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British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US Government document
- xenospn 2y agoMaybe AI should replace the DHS? This is absolutely ridiculous
- pjc50 2y agoThe indiscriminate prejudice is intentional. Any tattoo may be a pretext. e.g. Neri José Alvarado Borges and his autism awareness rainbow ribbon. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/deported-because-of-his-tattoos-has-the-us-targeted-venezuelans-for-their-body-art https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/deported-bec...
- morkalork 2y agoThe absolute banality of evil on display here with the ICE agents who can see that tattoo and still check the box for "gang member".
- giraffe_lady 2y agoBanality of evil is maaaybe for the people who designed and implemented the database. Actual ice agents signed up for and underwent training on how to do this, they knew it would be this and they wanted to do it, and are willingly doing it now. That's just normal evil.
- morkalork 2y agoYou know what, you're tight. Just plain normal evil. The eerie thing is I can't recall the last time I saw it phrased like that before today, and now I've seen it used twice in a few hours in two totally different spaces: https://bsky.app/profile/islan-kleinknecht.bsky.social/post/3lmjpo7pcms2r https://bsky.app/profile/islan-kleinknecht.bsky.social/post/...
- lotsofpulp 2y agoSome tattoos are cool though: https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/us-news/all-of-secretary-of-defense-nominee-pete-hegseths-tattoos/ https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/us-news/all-of-secretary-of-de...
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- FirmwareBurner 2y agoHold the phone, since when is a "clock tattoo" a gang symbol? >"Jump Man Symbol" You mean Nike's Air Jordan symbol? Since when is that a gang symbol? Is this for real or is DHS just fucking with people based on movies they watched? At this rate they will start arresting people with black hoodies as that's the symbol of computer hackers.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoThis sounds like the "gang database" the chicago PD uses. Where they can basically put anyone in it for any reason with no oversight, appeal, or even way to find out if you're in it and why. Whenever parts of it end up in court it's bullshit like this.
- rad_gruchalski 2y agoNearly 50% of the US population voted for the people driving this mad agenda. Let that sink in.
- Someone 2y agoLess than a quarter of it, but over 50% of those who voted (Trump got 77.3 million votes on a population of around 340 million) Those who didn’t vote will have had different reasons, including “don’t care”, “my candidate will win, anyways”, “no time”, and “registering to vote was too hard for me”. We don’t know the distribution of that.
- InitialLastName 2y agoTo be clear, under 50% of those who voted, but a plurality and enough to win in the electoral college.
- filoeleven 2y agoVoter turnout was 64%, so really only 32% voted for it.
- FirmwareBurner 2y agoThat's irelevant. The sample size of the population who voted is large enough to extrapolate and represent the opinion of the entire voting population. When you don't vote you ceded your vote to the majority who did go to vote. That's how democracy works. You can't cop out because you don't like the end result.
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- rad_gruchalski 2y agoOkay, 50% of those who voted. Does it make you feel better?
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- AtlasBarfed 2y agoI thought basic human rights and creeping authoritarianism was "too political" for HN? Are the foundations shaking even for the super rich? I guess tariffs threaten the number of "fucks" in "fuck off" money they have. We're close to the phase that Trump casts off Elon and the rest of the techno oligarch utopia people that got him elected for the raw racists, and that's just me reading the tes leaves. Insiders know a lot more.
- foxyv 2y agoThis reminds me of my old Middle School that banned wearing blue or red because they were "Gang Colors." The fact that the images are coming from internet scrapings makes me think that their guide was generated with AI.