You suck Motherfucker. I hate “White Power” I hate your band. Can’t you see This ain’t Nazi Germany

Earlier this year, The Intercept wrote about surveillance contractors sought by ICE, who would be expected to perform algorithm- and AI-aided deep dives into social media users’ post histories, searching for, among other things, “proclivity for violence,” which could include “empathy with a group which has violent tendencies,” among other things. Hope you haven’t expressed “empathy” at any point for any group with “violent tendencies,” right? How does it feel to know that you’d be at the mercy of a freelance surveillance contractor’s mastery of “social and behavioral sciences” and “psychological profiles,” according to ICE’s statement of objectives?

How fucking creepy is it to think about this psychological manipulation pre-crime bullshit and take into account that one of the briefings released yesterday took note of people in New Orleans seeming especially disturbed by videos with the sound of crying children.

Officials track public sentiment, noting negative impact of ‘videos with sounds of children crying’ as parents arrested

It seems very unlikely this is being noted in order to answer questions like “How do we tone it down a bit and keep things from boiling over?”

Imo (and obviously feel free to take that with a grain of salt since I’m totally “overly-paranoid” about how evil these people are and the levels they would stoop to) it seems more likely this is to answer a question of “How do we use psychological warfare against the American people and send them closer to their breaking point?”

Aw man! Where’s a drone strike when you need it?

It’s funny because drones were probably being used to murder children the moment this picture was taken so that these shit stains could have more money they eventually just set on fire and use to light their cigars.

Idk maybe Trump holds a quarterly workshop on how to blow Bubba and remain straight as an arrow.

Step 1: Turn off the lights, or ask Bubba to throw a blanket over his lap so God can’t see you.

Step 2: Blast the village people at full volume.

Step 3: Exchange a hearty “no homo,” followed by a nod and secret hand shake that ends with the gesture for zipped lips.

“At this time, I recommend that you immediately direct NOPD officers and staff to fully cooperate with ICE and CBP,” Murrill wrote in the conclusion of her letter.

Good lord, Liz Murrill is such a lame ass, passive aggressive, dickhead. You better help us terrorize families, be racist, and waste a shit load of money and manpower (even though there’s a fucking police shortage at the moment), or you’re gonna be in big trouble!

Who will police the police? This bitch apparently but only in order to insist they remove a federal consent decree that exists to protect civil rights.

I’m pretty sure I heard a rumor Liz Murrill got kicked off a greyhound bus for farting the alphabet and trying to bully a pregnant lady into an arm wrestling challenge. No idea if it’s true, but at this time, I recommend that you immediately direct everyone you know to assume it is.

A tow truck driver blocked the road leading to the house at the request of law enforcement, blaring the pro-police anthem, “Bad Boys.”

What a lame ass piece of moldy dog shit, walking around disguised as a human.

CNN also reported the case of a 22-year-old US-born mother who was chased home by federal agents in an SUV from the grocery store in Marrero. She told CNN: “I kept yelling at them, ‘I’m legal! I’m a US-born citizen! Please, leave me alone! I’m going home, my daughter is in the house. My baby is waiting for me!’”

“They’re not picking up criminals,” said Taber. “They’re picking up people off the streets, whoever they can catch – these are moms and dads coming home from work, ambushed getting out of their cars.”

The only thing that keeps coming to my mind when reading this is just how fucking disgusting this is.

How the fuck can anyone just be ok with this? Brain washing? Dissociation? The false belief that even if everything collapses around them, maybe they’ll be ok as long as they keep their noses out of it?

What is it that keeps people from acknowledging this is not fucking ok? If you won’t at least speak up, at what point will you accept your role as a collaborator?

They’re fascists

They’re nationalists

They love government interference and socialism as long as it’s for the right people.

But just because they’re National Socialists, you totally shouldn’t call them Nazis (bc it hurts their fee-fees and it’s now considered unacceptable hate speech). They prefer the term “Christian” Nationalists or Naxis

Nazi paraphernalia was also found inside the home, including writing on a wall that says “Kapitulieren nein,” which is German for “No surrender.”

Do all Nazis think suicide is some kind of loophole/technicality? Like maybe it’s not really “surrender” if you forfeit?

It’s a _____ goal

Fucking ridiculous, preposterous, insane, horrific, fascist…

There are probably 5000 better adjectives to describe that goal.

Ukraine’s defense relies increasingly on huge volumes of civilian data stored on cloud platforms. An adversary’s military may supply their targeting algorithm with an individual’s location, health, and online behavior. Military actors regularly mine, analyze, and repurpose social media posts.

It is not clear, however, that the deep learning systems integral to some of these new weapons can overcome the fog of war. These systems treat all data as objective representations of reality, when in fact information drawn from social media platforms is shaped by users’ emotional and cognitive experiences in ways that can skew its utility for wartime intelligence. The “learned knowledge” generated by analytic systems is probabilistic, not causal—leading to the risk that algorithms are “enforc[ing] their version of ‘reality’ from patterns and probabilities derived from data.”

These venture-backed firms view contemporary conflicts as live testing grounds.

Global digital platforms such as TikTok and Telegram illustrate the wider environment in which these dependencies are forming. Though neither company develops military technologies, both shape the information environment surrounding war. TikTok’s recommendation algorithm influences how audiences perceive the conflict in Ukraine, shaping global narratives and public opinion. Yet its complex ownership structure, rooted in Chinese parent company ByteDance and entangled with global venture capital, has sparked geopolitical concern. … These concerns highlight how platforms created for civilian use can also become entangled in the political and informational dimensions of war.

The overlapping interests of finance capital and private technology corporations transcend national borders, creating forms of influence that do not fit neatly into binary friend-or-enemy distinctions. ByteDance’s global investment network, spanning Chinese state-linked entities, American private equity funds, and international investors, illustrates this transnational ownership model. It complicates national regulatory and security responses, as policymakers must ask not merely who owns a given platform, but who controls the data, infrastructure, and decisionmaking power that states increasingly depend on.

This illustrates a deeper shift in the relationship between the market and the military. The problem is not that defense firms are publicly traded—Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have been for decades—but that contemporary defense-tech companies retain proprietary control over data-driven systems central to military operations. Their technologies are not merely delivered to the state; the companies are embedded in the decisionmaking architecture of warfare. When a firm’s market value depends on its perceived wartime success, its incentives may diverge from those of the state it ostensibly serves. This intertwining of commercial strategy, military dependency, and investor confidence represents a new kind of vulnerability for states.

What is at stake, beyond the conflict itself, is the nature of state sovereignty. The ability of states to govern, defend, and act independently is increasingly mediated by private technology firms and global finance. This is not entirely new. States have long relied on private contractors, but the kind of dependency has changed. Unlike traditional arms manufacturers, today’s defense-tech firms control the digital platforms, data flows, and algorithmic systems that underpin military decisionmaking. At the same time, civilian platforms like Telegram and TikTok shape the informational terrain of conflict, influencing how wars are perceived and fought.

I just want to make sure I’m understanding this.

•You have companies like Meta (just an example) working for both sides of a conflict via government contract, but not necessarily bound to either side of a conflict because of global venture capital/transnational ownership model

•We know Facebook/Meta has been intentionally manipulating the emotions of social media users for over a decade now

•That social media data is then collected and used to train military platforms, which may be directly or indirectly linked to the social media company

•These companies very likely have an incentive to create an endless war (and endless profits for themselves) by manipulating the emotions and behavior of social media users, knowing that data will be used to train military platforms

Basically, a private tech company could manipulate data to give one side of a conflict an advantage over the other, but it could also intentionally pit adversaries against each other in an endless loop by manipulating social media content, and by extension, manipulating the military platforms being trained.

A company could potentially profit from both sides of a conflict it’s manipulating because the states have turned to it and other big tech companies to help them reach “victory” in the endless conflict the company helped create. Correct?

What?

"I don’t know anything about it. He said he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. Asked whether he would have agreed with the order if Hegseth had given it, Trump replied: “He said he didn’t do it, so I don’t have to make that decision.”

He said he didn’t do it. If it turns out he lied, then I’m just as innocent as the innocent people he murdered.

“If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them,” Kelly told Welker.

Ohhh watch out Kelly. Freedom facts mean even astronauts can’t encourage American soldiers not to break the law.

Of all the angry terrorists who hate America, and needed to drive from Washington State to D.C. to make a political statement by trying to assassinate two members of the national guard, it had to be the guy who was part of the highly trained CIA death squad?

And the only part of the story the current director of the CIA expects us to be focusing on right now, is the fact that this is the fault of the immigration system?

I don’t like hearing people talk about redrawing maps either.

I think we’re already in a passive aggressive war, that most Americans don’t even want to be fighting. Like most wars, we’re being pitted against each other on behalf of a handful of very manipulative and wealthy individuals who need us to pick a side and carry out their dirty work for them.

I think if we make it out of this and survive as a country, we can’t go back to the way we were before Trump took office.

I know Bernie Sanders has made some really great suggestions for nonpartisan ways we could regain control of the government, and make it work for the people instead of big business.

Obviously, overturning Citizens United is a big one.

I would add to that:

•A bipartisan/non-partisan push for a constitutional amendment that provides public accountability for SCOTUS justices. Instead of having every new president use executive authority to one up the president before them by packing the court, how about term limits for SCOTUS justices?

An even better option might be giving the American people the opportunity to vote every 4-8 years on whether they believe individual justices are doing their duty to uphold the constitution and the will of the people. Should they remain in their lifelong appointments or be replaced by the next president?

You might actually end up with a supreme court full of awesome justices who are capable of fair and balanced decision making, and have an incentive not to just represent the interests of whichever party handed them a cushy lifelong position of power.

•Greatly reducing a president’s executive authority and unilateral decision making capabilities. Regardless of who is president, these fuckers and their cabinet are being given waaay too much power, and it seems to only be increasing over time.

•Similar to the changes to SCOTUS, finding ways to create more public accountability for all government agencies. And by public accountability, I mean accountability to the people, by the people. Not accountability to the partisan politicians who will always make decisions based on the interest of their shared political party.

Basically more direct democracy in just about every area of government. Stop treating Americans like they’re too dumb to think for themselves, and they need a paternalistic and biased faceless political machine to do the thinking for them.

When wealthy individuals try to use their money to influence elections, there needs to be some kind of accountability for this too. As in, somebody like Elon Musk should already have more than 3 strikes against him. If he or anyone else gets caught trying influence/buy elections again, fine them double the amount we know they injected into undermining democracy (because it’s almost certainly more than the amount we actually know about) and re-distribute every penny equally to the American people via a tax return or stimulus check.

The non privatized aspects of Operation Warp Speed and the creation of the COVID vaccine should tell you it wasn’t all popsicles sticks and bubble gum.

There were problems within the NIH, but it was an incredible institution and one of our greatest assets. The Trump administration is currently determined to make it into a ratchet shell of its former self though. The Heritage Foundation also helped do this to a lot of American institutions during the Reagan administration.

I don’t think most things in n the U.S. were always popsicle sticks and bubble gum, until a bunch of jackasses gained too much power and started demanding the government be run like a business, and efficiency and bottom dollar be the only considerations for how departments should be run.

That’s how manipulative oligarchs work. They take over something that’s working ok, intentionally remove people who know what they’re doing and fill it with their personal army of incompetent but loyal morons who destroy it. Then they rely on people being convinced it never did anything worthwhile anyway and we won’t miss it once it’s gone. Once it’s gone they’re free to redirect that money to some evil bullshit that only benefits a handful of individuals.

Funny that popsicles and bubblegum actually seems to been the case since day 1 for the CIA in terms of what they actually do, but they also don’t have to provide any accountability for their budget because it’s all top secret.

They have never accomplished anything except making shit so much worse than it was before the agency existed. They literally brought Nazi scientists into this country after WWII to help them hide from prosecution then kept that secret for decades. We have so many people ready to just write off the entire government, but why don’t we ever have Americans demanding we get rid of those useless bureaucrats and that entire agency?

Hasn’t that always been true for all of history and any powerful nation though? That’s why the biological weapons convention was created.

Exposing your enemy to a disease their immune system has never been exposed to will help weaken and wipe out a nation very quickly.

You bringing that up though does make me realize something even more concerning about these bastards calling for privation of government. They love a good loophole, and even if our government/military signed a treaty agreeing not to develop and stockpile new bioweapons private corporations in the U.S. didn’t sign it. Kinda wonder if that actually applies to most u.s. treaties.

I don’t know about him, but I tend to believe it’s on brand for the CIA’s motives.

The CIA has destabilized democracies and taken power of many other countries on behalf of wealthy individuals, in the name of “promoting democracy.” I guess it could possibly be America’s chance at something like a redemption arc if we’re not too dumb to recognize our own playbook.

If we are too dumb, then probably no need to think about it too much for now. There’s always a plan in place, and they’ll make sure you know when they need you. For example, for now they probably just need you to go along/agree with or recite something along the lines of:

“This is an outrage to every patriot and that guy clearly proves all immigrants hate America. This incident also proves why we need to normalize military on every American street. This country is a war zone over run with terrorists seeking to harm other Americans. This is also why Antifa has to be designated a terrorist organization, and why Americans need to understand losing their own civil liberties are the cost that they have to pay for the greater good. He who gives up liberty for safety… will eventually forget this was supposed to be a temporary thing.”

Or he figured it was just a continuation of the same line of work he previously did for the CIA.

On the bright side, I think all of humanity might be fucked. I guess we can all (or at least a significant chunk of us) can all go out together.

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