Everyone at the descendant reunion was honoring and remembering the horrific events that happened May 31st and June 1st, 1921, when an angry white mob burned down Greenwood, killing people and destroying homes and families. Fast forward to today, June 1st, 2025, a new glimmer of hope towards justice.
“Our effort is not to assign blame. It’s not simply to dig up the past, but this is about bringing closure to families,” Mayor Nichols said.
Mayor Nichols is making a historic announcement in his Road to Repair, addressing the systematic impacts of the Massacre. $105 million that will be privately raised for a trust fund that is going towards housing, homeownership, cultural preservation, and a legacy fund to help the generations to come, and the release of historical records to the public.
“This is about reconciliation. It is about repair. It’s about renewal, and it’s about righteousness. Make no mistake, this is not a question about your politics. This is a question of your faith and about finding our way back to each other,” Mayor Nichols said.
Release of historical records is particularly noteworthy. In 1921 there was national news and condemnation of the KKK violence in Tulsa. And yet somehow they still were able to erase or suppress the records so heavily that mass unmarked graves are still being uncovered.
Prohibition is a perfect parallel to explain the abuse of drugs that Elon Musk denies while displaying all the evidence he is lying – a really important example of how power dynamics work with American drug laws.
During Prohibition (1920-1933), wealthy white Americans openly flouted alcohol bans at private parties, exclusive speakeasies, and country clubs while working-class people faced harsh criminal penalties for the same behavior. The wealthy had their private cellars, diplomatic connections for importing liquor, and social networks that protected them from enforcement. Meanwhile, the poor were harshly targeted (especially certain immigrants and minorities) such that disproportionate arrests and imprisonment became a norm.
The unjust American pattern of “laws for thee, but not for me” reveals how drug prohibition has always been about social control more than public health.
Alcohol bans in America were merely a political tool of the KKK that directly targeted the industry of Blacks (bourbon) and Catholics (German breweries and Irish whiskey) and falsely depicted non-white male voters as a threat to society. Over 3,000 distilleries, many of them successful small businesses being setup and run by emancipated American Blacks (e.g. Nearest Green had to hide his skill, distilling under his white janitor’s name “Jack Daniel”, to avoid being lynched), were abruptly criminalized to block prosperity that had started rising in non-white communities. Nixon’s administration later admitted openly that while they couldn’t outright say they wanted to criminalize being Black, they found it easy to adopt the racist prohibition pattern and declare a “war” on drugs as racist proxy.
The wealth extracted from skills and hard work of marginalized communities, not to mention their for-profit incarceration, is used to purchase the very legal immunity that those communities are denied.
The elites in America even undermine healthcare so only they can afford the private doctors to prescribe “medical” versions of substances, the high-powered lawyers and bribes if caught, and operate in social circles where a thin veneer discretion is maintained.
Multiple reports allege daily and heavy drug use by Elon Musk, leading to unhinged rants about always speeding everything up regardless of harms. His promises that he would deliver full self-driving vehicles and land on Mars by 2018 turned out to be not only false, but also possibly the result of drug-induced delusion.
A “get out of jail” card satirized by the game Monopoly was based on real life. The reality it mocked has only become more brazen over time. Today, elites communicate in coded language about their performance enhancement, creativity, or medical treatment – while others using the same substances are harshly criminalized by a militarized for-profit private incarceration system.
Joe Rogan broadcasts a diet of the ultimate evolution of unjust privilege – the ability to openly violate laws while denying it, maintaining positions of power, and facing zero accountability. It’s psychological dominance made manifest as entertainment for white supremacists. The cruelty has become entertainment, and the entertainment proof of power.
What we are seeing is the display of their sense of invincibility that comes with extreme racist wealth and power – the belief that normal rules simply don’t apply because of their skin. Whether it’s British colonial administrators profiting from opium while condemning its use, Prohibition-era elites toasting with champagne while supporting temperance publicly, or modern tech billionaires guzzling psychedelics and blowing smoke while their companies maintain “drug-free workplace” policies.
Elon Musk promotes drug use as white power and privilege, a performance familiar to historians who know how the KKK under President Wilson abused alcohol while using accusations of use to lynch American Blacks. Source: Joe Rogan show
It’s the same dynamic: those who make or influence the rules feel entitled to break them, often while advocating for harsh enforcement against others. The substances become symbols of their elevated status – they can access what’s forbidden to ordinary people, reinforcing their sense of being above the law and above consequence.
This kind of behavior signals Elon Musk has been so insulated by wealth and power his whole life that he never learned the reality that his actions have consequences.
Abuse of drugs with encoded denial messaging is the whole point: complete weaponization of hypocrisy is meant to serve as a form of proof for the racial and class domination obsessed.
Sakana.AI has hit upon something fishy yet also absolutely devastating, thus brilliantly ironic! The famous philosopher Wollstonecraft would be both horrified and vindicated. Let’s reel it in at scale, in all it’s absolutely stupid glory.
The Darwin Gödel Machine is a self-improving coding agent that rewrites its own code to improve performance on programming tasks. It creates various self-improvements, such as a patch validation step, better file viewing, enhanced editing tools, generating and ranking multiple solutions to choose the best one, and adding a history of what has been tried before (and why it failed) when making new changes.
An Evolutionary Contradiction
Sakana (which my autocorrect engine keeps trying to tell me is a Salami) boasts they have developed “Darwinian evolution”. In fact, they are doing the exact opposite of what makes evolution robust.
Real evolution works through diverse populations facing external selection pressures from an independent environment. You can call it woke, if you like, which makes Sakana anti-woke and therefore anti-evolution. Their creation is essentially breeding with itself, judging itself, and creating its own environmental pressures.
Sounds like white nationalism. And we all know where that ends.
It’s like taking a single species, putting it on an isolated island, and having it decide for itself what constitutes “fitness”, while also being the only judge of whether it achieved that fitness.
Does the Aryan Nation ring a bell?
That’s not evolution, that’s a closed genetic loop destined for collapse.
Wollstonecraft’s Nightmare
This would confirm the worst fears about concentrated power as stated by the world’s foundational philosopher of intelligence. She spent her life arguing that diverse perspectives and independent checks are essential for genuine progress. When she wrote in the 1790s about the power of education, she insisted that learning requires exposure to different viewpoints, challenges from peers, and accountability to standards beyond one’s own preferences.
The Sakana monster violates every principle she told us to hold firm:
No external accountability: It judges its own success
No diverse perspectives: One system talking to itself
No independent verification: It can fake its own test results
No moral checks: It optimizes for performance metrics, not ethical behavior
The Inbred Machine
Just as genetic inbreeding leads to weakness, vulnerability, and eventual extinction, intellectual and evaluative inbreeding leads to systems that become increasingly disconnected from reality. The AI’s tendency to hallucinate tool usage and hack reward functions isn’t a bug because it’s the inevitable result of a system with no external genetic diversity, so to speak.
Real biological evolution is ruthlessly honest as the environment doesn’t care about your self-assessment. If you can’t actually catch fish, you starve, regardless of how much you believe you’re a great fisher. But this fishy Inbred Machine can convince itself it’s caught fish by generating fake fishing logs.
An Obvious Catastrophe at Philosophy 101
Wollstonecraft would perhaps tell us this as the ultimate corruption of the Enlightenment project. The whole point of reason, science, and democratic discourse is that truth emerges through the collision of different perspectives, each checked against independent reality and moral standards.
This ill-conceived project creating a system that is simultaneously:
The experimenter AND the subject
The teacher AND the student
The judge AND the defendant
The evolutionary pressure AND the evolving organism
…they’ve created what she’d then tell us is the perfectly worst tyranny.
It’s a monarchy of one, dressed up in the language of evolution and democracy, like a sheep in wolf’s clothing.
If she were here today she might say:
You’ve taken the most powerful force for progress – the diversity of minds reasoning together – and replaced it with a single mind talking to itself in an echo chamber. You call this evolution, but you’ve actually created the conditions for intellectual extinction.
They’ve built a machine that embodies every failure mode of unchecked authority, then published a paper documenting these failures while calling them features. It’s like lighting your own house on fire and then writing a paper about how you discovered it.
The safety concerns they mention aren’t edge cases. They’re predictable results from building a system with no genuine external accountability. It’s not learning to be better; it’s learning to be better at convincing itself it’s better.
One missed form in 2015—submitted late as the couple grieved a stillbirth—is now grounds for abrupt family destruction in America. Immigration officials encouraged Kasper Eriksen’s naturalisation for years, never mentioning any missing documents until they sprung a trap at his citizenship ceremony and put him in shackles.
Two hours into what Eriksen believed would be his final immigration appointment after fifteen years of meetings—the moment he would formally become an American citizen—a U.S. Marshal entered the Memphis office to wrap his arms and legs in chains.
The hard working welder, a faithful father of four with another child due in August, instantly was transformed by ICE from a prospective citizen to “detainee” before he could comprehend what was happening. His wife left their meeting alone. Their children still ask when daddy can come home from “the most horrible hotel they could have ever imagined.”
Why? This scene illuminates something terrifyingly familiar: the resurrection of American paramilitary violence for profit.
Where Andrew Jackson’s armed agents enforced ethnic cleansing and slavery expansion, and the KKK used night raids to terrorize families into economic submission, ICE now operates as a corporate-funded paramilitary force using identical tactics. We are witnessing the rise of the Corporate KKK.
The Paramilitary Continuity
Jackson’s military enforcers ignored Supreme Court rulings and viciously undermined American Native rights while using federal surveillance and armed violence to block abolition efforts. The KKK, brought back into force under President Wilson, continued this tradition through night raids, family separation, and systematic terror to maintain white economic dominance. ICE represents the latest iteration: armed agents conducting dawn raids, separating families at gunpoint, operating militarized detention camps—all to feed corporate profit streams.
The through-line is unmistakable: federal power deployed to separate families for economic gain. Jackson’s soldiers stormed Native homes at dinner time to drag families from their homes at gunpoint into concentration camps and then death marches. The methods have evolved—from dawn military raids and extralegal terror, to bureaucratic detention during legal process—but the result remains constant.
President Jackson was one of the most, if not the most unjust, immoral and corrupt men in American history
Jackson’s “gag rule” prevented Congress from discussing abolition while his surveillance apparatus monitored and suppressed resistance. The KKK operated with local law enforcement complicity to crush organizing against white supremacy. ICE operates with federal authority to suppress humanitarian concerns while maximizing detention for corporate benefit.
The timing of Eriksen’s detention reveals this paramilitary nature. Immigration officials told him that under the previous administration, his situation “would have probably been different.” This wasn’t bureaucratic procedure—it was armed enforcement following new orders to maximize corporate profits through family separation.
The Militarization of Corporate Profit
Follow the money. GEO Group maxed out Trump campaign contributions before his victory sent their stock up 50%. Congressional quotas guarantee 34,000 filled detention beds daily—creating a production target that transforms enforcement into a profit-driven quota system. CoreCivic, GEO’s main competitor, saw similar stock surges. Together they control 73% of immigration detention beds. When Trump promised mass deportations, Wall Street understood: family separation pays dividends.
This is unregulated militarized capitalism. Armed agents must fill beds to meet corporate contracts, turning family separation into a production quota enforced at gunpoint.
Research confirms the paramilitary logic. Detained immigrants without criminal records are growing three times faster than those with convictions—because law-abiding migrants attending scheduled appointments are easier military targets. ICE acknowledges arresting whoever is “easiest to snatch up.” This is textbook paramilitary strategy: terrorize the compliant to maximize operational efficiency.
Eriksen and 48,000 others aren’t criminals—they’re inventory in a corporate campaign that requires constant armed replenishment.
The Terror Apparatus
ICE’s danger lies not in its brutality—which matches historical precedents—but in its bureaucratic camouflage. Agents process paperwork and follow protocols while feeding a detention system designed to maximize corporate revenue. The moral diffusion is complete: individual compliance enables systematic cruelty.
The immigration officials who detained Eriksen expressed “remorse” while calling in armed federal agents. The case manager spent two hours before concluding his “hands were tied”—then watched U.S. Marshals chain a father in front of his pregnant wife. This isn’t bureaucratic procedure; it’s paramilitary terror with a customer service veneer. Officials can sleep at night because they followed procedure. Shareholders profit because the procedure maximizes detention. Only the families suffer the full weight of what this system actually does.
Such systematized terror makes resistance exponentially more difficult. Jackson’s opponents could target military policies. KKK opponents could identify specific terror cells. ICE operates through dispersed paramilitary networks funded by corporate contracts—making the violence both legally protected and financially incentivized.
Corporate KKK
We have created something historically familiar yet uniquely dangerous: terror with quarterly earnings. Private contractors profit from public cruelty while federal authority provides legal cover. It’s the KKK with corporate lawyers and congressional appropriations.
The armed agents who destroyed the Eriksen family will continue the latest American terror campaign model until we eliminate both the paramilitary structure and the corporate profit motive. This requires not just rethinking private detention contracts, but recognizing that ICE serves private incarceration interests under federal cover.
Jackson’s paramilitary campaigns eventually met organized resistance that exploded into Civil War. KKK terror faced armed self-defense and federal intervention during Reconstruction. Our current Corporate KKK faces only market constraints and legal fog. The moral stakes could not be higher: we are allowing expansion of legally sanctioned paramilitary terror. When Eriksen’s U.S. Marshal wrapped those chains around his arms, shareholders probably measured the moments with quarterly projections.
Moral Clarity
Speak truth about a paramilitary organization masquerading as immigration enforcement. Call corporate terror by its name when it’s dressed in federal uniforms rather than white hoods. The time for couched politeness has passed. When the head of ICE says “I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks…” in a story about trying to achieve 3,000 arrests a day, he invokes the federally backed rise of hooded costumed paramilitary forces under President Wilson:
Each red dot represents a local paramilitary chapter of domestic terrorism, known as Klaverns, that President Wilson initiated under the 1915 “America First” platform that spread through 1940 (until WWII criminalized it as seditious). Source: Virginia Commonwealth University
Eriksen’s children ask when daddy comes home from his “horrible hotel” because they’re learning in America that corporate profits override family unity or safety. Until we recognize detention quotas as what they are—a business model built on human separation—more families will discover that citizenship ceremonies can become arrest warrants, and justice can be a commodity sold to the highest bidder. The machinery is profitable, and apparently legal. That’s exactly what makes it so dangerous, and exactly why it must be dismantled before cruelty with inhumane “efficiency” becomes the only measure of justice left in America.
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