Summary
Women across Detroit and other U.S. locations, including Virginia and universities in Alabama and South Carolina, have reported receiving racist text messages instructing them to “pick cotton at the nearest plantation.”
The messages, which include threats and references to white supremacist groups, have raised concerns among recipients.
FOX 2 Detroit received multiple reports from affected women, with similar cases reported by news outlets in Atlanta and Virginia.
The source and motive behind these messages remain unclear, with some online speculation suggesting possible foreign interference aimed at sowing division in the U.S.
Just the beginning. If you thought 2016 empowered the racists, buckle up.
Russia wants a civil war. They want people scared and angry. They want people taking to the streets armed. Don’t fall into this trap - the propaganda machine is going strong, even here on Lemmy.
There is always a path towards peace. I admit it may be unclear to me in the present moment but I’ll be searching for it in the coming years.
We certainly don’t need to do anything to accelerate civil conflict, inevitable or not.
There is always a path towards peace.
I’ll try to be polite and simply say this is incredibly naive and ignorant of human history.
admit it may be unclear to me in the present moment but I’ll be searching for it in the coming years.
You do that, while the Kansas National Guard is busy doorkicking for Latinos in New York.
I don’t know why you think this is naive. We might not be able to know or actualize the path the peace but that does not mean it isn’t there.
The present danger doesn’t say anything about what is the most effective way to resist or diffuse this danger. Do you think you have the strength of arms to defeat the US military? Now that I would call naive.
I think its naive to think that every single armed conflict in history could have been avoided if only certain people had the vision to “take the path of peace,” whatever that means in the circumstance. Since peace requires at least two opposing parties, you can also derive it to mean “we would have peace if bad, violent people weren’t bad and violent” which is simply a waste of breath and keystrokes to say.
Bad people are bad. Very rarely can we persuade them to be otherwise. Sometimes they have to be fought, because the alternative is to let them abuse and kill you.
I’ll give you this, I think the only path to avoiding widespread violence in the near future is a mutual, peaceful secession of blue states. I think that is extremely unlikely given that the GOP has nearly all the cards and I believe is in no spirits to negotiate. And it basically says “fuck you, you’re on your own” to vulnerable people in red states.
Do you think you have the strength of arms to defeat the US military? Now that I would call naive.
The most I’m willing to say on a public forum right now is that circumstances will be more complex than you’re laying them out as.
while the Kansas National Guard is busy doorkicking for Latinos in New York.
… dafuq?
Project 2025 specifically mentions deputizing national guard units from red states to enforce their immigration law nationwide, specifically in blue states where the local LEOs and leadership there are likely to be less cooperative.
Ahh. I initially read that as if it had already happened. That being in P25 tracks.
Couldn’t the blue states then activate their respective National Guard units to prevent this?
National Guard against National Guard isn’t a solution, it’s an escalation into Civil War II.
Voting trends among cops and military enlisted pretty heavily skew Trump last I checked, regardless of the state’s general affiliation. Nightmare scenario is that basically every org structure either defects to red entirely or is sabotaged into operational ineffectiveness by a minority of traitors.
I would not trust anyone in uniform to be on my side as things start to slide.
I don’t fucking care about peace; I care about justice. If the path to justice requires going through conflict, then anybody who says that bullshit you wrote is an enemy of it.
Then you are extremely naive about the horrors and harms a civil war would entail. We should all care.
I don’t agree that justice requires going through war, nor that war is even likely to lead to justice.
The war already started.
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Russia wants a civil war. They want people scared and angry. They want people taking to the streets armed. Don’t fall into this trap - the propaganda machine is going strong, even here on Lemmy.
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I will not advocate for violence or recommend people take to the streets armed, because that is exactly the kind of situation Trump would exploit to run them over with a truck in an official act of assholery.
Oh sorry, you must have missed the last 10 years of
white supremacist terrorismlone wolvesAre you actually suggesting that people physically attack others like white supremacists?
Because that would be advocating for violence.
Especially here on Lemmy.
Part of me can’t help but think that a lot of these “that guy” tankies are really just MAGA honeypots trying to incite the communist Boogeyman they want to use to justify their radical agenda.
Russia doesn’t have to lift a finger. We elected the king of the racist bigots, and now for four years (and more) we’re going to have to constantly push back against them, because they will will think they can do whatever they want.
Russia wants you fighting for your life, so to get that smug satisfaction of not giving your enemy what they want, you should instead not fight for your life even when all sense says you should.
I get tempering your emotions, being patient, and trying to see the bigger picture. But there may come a point where it simply does not matter what our geopolitical enemies want or do not want. We’ve been avoiding this fight since we bungled Reconstruction, honestly.
We fucking deserve it.
As plainly laid out in The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia
Yup, the KGB struck back
Russia may have not conquered Ukraine, but it surely conquered the USA. We lost the cold war.
But seriously, what is the difference between being under Trump or under Putin? The former is identical to the latter and will also share with him all intelligence data. The US will be Belarus 2.
Yeah, don’t stand up against the fascists! Let them rule over you!
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Arm yourselves.
Let them be the first to draw blood but do not go down without a fight.
They want a war, they’ve spent decades screaming about it, and stockpiling weapons.
They will be emboldened to violence.
Arm yourselves.
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What the fuck
Yeah but latinos and black men were uncomfortable with voting a woman
Young white men were BIGLY for Trump. If I were young and single I’d be joining the 4B movement after having them sell my rights down the river
Yeah, 2015/16 was full of me being told to go back to China, really looking forward how this shit show is going to be.
I was born in Spokane, WA. Am white but with a Celtic name. People have also told me to go back where I come from. This goes beyond pure racism but it’s obvious that the story here and yours are caused by racism.
🙄 sigh. Good luck man, maybe get outta that area if that’s possible. West coast seems to be ok (just don’t go inland).
I still see a ton of trucks waving trump flags out here. The filth is everywhere, there’s no escaping it.
Stick to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego and you won’t see it unless you enter the suburbs. LA is a bit more mixed but probably still decent
Just drove around the bay (Concord to Atherton, Santa Cruz to San Jose, and then back to SF before going back home). There was a lot of trump flags and supporters on bridges and vehicles driving around. There’s a lot of Trump supporters even in Progressive Bay Area regions. Lots of tech bros now are big Trump supporters. That said, the west coast has far, far less than other regions.
I’m referring not to each region but rather the cities themselves. That said, there are probably a lot of tech bros who worship Savage.
At what point does that start to sound like the better option? Is that even an option available to you?
Good lord, China would never be an option.
The US is rapidly moving toward it too.
Maybe but there’s still no way in hell I would ever move there. I’d be disappeared given I enjoy freedom of speech.
Are you Chinese?
At this time, it is unknown who is sending the text messages or why they are doing it.
Racists. Racists are sending the text message.
They are doing it to instill fear because they believe that the nation is now a white supremacist fascist nation.
Gotta love “journalism.”
they believe that the nation is now a white supremacist fascist nation.
Apparently it is.
And as a Latino, I don’t know what part of that spells Latino, but here we are with the fucking voter base.
The obvious racism of this aside this is a direct consequence of data brokers and surveillance capitalism making it trivial and cheap to send out texts to minority women in Detroit. That’s an insane thing. Someone probably paid a pittance for these targeted texts.
You see they say violence isnt a solution but i wouldnt use it as a solution, i just wanna commit it against whoever is doing this.
Violence is never the answer.
It’s a question, and the answer is “yes.”
Maxim 6: If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.
It seems like soon enough, we will all just be blocking everything except contacts from messages and calls. It is absolutely ridiculous how much spam and fraud is sent, and how easily our data is mined and sold.
My question is where can we buy lists of Trump supporters so we can find easy ways to
leach money from themmarket productsCards Against Humanity apparently bought a list of how the entire country voted in 2020. I bet they would know how to acquire such lists. (And I guess the fascists have lists of us, too. Fun!)
I already block all non-contact calls and messages, well, I filter them out and check them every few days to make sure nothing important has happened. Just like my spam folder in my email. If I let spam calls actually ring-through on my phone it would drive me insane because I get at least a dozen bullshit calls a day.
Same here. Anyone new needs to let me know, email or message me somewhere else. But a lot of people need these things open, and I feel bad for them, and how terribly these things (and the rest of fed gov) are rotting.
We need to get rid of the old phone system entirely and switch to something authenticated that can’t be spoofed or abused as easily as our current phone system can be. When I think about it, it’s kind of weird that we haven’t done that yet. Probably because it would cost too much for the big phone carriers to do and then they wouldn’t get their billion dollar bonuses at the end of the year.
A black friend of mine got it as well.
Well much to my dismay I actually read the article and surprise surprise Fox 2 is just regurgitating Reddit post without doing any actual fucking journalism. Great job team.
No. They are regurgitating info from people who personally contacted them which is in the lede. They also are reporting about it in other parts of the country and from kids attending universities.
The Reddit part was regarding speculating about who is sending them.
Is there a YouTube video that explains to me how we can’t know who sent those texts. Somebody paid for that number (not the spoofed number, they actually had to have one to be connected to the lines right?). How can spoofing happen without the carrier knowing/enabling? Your carrier used their lines to deliver it to you. How is this not trackable?
I want a 1h26 minute Technology Connections or whoever, because this has never made sence to me.
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Hot damn, burn it all down.
