If I understood properly the guy was a kinda homeless person that the two fuckers "hosted" in their house in exchange for participating (being tortured) in their streams. He was disabled or mentally challenged too, and there was another victim of theirs that was handicapped in the flat too.

The alarm has been raised for at least 8 months but neither the police nor the national agencies nor the minister contacted either did or decided to do anything. Every time the police came the victims were saying that all was good and they gave their consent to anything, but on stream they were often asking to call the cops, an ambulance or trying to leave and the two fuckers barred them the exit and threatened to beat them or throw them back to the streets. So they were basically held hostage.

The whole thing is a disgrace. It was the most viewed French language stream on Kick for months, two vulnerable people being tortured on stream and nobody did anything.

From what I understood the two fuckers will probably get a 25 to 30 years of jail sentence, and some of the people who donated money to them to encourage them in the torture also risk prison time. Which I fucking hope they get.

Someone took upon himself to save all the worst clips and try to raise the alarm, they have more than 300 hours of stream capture with evidence of torture and other wrongdoings.

I've read that Alex was a veteran. So he probably participated in overseas operations. He survived abroad against whoever he fought for his country, only to be executed in said country, in his own town, by what is probably a frustrated basement dweller without any more accomplishment in his life than insulting kids on CoD and gooning ten times a day.

Knowing how paranoid he is, there is no way in hell Putin would have allowed this to happen if he wasn't sure Trump was in his pocket.

It depends if you're only talking about multi-player or including solo too. I see no harm in customizing one's experience with cheats in single player.

There is even a sequence where the two fuckers try to force him to say that "if he dies on stream, it won't be their fault" but the fault of his "shitty health situation". He flat out refused.

They perfectly knew they were in the process of killing him.

What's crazy is that he could just have asked for volunteers and add a pay raise alongside agreement in participating in that crap and I'm sure half the company would be doing it willingly. Instead he just pissed off everyone and will likely get data poisoning from maliciously compliant employees, and lose highly skilled employees.

Dear No Kings crowd, please march on Washington.

The kid was trying to find a solution to reach out to someone, he said that he wanted to leave the rope out in the open so that his parents can find out. ChatGPT told him to not do it and that it's better if they find him after the fact

Dear US frogs, the water is boiling. If you have the possibility to either leave or organize armed resistance, you should do it fast. Your window of opportunity is about to close.

I've seen a lot of US lemmynauts being clueless about what to do to improve things and fight against the political situation. I understand that it doesn't come naturally if it's not in your culture so I've written the following. Feel free to suggest better ideas, alternatives and so on:

Here's what I'd do:

• Join a union
• Join a political party or an organization that is not one of the sellouts
• Join any canal you can find that informs about protests, strikes and other actions
• Educate yourself on the actual methods of protesting, what works or doesn't work, what you should do or not
• Organize these infos if needed and share them around
• Equip yourself, take a dumb phone, take liquid eye cleaners droplets (no idea how it's called in english), take something to cover your nose and mouth against tear gas, take some kind of eye protection
• Learn your rights, what to do and learn a specific lawyer phone number (by heart) in case of arrest
• Relay those links, organizations and everything around yourself
• If it's available to you and in line with your ethics, arm yourself before they confiscate weapons to politically awake citizens - and of course, start training yourself

This above is the easy part you can do from your couch. Then:

• Follow and participate to your union/party/organization events/meet-ups/flyer distribution/cybermilitantism/..., try to help them in the ways you can. You have a car? Offer to bring food to the meet-ups. You're following the news 24/7? Offer to set up a RSS feed or some kind of news aggregator with what's important in your area and all the shit that's happening. You're good with computers? Help those that want it to install a linux distro instead of spyware OS...

It is very important to find or create networks of people around you that are decided to help improve the situation, as they can help you in case you need it. It doesn't even mean that you have to join dangerous action (you define what's dangerous for you), but even just signalling to the people that will act that they are not alone by being one more person in the group is already a boost for everyone, especially if you help them in some ways.

Then, as much as you can, participate in the group's actions, and evangelize the group's existence around you.

What if there's no action? Try to push for it in the meet-ups. Start with something easy. Tracts distribution, door-to-door to offer help and support around your neighborhood and make the group known, sentry in your communities to signal ICE/dangerous individuals raids and presence, offer to be a contact or to help people that might be targeted next, create workshops to rewrite the constitution in a way that would make it better for everyone, organize debates where people of different opinions actually listen to each others... The group needs to build confidence by actively doing something useful together. And it can stop here if people in the group have cold feet for more - it's already great. Once the group is created and solid, it will be able to change direction if needed by the political climate.

Next steps if people are motivated: actual political activism. Protests, sit-ins, happenings, guerrilla urbanism, petitions, blocking highways, or going to talk to people in power... The research you've done in the first steps should give you ideas of what you can do, and how to do it. Advice from a french protester: keep things joyful. Our protests are always a happy moment (up until the cops come and hit us), we're singing, we're dancing, we're having fun. It shouldn't be a chore to be there, and if possible the action should make people want to join you. It helps grow the movement, it helps grow the links between people, it gives a good image of the movement.

And what if there is no group like that around you? (Well I can't believe there is no union, but ok.) Then build one! Start small, with people in your community, with people that work at the food bank, with people you've met at the No Kings protests or something.

You cannot succeed as individuals. This is political, and political is the action of the many. Join the many, help increase the many, create the many if needed. The more numerous you are, the stronger you will be.

Well, looks like Putin's 4D chess worked even better than he could have anticipated. The US want to dissolve themselves now. Crazy how the world changed in just 10 years.

Oh my God this is crazy... "Thanks for being real with me", "hide it from others", he even gives better reasons for the kid to kill himself than the ones the kid articulated himself and helps him make better knot

Kinda how it works in our late stage capitalist societies to be honest, except that it's collective pressure/belief instead of state-imposed.

You have trouble accepting the shitty state the world is in? You don't want to be exploited and end the month with not enough to pay your rent? You're fed up with that human crushing machine that keeps on destroying the planet because There Is No Alternative?

Well, you should consult you might be a tiny bit depressed. Take antidepressants and shut the fuck up. Learn to see and focus on the beauty in life and the little things instead. Take small hobbies, a lover or a cat. How you deal with all of that is your own individual problem.

Does it seem so normal that you really can't see any other way? Congratulations, you are well programmed. Those problems aren't to be delt with on an individual level, they are political.

In the past, most people formed unions and parties and did strikes, political rallys, protested and burned the landowners' manors as a way to process those kind of feelings.

I don't get it. They all know it. There are court testimonies. Knowing 10% of the facts, even a child with two brain cells can make the connection. Why are they all acting like it's the-thing-that-must-not-be-named or something?

Two wrongs don't make one right.

There is not and will never be any valid reason to create a hidden database of non-verified, non-authorized and potentially defamatory information about other people.

And it's not even for something interesting or pleasant. Just nouveau riche tasteless bling.

Good! Keep them going, come back every week, build momentum. This is the first step, don't stop now. Motivate people by showing that you are here and you won't let them get away with it. Gather into specific spots like you did for Occupy, block roads, unionize and organize yourselves.

So at which point do we start cutting balls and refreshing necks again?

I've heard one analyst say that the most probable end of all this is just a very bad "deal" for Danemark. Trump and his goons throw the worst things around so people panic and want to negociate, and in the end they accept way worse than they were willing to accept in the first place, while feeling relieved that things didn't end up worse. It's what he's done with Ukraine already.

No idea if this will be true in the end or if he's really in to apply Project 2025 to the letter, but it's good that NATO members fight back at least.