this is the most dystopian title I have read in a while
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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I keep thinking back to this article:
Coffee didn't hit my brain before reading the headline; I thought this was an app to report ICE sightings lol
(Maybe someone on F-droid could get on that?)
We've got a hotline in Colorado! (844) 864-8341 They verify reports and share info with the community, and dispatch volunteer legal observers and immigration attorneys. Not sure if orgs in any other states have stood up something similar.
Does anyone know if Arizona has a hotline for this?
It looks like Puente Arizona and the Phoenix Legal Action Network have one, but it might just be in the Phoenix area. 480-506-7437, more info here.
Thank you🙏
Thats what I thought too. The reality is still fucked up, but I don't feel one iota of bad for people getting scammed for using an app to snitch to ICE.
(Maybe someone on F-droid could get on that?)
Seconded! I read and thought the same things, something like that would be huge right now. Hell of a time crunch and hostile work environment, but it could save a lot of lives.
Or make a fake app for the Play Store where all the reports go to /dev/null.
Take real reports and replace it with randomly generated people to flood the ICE systems with false reports.
I would actually be ok with ai generated photos being used for this
Lmao this is the type of creativity the world needs. Shame about the circumstances requiring it, however
It’s a grift, inside a con, wrapped up in a scam!
Or since 1/5, an average Tuesday in America.
The parrallels to the persecution of jews in WW2 is massive. This is very similar to how it played out back then
Well yeah, but at least the Nazis had the cool looking uniforms and style, this gang just shoves meme coins down yout throat while preparing extermination camps.
Not trying to defend Nazis, they're the worst and are all burning in hell but, you know, at least they had something.
Around 15 years ago i explained to friend how to prep a society for genocide. I used left handed people in my example. Over the last few years i have seen it Play out almost exactly.
Its extremely disturbing, im very hesitant to use the word fascism (as it has been massively over used muting its true meaning) but what we are now seeing is just that. I pray Americans can find a way to stop this insanity.
No. The meaning has been true for a while. People just ignored the signs because it was inconvenient to stamp it out sooner.
How's it feel to live in the cyberpunk prequel?
So let's spin up some AI generated "photos" and flood their servers with fake reports!
The only legitimate use of genAI...
Anything being promoted by the likes of Loomer, Engels, and (most punchable face) Gaetz should be a top-level red flag to run away screaming into the night away from that thing...
🤡 🖕 🖕
Am I supposed to know who any of those people are?
Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz are United States fascist politicians. I assume so is the other person named, but the only Engels I'm familiar with is Friedrich.
Reading the article would tell you exactly who they are... 🤷♂️ 🤷♂️
Fuck I'm stupid
Could this be reverse engineered?
Wanted to take a look at it but it's not even in play store.