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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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[–] [email protected] 138 points 6 days ago (2 children)

He's lucky that India's police caught him before the locals did

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago

He apparently wasn't planning on staying but still a moronic move.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

A fun fact, the Indian govt won't prosecute the sentenelese people for dispatching their invaders

[–] [email protected] 97 points 6 days ago

The only two other possible endings to this were :

  1. The locals kill him
  2. The locals kill him, but also get some illness they have no immunity for, and they all die.
[–] [email protected] 74 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Some Americans.

Stupidity knows no boundaries.

This guy is as dumb as they come

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days 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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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's colonialist nonsense to assert than any human subpopulation is more of a "throwback" or "time capsule" than any other. Evolution never stops, anywhere. An isolated population can differ from the main population, but that doesn't make it more evolutionarily advanced or primitive. Those are loaded words and, from the perspective of evolutionary theory, meaningless.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

and recorded a video before returning to his boat

Did it for clout.

What a prick.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

i hope they destroy that video

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

They killed a missionary trying to proselytizes them

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

Oh, well that's understandable.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

The world needs more Sentinelese.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days 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!”

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

the whole island is 150 people. he could have earased them from existance

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

A very well deserved Darwin award.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

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

Just nothing but selfish stupid people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

God, he even looks like a prick.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

wtf even is neo-orientalism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days 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".

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