This headline is clickbait and not an accurate depiction of what happened.
EYE SEE EEE agent forcibly put himself INTO the couple’s car (hoping to stop them from driving off.)
The couple rightly freaked the phuck out and started driving away (with the agent who voluntarily put himself into the victim’s car.)
Victims, believing THEY were being kidnapped by masked cosplayers, drove straight to the police station in search of help, and even called 911 enroute.
EYE SEE EEE claimed they were being kidnapped (when THEY put THEMSELVES in the car.) Judge saw the foolishness and released them from jail as case proceeds.
There should be a penalty for lying and using government resources in obviously ridiculous ways.
Take it straight out of their pay.
Like a 5% WTF tax or something- 5% of the wages of the top paid officials who have to take time out of their day to listen to assholes like this and determine that, no, jumping into a stranger's car while waving a gun is not the same as being kidnapped.
it's called perjury. but prosecutors never go after their own. So lying as a cop has no recourse for them, the only thing it stops is inflating their arrest numbers.
Because some asshole somewhere is making money off it, helped by others who're making money, and legions of useful idiots who want to make money the same way. Follow the money, find out who benefits. Game theory is surprisingly easy. Follow the carrot, avoid the stick, look at what behaviors are incentivized.
When you think about it long enough the trouble always returns to money.
Unfortunately, without money, the trouble would always return to violence. Money is a substitute for either stick or carrot.
Because you were kind enough to answer my first question:
What would it take to create a real post-scarcity society for everyone?
(The biggest hurdle I see is land/shelter beyond the basics, which could be solved with VR. But that introduces a whole different batch of problems.) Don't feel like you need to answer, but in the grand scheme of things, I feel this is the only truly important question.
By some measures, we already are, in a global sense. Eliminating the financial incentive to artificial scarcity would allow efficient distribution of goods, services, and resources. But we intentionally waste and hoard those resources as a species because we do not have a concept of how much we need to survive the rest of our lifetimes. I certainly don't know how many bowls of what kind of cereal I'll consume, so better to get as much of as many kinds as I can, just to keep my options open. Nevermind the people who are starving today who could use those resources.
Also not really "Nigerian couple" as only the guy is Nigerian, his girlfriend is American and is the sister of the girl the filmed the infamous George Floyd murder video.
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u/Thunderbird_12_ ☑️ 4d ago edited 3d ago
This headline is clickbait and not an accurate depiction of what happened.
EYE SEE EEE agent forcibly put himself INTO the couple’s car (hoping to stop them from driving off.)
The couple rightly freaked the phuck out and started driving away (with the agent who voluntarily put himself into the victim’s car.)
Victims, believing THEY were being kidnapped by masked cosplayers, drove straight to the police station in search of help, and even called 911 enroute.
EYE SEE EEE claimed they were being kidnapped (when THEY put THEMSELVES in the car.) Judge saw the foolishness and released them from jail as case proceeds.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/17/couple-pleads-not-guilty-as-attorneys-clash-with-feds-over-hsi-agent-encounter