So documents were uncovered recently that show “Beau of the fifth column”, a breadtuber, was convicted on federal charges to 60 years in prison commutted to just 60 days. Then the government gave him back his properties, and he reappeared sometime after that as “Beau”, a fake name with a fake accent he uses to sound like a conservative blue-collar type guy.
Usually if the government hands out seized property, they need to give a reason, but they didn’t. Additionally the prosecutor did not charge crimes they could have probably charged, like assault (not battery) and possibly kidnapping.
The charges were on human trafficking, which however doesn’t mean much: the government considers that bringing people into the country under the wrong visa is human trafficking, even if you do it for selfless reasons.
It seems the reasons were not selfless though. Beau and three others formulated a plan to bring in female workers from Slovenia, Croatia, and bordering countries to the US to subcontract them as hotel staff. Temp working is of course legal and many people do it already, and I still think bringing people into a country so they can have a better life (and they consent to it) is a based thing, but what the suit doesn’t show (because they didn’t charge it) is that:
- They would house the workers and make them pay for rent, I think also preventing them from finding their own place.
- They would also bus them to work and make them pay for it, again with no other option.
- Testimonies allege verbal abuse, threats and insults to the workers who sometimes lived with up to 15 other roommates in a hotel room.
- They made the workers pay 2500$ for a visa application that usually costs up to 200$.
What got him in hot water was the visas, since they falsified the employer as the hotel instead of their company (Eurohouse). This was in 2003 up to 2007 btw.
It’s becoming clear that Beau is an FBI informant. Why else would they reduce his sentence and give him back his property? He was not on the left before, he used to write about Anonymous and that’s about it. Then he reemerges with a fake persona, a “socialist” outlook, and starts saying fed stuff like that people should not apply for a permit before a protest and the organisers should not tell this to participants (a cool way of getting everyone arrested and give them a criminal record!)
Honestly there’s nothing to salvage with “breadtube”, I can’t wait for its demise.
Side point but its so hilarious when these grifters adopt US-rural identities. Classic example with Larry the cable guy.
But yeah Beau is nothing more than a socdem-adjacent liberal, like all the other breadtubers as you say. That he tried to set up a literal sweat-shop of trafficked migrants, shouldn’t surprise us, but its a wild story.
As nebulous as the concept of breadtube is, I’ve never heard Beau mentioned as being part of it. It’s fucked up that he was running a migrant sweatshop though, can’t believe how… accessible? that is. Like, it should not be that easy for a person to exploit immigrants 😐
Yeah but a big portion of the US economy runs on cheap immigrant labor
edit: so it makes sense that it’s easy to do. I know people involved in US immigration, it’s very arbitrary. US evaluates Chinese short term visa applicants based not on their documents–they ignore them on the basis that they can be faked but still request them–the US visa officers in China look at your skin condition. They figure wealthier families are less likely to want to immigrate, or at least would be a form of capital flight, no space for the poor though.
AU pair for example is a cheap way to have babysitting for the imperial core. Pay is horrible. Also there is lots of exploitation, many of the applicants are female and mysteriously end up staying in the country married to the person hosting them. Its way more common than you might think, and the social dynamics are totally disproportional and volatile for the foreigner.
On labor, immigrants are exploited all the time, I agree it should not be the case… but this is America ♫♫
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Dude is going on making multiple videos about how if you don’t support fascists in India you are pro-colonialism. How exactly you may ask? Because, he says, China wants to colonize India and the BJP/Modi are fighting China. I cannot make this shit up.
India: You want to
invadetake everything from me!China: I don’t even know who you are.
…but then again, the PRC has claimed parts of Arunachal Pradesh and part of Jammu-Kashmir region (as “Aksai Chin”).
…but then again, the PRC has claimed parts of Arunachal Pradesh and part of Jammu-Kashmir region (as “Aksai Chin”).
The other way around actually. Historically that area was part of Qing China, but the brits took it during the century of humiliation and added it to their indian colony.
Fast forward to the 50s: India wanted to force China to revoke its claims militarily. And got beaten.
Fast forward to today: Both states occupy a part of the area, however local forces are not armed with modern weapons. Leading to such amusing images as PLA soldiers training with Glaives, mauls and the like, those were not used once, to my knowledge.
Esentially both sides met once a month to beat the shit out of each other, sino-indian fight club.
China offered to settle the dispute by making the current status quo the legal borders of both countries. India retreated its soldiers (last I heard) but so far did not agree. The issue is a good tool for Modi to divert attention from his colossal economic fuck ups.
Historically that area was part of Qing China, but the brits took it during the century of humiliation and added it to their indian colony.
…so what kept the Brits from advancing forward and gobbling up all of China and establishing it as a territory? Was it the competition between the other european colonial powers to see who could gobble up China first?
Fast forward to today: Both states occupy a part of the area, however local forces are not armed with modern weapons. Leading to such amusing images as PLA soldiers training with Glaives, mauls and the like, those were not used once, to my knowledge.
Why’s this? This makes it seem like neither of them are taking the territorial disputes seriously.
China offered to settle the dispute by making the current status quo the legal borders of both countries. India retreated its soldiers (last I heard) but so far did not agree.
Wait, why? This seems pretty foolish on India’s side if China was willing to throw India a bone.
Unless it’s done simply because Modern-day India doesn’t like China.there was a bloody clash in the 60s that could have been entirely avoided and didn’t need to happen, and so both countries signed an accord that they would stop using weapons. At most they use sticks now.
Wildly interesting and just surprisingly… civil? A bloodbath happens and instead of escalation they go “melee weapons only from now on.” Kinda love to see it.
Just that in the West escalation is sort of seen as the only response to violence, regardless of how much it’ll cost.
they are fighting with simple weapons to avoid escalation to a full on war between two countries that have nukes.
Really, why even bother fighting at that point. It just feels like the two countries are just playing with each other instead of asserting territorial dominance or establishing diplomatic talks about the territories like most countries tend to do.
Very funny given that Current India’s supposed to hate China. This just makes India look like a Tsundere instead.
it’s quite silly but relations between the countries aren’t good enough to establish talks right now. fighting with sticks probably won’t lead to people getting killed so it could be much worse.
They control Aksai Chin pretty much completely, the border conflicts that keep happening there are basically India trying to “get it back”, but it’s worth noting that prior to independence the northern border of the Princely State of Jammu & Kashmir was… more hopes and dreams than an actual border, and also such things were usually drawn by some British guy. Aksai chin is pretty much empty desert, but an empty desert with a road that links Xizang to Xinjiang in that area.
China also has claims over a bunch of other tiny little mountain passes and things which afaik are completely uninhabited, and also a pair of small border towns called Demchok/Dêmqog where each side claims the whole split town thing. (and yes, Arunachal Pradesh or South Tibet).
Fuck that’s good I gotta dig that up later
And that, kids, is why you never trust breadtube.
he is definitely a sussy baka
What a scumbag
I’m really out of touch with some things… What is bread tube? I see it mentioned every now and again but am never in a strong enough desire to look it up.
Welll uhhhh, you see a cylinder? Like the general shape? Now imagine it’s made out of bread. it’s a breadtube.
Breadtube is actually a term given to a loose niche of “socialist” youtubers. I say socialist because it evolved to be basically socdems on local social and econ issues, and neoliberals in foreign policy.
People like Hakim or Yugopnik, the marxists, don’t claim the label of breadtube if I’m not mistaken.
Hakim and yugopnik and the like are part of beardtube ｡◕‿◕｡
It is… a tube made of beard?
Like tubed fish, sounds gross but is actually really yum on a rye crackers with some mustard
Not that I don’t believe you but you don’t have any sources in this post, could you add your sources?
This is the best vid on it, it’s BadEmpenada but he explains all of it in details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0aqcx0HALI
Thanks :)
