sh.itjust.works 7d ago

the elites of the world know that eventually society as we know it will collapse.

I'm curious why you believe it has to collapse?

I agree that they are attempting to make it collapse by making things as unsustainable as possible, but if they weren't interfering with and manipulating society and hoarding resources for themselves, what is it that would be driving the collapse?

They remind me of any other doomsday cult that's ever existed before them, but they've been given way too much power and control. They're always so convinced that they have all the answers, but they've also got a really bad track record of proving themselves right. Especially when it comes to tech capabilities developing at the speed they believe they will.

There's this really interesting book called the Technological Society that was written in the 50s by a French philosopher and sociologist named Jaques Ellul, but predicted much of the present day broligarchy in a scarily accurate way.

A lot of people mistakenly believe the book is supposed to be a sort of Luddite argument opposed to technology, but it's really just a warning of the inherent danger of placing the importance of technology above the importance of humans, with Ellul warning that the never ending drive towards "efficiency" as a means to an end, inevitably creates more inefficiencies that then have to be solved with other more "efficient" solutions.

Basically, life becomes nothing but a never ending series of "digging a new hole to fill an old one." This seems to be the current driving factor of a society on the brink of collapse.

He even predicts the eventual creation of something like "benevolent" concentration camps where elites will attempt to forcefully create their own versions of a controlled utopia. Honestly seems to align pretty closely with current broligarchy philosophies like SBF's ideas about utilitarianism whether society likes it or not, or Peter Thiel and his delusional beliefs that he (along with people like Jeffrey Epstein) are part of some elite set of leaders burdened/chosen by God or nature to control and save the masses from their own lowly desires. Thiel: elites must use “esoteric” doublespeak to hide their true intentions from the masses who wouldn’t and shouldn’t understand the plans their natural-born leaders were making for them.

Ellul predicts that a society where technology winds up controlling humans rather than ensuring humans remain in control of technology, inevitably lead to a loss of freedom and creation of controlled utopian environments. However, he also believes that ultimately, any attempt that relies on technology to maintain and hold that control will always eventually fail. This is because technology relies on predetermined predictions and efficiency as an end while humans are driven by a sort of chaotic spontaneity and a desire to remain free.

Even if you successfully created a "utopian" concentration camp where you presumably meet the needs of everyone in the camp as efficiently as possible, you will never be able to fulfill the desires that are ultimately driving humans, or be able to predict the spontaneity of human behavior on an individual scale.

In other words, even if you can brainwash the masses into obedience, Ellul believes there is something uniquely human that will forever lead to individual rebellion against the controlled and automated system, which then has its own chain reaction on others due to other innately human characteristics still retained by the masses.

For example, empathy shared with other humans might lead to unpredictable behavior on a massive scale. (A concrete example of this would be something like witnessing the murder of innocent protestors. The murder is carried out and meant to instill fear in others, but instead backfires and it winds up just driving more individuals to become angry at the injustice they witnessed and join the rebellion).

While the elites often attack human traits like empathy as "toxic," and try to present it as a weakness, we also see over and over again that it appears to be one of the biggest thorns in their sides when it comes to predicting and controlling the masses.

1w ago

Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick...

https://archive.org/details/simon-dovey-eye-of-the-chickenhawk-thehotstar-2023

Also, not sure if you've already read this, but I just stumbled across this book connecting the Michigan cases with the cases in my city, as well as cases involving operations in Chicago and California. Fucking wild.

I'm really glad I saw your comment bc otherwise I never would have really made the connection when Fox Island was mentioned.

1w ago

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

•Thiel has been equally explicit. In a now-infamous 2009 essay for the Cato Institute, he declared that “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” But he’d made the point in far greater detail in an earlier essay on Strauss, in which he argued that elites must use “esoteric” doublespeak to hide their true intentions from the masses who wouldn’t and shouldn’t understand the plans their natural-born leaders were making for them.

Democracy was literally the remedy for it and we’ve allowed democracy to be removed from the hands of the many in favour of the few.

Exactly, the entire point of having a government is supposed to be to protect society from these people.

1w ago

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz says, "Let's stop attacking pedophiles" during Congress speech

Scrolling past headlines like this one while the Curb your enthusiasm theme plays on loop.

1w ago

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

I hate to say this, but the Internet is not the same as it was back when I was growing up.

You always had the possibility of stumbling across a bad actor. Now the billionaire tech broligoply who own most social media are the bad actors. How many websites did you visit where the person running the website has been caught repeatedly trying to psychologically manipulate and control the masses via disinformation?

Back in the day, nobody would be doing whatever the fuck it is these people are doing with kids and their pedo adjacent targeted ads and chat bots bc they would be afraid of being sent to jail for cp

1w ago

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

Why does it need to take decades though?

I bet if there were actual consequences for this shit, like in the form of seizing assets from the broligarchs who run these companies, and giving them to the victims of their creations, the issue would be solved very quickly.

Also, having people upload their ID seems like just another obvious surveillance ploy/invasion of privacy in the name of safety. These people who have given us nothing but reasons not to trust them, just keep offering us more and more solutions to the issues that they've created.

"We're doing this for your own good. You should say thank you."

1w ago

Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

It's so fucking creepy. It's not just making people dumber, its literally exposing kids to sexual content and sexualizing children in advertisements aimed at adults.

At what point is it ok for all of society to demand these people either be put in jail or at least exiled from the rest of society?

Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges

Regulations are keeping your businesses from thriving? The ones you seem to be building to intentionally cater to pedophiles and harm children? Half of these creepy ass broligarchs are already confirmed to be in the Epstein files.

They're pretty open about what they want the future to look like, and the shit they've already got going, like the inescapable 24/7 surveillance where they can pick and choose the victims they want to legally abduct and traffic is just the beginning. And we're supposed to just pretend we're all fucking stupid enough to go along with it?

1w ago

How do YOU personally determine if someone is a good or bad person?

Everybody has the capacity to be an asshole once in a while. To asshole is human.

But in general, people who go out of their way to stir shit up, or be an asshole/intentionally rude about something, then play the victim when they get called out for being an asshole. Waste of fucking space and energy. Just go live on a fucking island with all the other passive aggressive assholes.

1w ago

What would you like to say to the Aliens if/when President Donald Trump invites them up onto the stage during a press conference?

Are you fucking nuts? This man cannot be trusted. Venezuela, Greenland, Iran, Mexico, Canada. Why do you think he created space force in the first place?

1w ago

World Leaders Near Declaration on AI, Indian Government Says