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Those tags are LEGIT. Canada has gotten so bad in recent years because provincial governments are so confident overstepping in wake of Trump. I cannot stress enough how important it is that all Americans get out and vote.

I don't care how you feel more moral not voting because it matters so so so much and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is doing so to get Trump or someone like him back in power by using your non vote. It's bad for everyone.

Do not let them convince you not to vote.

Emboldened and Embiggened for Emphasis:

I don't care how you feel more moral not voting because it matters so so so much and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is doing so to get Trump or someone like him back in power by using your non vote. It's bad for everyone.

Do not let them convince you not to vote.

USA has being FOR YEARS working on South America to put new dictatorships like in the 70s. That is a work made and being constantly do by BOTH of your so called parties (you just have one party in reality). In the recent time the propaganda, military bases, cultural colonialism, usa attacks with its outpost state israel (like the 2019 mass murders against chileans with a war declaration of the president Piñera against civilians aka fucking school teens), the fake news and fear campaigns made by usa and with its intelligence and everything via social media (what musk has done foe trump is a grain of salt in comparison of what he and zuckerberg does at the rest of the world but u dont care) and funding of hate groups, cults and other fascists organizations , and the control in general of the continente has been so hard that now in polls South Americans are thinking that dictatorships are a valid option bc USA HAS PUT THAT IN THE MINDS OF PPL.

Usa has intervened in my country since its fucking foundation and has never EVER stopped, with any of your so called democrats.

You all can whine and try to justify all you want why you need to vote, but better stop lying to yourself and the world, specially the Global South: you DON'T CARE about ANYONE that is not your citizens. Not really. You complain about trump not bc you really care about democracy or the rest of the world, but bc you just don't want to live in something similar in like a 10% of what usa has made and put for centuries the Global South.

It NEVER had matter if your dictators are democrats or republican to the rest of the world bc we all know that they are all the same.

All the bullets, the bombs, the propaganda, the presidential manipulations, the dictatorship feel and are the same in every way independently if the ones made it are one or another of your fake ass parties.

No matter of what colour you paint your bullets, they are all the same when taking our lifes.

Democrat presidents of usa in South America (just like 2 crimes per president bc I don't have time nor energy to put a 1000000 page pdf here with all the crimes just against one continent):

Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and all the presidents of usa, including the democrats as we can see, in Puerto Rico.

Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt coups and control of Haiti. Intervention and invasion of Nicaragua

Roosevelt made coup in Cuba

Trueman, Kennedy, and Johnson in Guayana. USA and British Intelligence funded anti-communist unions in order to strengthen opposition to democratically elected Dr. Cheddi Jagan.

Kennedy made a coup in Brazil, Ecuador and multiple political intervention and change regime in Dominican Republic

Lyndon Baines Johnson and the 23,000 troops he sent to Dominican Republic invasion. The CIA and the Agency for International Development (AID) set up the Office of Public Safety (OPS) mission in Montevideo, Uruguay, to train police in the art of torture in order to suppress rebel activity.

Jimmy Carter support of Argentina dictatorship made by usa. From 1975 to 1983, about 30,000 civilians accused of subversion either were killed or disappeared.

Bill Clinton interventions in Colombia in general, as well repression and killing of dissidents. The Coca Cola and Chiquita death squads killing workers in Colombia.

Obama multiple attempts of coups in Venezuela and every single usa president tried since ever really not just democrat obama. Obama also invasions and fear campaigns and political power over Chile.

Biden in Venezuela. Biden in Chile trying to put a nazi as president for years. Argentina and Peru interventions.

Clinton, Obama and Biden interventions in Surinam and Trinidad y Tobago

The clampdown in Chile after Pinochet’s fascist coup was swift. You can count it by hours. They moved very quickly to round up leftists and potential dissidents, mass moving them to Estadio Chile, a futbol stadium, a place of community and pride. Among them was Victor Jara, folk singer, socialist, people’s icon. Jara had written songs for Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president that Pinochet overthrew in his 1973 coup, and his campaign. Jara wrote songs for workers. Jara wrote songs for organizing.

The regime used Estadio Chile as a staging ground for mass torture and execution. Jara was publicly beaten. They broke his hands and mocked him, told him “let’s see you play the guitar now” and laughed in his face. Jara, beaten and bloodied, began to sing. He sang Venceremos, We Will Win, the song he wrote for the Allende campaign. As loudly and proudly as he could. His torture and beating continued.

Shortly after, he acquired a notebook and pen. He wrote the poem, Estadio Chile. It begins:

There are five thousand of us here in this small part of the city

We are five thousand

I wonder how many we are in all the cities and in the whole country?

Here alone are ten thousand hands which plant seeds and make the factories run

The poem was smuggled out, and later turned into a song. Jara was murdered two hours later. His body, riddled with bullets from machine guns, was left in the street. A warning. A message.

The Pinochet regime would last from 1973 to 1990 (1998, if you count the fact that he retained his position as head of the army). His was a legacy of brutality and oppression and murder. He moved quickly. He moved hard. He will always be remembered as one of South America’s greatest monsters.

Jara is remembered for his poetry, his songs, his love, and his defiance. Jara teaches us that they cannot stop our singing. They cannot stop our writing. They cannot stop our love. Estadio Chile, the site of his murder, the site of thousands of murders, is now known as Victor Jara Stadium.

As the growing tide of authoritarianism and fascism rises, remember Victor Jara. Let your actions be a testament to his lessons, his life, his legacy. Let your voice ring as loudly as you can manage. Let your pen move as deftly as it can. And never forget that we will win.

30 Aug - International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

Detenido desaparecido or detenidos desaparecidos (DD. DD.) is the name commonly used in Latin American countries to refer to the victims of kidnappings, usually taken to clandestine detention and torture centres, and crimes of enforced disappearance, committed by various authoritarian military dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s, and officially recognised, among others, by the governments of Argentina (1984) and Chile (1991).

Between 1973 and 2019, Chile has suffered multiple cases of disappeared detainees, from the civil-military dictatorship of Pinochet created, supported and financed by the USA and multiple other countries until 2019 during the dictatorship of Piñera in which he declared war against the people and the military and police tortured and disappeared people. Among these there have also been detainees disappeared at the hands of businessmen, politicians, policemen, military, etc. Since its beginnings as a country, the USA has conspired against Chile's democracy, intervened and carried out coups d'état, committing multiple atrocities. Likewise, the illegitimate state of Israel has aided these horrors, from armaments to intelligence and training.

This post is about the Disappeared Detainees contained in the reports regarding the Pinochet Dictatorship. To see the List go here , the Children List, go here, and the migrant List check here. For their life and context, read it here. Tumblr didn't let me make a long post.

This post don't include the babies and kids abducted and trafficked by hospitals, health centers, and church agents (like the german and other european nuns and priests) during dictatorship to be sold to wealthy people all over the world, from South America to Europe.

There are 1210 persons considered as disappeared detainees according oficial reports (but, again, not really all of them) in Chile after the coup d'état of 11 September 1973. Of these 1210 people, 79 were Mapuche (6.52%), 60 were foreigners (4.95%) and 54 were minors (4.46%).

Where are the missing Detained-Disappeared?

NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET.

NI PERDÓN NI OLVIDO. VENCEREMOS.

Sites

Agrupación de Familiares de detenidos desaparecidos

Museo de la Memoria. List of Victims and the descriptions.

School of the Americas Watch. Memoria y Recistencia. Close the School of The Americas

La memoria desde las raíces: las experiencias de familiares de detenidos desaparecidos

Detenido desaparecido (Disappeared detainee). Wikipedia

Desaparición forzada (Enforced Disappearances). Wikipedia

International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, 30 August

Documentals

Every Rethuglican President has put this country in recession that a Democrat had to bail the country out of. Why vote for anyone other than Biden?

On 16 December 1998, Bill Clinton announced that he had ordered strikes against Iraq. The excuse of Clinton to keep invading the Gulf and Iraq? that stop them from making weapons bc usa protector of freedom narrative.

Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst William Arkin claimed in his January 1999 column in The Washington Post that the operation was focused on destabilizing the Iraqi government, and that claims of WMDs were being used as an excuse.

According to Department of Defense personnel with whom Arkin spoke, CENTCOM chief Anthony Zinni stated that the U.S. only attacked biological and chemical sites that had been identified with a high degree of certainty, and that the reason for the low number of targets was because intelligence specialists could not identify weapons sites with enough specificity to comply with Zinni's directive.

Dr. Brian Jones was the top intelligence analyst on chemical, biological and nuclear weapons at the Ministry of Defence.[13] He told BBC Panorama in 2004 that Defence Intelligence Staff in Whitehall did not have a high degree of confidence any of the facilities bombed in Operation Desert Fox were active in producing weapons of mass destruction. The testimony given by Jones is supported by the former Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence, John Morriso [...].

The four-day bombing campaign occurred at the same time the U.S. House of Representatives was conducting the impeachment hearing of President Clinton. Clinton was impeached by the House on 19 December, the last day of the bombing campaign. A few months earlier, similar criticism was levelled during Operation Infinite Reach, wherein missile strikes were ordered against suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan on 20 August. The missile strikes began three days after Clinton was called to testify before a grand jury during the Lewinsky scandal and his subsequent nationally televised address later that evening in which Clinton admitted to having an inappropriate relationship.

U.S. Secretary of State monstruous war criminal Henry Kissinger, said the attacks did not go far enough

Clinton bombed other country just to cover his shit. And is not the only horrible thing that this war criminal did, like all usa presidents that are ALL war criminals.

Clinton’s Legacy: Another Imperial Presidency

Clinton tried to make a genocide in Rwanda. Intelligence reports indicate that Clinton was aware a "final solution to eliminate all Tutsis" was underway, long before the administration publicly used the word "genocide"

In 1993 and 1994, Clinton pressured Western European leaders to adopt a strong military policy against Bosnian Serbs during the Bosnian War. In 1995, U.S. and NATO aircraft bombed them.

In 1994, Clinton declared that Iran was a "state sponsor of terrorism" and a "rogue state", marking the first time that an American President used that term. Subsequent executive orders heavily sanctioned Iran's oil industry and banned almost all trade between U.S. companies and the Iranian government. In February 1996, the Clinton administration agreed to pay Iran US$131.8 million (equivalent to $256.05 million in 2023) in settlement to discontinue a case brought by Iran in 1989 against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice after the shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser.

Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 on October 31, 1998, which instituted a policy of "regime change" against Iraq.

In August 1998, Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on "terrorist targets" in Afghanistan and Sudan, targeting the Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan. After the destruction of the factory, there was a medicine shortage in Sudan due to the plant providing 50 percent of Sudan's medicine, and the destruction of the plant led to a shortage of chloroquine, a drug which is used to treat malaria.[215] U.S. officials later acknowledged that there was no evidence the plant was acknowledging manufacturing or storing nerve gas.

And so on and so on, more crimes against Iraq and many others. Attacks against Yugoslavia, the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in May 1999, etc.

What about Obama then? Well.. a little example:

ALL USA PRESIDENTS ARE WAR CRIMINALS AND USA IS A TERRORIST REGIME. U don't have 2 parties, is just 1 and u live in a dictatorship

USA companies are invading my country, not just with its brands of food (among other thing), but also bought one of the 3 big supermarkets here and the food is expensive af and the wallmart brand (that I don't buy) are 3x more expensive than the regular brands and probably cost 6x or 9x more than in USA. FUCK U USA, imperialist piece of shit that is trying to make us its backyard not only with its military bases invading our soil, but also our food and taking away our right to eat.

Remember this from 2020?

Everything coming out about the new Death Note shows how much they’re missing the point of Death Note.

Light is not a weird loner kid. He’s a top of his class, “that kid’s going places” type. People admire him. He stays beneath suspicion until L enters the fray by seeming so perfectly straitlaced and normal that no one thinks he could ever be a serial killer. The idea of Light having a locker sign saying “normal people scare me” is ridiculous, Light would probably mock the kind of person who’d put that in their locker. Light is handsome, confident, and while his ego is horrendous and his god complex ends up going to sociopath levels eventually, he has great charisma. He’s great at talking people into things and getting them to trust him.

Light is not an outcast. He is not a punk or a rebel in any way.

If you were committed to doing “Death Note but in the USA” Light would be an all-American boy, the local sheriff’s son who plays sports and gets good grades and  just seems oh-so wholesome. That was why back when I was in high school and people floated Zak Effron as the casting for an American Death Note I thought it was a great idea since Light would probably be a Troy Bolton type in the USA, albeit with a bit more focus on his academics than sports.

Light is not an outcast. He is the sort of boy where if he was American and was accused of a crime you’d have two thirds of the town online going “that good boy would never do such a thing.”

Just…where did this idea of “punk” Light even come from? Where in any version of Death Note has Light ever done anything remotely teenage-rebellion-ish? Just…where did this even spring from?

i’m convinced it’s because here we’re in love with the idea of serial killers who aren’t actually evil, they’re just misunderstood kids mixed up in things they don’t understand. we romanticize the hell out of that, just look at the serial killer fandom and fandom surrounding other fictional serial killers (american horror story, and as i just learned courtesy of the gf ezra miller’s killer movies).

also, i think it’s romanticizing whiteness and maleness as inherently good traits. they were vehemently opposed to an asian-american lead actor because they got the idea to have a white lead and when it didn’t work for their conceptions of what is “good” changed the story in a way they thought would “fit” a white male lead better, because a white male lead must be likable. notice how they also made misa into the True Villain while L was very physically violent, this wasn’t an accident, it was by design.

We also have a major issue with refusing to believe that the popular, All-American boy can be a monster. We’re comfortable with the idea of an out-cast becoming a killer, for the punk that is bullied to be the one that snaps and starts offing people or committing other crimes.

In the movies, the killer is always the weirdo creep. In reality, serial killers are statistically most likely to be a White Male with a strong sense of entitlement and usually blend into society. 

Ted Bundy is probably the most famous example of this, being this wholesome-seeming man that was charming and did volunteer work. Who also brutally murdered women. He charmed women during his trial, and had many fans throughout his time in prison.

Dennis Rader was a church-going family man that was a pillar of his community. He was a Cub Scout leader, and a member of his church’s council. He was also a sadistic monster that tied up, tortured, and murdered people in his community leading to his moniker of BTK. He admitted that he went dormant for so many years because raising his children didn’t leave him enough time for stalking and killing people. 

But the creators of the American version of Death Note were uncomfortable with this reality. And instead of presenting a portrait of a monster that has everything going for him, they had to fall back into the stereotype of the “misunderstood loner” and the idea that only weirdos and freaks become killers.

Just think of The Lovely Bones. That story/movie and others like it are almost always based on true stories. The serial killer played in that movie was an admired person in his community so no one really expected him until he got nervous and starting slipping up here and there. The same way Light in the manga/anime did, gradually making small mistakes that ultimately led to his downfall.

Gringos don't like the reality that their ideal of society and men is what constructs serial killers and killers in general. No for nothing they are the country with more serial killers and murders.

If you're not from Argentina, please read this carefully

I have no words to describe the pain I feel. after 40 years of democracy, my country elected a party whose only goal is to be a colony once again, to sell the country to Elon Musk, to the USA and the UK, to have our sovereignty impugned and erased.

I remember the video of USAmerican congressists calling Argentina an "important asset for the United States". I remember when we told all of you to be vigilant because this was gonna turn into a genocide.

Tomorrow, the Mega DNU (Decree of Necessity and Urgency) is going to overrule most of our constitutional rights, and yesterday the Omnibus Law was presented to congress, including measures that make it illegal to gather in public without permission (state of siege), and make it so that protest is a crime. We will have to pay for the bullets that kill us, and cops will have absolute legal immunity to hunt us.

Word for word, a dictatorship. Fascism.

We've already gone through this many times, but I want to see worldwide protests about this. I want the UN to intervene. I want the world to make noise.

What worries me is this is not an isolated case. With many genocides going on worldwide, if the world fails Argentina, this will be the blueprint for all of the world.

Make no mistake, what happens here will happen everywhere there's natural resources and sovereignty. If not through overt genocide, through an extremely libertarian far right that wins elections by manipulating people, funded by Elon Musk. A second Operation Cóndor.

Boycott Musk shits, as well UK and USA products, Lewis and Bennetton too which is taking argentinian land. We need as suramericanos to join the fight and help Argentina, not only bc is the right thing to do, but also bc we all be under colonization and a second Operación Condor if this keeps going. We already have 16 gringo military bases in South America, with the genocide in Palestine the illegitimate state has shown that colonialists can do whatever they want without consequences and the puppet masters (USA, Canada, and Europe) will not face consequences either bc only the puppets get the blame. Let's do one shit together, just one for fuck sake, one in 200 years, and please be this one.