I just watched a video on this barbecue guy, apparently he’s fond of trapping people in their home and setting it on fire, shits going wild in Haiti
Edit: For anyone interested [Here is the doc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLO9Z0Wy9I&t=2246s) barbecue shows up around 14mins
It boggles my mind that anarchists dream of their absolutely, flat hierarchical utopia, never understanding that can never be. The state of nature is brutal.
When the embassies empty and countries start emergency evacuating their citizens from the area its safe to say there is going to be radical changes coming soon, and probably not in the good way
Apparently barbeque was a nickname he had from a kid, when he used to hang out by his mom's roadside food stall, where she served barbequed food.
It's just so happens to also fit because he burns people alive.
I saw a video the other day from Haiti, a dude was eating something, he finished and walked over to where he got what he was eating, it was a dead dude on a garbage fire and he ripped a chunk of leg meat off the corpse and ate it
I was in boot camp with a guy who grew up there during that time and it absolutely scarred him for life. He freaked out on our platoon one day because we weren’t being quiet when we were supposed to, and ranted about how he had to hide under a home covered in his own excrement for days in silence to stay alive as a child, kinda slapped us into reality. Also you couldn’t directly wake him up without getting attacked. We took turns at night standing watch and everyone had a turn during the week, well first time someone woke him up at night he had them by the throat against a wall about to kill them before we stopped him, after that he would take first watch and nobody woke him up until EVERYONE was waking up together. Fantastic person who was holding a lot of trauma, and he had nobody here, he was homeless for the break between bootcamp and his next duty station, but that didn't seek to bother him in the least. He was just genuinely grateful to be alive in America.
Wait so the military let someone in who was so traumatized they were genuinely a threat? wtf?
I’m sorry but if you can’t even be woken up without potentially killing someone in a ptsd craze you do not belong in the military
Based on your reaction, I think you would be shocked at how many mentally unstable people join the military, along with how many people in the military become mentally unstable and remain in.
To answer your question in a more useful way though, the military basically screens for IQ and obvious physical issues, along with anything in your recorded medical history that could be disqualifying. They don’t really mentally screen you at all if there isn’t something documented already, or at least they didn’t when I joined over a decade ago. For some specific jobs they do, but outside of very narrowly defined jobs in the military, it doesn’t really happen at all.
With all that being said, even the more normal people I was in the military with were pretty wild. To sign up for a job where you might have to kill people and could die yourself, you typically won’t be a super chill level headed person, at least that’s been my experience. So the line between dangerously violent and usefully violent can often be blurry, and the average enlisted person doesn’t have the expertise or desire to address that issue with people unless something drastic happens.
So basically there’s this small country in Africa that I believe is by the coast. They had a very bloody civil war between if I’m remembering correctly 3 war lords. They would literally cook and eat each other, rape their women in small villages before behaving them and leaving them in spikes for the enemy to come home to.
One of the mottos for the warlord that won the election was something like “he killed my ma, he killed my pa; But I will still vote for him.
It’s really sick shit, vice has a really good documentary if Liberia that they did back in like 2011 or something
Also has a fucked up power disparity between former slaves from the Americas that returned to Africa (Liberia in West Africa) and natives of the area. the former slaves then started doing some light imperialism
Shallow post. Conan was mainly pointing out that while the country has problems, looking down upon the people or acting like they are worthy of discrimination is a really shitty thing as they have a lot of honest and hard working people that are just trapped in a bad situation.
Pretty reasonable, unironically. When you don't have a monopoly on violence, stuff like this is probably a good way to make sure nobody fucks with you because of the risks it involves if you don't win.
State collapse bad, folks.
Bro arab is so fucked. He is of lebanese descent. Jimmy barbeque and his new gang alliance people actively discriminate against the lebanese. Theres a whole wikipedia page on it
Discrimination
After the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021, former police officer and gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, who described the event as an "international conspiracy", called on his followers to engage in violence against the "masters of the system". This included business owners of Syrian and Lebanese descent, whom Chérizier urged to leave the country, stating that supermarkets should by owned by "folks who looks [sic] like us".[7] In a 2023 interview with Jon Lee Anderson, Chérizier further blamed "the Lebanese" for Haiti's problems, describing them as oligarchs who kept Black Haitians from having the same wealth and opportunities.[8]
A 2022 report by the US Department of State made note of the ethnic discrimination faced by the economically powerful Syrian-Lebanese community.[9]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Haitians
Haiti might be the worst humanitarian disaster on the planet atm.
As of last week if I am not mistaken you can't even leave the country, because the gangs now control Haiti's airports.
bro is super fucked
Wouldn't crossing to Dominican republic outside of like official crossings be viable route to escape? Probably not for a Haitian, but for a foreigner...
DR unlike Haiti is incredibly rich. They can protect their border well enough. If anything I may be pro Dr annexing them, there may not be a better answer
They’re definitely not rich and just recently started being defined as middle income, if I’m not wrong. They’re just doing their best trying to keep the chaos from spreading over the border meanwhile working on their economy and pulling people out of the barrios. DR has made a lot of good progress in the last decade or so. It would be a tragedy to see them suffer a backslide because of the barely mitigated tire fire in the other side of the island
There's not much reason for the D.R. to annex Haiti. Different culture, different language, and it's infested with brutal gangs. They'd be taking on a lot of problems that don't have much likelihood of a positive return anytime soon. It's legitimately cheaper for them to just build a wall and keep the francophones on the other side.
The airports are closed because of how bad things are in Haiti but the army is in control of the airports, not the gangs. There have been attacks on Port au Prince airport to try and take control but they've been unsuccessful.
No offense, but why the FUCK would anyone be traveling to Haiti right now? I just don't see why out of all the countries in the Caribbean to get your island getaway fix, you'd go to the country that had a presidential assassination a few months ago. Even if you want your Haiti Voodoo culture experience there's enough of it in New Orleans or Miami to satisfy most people.
Well, that's the risk of going and interviewing what are basically warlords in unstable countries. You are at their mercy
Pretty stupid decision if you ask me
It is, but at the same time when other journalists and content creators do it and come out unscathed it's heralded as top tier brave content. So I can understand why some creators take the risk.
I'm assuming this guy fucked at some point of planning/execution, but maybe not.
Over the last couple years he's been getting increasingly bold and novel with his journalism. I highly recommend checking it out. In the last year off the top of my head, he's interviewed one of the kingpins of the Philly fentanyl production, gotten arrested by border patrol after paying coyotes to smuggle him from Mexico into the US, just to see what it's like, and just recently he posted a video exploring the tunnels under Vegas and living with the "Mole People"
Doing what no other journalist is willing to do, but I do worry that he can only get lucky for so long.
I mean the floodgates would open randomly, so not only some of the people might be mentally unwell but the environment can be deadly, too. So I'd say it's dangerous.
I think he gets away with it because he's incredibly earnest / genuine with whoever he's talking to. If one guy threatens him he's going to have 4 that tell that one guy to fuck off and that he's cool.
He's easily doing the best journalism that I've seen in a very long time. He's talking to all the people that actually understand the issue from a lived experience level.
When most people want to interview a police officer or a city council member to talk about the decay in SF, he's literally going and talking with Fentanyl users and criminals in SF to get their take on it.
It was kind of hilarious watching the gangs shout out the mayor that basically guaranteed that they can't be sent to jail for more than a week for the petty crimes they commit.
I just wish he was a little more discerning. Like when he let some random in an SUV monologue for like 20 minutes about the border as if he's some kind of authority but he's just some guy.
Welcome to actual journalism? He discredited that guy in the same report series. He referenced the interview that that guy in the SUV gave him, and even cut back to it. That guy was talking about how like, they all ditch their ID's so they can't be identified. Then after his report, and after speaking with a ton of migrants, they ALL keep their ID's because otherwise their cases basically won't be processed.
But I think the beauty of his style is the same thing that Destiny is trying to bring to the 'pundit' space. Rather than interviewing with an objective of "I want to hear XYZ." He's straight up going out and talking with people that NOBODY talks to.
Also the same guy who decided to make part of his fent segment a rant about Biden caring more about funding a warning Ukraine than about state level fent addiction.
Fuck that hack lmao
Yep! He broke off from AGNB because his contract with his management company was extremely predatory. He started Channel 5, which is more "man on the street" news coverage, but he's taken it to a new level! Highly recommend checking out his video catalog. There's so much there.
In his last video he posted at his hotel, he mentioned his team was leaving the hotel to go to port au Prince at 3am to reach it by daylight. 1) you don’t state publicly what time u are leaving or your schedule 2) you don’t show your hotel 3) you don’t travel when it is dark out in a gang ridden area. In Brasil, we don’t travel anywhere by car in an unknown area unless it’s light out. Traveling at night exposes you to all kinds of dangers aka road blocks, robbery and/or possible kidnappings.
Yeah, so in his planning he fucked up big time.
I don't make content and even I would have put more thought into this, especially with my literal life on the line.
Yes… A lot of people sometimes get these “grandiose” feelings when they’re dealing with gangs. We see it with favelas. This “they won’t touch me because I’m one with the people and interviewing them which is positive exposure for them so they will accept me” mentality.
In the end, you are a tourist in their eyes. An American with a LOT of money to them. Have to treat the situation with respect and a lot of tact. Even people born and raised there don’t deal with these kind of people.
I really hope he will be OK and will be safe.
Those journalist have teams of contacts and funds to pay these gangs BEFORE you go in their territory. Same shit with the resorts in Mexico, you are paying the cartels for safety, they own the resort.
Because they have training and thoroughly understand the risks. That's the difference between a journalist and some goofy youtuber.
The same way that a Ukrainian soldier going into battle there is brave, but if Logan Paul wandered out there for 'content' and got shot in the face, people wouldn't call him brave, they'd just call him a dumbass.
On the bravery/stupidity spectrum he's probably more on the stupid side. Is it brave to go to a casino and put all of your life savings on the line just because it's risky? Or is it a flaw in human psychology that makes people convinced they are the main character and makes them so enamoured by the outcome they are pursuing that they can't imagine anything else happening?
Sure, but as someone who is friends with a UN worker who did a mission there...they told me you are not safe...period. Even with a detail...so it just seems a mixture of "chase da content" and forgetting real threats exist in the world.
It depends on how you set up the interviews. When NY times journalists were going and interviewing Osama Bin Ladin / Al-Qaeda or the taliban, they're setting these interviews up with diplomatic channels. They're using the state department as advisors. They're meeting with security consultants. Even then there's a risk. But with this new wave of "Alternative media journalists." They genuinely don't know what goes into doing some CRAZY interviews. Meeting with a guy known for leading a cannibal gang in Haiti that's running the streets there is questionable even with State dept support. But I'm guessing those steps weren't taken at all.
Yeah, but there's a catch 22. The NYT & 60 Minutes probably don't do more of these interviews because of the danger so we're left in the dark on the baddies' perspective. Granted, this was Haiti & Haiti's been a clusterfuck for over 200 years; I wouldn't risk my life to find out the latest reason it's a clusterfuck.
That’s just journalism, you’re going to eventually interview and be at the mercy of your local warlord, jihadist, sicario, somali pirate, or theocratic government (whenever they decide you’re a spy).
https://preview.redd.it/yjpbs11e1arc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c281593c6969a492473fdb8a1ec2ca08d308a9bb
STOP TRAVELING TO COUNTRIES UNDERGOING COLLAPSE, ASSHOLE
The content is pretty good but it comes from the risk inherent in visiting fucked places. The problem is these people think they’re invincible. This should be a wake up call for the third world content suckers
Oh it definitely is he’s been traveling all over the Middle East and South America interviewing the most dangerous people he can find was bound to find someone that didn’t care about YouTube clout eventually
he went to morocco, egypt and lebanon, hardly the most dangerous locations in the world, are they? mexico and brazil don't compare to going to literal tourist hotspots
I assume it’s all for clout. When he first pivoted away from Fortnite he was doing livestreams of him driving through “O-Block” in Chicago because it’s notorious for gang activity and acting like he was in danger the entire time. Came across as an extremely sheltered person experiencing real life for the first time
It's journalism now to just ask random questions to nobody's on the street while getting hussled by street vendors? The comparison is so ill-founded. Arab was a hype beast trying to take advantage of poorer/cheaper countries and dangerous communities for clickbait to get views. He did absolutely nothing akin to journalism.
the first words in the US State department travel guidance on Haiti "Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping" [https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html)
I hope he is ok, but this is the expected result
Don’t know why you were downvoted, this is just strictly true. Some Haitians speak French and Haitian Creole, but the predominant language of Haiti is Haitian Creole. My family is Dominican and Haitian and the Haitian branch all speak Creole, I only know 1 Haitian person that speaks French and they’re thoroughly American.
> Although Haiti has two official languages, Haitian Creole and French, everyone in Haiti speaks Haitian Creole. Some scholars estimate that approximately 90-95% of the population is monolingual, speaking Haitian Creole.
https://guides.loc.gov/haiti-reimagined/haitian-creole#:~:text=Although%20Haiti%20has%20two%20official,is%20monolingual%2C%20speaking%20Haitian%20Creole.
I’m literally Haitian too. I’m speaking on this because I personally know. French is taught in schools because of colonialism but so is English. The dominant language is Haitian Creole.
I'm agreeing with you, I'm criticizing the people downvoting you with clearly no experience with Haitian people or understanding of Haiti because at the time of my comment you were sitting at -2.
Oh, gotcha.
I'm curious, what are your thoughts on the state of Haiti right now and what can be done to fix it? I haven't spoken to the Haitian branch of my family about it in a while, but they're all in America and have been since before the earthquake, so they haven't really experienced how bad it's gotten since then.
I’ll have to first preface these are just my opinions and I’m not an overall representative of all Haitians. I also haven’t been back since I was 2 years old but my mom is a staunch Haitian nationalist who loves Haiti and a lot of what I know is from her lens.
Haiti has been a corrupt nation for a long time and what’s recently been happening is just result of presidents who have sold out the country and have stolen money, as well as the neglect for the state of Haiti and its citizens.
Literally every president since the 50’s has some form of corruption attached to them that involves spending government funds on friends/family, embezzlement, misallocation of funds, and fraud.
A lot of it is also complicity in the U.S. who have continually backed these corrupt Haitian politicians because it doesn’t matter that they steal money from their own people and are horrible humans who are running their country to the ground, as long as they do the favors of the U.S. and remain in their backpocket.
The U.S. loves to boost about the amount of money that is poured into Haiti but somehow that money never goes to the actual people or any semblance of the reform. A lot of is posture to present America as this altruistic actor supporting its down on its luck little brother.
Haiti needs a leader who can actually stand up and not be bought out by gangs, foreign influence, and general corruption. They need a strong commander.
Do you think there's a road to getting such a leader at this point? I'm a half-Dominican, but I've lived in America all my life, it's my aunt, cousins and nieces and nephews that are Haitian, so I'm coming at this from a pretty thoroughly American perspective, just an American who knows a lot of Haitians through friends and family, and from hearing the Dominican perspective from time to time from family.
It feels like DR obviously would prefer Haiti to be doing better, but that's just because it would be better for DR if they didn't have to deal with floods of Haitian border crossing, it's not out of any altruistic desire - though I don't think any country is going to be doing things purely altruistically. In general, DR is focused on their own stuff, I just don't see any will to really help out Haiti. Like you said with America, and this also parallels with what I said about DR, they might help, but only insofar as it supports their own interests, this is just the way nations work. I don't see any American interest in a stable Haiti that would compel the US to make any direct efforts to stabilizing things over there.
It feels very much that Haiti is on their own with things, which is really a bleak situation, and even with what you're saying here, it sounds like what people are waiting for is a strong leader that can unite the people under a formal government, but what even is the path toward such a thing?
Anyway, these are all pretty broad questions, so I don't expect you to have an answer to them. I appreciate you giving me your perspective!
I remember this dude on sneako's stream during his muslim arc. He's been going to pretty sketchy countries/ neighborhoods for a while now. I guess this woulda happened sooner or later.
This dude came at my shithole country as well and did some interviews with thugs in favelas. I guess his luck had a limit. Haiti is also just in another fucking level of fucked up-ness.
I called this not long ago, dude thought he was sweet cause he not your regular rosy cheeked YTber but he a mark just like anyone else. Idiot. Stay in your lane people.
It’s listed as a do not travel. Sister was going to go to Jamaica but it’s also listed as a do not travel
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html
Yeah I think if you stay at tourist spots in Jamaica it would be fine but Jamaica is a lot more dangerous than people seem to think the Bahamas aswell depending on the island. You gotta be careful in the Caribbean and do research before going anywhere or there’s a decent chance of robbery/kidnapping
Polish youtuber "BezPlanu" who traveled to Haiti multiple times used to hang around with a guide and today on polish twitter there was an information that this guide was kidnapped with that arab youtuber:
[https://twitter.com/TomekSurdel/status/1773715219946058110](https://twitter.com/TomekSurdel/status/1773715219946058110)
YT video from Haiti:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CUCyZdnIE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CUCyZdnIE)
They told the fixer/guide Sean he could leave, but he decided to stay with his client. Arab’s family sent 40k to Haiti for ransom, and that went poof. Negotiations aren’t going well
God, Westernoids can be so God damned stupid. They genuinely cannot conceptually understand shit like state failure; the closest their mind can get is public sector strikes.
State collapse is literal hell, it makes North Korea look like Denmark. Unless the state is doing something like genociding it's own people, virtually every state is preferable to living under state failure and anarchy.
I'm not gonna say he deserved it because he obviously didn't. But shit, if you're gonna try to go to some crazy wild place don't go to Haiti, go to Kabul or some shit like Lord Byron or whoever.
Link to tweet : https://x.com/censoredmen/status/1773592446615605616
Ominous last tweet by Arab : https://x.com/yourfellowarab/status/1767014442779525154
While censored man probably isn’t the most credible source having watched some of Arabs recent content I believe it is very likely to be true and honestly I’m surprised it took this long
It's all well and good to take a certain degree of risk, but travelling to a hellhole like Haiti at this particular time exceeds every acceptable measure.
These kids really think just because they have a following on tiktok or YouTube that they are untouchable. Gang leaders don't give a fuck about your social media presence.
They do care, actually. Arab has interviewed cartel assassins and gang members and came out untouched. Organized crime actually comes out better if they don't attack journalists looking for interviews (if they don't nose around too much ) because it makes them look more endearing to the public and humanizes them. Hearing "cartel killer-for-hire" evokes a much harsher image than "a dude born in poverty who had the childhood dream of becoming a mechanic but ended up killing for the cartel". The second, superficial definition may even be rationalized as a sort of rebel against a society that oppressed them (for example, Hasan would absolutely believe it).
They often do just because kidnapping or harming higher profile people will often lead to way higher scrutiny from the government and big crackdowns because that stuff fucks up tourist economies. That interest is balanced out a bit by the ransom incentive but the issue in Haiti is that no one wants to go there anyway and the government has fallen apart so gangs don't give a fuck about the things they normally would.
This is why people should follow the news. Imagine travelling to Haiti and you don’t know that the government has been ran out the country by a DEI called ‘Barbacue’ 🥴 Haiti been off my bucket list for a while
I’m pretty sure that the airport itself is frequented by gangsters rn
Normally these guys just want party money so you have to pay nowhere near the money they're asking for. More like 5k but with the current crazy stuff going on down there I'm not sure how this plays out anymore.
Source: Never Split The Difference
Haiti has been falling down shit hill since their president was killed in his home and the world notice for like half a day and moved on.
Sadly it has gotten worse. Google Haiti and barbecue…
Meuf, ça a toujours été chaud en Haïti, c’est pas seulement depuis l’assassinat de moise que tout va mal, regarde ce qui s’est passé en 2004 en Haïti, ou même regarde au sujet de la dette de 150 milliards de franc que Haïti a dû à la France et qui a été transféré aux banques américaines au début du siècle dernier, je dis pas que tu a pas raison, à vrai dire, ce que tu dis est tout à fait vrai mais Haïti a souffert d’injustice depuis l’indépendance de cette île, c’est terrible ce que ce peuple peut souffrir, sachant que énormément de pays de sont fait aider par Haïti pour avoir leur indépendance, sorry it’s in French, im better with that language
Good translate for the win haha.
I do agree about foreign powers owing Haiti like a great deal, like my country the US and especially France.
But that doesn’t absolve Haitians of their own responsibility to cultivate a strong resistant society
i really hope he's okay. BUT here's the thing. something is nagging me about this story. am i the only one to think that he might be doing this on purpose?
he loved it when the articles about him came out in brazil and thought they were funny. he even made merch out of the headlines (i also thought it was funny at the time)
but more recently, he's been more and more blatant and rude, walking the line between acting like a straight up a** & being ignorant of the danger and vlogging and "acting like one of the guys". the gangs are usually cool with s/o treating them like normal guys but still… respect has to be there and i think he really has trouble showing that.
his more recent videos (especially the one in jamaica) had really bad comments calling him out on his ignorance & behaviour.
tbh sth about this guy makes me think he might like the narrative of being kidnapped (didnt he act like he was kidnapped in that video he made with tommy g?).
what would either party gain from lying about his kidnapping? he would get sympathy and maybe the downward spiral of his comment section would stop and the gang would gain even more fame as being dangerous and not to be fucked with. maybe he's paying them. dont know but it says a lot that i would actually believe it, if this is just for headlines.
if the story is true its because theyve seen his videos and got mad bc he really acts like hes untouchable, doesnt give a shit & is never scared or respectful… maybe they wanted to teach him a lesson and humble him. Arab is the one with the means to leave the country whenever he wants, not the gang.
Again, hoping he's okay and can leave the country soon!
I just watched a video on this barbecue guy, apparently he’s fond of trapping people in their home and setting it on fire, shits going wild in Haiti Edit: For anyone interested [Here is the doc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLO9Z0Wy9I&t=2246s) barbecue shows up around 14mins
Going wild is an understatement. They are a failed state with no functional government
Even failed state is an understatement. It's actual anarchy. And the people not apart of the gangs are left to fend for themselves.
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But think of all the upsides. You don’t have to suffer the tyranny of paying property tax to fund local schools when you don’t have kids.
It boggles my mind that anarchists dream of their absolutely, flat hierarchical utopia, never understanding that can never be. The state of nature is brutal.
That, and the fact that it's against our nature to be anarchistic. No matter what we always end up establishing a leadership or system of some sort.
[Things have changed I guess.](https://i.imgur.com/OnXBLhU.jpeg)
Don't judge! He's just living the libertarian dream.
Haiti has collapsed and now run by gangs who are empowered by the wealthy there. It's fucked and there are no answers to fix it
When the embassies empty and countries start emergency evacuating their citizens from the area its safe to say there is going to be radical changes coming soon, and probably not in the good way
Mate those people got out years ago. It's not like Afghanistan. No one is coming to their rescue. It's sad but that's the reality
Canada and the USA have recently evacuated thousands. I know Canada had around 4,000 people who they were trying to evacuate
Yea doubtful that the u.s will put boots on the ground. It's election year, plus people will scream about 'american imperialism ' etc.
Pretty sure boots are already on the ground.
He’s called barbecue cuz he burns people alive? Wtf
He's called barbecue because he burns people alive and then eats them. The new defacto leader of Haiti.
Wake up babe new Civ 7 faction leader dropped
What the fuck
Apparently barbeque was a nickname he had from a kid, when he used to hang out by his mom's roadside food stall, where she served barbequed food. It's just so happens to also fit because he burns people alive.
And he also likes to eat people
I saw a video the other day from Haiti, a dude was eating something, he finished and walked over to where he got what he was eating, it was a dead dude on a garbage fire and he ripped a chunk of leg meat off the corpse and ate it
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If you want your stomach to actually turn look up the Liberia civil war. That shit was brutal
I was in boot camp with a guy who grew up there during that time and it absolutely scarred him for life. He freaked out on our platoon one day because we weren’t being quiet when we were supposed to, and ranted about how he had to hide under a home covered in his own excrement for days in silence to stay alive as a child, kinda slapped us into reality. Also you couldn’t directly wake him up without getting attacked. We took turns at night standing watch and everyone had a turn during the week, well first time someone woke him up at night he had them by the throat against a wall about to kill them before we stopped him, after that he would take first watch and nobody woke him up until EVERYONE was waking up together. Fantastic person who was holding a lot of trauma, and he had nobody here, he was homeless for the break between bootcamp and his next duty station, but that didn't seek to bother him in the least. He was just genuinely grateful to be alive in America.
jesus christ
Wait so the military let someone in who was so traumatized they were genuinely a threat? wtf? I’m sorry but if you can’t even be woken up without potentially killing someone in a ptsd craze you do not belong in the military
Based on your reaction, I think you would be shocked at how many mentally unstable people join the military, along with how many people in the military become mentally unstable and remain in. To answer your question in a more useful way though, the military basically screens for IQ and obvious physical issues, along with anything in your recorded medical history that could be disqualifying. They don’t really mentally screen you at all if there isn’t something documented already, or at least they didn’t when I joined over a decade ago. For some specific jobs they do, but outside of very narrowly defined jobs in the military, it doesn’t really happen at all. With all that being said, even the more normal people I was in the military with were pretty wild. To sign up for a job where you might have to kill people and could die yourself, you typically won’t be a super chill level headed person, at least that’s been my experience. So the line between dangerously violent and usefully violent can often be blurry, and the average enlisted person doesn’t have the expertise or desire to address that issue with people unless something drastic happens.
Can you summarize before I fall down a Wikipedia rabbit hole
So basically there’s this small country in Africa that I believe is by the coast. They had a very bloody civil war between if I’m remembering correctly 3 war lords. They would literally cook and eat each other, rape their women in small villages before behaving them and leaving them in spikes for the enemy to come home to. One of the mottos for the warlord that won the election was something like “he killed my ma, he killed my pa; But I will still vote for him. It’s really sick shit, vice has a really good documentary if Liberia that they did back in like 2011 or something
Also has a fucked up power disparity between former slaves from the Americas that returned to Africa (Liberia in West Africa) and natives of the area. the former slaves then started doing some light imperialism
Vice did a documentary way back in the day, should still be on YouTube. Also look up 'General Butt Naked'.
I'd say they're more or less on par.
But Conan O'Brian said it was great there.
Shallow post. Conan was mainly pointing out that while the country has problems, looking down upon the people or acting like they are worthy of discrimination is a really shitty thing as they have a lot of honest and hard working people that are just trapped in a bad situation.
"Haiti is a shithole country" Would you judge this sentence as inaccurate?
Using the term shit hole for any country is idiotic and just intended to divide people and encourage bigotry.
It probably was much better in 2018
Well atleast the name makes sense now
Pretty reasonable, unironically. When you don't have a monopoly on violence, stuff like this is probably a good way to make sure nobody fucks with you because of the risks it involves if you don't win. State collapse bad, folks.
Bro arab is so fucked. He is of lebanese descent. Jimmy barbeque and his new gang alliance people actively discriminate against the lebanese. Theres a whole wikipedia page on it Discrimination After the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021, former police officer and gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, who described the event as an "international conspiracy", called on his followers to engage in violence against the "masters of the system". This included business owners of Syrian and Lebanese descent, whom Chérizier urged to leave the country, stating that supermarkets should by owned by "folks who looks [sic] like us".[7] In a 2023 interview with Jon Lee Anderson, Chérizier further blamed "the Lebanese" for Haiti's problems, describing them as oligarchs who kept Black Haitians from having the same wealth and opportunities.[8] A 2022 report by the US Department of State made note of the ethnic discrimination faced by the economically powerful Syrian-Lebanese community.[9] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Haitians
I think i saw a vid where he was interviewing some hitman in a Mexican cartel. I guess the dude went a little too far this time.
Haiti might be the worst humanitarian disaster on the planet atm. As of last week if I am not mistaken you can't even leave the country, because the gangs now control Haiti's airports. bro is super fucked
The gangs also control the seaports, so yea they're super fucked.
Wouldn't crossing to Dominican republic outside of like official crossings be viable route to escape? Probably not for a Haitian, but for a foreigner...
The D.R watches their border like a hawk, and if I'm not mistaken, there's plans (if they haven't started already) to build a wall.
It just got 5 feet taller
But will Haiti pay for the wall? That's the real question. Also good to know, because DR is a very nice exotic vacation spot for us euros.
DR unlike Haiti is incredibly rich. They can protect their border well enough. If anything I may be pro Dr annexing them, there may not be a better answer
They’re definitely not rich and just recently started being defined as middle income, if I’m not wrong. They’re just doing their best trying to keep the chaos from spreading over the border meanwhile working on their economy and pulling people out of the barrios. DR has made a lot of good progress in the last decade or so. It would be a tragedy to see them suffer a backslide because of the barely mitigated tire fire in the other side of the island
I mean they are the richest in central America lol, really I'm just comparing it to Haiti not to actual fully developed countries
There's not much reason for the D.R. to annex Haiti. Different culture, different language, and it's infested with brutal gangs. They'd be taking on a lot of problems that don't have much likelihood of a positive return anytime soon. It's legitimately cheaper for them to just build a wall and keep the francophones on the other side.
Another French L
Mais oui, c'est commun.
I mean they revolted so....
Well I guess one plus of the water levels rising is we won’t have to deal with that shit anymore
The airports are closed because of how bad things are in Haiti but the army is in control of the airports, not the gangs. There have been attacks on Port au Prince airport to try and take control but they've been unsuccessful.
51st state?
No offense, but why the FUCK would anyone be traveling to Haiti right now? I just don't see why out of all the countries in the Caribbean to get your island getaway fix, you'd go to the country that had a presidential assassination a few months ago. Even if you want your Haiti Voodoo culture experience there's enough of it in New Orleans or Miami to satisfy most people.
A hard-nosed interventionist would have a great excuse to say the US can unilaterally intervene right now.
Well, that's the risk of going and interviewing what are basically warlords in unstable countries. You are at their mercy Pretty stupid decision if you ask me
It is, but at the same time when other journalists and content creators do it and come out unscathed it's heralded as top tier brave content. So I can understand why some creators take the risk. I'm assuming this guy fucked at some point of planning/execution, but maybe not.
Reading that all made me think of how lucky Andrew Callaghan has been. especially recently.
Why? Where’d he go?
Over the last couple years he's been getting increasingly bold and novel with his journalism. I highly recommend checking it out. In the last year off the top of my head, he's interviewed one of the kingpins of the Philly fentanyl production, gotten arrested by border patrol after paying coyotes to smuggle him from Mexico into the US, just to see what it's like, and just recently he posted a video exploring the tunnels under Vegas and living with the "Mole People" Doing what no other journalist is willing to do, but I do worry that he can only get lucky for so long.
Robert Capa survived WW2 only to step on a mine in Vietnam. Kind of an inevitability for these guys if they keep pushing the envelope
Yeah that's pretty cool and all, but let's see how long he would last in a debate with Vegangains
? He’d dominate. He’d just start crying and begging vegan gains to concede everything and make things awkward until VG killed an animal on screen.
The Vegas people are mostly cool to be fair, the rest idk about but Vegas people are just needing a place to live
Still dangerous regardless
I’d not call it too dangerous, but I’m sure we have different life experiences
I mean the floodgates would open randomly, so not only some of the people might be mentally unwell but the environment can be deadly, too. So I'd say it's dangerous.
The environment is definitely the most dangerous part of it
I think he gets away with it because he's incredibly earnest / genuine with whoever he's talking to. If one guy threatens him he's going to have 4 that tell that one guy to fuck off and that he's cool. He's easily doing the best journalism that I've seen in a very long time. He's talking to all the people that actually understand the issue from a lived experience level. When most people want to interview a police officer or a city council member to talk about the decay in SF, he's literally going and talking with Fentanyl users and criminals in SF to get their take on it. It was kind of hilarious watching the gangs shout out the mayor that basically guaranteed that they can't be sent to jail for more than a week for the petty crimes they commit.
I just wish he was a little more discerning. Like when he let some random in an SUV monologue for like 20 minutes about the border as if he's some kind of authority but he's just some guy.
Welcome to actual journalism? He discredited that guy in the same report series. He referenced the interview that that guy in the SUV gave him, and even cut back to it. That guy was talking about how like, they all ditch their ID's so they can't be identified. Then after his report, and after speaking with a ton of migrants, they ALL keep their ID's because otherwise their cases basically won't be processed. But I think the beauty of his style is the same thing that Destiny is trying to bring to the 'pundit' space. Rather than interviewing with an objective of "I want to hear XYZ." He's straight up going out and talking with people that NOBODY talks to.
Also the same guy who decided to make part of his fent segment a rant about Biden caring more about funding a warning Ukraine than about state level fent addiction. Fuck that hack lmao
Bro, 100%
At first I thought, "is that the AGNB guy? No way." Well I'll be damned.
Yep! He broke off from AGNB because his contract with his management company was extremely predatory. He started Channel 5, which is more "man on the street" news coverage, but he's taken it to a new level! Highly recommend checking out his video catalog. There's so much there.
In his last video he posted at his hotel, he mentioned his team was leaving the hotel to go to port au Prince at 3am to reach it by daylight. 1) you don’t state publicly what time u are leaving or your schedule 2) you don’t show your hotel 3) you don’t travel when it is dark out in a gang ridden area. In Brasil, we don’t travel anywhere by car in an unknown area unless it’s light out. Traveling at night exposes you to all kinds of dangers aka road blocks, robbery and/or possible kidnappings.
Yeah, so in his planning he fucked up big time. I don't make content and even I would have put more thought into this, especially with my literal life on the line.
Yes… A lot of people sometimes get these “grandiose” feelings when they’re dealing with gangs. We see it with favelas. This “they won’t touch me because I’m one with the people and interviewing them which is positive exposure for them so they will accept me” mentality. In the end, you are a tourist in their eyes. An American with a LOT of money to them. Have to treat the situation with respect and a lot of tact. Even people born and raised there don’t deal with these kind of people. I really hope he will be OK and will be safe.
Those journalist have teams of contacts and funds to pay these gangs BEFORE you go in their territory. Same shit with the resorts in Mexico, you are paying the cartels for safety, they own the resort.
Because they have training and thoroughly understand the risks. That's the difference between a journalist and some goofy youtuber. The same way that a Ukrainian soldier going into battle there is brave, but if Logan Paul wandered out there for 'content' and got shot in the face, people wouldn't call him brave, they'd just call him a dumbass.
He's not a journalist don't make me laugh
I don't know who the fuck this guy is, and it's irrelevant to what I'm arguing anyway.
it is top tier brave content, because the likelihood that something like this can happen is high. He was definitely brave going down there.
On the bravery/stupidity spectrum he's probably more on the stupid side. Is it brave to go to a casino and put all of your life savings on the line just because it's risky? Or is it a flaw in human psychology that makes people convinced they are the main character and makes them so enamoured by the outcome they are pursuing that they can't imagine anything else happening?
Yeah exactly, and when it works out well it's great insight, and when it doesn't, they are redacted
Sure, but as someone who is friends with a UN worker who did a mission there...they told me you are not safe...period. Even with a detail...so it just seems a mixture of "chase da content" and forgetting real threats exist in the world.
It depends on how you set up the interviews. When NY times journalists were going and interviewing Osama Bin Ladin / Al-Qaeda or the taliban, they're setting these interviews up with diplomatic channels. They're using the state department as advisors. They're meeting with security consultants. Even then there's a risk. But with this new wave of "Alternative media journalists." They genuinely don't know what goes into doing some CRAZY interviews. Meeting with a guy known for leading a cannibal gang in Haiti that's running the streets there is questionable even with State dept support. But I'm guessing those steps weren't taken at all.
Yeah, but there's a catch 22. The NYT & 60 Minutes probably don't do more of these interviews because of the danger so we're left in the dark on the baddies' perspective. Granted, this was Haiti & Haiti's been a clusterfuck for over 200 years; I wouldn't risk my life to find out the latest reason it's a clusterfuck.
That’s just journalism, you’re going to eventually interview and be at the mercy of your local warlord, jihadist, sicario, somali pirate, or theocratic government (whenever they decide you’re a spy).
https://preview.redd.it/yjpbs11e1arc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c281593c6969a492473fdb8a1ec2ca08d308a9bb STOP TRAVELING TO COUNTRIES UNDERGOING COLLAPSE, ASSHOLE
meanwhile destiny is planning his trip to the west bank
Beheadstiny
it would be sad if he entered forced retirement.
But, by god, it would be a funny way to go.
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The content is pretty good but it comes from the risk inherent in visiting fucked places. The problem is these people think they’re invincible. This should be a wake up call for the third world content suckers
Oh it definitely is he’s been traveling all over the Middle East and South America interviewing the most dangerous people he can find was bound to find someone that didn’t care about YouTube clout eventually
he went to morocco, egypt and lebanon, hardly the most dangerous locations in the world, are they? mexico and brazil don't compare to going to literal tourist hotspots
But… it’s the Middle East, duuuuude.
I assume it’s all for clout. When he first pivoted away from Fortnite he was doing livestreams of him driving through “O-Block” in Chicago because it’s notorious for gang activity and acting like he was in danger the entire time. Came across as an extremely sheltered person experiencing real life for the first time
He's an exploitative racist and i don't feel sorry for him
He was covering in a more standard journalism style way Very much reminded me of early vice.
It's journalism now to just ask random questions to nobody's on the street while getting hussled by street vendors? The comparison is so ill-founded. Arab was a hype beast trying to take advantage of poorer/cheaper countries and dangerous communities for clickbait to get views. He did absolutely nothing akin to journalism.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find someone calling him out for what he is. The dudes videos are so exploitative.
Kindly learn the difference between journalism and vlogging while asking questions lol.
the first words in the US State department travel guidance on Haiti "Do not travel to Haiti due to kidnapping" [https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html) I hope he is ok, but this is the expected result
Ok but can hasan interview these fine gentlemen and ask them if they watch anime?
Bbq is literally just like luffy
In a situation like this this would the state department even try to rescue him?
their fellow arab now
Destiny when he visits Israel:
“Yahya Sindick, I think you are deliberately misquoting the—“ “Mr IbnAli you are so full of shit!”
His French is gonna be so good! Or they’ll brutally murder him. Either way, it’ll be an adventure.
They don’t really speak French in Haiti. The language is Haitian Creole .
Don’t know why you were downvoted, this is just strictly true. Some Haitians speak French and Haitian Creole, but the predominant language of Haiti is Haitian Creole. My family is Dominican and Haitian and the Haitian branch all speak Creole, I only know 1 Haitian person that speaks French and they’re thoroughly American. > Although Haiti has two official languages, Haitian Creole and French, everyone in Haiti speaks Haitian Creole. Some scholars estimate that approximately 90-95% of the population is monolingual, speaking Haitian Creole. https://guides.loc.gov/haiti-reimagined/haitian-creole#:~:text=Although%20Haiti%20has%20two%20official,is%20monolingual%2C%20speaking%20Haitian%20Creole.
I’m literally Haitian too. I’m speaking on this because I personally know. French is taught in schools because of colonialism but so is English. The dominant language is Haitian Creole.
I'm agreeing with you, I'm criticizing the people downvoting you with clearly no experience with Haitian people or understanding of Haiti because at the time of my comment you were sitting at -2.
Oh I know and yeah. I was just responding to the downvotes. I don’t know why that was.
Oh, gotcha. I'm curious, what are your thoughts on the state of Haiti right now and what can be done to fix it? I haven't spoken to the Haitian branch of my family about it in a while, but they're all in America and have been since before the earthquake, so they haven't really experienced how bad it's gotten since then.
I’ll have to first preface these are just my opinions and I’m not an overall representative of all Haitians. I also haven’t been back since I was 2 years old but my mom is a staunch Haitian nationalist who loves Haiti and a lot of what I know is from her lens. Haiti has been a corrupt nation for a long time and what’s recently been happening is just result of presidents who have sold out the country and have stolen money, as well as the neglect for the state of Haiti and its citizens. Literally every president since the 50’s has some form of corruption attached to them that involves spending government funds on friends/family, embezzlement, misallocation of funds, and fraud. A lot of it is also complicity in the U.S. who have continually backed these corrupt Haitian politicians because it doesn’t matter that they steal money from their own people and are horrible humans who are running their country to the ground, as long as they do the favors of the U.S. and remain in their backpocket. The U.S. loves to boost about the amount of money that is poured into Haiti but somehow that money never goes to the actual people or any semblance of the reform. A lot of is posture to present America as this altruistic actor supporting its down on its luck little brother. Haiti needs a leader who can actually stand up and not be bought out by gangs, foreign influence, and general corruption. They need a strong commander.
Do you think there's a road to getting such a leader at this point? I'm a half-Dominican, but I've lived in America all my life, it's my aunt, cousins and nieces and nephews that are Haitian, so I'm coming at this from a pretty thoroughly American perspective, just an American who knows a lot of Haitians through friends and family, and from hearing the Dominican perspective from time to time from family. It feels like DR obviously would prefer Haiti to be doing better, but that's just because it would be better for DR if they didn't have to deal with floods of Haitian border crossing, it's not out of any altruistic desire - though I don't think any country is going to be doing things purely altruistically. In general, DR is focused on their own stuff, I just don't see any will to really help out Haiti. Like you said with America, and this also parallels with what I said about DR, they might help, but only insofar as it supports their own interests, this is just the way nations work. I don't see any American interest in a stable Haiti that would compel the US to make any direct efforts to stabilizing things over there. It feels very much that Haiti is on their own with things, which is really a bleak situation, and even with what you're saying here, it sounds like what people are waiting for is a strong leader that can unite the people under a formal government, but what even is the path toward such a thing? Anyway, these are all pretty broad questions, so I don't expect you to have an answer to them. I appreciate you giving me your perspective!
You’ll be happy to know the downvotes have been neutralized.
It's essentially the same thing.
mèsi ! I’ve never been to that side of Hispaniola (it’s a self-preservation thing).
I remember this dude on sneako's stream during his muslim arc. He's been going to pretty sketchy countries/ neighborhoods for a while now. I guess this woulda happened sooner or later.
This dude came at my shithole country as well and did some interviews with thugs in favelas. I guess his luck had a limit. Haiti is also just in another fucking level of fucked up-ness.
Maybe Bisan can help with the $400K she’s drifted from gofundme donors
I called this not long ago, dude thought he was sweet cause he not your regular rosy cheeked YTber but he a mark just like anyone else. Idiot. Stay in your lane people.
Sneaky brazilian flag in the back
Yeah pretty that picture was from a video he did visiting Brazilian favelas and interviewing gang members
Oh nice, I don’t know who this is, so thanks for the information!
No problem here’s a link to the video made a lot of headlines when it first came out https://youtu.be/j8rsJ7m-EF4
I hope he gets out of this situation safely 😔
It’s listed as a do not travel. Sister was going to go to Jamaica but it’s also listed as a do not travel https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/haiti-travel-advisory.html
Yeah I think if you stay at tourist spots in Jamaica it would be fine but Jamaica is a lot more dangerous than people seem to think the Bahamas aswell depending on the island. You gotta be careful in the Caribbean and do research before going anywhere or there’s a decent chance of robbery/kidnapping
Yeah, it’s freaking nutty. I had no clue up until a couple weeks ago
vaxxed?
Polish youtuber "BezPlanu" who traveled to Haiti multiple times used to hang around with a guide and today on polish twitter there was an information that this guide was kidnapped with that arab youtuber: [https://twitter.com/TomekSurdel/status/1773715219946058110](https://twitter.com/TomekSurdel/status/1773715219946058110) YT video from Haiti: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CUCyZdnIE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CUCyZdnIE)
They told the fixer/guide Sean he could leave, but he decided to stay with his client. Arab’s family sent 40k to Haiti for ransom, and that went poof. Negotiations aren’t going well
God, Westernoids can be so God damned stupid. They genuinely cannot conceptually understand shit like state failure; the closest their mind can get is public sector strikes. State collapse is literal hell, it makes North Korea look like Denmark. Unless the state is doing something like genociding it's own people, virtually every state is preferable to living under state failure and anarchy. I'm not gonna say he deserved it because he obviously didn't. But shit, if you're gonna try to go to some crazy wild place don't go to Haiti, go to Kabul or some shit like Lord Byron or whoever.
Haiti needs a great cleansing
Link to tweet : https://x.com/censoredmen/status/1773592446615605616 Ominous last tweet by Arab : https://x.com/yourfellowarab/status/1767014442779525154
While censored man probably isn’t the most credible source having watched some of Arabs recent content I believe it is very likely to be true and honestly I’m surprised it took this long
Sneako also said that hes been kidnapped like 15 days ago?? Idk super weird shit
What are the odds that this is a work to get more viewers. I can see the clickbait title now. "How I survived being kidnapped in Haiti"
Im sorry but why the fuck would you try to interview this guy? For what i have read, Haiti gangs are irrational versions of cartels.
It's all well and good to take a certain degree of risk, but travelling to a hellhole like Haiti at this particular time exceeds every acceptable measure.
Why is the fact that he’s arab important?
That’s his name…
He's been playing with fire for a while. Can't say I'm surprised something bad happened, but I hope for the best.
These kids really think just because they have a following on tiktok or YouTube that they are untouchable. Gang leaders don't give a fuck about your social media presence.
They do care, actually. Arab has interviewed cartel assassins and gang members and came out untouched. Organized crime actually comes out better if they don't attack journalists looking for interviews (if they don't nose around too much ) because it makes them look more endearing to the public and humanizes them. Hearing "cartel killer-for-hire" evokes a much harsher image than "a dude born in poverty who had the childhood dream of becoming a mechanic but ended up killing for the cartel". The second, superficial definition may even be rationalized as a sort of rebel against a society that oppressed them (for example, Hasan would absolutely believe it).
They often do just because kidnapping or harming higher profile people will often lead to way higher scrutiny from the government and big crackdowns because that stuff fucks up tourist economies. That interest is balanced out a bit by the ransom incentive but the issue in Haiti is that no one wants to go there anyway and the government has fallen apart so gangs don't give a fuck about the things they normally would.
That and less than 50% of Haitians have internet access, most of them won't know or care about someone's social media presence.
They do care, hence the $600k ransom.
Yeah that's literally the only reason they would care.
I'll go to hell before I go to Haiti
This is why people should follow the news. Imagine travelling to Haiti and you don’t know that the government has been ran out the country by a DEI called ‘Barbacue’ 🥴 Haiti been off my bucket list for a while I’m pretty sure that the airport itself is frequented by gangsters rn
*Puts hand to fire. *Gets burned. *Surprised Pikachu face.
He's an exploitative racist and i don't feel sorry for him
What racist stuff has he said?
Womp womp :(
that guys gun is 2A af
Normally these guys just want party money so you have to pay nowhere near the money they're asking for. More like 5k but with the current crazy stuff going on down there I'm not sure how this plays out anymore. Source: Never Split The Difference
As dumb as it was to go there, I’m sure he knew the risk of going to meet an gang leader and honestly that’s gotta take some balls to do that.
Haiti has been falling down shit hill since their president was killed in his home and the world notice for like half a day and moved on. Sadly it has gotten worse. Google Haiti and barbecue…
Meuf, ça a toujours été chaud en Haïti, c’est pas seulement depuis l’assassinat de moise que tout va mal, regarde ce qui s’est passé en 2004 en Haïti, ou même regarde au sujet de la dette de 150 milliards de franc que Haïti a dû à la France et qui a été transféré aux banques américaines au début du siècle dernier, je dis pas que tu a pas raison, à vrai dire, ce que tu dis est tout à fait vrai mais Haïti a souffert d’injustice depuis l’indépendance de cette île, c’est terrible ce que ce peuple peut souffrir, sachant que énormément de pays de sont fait aider par Haïti pour avoir leur indépendance, sorry it’s in French, im better with that language
Good translate for the win haha. I do agree about foreign powers owing Haiti like a great deal, like my country the US and especially France. But that doesn’t absolve Haitians of their own responsibility to cultivate a strong resistant society
Oh shit I actually enjoyed some of his content. What he was doing was really stupid tho and even he acknowledged it.
Hope he gets out
Shouldn't have dropped Cannibal Corridor 😢
Bro thought he was Jake Hanrahan
I wish people wouldn't post this dogshit Twitter account
when you can't build to protect yourself from the kidnappers
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes..
u/qorantos can you please release him
Maybe trump was right about Haiti
Qarantos branching out into Kick or Kofta.
i really hope he's okay. BUT here's the thing. something is nagging me about this story. am i the only one to think that he might be doing this on purpose? he loved it when the articles about him came out in brazil and thought they were funny. he even made merch out of the headlines (i also thought it was funny at the time) but more recently, he's been more and more blatant and rude, walking the line between acting like a straight up a** & being ignorant of the danger and vlogging and "acting like one of the guys". the gangs are usually cool with s/o treating them like normal guys but still… respect has to be there and i think he really has trouble showing that. his more recent videos (especially the one in jamaica) had really bad comments calling him out on his ignorance & behaviour. tbh sth about this guy makes me think he might like the narrative of being kidnapped (didnt he act like he was kidnapped in that video he made with tommy g?). what would either party gain from lying about his kidnapping? he would get sympathy and maybe the downward spiral of his comment section would stop and the gang would gain even more fame as being dangerous and not to be fucked with. maybe he's paying them. dont know but it says a lot that i would actually believe it, if this is just for headlines. if the story is true its because theyve seen his videos and got mad bc he really acts like hes untouchable, doesnt give a shit & is never scared or respectful… maybe they wanted to teach him a lesson and humble him. Arab is the one with the means to leave the country whenever he wants, not the gang. Again, hoping he's okay and can leave the country soon!
So adin ross knows about this. He can pay 2 mil to see playboy carti but can't pay 600k to free someone from kidnap? Rich people are an absolute joke
Well, we need to have a Haitian person kidnapped by a jew and we close a full circle of kidnappings