Dessalines @ dessalines @lemmy.ml

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Thx. I def recommend reading some articles that get into the depravity of some of these. Outside of the at least half a million people killed in the above operations, the coups, tortures, dissappearances, and entire communities wiped out is staggering.

Some more short blurbs :

• Starting in the 1970s, a CIA-backed coalition of right wing governments in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, began Operation Condor, a campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of opponents, with the stated aim of "eliminating Marxist subversion." Victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerillas. An estimated 30,000 to 80,000 leftists or sympathizers were killed. 1
• From the 1950s-90s, the CIA and NATO ran a series of clandestine networks, headquartered in Rome, Italy called Operation Gladio. Its purpose was supplying aid (primarily money and weaponry) to right wing paramilitaries to attack left-wing movements, and carry out assassinations and bombings, as well as funnel money to centrist political parties. It had operations in Belgium, Finland, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria. In Italy, the group had 600+ members, and carried out car bombings during Italy's years of lead. In Germany, it included former Nazi SS members—Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman, Lt. Col. Hans Rues, and Lt. Col. Walter Kopp. CIA weapons caches are still being discovered in all the countries above.
• From the 1940s - 60s, the CIA provided an average of $5 million annually in covert aid towards financially supporting centrist Italian governments and using the awarding of contracts to weaken the Italian Communist Party's hold on labor unions. It was also involved in bombings and assassinations as a part of Operation Gladio.
• Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of napalm bombs in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in Operation Ranch Hand, in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover. 1,2
• In 1967, the CIA helped South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in villages, in the Phoenix Program. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had executed between 26,000 and 41,000 suspected NLF operatives, informants and supporters.1
• In 1965, The CIA overthrew the democratically elected Indonesian leader Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA had been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, aided by the CIA, massacred between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being communist, in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66. The US continued to support Suharto throughout the 70s, supplying weapons and planes.

I prefer usonian, but ppl seem to hate that even worse. Much shorter than saying "US citizen", and also not going along with the US cooption of the term america.

The imperial origins of the term America.

I wish trump were "traitorous" to the US project of native eviction, white supremacy and genocide, but he's not, and neither is any US democrat.

Even with a dumb phone, they have

• Your identity, IE real name and address.
• Location history
• Contacts (since you're forced to use SMS)
• Message history in plain text

So I don't doubt that they're at least aggregating message history and selling data/trends about certain topics to advertisers and anyone who will buy it.

Plus if they know that your most contacted person is also texting/searching about certain things, they can safely sell that also and present ads to you based on their interests.

If they're coming from Israeli-military-affiliated, I'm 100% not believing due to the source. Not trusting anything that comes from child-murderers.

100% agree. Browsers don't need to, and shouldn't be reporting all Javascript attributes that make us unique, especially things like canvas.

You can test this out here, but nowadays its rare for any out of the box browser to be anonymous.

https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint

Oh you want to bring people food and medicine???!!? 🤔😬😬

You should watch this fake video I made about them first, then you'll change your mind.😏

/s

All the dronies in this thread need a reminder of what their party is capable of:

• List of atrocities committed by Barack Obama
• Same for Kamala Harris

we must not tolerate it (anti-zionism) in our nation

The context for this was a pro-palestine protest in washington dc, with kamala supporting the police action to break it up.

Kamala also supports sending cops against protesters, especially if they oppose Zionism:

I don't think that's being disputed. Both the USA and Russia had incredibly violent labor histories in the late 1800s and 1900s. The main difference is that in Russia, the workers+peasants organized and won, and in the US, they lost.

Either way this both-sidesing of violence makes no sense. You might as well demonize every just cause in history, or every person that defends themselves from an aggressor with that outlook.

Is your point that the people fighting against Tsarism shouldn't have done so? That they should've continued to suffer without complaint?

Of course the monarchists and reactionaries are going to accuse their opponents of their own crimes, nothing surprising there.

You wouldn't be alive to defend yourself in court. But not only that, US cops are extremely protected legally. If you put a hand on them that's assaulting an officer and you'll get prison time.

Dang I forgot about that one.

If we take most reliable estimates of the casualties than happened in the june 4th incident, ~200, then US cops kill more than that in 2 months.

Or if you want a single internal incident, during the Waco siege the US burned alive ~90 people, many women and children included.

The arming was (and remains) mainly about keeping the US settler garrison empowered to carry out indigenous eviction, and keeping non-white populations under control. Not protecting from a tyrannical government.

You can see that when those groups did try to arm themselves, such as the Black panthers or the American Indian Movement, laws were passed and repression carried out to disarm them.

Highly recommend reading Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Loaded, the disarming history of the second amendment for more on this. You can find the audiobook on torrents.

They're holding a camera, shoot em!!! /s

If this took place in one of the west's enemy countries, we'd be hearing about it for a decade. Since it's the US tho, it'll be forgotten in a few days.