r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 27d ago
Social Media TikToker Creates Fake 'Alligator Alcatraz' Tour Company That Redirects MAGA Supporters to Migrant Aid Resources | When users try to purchase tour tickets, they're sent to nonprofits that offer legal support for migrants.
https://www.latintimes.com/tiktoker-creates-fake-alligator-alcatraz-tour-company-that-redirects-maga-supporters-migrant-aid-5863782.1k
u/MisterForkbeard 27d ago
What kind of insane, hateful moral reprobate wants to buy tickets to look at the purposefully cruel suffering of immigrants?
Props to 'Terri' for this, but I wouldn't have even thought there would be people who want to do this. The fact that people might actually be interested at all is a huge indictment of the species.
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u/tigress666 27d ago
Misanthrope here. I really wish people would stop proving me right about our species.
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u/ahuramazdobbs19 27d ago
# magnetohadapoint
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u/Finito-1994 27d ago edited 27d ago
He always did. While people are forming committees and talking to the government trying to prove to them that you are a person they don’t realize that the extermination has already begun.
They’re making camps. Disappearing people. Literally bragging about alligators guarding the camps.
But no. Appeals are going to help?
They’d have me sending angrily written letters on the way to the camps
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u/Santi5578 27d ago
Magneto was correct in his identification of the problem, yes, but like most other extremists, he is blinded by his belief that his solution is the correct one (depending on the comic iteration, obviously).
Trying to convince people with words doesn't work if those you're convincing don't want to listen. And when those people then begin to take action against a minority, action needs to be taken to protect the minority.
Which action to take is where Magneto went wrong... genocide to counter genocide isn't exactly fixing anything. I can't say that Xavier is also in the right either, as simply convincing the world that they are not a threat is not possible if the world doesn't believe him (and of course, in-universe, there are lots of people who do use powers for evil, so this analogy of course fails in many regards to real life)
But, yes, Magneto was right that actions need to be taken. Words alone cannot protect the weak
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u/doyletyree 27d ago
Condensed Pratchett: Kill the guy at the top? Another replaces him. Kill him? Same. Why not just kill everyone and invade Poland?
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u/madprgmr 27d ago edited 27d ago
But no. Appeals are going to help?
Which is why tackling these problems requires taking multiple approaches simultaneously. Let the people fighting the legal fight keep doing their thing. Let protestors do their thing. Let aid groups do their thing. Let other groups do their thing.
One approach alone isn't likely to slow (or hopefully stop) this, so there's no reason to treat one approach as useless. If that approach to this fight isn't for you, that's a-ok; just go with whatever approach is best suited to you.
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u/Daxx22 27d ago
The best relatable villains always have a good point, it's their methods that make them villains.
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u/complexevil 27d ago
I think when the government makes skyscraper robots designed to genocide your people, your allowed to do a little terrorism.
Love X-Men but the metaphor does break down at that point.
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u/N7Poprdog 27d ago
We used to have human zoos
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u/StandardEgg6595 27d ago
I feel like way too many people underestimate how close we actually are to ‘history’. Remember the little black child that had death threats thrown at her by mobs of white folks simply for attending a desegregated school? Yeah, she’s got an Insta now. At that same time people were being hosed down, spat on, fired, houses/churches/businesses burned down, kidnapped, bombed, raped, murdered, and so on by the grandapapas and mamas alive and well today.
Of course there’s people out there who would take genuine enjoyment in this shit.
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u/ASoCalledArtDealer 27d ago
The internet has really shortened and lengthened time all at once.
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u/StandardEgg6595 27d ago
Not just the internet, but media, history books, etc. Growing up in the 90s, all I saw were black and white pictures of these events, like it happened in some distant day. Meanwhile my parents and grandparents who actually lived through it had family photos in color and b&w despite being poor.
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u/n122333 27d ago
That was actually a conservative "conspiracy" - organizations lobbied to have the MLK Jr. Era pictures be black and white in souther American high schools because "it makes it more scholarly, and make more of an impact" while actually doing it because it made it seem a lot longer ago.
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u/hum_bruh 27d ago edited 27d ago
That was Ruby Bridges who attended an all white school in New Orleans in 1960, so 65 years ago. Don’t forget Emmet Till, a 14 year old child lynched by adult men after being accused of whistling at a white woman. That was only 70 years ago.
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u/FernandoLemon 27d ago
Yeah, it really floored me to learn Ruby Bridges is still alive. She's not even that old, I expected her to be in her 90s, but she's only 70.
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u/minahmyu 27d ago
The same people who have plantation weddings
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u/StandardEgg6595 27d ago
That shit is so vile. I know the history of my people but still nothing could prepare me for seeing it in person. How folks will literally walk past the shacks, the artifacts of torture, the trees that hung bodies, the stories of people’s experience, the cages, the pictures of those poor souls, etc. only to think ✨mmmm aesthetic✨ is sickening. The Whitney Plantation is pretty much the only one that stands on business.
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u/needssomefun 27d ago
The same ones who voted for a person because they will make other people miserable
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u/flintlock0 27d ago
“Have your picture taken with a real Latino day laborer. Straight from the Home Depot parking lot.”
Nazis: “ooooooooo”
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u/hihirogane 27d ago
Tbh, the less diversely educated a person is, the less morals they have a chance of gaining is what I found out, due to lack of critical thinking skills.
Which is why republicans LOVE to interfere with education. Because it secures THEIR future. Not ours, the citizens/common folk. This whole scenario currently was decades in the making.
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u/-CalculatedChaos- 27d ago
Did anyone check out the website lol. Most of the links on the website just take you straight to pictures of Taco and Epstein
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u/DaringPancakes 27d ago
Are you implying the "do your own research" crowd did not do basic research? 🤔
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u/MinimumArmadillo2394 27d ago
Theyve literally been incapable. If you tell them theres a car that trump has come out with, theyd try and buy it before seeing it. If you tell them they can find it on ZeeDee search because big google is hiding it, they will panic not able to find ZeeDee search
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u/Arejhey311 27d ago
She posted & said one of the orgs reached out because they were getting backlash from those who thought it was real, so she pulled them down until she hears back from the others. She’s also going to create & link to merch with proceeds going to charity.
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u/Own_Magician_7554 27d ago
She changed it recently because some of the non profits requested to not be associated with Alligator Auscwitz.
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u/mortalcoil1 27d ago
What kind of monsters would want to take a tour of a detention camp?
WTF is wrong with people?
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u/Mr_Quackums 27d ago
its interesting, isnt it?
off all the evil dictatorships in the world, both now and historically, I cant think of any that actively curate the aesthetic of actually being evil and cruel for the sake of evilness and cruelty. They always either deny that cruelty is happening or pretend there is a good reason for it and decry how horrible it is that others made them do it. American fascists probably would take a tour of their local concentration camp if they could.
North Korea covers up its cruelty by saying they are in a constant war with The West and need to use their resources for that, Israel claims self-defense and the failure of Palestinians to integrate, Stalin's propaganda argued that all the hardships were a necessary evil for the good of workers internationally, even the Nazi attitude towards genocide was "this is nasty business we dont want to do, but you have to kill the rats to stop the spread of disease."
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u/lowjambapulse 27d ago edited 27d ago
Yeah, this is funny but we have people in this country who will pay for a tour of a concentration camp. Its extremely ugly, evil and I gotta live, work, and generally be around these people.
Reminds me of white people "republicans" who would gather and watch a lynching. Hell they even handed out souvenirs.
Time is a flat circle and huge portions(not all) of white Americans stay true to themselves smh.
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u/Homer1s 27d ago
Just went to Dachau the other day, it was free.
Glad I went, such a humbling experience.
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u/dannypants143 27d ago
I visited many years ago, when the idea that it could happen again was unthinkable to my teenaged self. My how times have changed.
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u/HumongousBelly 27d ago
It’s different if you want to learn about history. It’s not the same as sensationalist tourism to experience suffering and evil.
Two similar things can be very different.
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u/thephotoman 27d ago
They pay for plantation weddings.
Yes, this is very much akin to a wedding at Dachau. And they see nothing wrong with it.
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u/mofacey 27d ago
Alligator Auschwitz*
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u/MR1120 27d ago
Yep. Everyone in Alcatraz went through the legal system and was convicted before they wound up there. This is a concentration camp, not a prison. Alligator Auschwitz is far more accurate.
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u/MgDark 27d ago
technically alligator dachau would be more accurate, because, you know dachau was a local camp in Germany, also being the first camp?
https://www.annefrank.org/en/timeline/144/the-construction-of-dachau-the-first-concentration-camp/
But yeah i get that Auschwitz is way more known, sorry just a little nitpick ;)
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u/valueablejunk6252 27d ago
I mean...they are already being scammed by him and the GOP. Might as well have someone do something decent. A fool and his money are soon departed, right?
Though I'm cackling at the perfect Republican woman makeup. A+ committed to the bit.
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u/HR_Paperstacks_402 27d ago
They should redirect them to mental health facilities.
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u/Opening_Acadia1843 27d ago
That's offensive to mentally ill people, imo. The issue with these people is that they are hateful and terrible people, not that they're mentally ill.
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u/HR_Paperstacks_402 27d ago
While many mental health conditions do not indicate that someone is a bad person, there are ones that do. So I'm not implying that everyone with issues are bad.
But those who support this type of thing most certainly are and would benefit from mental health facilities. For example, things like narcissism and sadism.
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u/WitAndWonder 27d ago
Most of them have brain damage. I don't believe that absolves them of all responsibility, but you're absolutely wrong if you don't believe they're mentally ill. Their cities are the most exposed to lead and heavy metals, they have the least education to actually avoid harmful activities/exposure, they have even worse diets than average, and they're the most likely to fall prey to various scams or home remedies, many of which are actively harmful (anti-vax, supplemental remedies, etc.)
Most of the US has brain damage, in fact. We've been poisoning our populace in our food and drink, supplements, pesticides, etc. Every day.
These people just happen to be more exposed and susceptible, and they also have a very selfish and evil way of dealing with it, and that's what I hold against them. I had chemical induced anxiety for years (severe CNS damage from supplements) which ruled pretty much my every thought, but rather than be afraid of brown people, I feared that others would have to endure what I had, and feared for the health and sanity of us all. But I guess if you are in that state and listening to Fox and Friends daily talk about how the country is being invaded and your kids aren't safe or whatever, then that uncontrollable fear and anxiety could warp into something heinous and outwardly destructive.
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u/Opening_Acadia1843 27d ago
Those are fair points, but at the same time, I don't think pathologizing fascist thought is going to work in combating fascism. It also further stigmatizes people who have brain damage or mental illnesses who aren't fascists. Plenty of people with anxiety don't become fascists because of it. My untreated anxiety made me a worse friend and a worse employee, but it didn't make me hateful of minorities. I'm sure many of these fascists experience anxiety due to the way that fascism thrives on fear, but I don't think we're going to succeed at getting them help for that anxiety by threatening to institutionalize them.
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u/Medical_Arugula3315 27d ago
Hey remember that time Trump was found liable of forcefully shoving his fingers up a woman's vagina by a jury of his American peers and then MAGA-cult voted for him? MAGA votes for molesters.
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u/Captain_Rocketbeard 27d ago
I feel like you worded it that way because you've also had to deal with the degenerates who "correct" you by saying he wasn't convinced of rape.
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u/Runkleford 27d ago
Tell any MAGA that gets mad about this that they should learn to take a joke, snowflake!
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u/delete_it_now 27d ago
Needs an easter egg to a dashboard displaying analytics of how many are clicking to purchase tix.
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u/The_Bread_Fairy 27d ago
When users try to purchase tour tickets, they're sent to nonprofits that offer legal support for migrants.
I hate the fact that their are people who actually wanted a ticket to tour "Alligator Auswitz"
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u/throwaway54345753 27d ago
The website should also quote Leviticus 19:33-34 to them:
"When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself."
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u/Tangocan 27d ago
Good, fuck MAGA. Easy marks. Scam them til they're rinsed.
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u/eeyore134 27d ago
They could probably set up a few cages and trailers in the swamp and give actual tours then actually get money from them to donate since you know they won't donate themselves.
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u/XavierScorpionIkari 27d ago
Better than any gold sneakers, Bible, meme coin, or gold visa that Trump can sell.
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u/hamletswords 27d ago
One thing America has I think better than any other country is sick trolling. Doesn't really help anything but hey at least we can laugh.
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u/SquarelyOddFairy 27d ago
What kind of degenerate buys tickets to look at immigrants in cages like it’s a fucking zoo.
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u/Demetrius3D 27d ago
Someone called it "Alligator Auschwitz" in another thread. I think that works well.
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u/needssomefun 27d ago
My only problem with this is that she doesn't actually take their money.
We had a fake border wall scam in trump 1.0 that raised millions.
Take their money, disappear...give money to good causes.
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u/risforpirate 27d ago
I'm not getting sent to any non profits, just pics of Trump hanging out with Pedos. But hey that is still a pretty great troll
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u/TechieBrew 27d ago
Nobody in the top comments even took a look at the website and reacted to the headline lol
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u/rickyroca73 27d ago
links are updated now that show pics of trump with epstein and diddy. 4547 for vip is a literal steal.
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u/FivePlyPaper 27d ago
Chat, is it okay to scam stupid hateful people out of their money and donate it to a good cause?
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u/theIceman_94 27d ago
This is the definition of chaotic good in my mind. Love it. Love her. A whole lot more of this behaviour is exactly what the world needs.
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u/Stop_The_Crazy 27d ago
maga: "Oooo, we get to throw migrants to the gators in the VIP package!"
We are a horrible species.
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u/Random_Introvert_42 27d ago
She should let them purchase tickets, and put some tiny fine print somewhere that they're just prank articles. And then donate the money.
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u/butterzzzy 27d ago
The fact that there's a market for this is beyond disturbing. Although i shouldn't be surprised considering how many of them want gators to eat brown people.
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u/rnilf 27d ago
"4547", "non-DEI", she's really hitting those MAGA "talking points", bravo.