Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
Yet another fash-enabling take from the NYTrash. Please don’t post this rag of imperial disinformation.
Here’s a better take: Was Alex Pretti the subject of a targeted assassination?
The IDF is training ICE
This technology was developed by palantir to assist Israel with their settler colonialist genocide target Palestinians, journalists and children
Our politicians are still being blackmailed by Israeli intelligence because Epstein and Ghisline were Mossad
Washington is literally occupied by Israeli assets
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/epstein_israel
I’m pretty sure the incompetence we see is because there’s a mix of Russia in there too so everything is push pull tug throw.
Fascists are incompetent regardless of nationality.
This is a dangerous assumption.
fascists are also opportunistic backbiting bitches always looking for the moment to turn on eachother
I am confused on this.
They simultaneously get only 47 days of training.
But somehow they’ve got Mussad level training.
Please make it make sense.
They certainly do not appear to have a high level or training in any video I have ever seen
that number has to be propaganda
probably goes on a pace like: days 1-3: know your enemy (non-white people). days 4-9: how to hide your face so you cannot be prosecuted for your crimes. days 10-26: lectures on why oct 7 2023 was worse than the holocaust itself. days 27-37: using heavy ordinance at the firing range. days 38-42: how to steal property, particularly women’s undergarments. days 43-47: final racism seminar
Your problem is assuming that “Mussad level training” is some kind of complicated thing.
It’s just another course on racism, murder, terrorism, etc.
They’re not being trained to be elite troops the way that people mythologize the IDF who somehow managed to miss all of the warnings about October the 7th and can’t tell the difference between a baby and a bomb.
They’re being trained to be the enforcers of apartheid. Racistly motivated government shock troops don’t have to be competent or capable they just have to be cruel and follow orders.
Yeah even with your sources you’re making some VERY grand claims there.
I’m sure Israel and Mossad have their fingers in US politics but to claim that Epstein was a Mossad agent, you’re going to need some big evidence to backt that up or just take it down because we already have enough conspiratorial bullshit out here
to claim that Epstein was a Mossad agent,
1000% Accurate. Tons of evidence. Openly served foreign (zionist) interests.
Maybe he wasn’t officially hired and trained by Mossad, but that’s just formalism.
I think people have Epstein wrong. Ghislaine wasn’t his accomplice. He was hers. Her father was linked to Mossad quite a lot and was buried in Jerusalem. The whole Maxwell family is crooked as all fuck.
Epstein worked for Mossad period. Was he an exclusive officer of theirs? We don’t know. We do know he did a lot of work with then. This is not a grand claim and I find kind of funny and kind of sad that you state it this way.
For instance, if I do work for the CIA I would be an agent of the CIA. If I worked directly for them I would be an officer. Perhaps you are just confused as to the definitions.
Here’s what’s weird about it, when you have that much money, you don’t tend to work for anyone.
Why get involved in some complicated spy game? You’re rich, you don’t have to do shit, and in fact you’re so rich you can do whatever you want… with children… I mean can you picture those same people who feel they are above the law, being beholden to anyone?
I don’t know honestly. If I had several million dollars I would probably stop there, invest it and live off the interest and never have to work. I may hold down a job as a hobby, but I wouldn’t be beholden to anyone. I guess I would never become a truly wealthy person.
Obviously there is something else driving these billionaires. It is never enough for them and I think it probably is something along the lines of a mental illness.
Facist state
If you think that any nation-state with the money to implement this shit isn’t doing it already, I have a bridge to sell you.
Surveillance is a matter of power and maintaining it, far more than any ideological thing. There are already people being caught by this sort of shit in the UK and Europe as well.
Those are fascist states too. You can’t make use of this kind of technology and still claim to be the good guys. Fascisms not a left or right thing, both sides of the aisle can slide into that kind of behavior.
Both sides of the state’s aisle are right-wing.
Authoritarianism applies to both sides, and the middle. Fascism is a right wing authoritarian ideology.
Fascism is in fact a right wing system
Yes and “both sides of the aisle” are fascist.
Is this supposed to be a gotcha?
No, it’s in principle undetermined in ideology. Historical ones, even Stalin or Pol Pot variants, were rather right wing. But the only principles really important for any kind of fascism are violence, anti-rationalism and amorphous ideology.
EDIT: What I mean is that fascism is that “third way”, not left-wing or right-wing. And has made situational alliances with things from both. That was its main difference from old conservatives in the beginning of XX century.
Bruh do some basic research… Here’s a 101:
It’s 100% right wing. Even so-called leftists who went fascist are no longer leftists.
Non-leftist doesn’t equal right-wing. Anarcho-capitalism is right-wing, but opposite from fascism.
Fascism requires no logical structure and no coherence in ideology. It requires the ideology to be bendable all ways each moment for each different situation. Which, well, is natural for an ideology reliant upon violence and emotion above all.
That leftists try to mix fascism and normal conservatism is a purely leftist sexual problem, that doesn’t concern others until leftists pretend it’s commonly accepted.
Then, of course, when most of the “revolutionary” competition is leftist, fascism becomes anti-leftist and allies right-wing forces.
But also Nazi and Soviet propaganda on the British Empire were amazingly similar in archetypes and emotion. Which would be a rare case of “fascism against right-wing forces”.
Oh, the historical fascisms such as under Stalin and Pol Pot, right.
it’s in principle undetermined in ideology
Correct in so far, as it‘s determined by economic system. Which happens to align with left/right ideology.
But the only principles really important for any kind of fascism are violence, anti-rationalism and amorphous ideology.
You’re making shit up depending on how your tummy feels, don‘t you?
Please stop using the internet.
How to detect a commie idiot without them naming themselves.
I’m actually using Eco’s version, and he’s notably leftist.
Please stop using the internet.
Smart thoughts were chasing you, but you were always faster.
I would have been more impressed, if you‘d actually provided argumentative content instead of personal attacks.
Not sure, what you used Umberto Eco‘s definition for, but it wasn‘t to formulate a coherent thought on the topic.
No it’s not entirely clearly defined. But a few elements appear in all of them: Anti- communism/socialism, dictator, far-right idiologies, nationalism…
I wouldn’t say any if these are desired by leftism, or rather opposites.
I did some reading, it seems I had a misunderstanding of some of the finer details. Perhaps authoritarian or totalitarianism are better terms? I’m not sure, but regardless, I fail to see how many of the tactics of fascism couldn’t be employed by the political left, which I guess is the point I was originally getting at.
If the left employed fascist tactics then they stop being the left.
I fail to see how many of the tactics of fascism
Leftism overtly opposes the tools of fascism: sexism, racism, imperialism, nationalism, etc.
Maybe you should more reading before posting about this topic.
The Fascist ideology is an ultranationalist one which the USA is now under Trump and the rest of Europe is at risk to become one too
Most of the fascist characteristics are already there is the USA https://osbcontent.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/PC-00466.pdf
One of the tools, which was built by Paragon, an Israeli technology company, lets people take control of phones or remotely hack into them to read messages or track locations. The others were built by Penlink, a Nebraska-based software company. They use social media data scraped from the web and information from data brokers to help build dossiers of anyone with a social media account.
ICE’s use of facial recognition software was documented in videos and photos from local activist groups in Minnesota this month and reviewed by The Times. Two photos captured fatigue-clad agents using cellphones to scan the faces of protesters in Minneapolis, while in one video, agents could be heard telling people that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology and that their faces would be added to a database.
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Can someone explain to me why this is focused on the city of Minneapolis specifically? Why is ICE focusing specifically on that city of all of them?
Aside from revenge against Walz… one theory is that we’re a functioning community that’s ethnically diverse, relatively progressive, union strong, and very friendly to queer folks. Fox News would have you believe that any one of those features creates a godless hellscape, but we’re doing pretty good. Minnesota grew a huge budget surplus under Walz, and then we invested it in schools and social programs. The Republican tradition is to destroy something (see: the federal government) and say, “See? Told you it was broken!”
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So a two fer.
My guess is his personal vendetta against Walz.
Personal grudge against Waltz, for running against him amongst other grudges
That’s what citizens pay for now in Trump’s USA. With their lives. Petty grievances of an Alzheimer patient.
Don’t forget Omar.
Racism against Somalis plus he hates Walz for running against him
I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.
Edit: I found the article.
It’s a “sanctuary city”.
Among other reasons you’ve been given:
- The figured MN folks would be peaceable and lay down.
- No open carry of weapons.
- Didn’t think they’d show out in deep winter. (HAH!)
MN does allow open carry of pistols however
Bruce Springstein’s protest song : Streets of Minneapolis
Reasons I installed GrapheneOS November 2024 and moved to Lemmy/Mastodon only in July 2023, intensifies.
That only mitigates. There are still a number of ways to potentially track a hardened phone, and countless ways to breach proper OPSEC on social media that have nothing to do with the platform.
Don’t rely entirely on system choices to keep you safe.
Yep your modem baseband is 100% hackable or already backdoored
Where can I learn more about this?
I would also like to know more. Have you got a link to something for a layperson re this?
is /e/ OS also safe?
Not even remotely comparably.
As usual, the Trump admin is using tools that have been available to the feds for years but they use them so ineptly that it has become obvious that they exist. I guess that is better than competent administrations doing to the same thing for less trivial and obvious shit.
