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trump is a fascist, but he went to spain… his first reservation was cancelled so he flew the next day.
was told his reservation had been canceled. But his flight was rescheduled and took off Thursday evening, he wrote in a post on Bluesky.
And we still don’t know why his first booking disappeared AFTER he got his boarding passes and made it through security.
My pet theory is that an individual fascist processed his baggage and cancelled the itinerary in reaction to the TP posts.
the NSA and CIA actually do stuff like that… just fuck people’s day up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung
The state someones randomly mess with your stuff to ruin your day. Spread rumors to your spouse about you “cheating”, making your fellow revolutionaries suspect you of being a government agent, rearrange items in your house to gaslight you, beam radiation at you. You know about all the “crazy people” claiming to be persecuted by the govovernment, some may actually be real. Serbia has used energy weapons against protestors, there are videos on it. They could go in front of your house and point their energy beam right at you. Sounds so bizzare, but its real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device
On Zerzetzung:
As applied by the Stasi, Zersetzung is a technique to subvert and undermine an opponent. The aim was to disrupt the target’s private or family life so they are unable to continue their “hostile-negative” activities towards the state. Typically, the Stasi would use collaborators to garner details from a victim’s private life. They would then devise a strategy to “disintegrate” the target’s personal circumstances—their career, their relationship with their spouse, their reputation in the community. They would even seek to alienate them from their children. […] The security service’s goal was to use Zersetzung to “switch off” regime opponents. After months and even years of Zersetzung a victim’s domestic problems grew so large, so debilitating, and so psychologically burdensome that they would lose the will to struggle against the East German state. Best of all, the Stasi’s role in the victim’s personal misfortunes remained tantalisingly hidden. The Stasi operations were carried out in complete operational secrecy. The service acted like an unseen and malevolent god, manipulating the destinies of its victims.
It was in the mid-1970 that Honecker’s secret police began to employ these perfidious methods. At that moment the GDR was finally achieving international respectability. […] Honecker’s predecessor, Walter Ulbricht, was an old-fashioned Stalinist thug. He used open terror methods to subdue his post-war population: show trials, mass arrests, camps, torture and the secret police.
But two decades after east Germany had become a communist paradise of workers and peasants, most citizens were acquiescent. When a new group of dissidents began to protest against the regime, Honecker came to the conclusion that different tactics were needed. Mass terror was no longer appropriate and might damage the GDR’s international reputation. A cleverer strategy was called for. […] The most insidious aspect of Zersetzung is that its victims are almost invariably not believed.
…the Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It was called Zersetzung, and it’s described in another guideline. The word is difficult to translate because it means originally “biodegradation.” But actually, it’s a quite accurate description. The goal was to destroy secretly the self-confidence of people, for example by damaging their reputation, by organizing failures in their work, and by destroying their personal relationships. Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship. The Stasi didn’t try to arrest every dissident. It preferred to paralyze them, and it could do so because it had access to so much personal information and to so many institutions.
The US’s future might not be necessarily arresting everyone, plane ticket randomly cancelled, your purchases would suddenly fail, oops your internet went down, oh no your brand new phone suddenly dies. Random Gas Leak. Randomly have Carbon Monoxide in your house, and then all 3 of your CO detectors simultaneously fail for some reason. Random food poisoning when you eat outside. If its targeted enough and they know your routes, they could make the traffic lights turn red faster while you’re in the middle of crossing the street. Or make it malfunction so that it shows green while oncoming traffic also shows green.
They can stage so many different “accidents”. Not even necessarily lethal, just annoying enough to break your mind.
Welcome to the future, the dystopia is already here.
i’m with on everything except “energy weapons”… it’s too vague
i mean, a gun is also an energy weapon.
i was referring to more recent Snowden revelations… they would do weird shit like cancel people’s dinner reservations while surveilling them… not quite the full gaslighting but still pretty upsetting….When I say “Energy Weapon”, I’m referring to this:
From Wikipedia:
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams.
Caption: Police car equipped with an LRAD-500X sonic weapon (Warsaw, Poland, 2011)Pro tip, the lrad can be defeated by carrying a parabolic shield and pointing it back at the operators.
Tech Ingredients has a great video about that on youtube
I don’t know anything specific, but I did work customer service for a major airline at one time. I can think of one routine-ish situation that could look like this.
It wasn’t uncommon that if we suspected fraud in the booking we would leave it to be canceled at the last minute so the fraudsters didn’t suspect anything until they were at the airport, where they could be caught. It could have thrown a fraud flag somehow or someone malicious flagged it similarly.
I like that happy ending even though I don’t like that happy ending.
i like it but don’t like that there’s a reason to like it
This man was getting harassed by toilet paper usa kids at the school he taught at.
Teacher here: getting harassed by kids is the worst. You’re supposed to not only keep your cool but also be welcoming and integrate every last bully, when they are hellbent on getting an out-of-bounds reaction from you.
And let me tell you, bullies have bully parents. Always. So you can’t talk to them either.
You cannot win in a situation like this.
Sorry for the OT, please return to fascist USA now.
And of course keeping them in class is terrible for every other student but you have to keep those metrics up!
Not me personally, more like my employer. For me it’s about being the “responsible adult” in the room, but what that really means is some sort of magic where I’m emotionally detached and invested at the same time.
Long term, being the responsible adult means to recognize hat the situation is untenable. For my employers it means, avoid trouble (with parents).
“I appreciate your input but if you keep entertaining alt-tight nonsense ideas you’re going to end up just like the guy you’re idolizing”
A clever reply. Maybe it shuts them up for a moment (unlikely), but then they go to their parents and say “teacher called me a nazi!” As I said, you cannot win.
Should I kick my sons parents ass? 🤔 My son is black and they go around calling him a monkey. I told him to ask the kid next time he says if his dad taught him that while he was suck8ng him off.
Please include the name in posts with this orange Hitler wannabe. He’s on my block list because I can’t stand seeing that goddamn fake tan face anymore.
I ran into the same problem with my Elon Musk filter when people started calling him Elmo in the headlines. I added Elmo to the list, but who knows how many important updates about the lovable muppet Elmo I missed out on?
Two. You missed out on two.
I think we will find it increasingly difficult to filter out these people in the future. The reason is understandable: US citizens fear that they will be persecuted as dissidents if they post negative things about the regime and their henchmen. I think this fear is completely justified, as the US is now essentially already a dictatorship with all the associated mechanisms of repression. Therefore, I’m afraid, we will have to accept that simply adding names to the block list is no longer sufficient.
[Astronauts in space] never has been
🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
Huh. TIL that the above water pistol is the only gun my emoji set provides. At least it shows up as a water pistol for me.
Yeah, Apple changed theirs to a water pistol a few years ago and then later android, fb etc followed suit so it’s everywhere now
It never was
