Summary
The FBI is investigating a surge of anonymous racist and offensive text messages targeting Latino, Black, and LGBTQ communities following last week’s election.
Messages have included threats of deportation, re-education camps, or being forced into plantation labor.
While no violence has resulted, the texts, sent via services like TextNow, have prompted collaboration between the FBI, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and local authorities.
Advocacy groups like LULAC and the NAACP condemned the harassment, citing it as a troubling resurgence of hate rhetoric emboldened by recent political developments.
Tin foil hat time: What if it’s the Russians just trying to spark a civil war over here?
Yeah this is just regular hat type thinking
It most likely is a state actor with the scale at play.
What should be more concerning is that they have these lists of people to target.
Just pay a data broker. I’m sure it’s trivial to find demographics tied to phone numbers.
People are terrible at infosec.
No, that’s been their plan the entire time.
I think there’s a lot of ways to connect those dots. It’s not very “tin foil” in my opinion. There’s no way to “invade” the US. They have to destroy it from within.
There will be if Trump gives Putin Alaska. Which he PROBABLY won’t, but the fact that it’s not a 100% certainty is not ideal…
He won’t. There is too much oil
That’s the stupidest shit I’ve heard so far lmao
What points to Alaska being given up? What world does this happen in?
The world where Putin is saying that it belongs to Russia and Trump is Putin’s bitch. AKA possibly this one.
I can imagine Putin offering a “partnership”, where Russia gets to lease drilling land in Alaska, except the lease will be way too low and Russia will be late on payments.
Yeah, about that…
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-now-wants-alaska-back-america-212132
Reality is faaaar stupider than fiction, because fiction has to make sense.
Trump’s lawyer used the idea as an argument against impeachment.
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2020/01/24/what-if-the-united-states-did-sell-alaska/
Putin’s allies have floated the idea of annexing Alaska, just like Crimea since then.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/4423913-state-dept-putin-alaska-russia/
I’m sure we’ll be in a Hunt for Red October situation eventually.
Trapped on a submarine with a bunch of horny seamen in a stressful life or death situation? Don’t threaten me with a good time.
But yes, that would suck. The US people cannot handle stress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
I also remember reading how there’s evidence that the USSR was funding both sides of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, with the hopes that it would tear the country apart.
Honestly can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic lol. Yeah, autocracies have long maintained that democracy and freedom of speech isn’t sustainable because you can always use free speech to manipulate the voters to democratically elect an autocrat who ends the democracy. Russia has been openly trying to demonstrate this since the cold war.
Source: ex-KGB agent flat-out says it.