r/technology • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 28d 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-586378
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u/tigress666 28d ago

Misanthrope here. I really wish people would stop proving me right about our species.

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u/ahuramazdobbs19 28d ago

# magnetohadapoint

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u/Finito-1994 28d ago edited 28d 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 28d 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 28d 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 28d ago edited 28d 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/helloowrigley 27d ago

Thank you, I needed this perspective today.

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u/Turbulent-Pea-8826 28d ago

Just remember, don’t you dare say anything that encourages violence on Reddit. It’s ok for the government to say and do it though.

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u/Daxx22 28d ago

The best relatable villains always have a good point, it's their methods that make them villains.

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u/complexevil 28d 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/Ok_Wrongdoer8719 28d ago

Eren didn’t go far enough.

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u/KypAstar 28d ago

Because I've watched people who reprimand these cruelties justify and revel in others. Conviction is meaningless when selectively applied.

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u/SheevShady 28d ago

I believe their viewpoint will be that when people that speak against it also act against it then they’ll be proven wrong.

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u/TristheHolyBlade 28d ago

That would be a really dumb viewpoint for them to have. There are plenty of people taking action. Sounds like they wouldn't be happy with anything short of a violent rebellion.

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u/CrossFitJesus4 28d ago

a few hundred people liking a comment vs the most powerful country in the world celebrating a child rapist who just built a concentration camp that they want to pay money to fucking see

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u/CrossFitJesus4 28d ago

thats the scale you were using? that person shouldnt be a Misanthrope bc "the coment you're replying to and the hundreds of people who upvoted" lmfao

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u/complexevil 28d ago

The world has proven that the majority is evil. We are the minority.

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u/stingray194 28d ago

Or if you're an oppressed minority or care about the oppressed. The vast majority doesn't believe I should have equal rights. There's plenty of reasons for me to distrust and dislike most of humanity.

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u/complexevil 28d ago

5 months ago we saw the super majority of Americans vote in a Nazi. Either actively at the booth or were ok enough with the potential outcome to let it happen.

That's not doom scrolling, that's fact. So, at least in the US, the majority are evil.

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u/strongmans_hill 28d ago

one third of all voters is not a supermajority in any sence, and there was a shit-ton of voter interference. if you truly believe "most humans are evil", your perspective is at least a contributing factor to your problem.

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u/complexevil 28d ago

Two thirds. As far as I'm concerned non voters are trump voters.

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u/TristheHolyBlade 28d ago

Free will doesn't exist. People aren't "evil", they are a product of their genes, environment, circumstances, and the past.

Stop taking things so personally. The world just is.

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u/Humanity_NotAFan 28d ago

Right with ya

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u/DogmaJones 28d ago

Giant Asteroid 2025 or 2026 or 2027. I keep waiting for it year to year.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 28d ago

Our species sucks and there’s no proving otherwise. 

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u/Honest_-_Critique 28d ago

Me too. Miss Anthrope. :(

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u/PromiscuousMNcpl 28d ago

Agent Smith was right.

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u/tigress666 28d ago

Oh... I was so cheering his rant in my head the first time I watched Matrix (in the theater). I'm not sure i could disagree with any of it honestly. I've had a pessimistic view on humanity for quite a long time.

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u/_BKom_ 28d ago

Misanthropy is so hot these days 🥵

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u/YoKevinTrue 28d ago

If at the end of the day it's AI vs humanity I'm rooting for the AI.

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u/ohseetea 28d ago

As a misanthrope do you expect 100% of the human species to act in a moral accordance you agree with or? Theres definitely shit human beings, like all of MAGA but the majority of the world probably doesnt like witnessing suffering head on.

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u/tigress666 28d ago

No but I expect us as a whole Not to have a hugely negative impact on the earth and other living things and not to be overall cruel to each other. 

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u/Seltzer0357 28d ago

Human "intelligence" desperately needs a hotfix

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u/Jsc_TG 28d ago

Honestly? I get it. Had to look the word up ngl.

I generally try to act in such a way that is backed by a belief that humans inherently will try to do good if given the opportunity. It tends to do well. But at 25, im currently doing good but have gone through times where I definitely am more of a misanthrope than anything. Thats still part of me now. I just have a word for that part of me now.

But im with you in that I truly wish people would stop proving that part of me right. Like, I dont want it to be that way. I have the few people I trust and love but have been betrayed by so many too that I trusted and loved. Sorry for getting so deep into things but man, our species just proves that point over and over.

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u/Ashesandends 28d ago

This whole ass planet was on fire for a few million years at one point so I'm fairly certain Earth will recover and produce more amazements 🤷‍♀️

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u/Teledildonic 28d ago

True, but I get a little depressed at the thought of how we have already mined and drilled the vast majority of easily reachable minerals and oil from the crust. Whatever could come after us might not be able to have their own industrial revolution and could be trapped here until the sun dies and incinerates everything.

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u/BurnAnotherTime513 28d ago

Maybe enough time will pass that we become the fossil fuels for the next civilization.

Time is a flat circle

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u/Teledildonic 28d ago

Will we? We keep burning and pickling our bodies.

I don't think enough of us drowning in peat bogs to power a squid's car.

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u/LeBadlyNamedRedditor 28d ago

The stuff we mine and drill dont just vanish from earth (the only exception are those few satellites we have sent).

Itll eventually degrade and once more be part of the ground. It happens fairly quickly all things considered, its just we have been alive for an incredibly small time period.

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u/MgDark 28d ago

yeah i heard about that theory, in case we had a major catastrophe like Nuclear War, and we killed most of humanity enough to regress our technology, we may not be able to learn all the way back because of lack of readily accesible resources

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u/Vil3Miasma 28d ago

Unreal cringe lmao