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My GrandUncle has been going by Rudy his entire life. Turns out his legal name is Evelyn. His father turned up to the hospital drunk when he was born & wrote that down on his birth certificate when his mom was asleep because that was the "time of day he was born". Evelyn.

🔴Jamaica Was Already Caught in Washington’s Debt Trap Before Michael Manley, and It Remained Trapped Afterward Clip From the 2001 Classic Documentary: Life and Debt Michael Manley did not invent Jamaica’s crisis; Jamaica was already a neocolonial dependent state, tied to foreign capital, foreign markets, and foreign lenders long before he took office. The real center of the problem was Washington: power, international finance, and IMF-style discipline kept Jamaica trapped in debt and dependency well before Manley, and tightened that trap afterward. You can criticize Manley’s government, but blaming him alone erases the deeper truth that Jamaica had already been structured to serve external interests, not its own people. What Manley confronted was not a healthy independent economy, but a debt-ridden neocolonial order, and every attempt to move beyond it was met with pressure from Washington and the institutions it dominated.

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The roughest part of all of this is that it's a lie. The C*A's own declassified documents stated that there was never any real risk of Jamaica becoming socialist or communist. It was just a convenient excuse to destabilise the very real black empowerment that was happening.

Manley’s democratic socialism didn’t fail on its own merits, it was systematically destabilized by external forces, primarily the US, who saw any leftward shift in the Caribbean as an existential threat during the Cold War.

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I hope this serves as an eye opener for how man-made these doctrines are. Did god change his views on blood transfusion? And if there was always room for this policy to change, why never sooner?? All knowing or all powerful? Neither looks good.

It's like all of the plot points are lining up for a surprise apocalyptic event that comes out of nowhere but was somehow, at the same time, foreshadowed. I don't like it at all.

It's wild to think that we're in the dystopian present, preluding any dystopian future that's been seen across media since the 80s. At this point, the real question is: which dystopia do we roll the dice on? We've got everything from Mad Max to post-Judgment Day Terminator.

You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.

Internet: (Insert celebrity died) Me: Oh, man that's sad. Internet: They was MAGA Me: Oh... ball up top.

So your telling me if I’m seeing 1 pants in the local store for 15k and that same pants online selling for 35US I shouldn’t buy it online How this make sense🤔

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Good point.

The 50% that isn’t: 1. Can’t spell Trinidadian. 2. Can’t spell “Bomboclaat”. 3. Associates Trinidad WITH “Bomboclaat”.

🌹Roses are dead, violets are, too. Happy Valentine's Day from us to you!

nest and ring are creating a surveillance state 10 times the size the government could ever hope to alone, and we're paying to build it ourselves what do you mean google recovered footage from the unsaved live nest feed the owner didn't even pay a subscription for?

"Ensconced in the bottom of this electronic missive, lies information compressed in the deceptively small body of an icon. There, dear reader, you will find the treasures I speak of."

My brother in Christ we have child-eating demons walking among us right now. Idgaf bout a alien

Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI. The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,” which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not. Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse. This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected. They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.

Well that’s an awkward way of finding out that RING cameras are remotely controlled and have facial recognition.