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Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel – part of India’s Andaman Islands – in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.

“The American citizen was presented before the local court after his arrest and is now on a three-day remand for further interrogation,” the Andaman and Nicobar Islands police chief, HGS Dhaliwal, told AFP.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Americans continue to prove how abjectly stupid they are.

I really hope the rest of the world is genuinely done putting up with our horseshit.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

don't ever try to stop people from practicing out-group homogeniety (or in this case in-group homogeniety)

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

or in this case in-group homogeniety

Yeah it's pretty tough to be surrounded by effectively an unwashed mass of idiots in the USA, hard to not have that opinion of the majority of my fellow Americans.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what part of the country do you live in? Im from PA but I moved to Ireland a good long while back

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The rural part of Washington state... It's always been a lot more backwards and racist than people would expect based on how progressive our big cities are.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah well being from pennsylvania I would have no trouble believing it. philly is philly, and pittsburgh was barely democratic leaning, but drive 40 minutes in ANY direction and you might as well be in kentucky.

Once, up in clinton township, I was standing in a doorway of my uncle's house and his neighbor said "are you white?" and i said "yeah" and he demanded I come out into the light so he could see me. I was about 11 years old. I was terrified.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Yep, the sounds like PA. Mostly Kentucky, with little bits of New York floating in it.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I got to climb Chichen Itza when I was a kid, my parents took me before they closed it off in the 90's. It was a liability issue after someone fell.

You have to admit that Americans are really showing their asses lately, though.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Some Americans.

Stupidity knows no boundaries.

This guy is as dumb as they come

[–] philpo@feddit.org 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong here,friend, the following is not a bit meant to be related to be connected to the current state of the US,but: This special kind of "force your Christianity onto others" stupidity is very much a thing the US is world leader on.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Christians the world over are historically famous for forcing their religion on others. How do you think that batshit drivel spread so effectively?

Also, I’ve seen nothing in this or other articles that the guy had intentions of proselytizing. Seems he’s just your run of the mill idiot.

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[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Alright, I'm going to say it out loud, despite the risk of this being counted as uncivil (via Rule 1) 🤞 🤞

These imbeciles don't need stern lectures, fines, or jail - they need livestreamed floggings to humiliate or even cripple them. Hundreds of millions should see, record, archive, and openly mock their distress publicly as a stark reminder of the stakes involved.

The Sentinelese are a genetic sub-group so isolated, and so unique that their loss would be incalculable. They're a living, breathing, irreplaceable time capsule of human culture and genetic information, and the thought that some thrill-seeking wanker could decimate them by passing the common cold to one of their members is beyond worrisome - it's enraging. As lucky as we were that the last worthless dick-beater - American Evangelical missionary, John Allen Chau - to make their way to the island was summarily killed, that luck may not hold out. We're talking about a group whose immunity is such a throwback that something like Chickenpox, Rubella, or Influenza could decimate the island's population. For next-nearest historical comparison, Smallpox, to which the inhabitants of North America had virtually no resistance due to longstanding geographic isolation from infection, is estimated to have killed 90% of the continent's population via European contact.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As far as I'm concerned that's attempted murder on his part

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Imagine having no knowledge of the outside world, then you stumble upon a ghost saying, “But first I wanna thank my sponsor; Raid: Shadow Legends!”

[–] triptrapper@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Either he's never heard of John Chau or he's trying to become the next John Chau.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

A very well deserved Darwin award.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Sentinelese

Aren't those the people that are super aggressive and kill everyone from outside? Dude's lucky he only got arrested.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They killed a missionary trying to proselytizes them

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 11 months ago

Oh, well that's understandable.

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

The world needs more Sentinelese.

[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 months ago

Everyday I cant help but just shake my head at my own countrymen. I hate it here.

Just nothing but selfish stupid people.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

It's always the idiots that try stunts like this, and no small amount of them come from the US.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 11 months ago

God, he even looks like a prick.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't even need to look further than the guy's username to get the sense that he's an obnoxious little prick.

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

wtf even is neo-orientalism

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Changing the main character in the matrix to someone of Asian descent..?

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 6 points 11 months ago

I didn't think anyone would beat the YouTuber who crashed a plane into a forest and tried to claim it was an accident, but imagine your last words being "Please Like and Subscribe".

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

If true then good.

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