• CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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    According to prosecutors, the men, both of whom live in the Dallas area, began masterminding their bizarre plan in August 2024.

    Their alleged goal was to take over Gonave — a tropical island of about 100,000 people located roughly 30 miles from Port-au-Prince — in order to carry out “rape fantasies.”

    The plot involved buying a sailboat, weapons and ammunition and recruiting homeless people in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area “to serve as a mercenary force.”

    “Mastermind” is definitely a bit of a stretch. One sailboat and a gaggle of homeless men against 100,000 people? ROFL.

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      I suppose that plan makes it pretty clear they thought white supremacy was not only a thing, but something tangible. Like, somehow it would all work out despite the overwhelming disadvantage because they are “inherently better”, so it’ll be easy.

      Even asgardians invading midgard would hesitate at that number difference.

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    Why is this illegal? I know … weird question, but … they didn’t do it.

    I am admitting right now in public that I am going to build a spaceship and enslave an alien planet. What are my charges?

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      It looks like they took steps to realize their plan which takes it from random nonsense to actual conspiracy.

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    I am confused how they are just throwing “Oh, and they were also charged with production of child pornography,” in there as an afterthought…

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      I’ve had the privilege of knowing and working with a few Haitian nationals in my lifetime and let me tell you, those guys do NOT fuck around. I can GUARANTEE it would not end well for those two assholes.

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    The only difference between people like this and the leaders of the Nazi movement is that the Nazi movement got money, funding, support and acceptance by wealthy interests.

    The difference between these nut jobs and authoritarian leaders of nations is the willingness of monied interests to support them in achieving their goals.

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    Their alleged goal was to take over Gonave — a tropical island of about 100,000 people

    The plot involved buying a sailboat, weapons and ammunition and recruiting homeless people in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area “to serve as a mercenary force.”

    Yeah… I don’t think that’s gonna work.

    When I read the headline I assumed it’d be some flyspeck private island where most of the residents are listed as staff. But nope, they wanted to do a full on Columbus and slaughter around 50k people. Which of course, the world would definitely just ignore and just let Gonave become Murder Rape island.

    I’m glad they have other charges, because this “plan” is so stupid and unworkable that It’ll be hard to prove that it’s not just some fucked up fantasy that they were larping.

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    Their alleged goal was to take over Gonave — a tropical island of about 100,000 people located roughly 30 miles from Port-au-Prince — in order to carry out “rape fantasies.”

    The plot involved buying a sailboat, weapons and ammunition and recruiting homeless people in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area “to serve as a mercenary force.”

    Once reaching the shore, they intended to stage a coup d’etat, murder every man on the island and force the women and children there into sex slavery, prosecutors said.

    They allegedly took numerous steps to make their grandiose scheme a reality, including learning Creole, the dominant language in Haiti. Thomas even went as far as enlisting in the Air Force to obtain the necessary military skills.

    Both men were also charged with the production of child pornography.

    Jfc

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    If the UN and countries who have sent security forces in an attempt to control Haitian gangs have failed, why did these two racist dipshit think they were going to be successful in that scheme?

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    Oh, when the French do it it’s fine, but when I do it suddenly there’s a problem