Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do all the worst companies in the world have in common? Blackstone, Blackrock, Blackwater ..? Always that Black prefix, like something out of a bad action movie.
The scoundrels at Black & Decker
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Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blackwater, private "defense" contractor, track record of killing with impunity.
What do all the worst companies in the world have in common? Blackstone, Blackrock, Blackwater ..? Always that Black prefix, like something out of a bad action movie.
Because you have motivated reasoning to dislike these companies, even though Blackrock and Blackstone are bog standard financial services companies and a random naming scheme is easy to grab onto.
All the worst companies seem to all be LOTR themed.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Atomic bombs, probably. Drones? I’m not so sure I’ve heard that specific discussion point before. Why would drones be any different than machine guns or fighter jets?
Whose going to participate in ethnic cleaning (or gangs) when they can be zapped from anywhere? It's a much larger deterrent
I feel like that goes both ways. Why not participate in ethnic cleansing when you can zap the people you hate from the comfort of your home?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Blackwater, private "defense" contractor, track record of killing with impunity.
What do all the worst companies in the world have in common? Blackstone, Blackrock, Blackwater ..? Always that Black prefix, like something out of a bad action movie.
Also Black Cube, I had a long list but seem to have misplaced it. Black seems to hint at secretive when you can say spy agency.
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#25Of course it is Erik Prince's company. to clarify: Erik Prince founded Blackwater, of the Nisour Square Massacre infamy in the GW Bush administration. He is deeply tied to Republican politics, mercenary work, and particularly the Trump administration. He is IPOing an autonomous lethal drone company, Swarmer, and his other company, Vectrus, is behind the events of this article.
> Blackwater, of the Nisour Square Massacre infamy in the GW Bush administration
And sadly the infamy continued into the prior Trump administration. In 2020 Trump pardoned all four employees who had been convicted in 2014.
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#26The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is using this technology to fight against.
[0] https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2026/country-chapters/haiti
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#27> Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday that drone strikes carried out in Haiti over the past year have killed at least 1,243 people, including 17 children, many of whom had no apparent links to the criminal groups the attacks seek to squash.
> Launched by Haitian law enforcement forces and private contractors working for Vectus Global between March 1, 2025, and Jan. 21, 2026, the strikes also injured at least 738 people, according to the organization’s report. At least 49 of the injured appeared to have no ties to gangs or other criminal groups.
The first paragraph made it sound like the majority were bystanders, while the second made it sound like it was 5%.
Maybe that is still unacceptable collateral damage, but it'd be nice if the article was more specific than "many" so we know what we are actually talking about here.
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#28If you are a tech guy and working with drones or any AI company that has even a bare relationship to some security firm, you have a few options:
1 - Immediately share all information and intel with the public so as to spare any judicial accountability. 2 - Quit. 3 - Prepare to go to jail for the rest of your life. This is profoundly evil.
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#29Re: Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people
#30If you are a tech guy and working with drones or any AI company that has even a bare relationship to some security firm, you have a few options: 1 - Immediately share all information and intel with the public so as to spare any judicial accountability. 2 - Quit. 3 - Prepare to go to jail for the rest of your life. This is profoundly evil.
Good thing I transitioned last year, I like my job