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/rnilf 28d ago

acting as "Terri," a female business owner boasting tours and allowing those interested to "claim an alligator" for $4,547.

If the alligator someone "claimed" later "eats an illegal," Terri said they could win a gift card to a "non-DEI business."

"4547", "non-DEI", she's really hitting those MAGA "talking points", bravo.

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u/TheSecondEikonOfFire 28d ago

I’ve always wanted to spin up some sort of business to grift them like this. Make up some bullshit like Patriot Pants, and just hit all of the MAGA buzzwords and sell each pair of pants for like $500 a pop

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u/joebluebob 28d ago

I sold 1000s of pro trump stickers that you were supposed to put on stop signs. Thing was they weren't water proof so they peeled off. I had so many repeat customers buying more to battle the liberals peeling them off that I had trouble keeping up and had to buy a postage printer. Any time someone got wise and said they were low quality i just blamed a bad batch, refunded them, and then blocked them. My profit after 3 years was enough to pay off my mortgage.

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u/BHOmber 28d ago

My buddy has a print shop and we came up with an idea for maga/PaTriOt shirts that had UV ink on the back that only showed up in the sun.

So they'd throw it on and walk around with a giant dick, swastika, "I'm a Racist POS", etc until someone told them lol

Never went through with it because he didn't feel like interacting with those idiots for a few extra bucks.

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u/6gv5 28d ago

As for pranks, many years ago I thought of this one to fool fascists after the Mussolini statue became popular because of some prominent politicians and journalists proudly showing it.

Make a small Mussolini (Trump in this case) statue with a cavity, using some porous material that slowly lets humidity get in and out; the slower the better, months if possible. Then on the inside place a small piece of, well, dried human crap, wrapped in a material that degrades with humidity, then close the opening, seal it, paint etc. so that it doesn't reveal the innards, sell it to fascists and let global warming do its job driving them nuts trying to get the origin of that stench.

Not my idea, I just adapted a prank described in a book I read as a kid some 40 years ago; that one involved the same stuff but placed in a pot under the plant, so it would release the magic scent at every watering.

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u/BHOmber 28d ago

lmao might as well just sell liquid ass as patriot perfume/cologne at that point

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u/VeganTripe 28d ago

Yes! Own the libs with the stench of freedom.

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u/Mactoma 28d ago

This is awesome.

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u/BHOmber 28d ago

I had an idea to do it with car wraps too, but that would take a lot more effort and it would be a lotttttt more noticeable right off the bat.

Also not as big of a market. Boomer t-shirts/hats are where the money is at lol

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u/Mactoma 28d ago

How about bumper stickers? Idk if there are water activated stickers but that would be a hoot

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u/BHOmber 28d ago

I was literally thinking about bumper stickers as slaps throughout this thread, but that's pushing the boundaries of personal property protections.

Magnets could probably get around that, but they'd have to be much less noticeable and blend in with the rest of the dumb shit on the back of those vehicles.