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They're amassing data for evil reasons.
For immigration only? [4]
Think again.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/24/2318529/-Team-Trump-is-making-a-list-of-Jews-what-could-go-wrong
Team Trump is making a list of Jews—what could go wrong?
In a chilling move that echoes Nazi Germany, the Trump administration is making a list of Jews—supposedly for their own good.
The Intercept reported on Wednesday that professors at Barnard College in New York City received a text message to their personal cellphones with a survey from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that asked recipients if they identify as one of the following options: “I am Jewish,” “I am Israeli,” “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry,” “I practice Judaism,” and “Other.”
Professor Debbie Becher, who is Jewish, told the outlet, “The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister.”
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In the 1940s, Jewish people were forced to register with the German government in areas of Europe controlled by the Nazis.
The Intercept reported on Wednesday that professors at Barnard College in New York City received a text message to their personal cellphones with a survey from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that asked recipients if they identify as one of the following options: “I am Jewish,” “I am Israeli,” “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry,” “I practice Judaism,” and “Other.”
Professor Debbie Becher, who is Jewish, told the outlet, “The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister.”
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In the 1940s, Jewish people were forced to register with the German government in areas of Europe controlled by the Nazis.
I mention the latter because IBM provided Germany with tabulating cards and sorters which managed the "data" (that is, lives)
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ibm-nazis-ww2/3
That story begins two months after Hitler became Germany’s chancellor in January 1933, at which point he established the first concentration camp for political prisoners. By the next month, 60,000 were imprisoned.
This is when the German government revealed its plan to hold a long-delayed national census. This type of business was IBM’s bread and butter and Dehomag, the German subsidiary, was first in line for the job. IBM thus boosted its investment in Dehomag almost 20-fold, with that money largely going toward building IBM’s first factory in Germany.
According to Black, the Nazi government then used the equipment and training IBM had invested in the German market to identify so-called undesirables. After the Nazis completed the census, they discovered that two million people of Jewish descent lived in Germany — not half a million, as they’d previously thought.
This is when the German government revealed its plan to hold a long-delayed national census. This type of business was IBM’s bread and butter and Dehomag, the German subsidiary, was first in line for the job. IBM thus boosted its investment in Dehomag almost 20-fold, with that money largely going toward building IBM’s first factory in Germany.
According to Black, the Nazi government then used the equipment and training IBM had invested in the German market to identify so-called undesirables. After the Nazis completed the census, they discovered that two million people of Jewish descent lived in Germany — not half a million, as they’d previously thought.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ibm-nazis-ww2
Hollerith’s invention was a resounding success, and the machine reading industry was off to the races. Hollerith’s own company, Tabulating Machine Company, eventually consolidated with three others to form a new outfit that would soon call itself International Business Machines, IBM, in 1926 and hold a monopoly on this revolutionary punched-card system.
By the 1930s, the new Nazi government needed that technology — and recruited IBM for the job. Tabulating machines made tracking lines of Jewish descent possible, even if a German citizen’s family had married out of the religion or converted generations ago. This transformed the way, scale and rate at which genocide could be waged. Of course, Adolf Hitler wasn’t the first political tyrant to engage in acts of genocide, but he was the first to do so with automation on his side.
And with the demographic treasure trove collected in the 1933 census (and again in 1939), the Nazi government could work out who to target with more precision than ever.
By the time the Holocaust began in earnest in 1941, the Nazis tattooed concentration camp prisoners with identification numbers so that administrators could track that prisoner’s punch card throughout the system.
IBM’s machines were perfect for this, and for tracking the train traffic coming into the concentration camps. Indeed, the Nazis soon placed tabulating machines made by IBM’s German subsidiary, Dehomag, in every train depot and every concentration camp.
By the 1930s, the new Nazi government needed that technology — and recruited IBM for the job. Tabulating machines made tracking lines of Jewish descent possible, even if a German citizen’s family had married out of the religion or converted generations ago. This transformed the way, scale and rate at which genocide could be waged. Of course, Adolf Hitler wasn’t the first political tyrant to engage in acts of genocide, but he was the first to do so with automation on his side.
And with the demographic treasure trove collected in the 1933 census (and again in 1939), the Nazi government could work out who to target with more precision than ever.
By the time the Holocaust began in earnest in 1941, the Nazis tattooed concentration camp prisoners with identification numbers so that administrators could track that prisoner’s punch card throughout the system.
IBM’s machines were perfect for this, and for tracking the train traffic coming into the concentration camps. Indeed, the Nazis soon placed tabulating machines made by IBM’s German subsidiary, Dehomag, in every train depot and every concentration camp.
The fascist playbook is being replayed step by step right fucking now.
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook [1]
Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk 'Hijacking' Republicans to Control Entire US Government [2]
PDF of their letter. [3] 630K
[1] https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/
[2] https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblowers-warn-elon-musk-hijacking-republicans-to-control-entire-us-government/
[3] https://america2.news/content/files/2025/02/Musk-NRx-Memo-February-5-2025.pdf
See also:
[4] https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220270023
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say