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Lincoln's Bible: Quick tip to identify White Supremacists on social media (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2020 OP
I knew about Pepe. underpants Sep 2020 #1
Right? Nevilledog Sep 2020 #3
Super MAGA says it all soothsayer Sep 2020 #2
I knew about Pepe the frog but not the helicopter MustLoveBeagles Sep 2020 #4
undoubtedly TheRealNorth Sep 2020 #5
Thank you for clarifying that MustLoveBeagles Sep 2020 #6
The helicopter rides thing goes back to the time of Pinochet, if not before octoberlib Sep 2020 #7
Viet Nam, Southeast Asia? Deacon Blue Sep 2020 #8
Thanks. Two other white power emojis on @MagaVitality are Hortensis Sep 2020 #9
I think it has to do with the gene for lactose tolerance uriel1972 Sep 2020 #10
Lol. I'd forgotten that. And dancing and spitting milk Hortensis Oct 2020 #11

TheRealNorth

(9,478 posts)
5. undoubtedly
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 03:56 PM
Sep 2020

the helicopter is a reference to the Contras in Honduras throwing leftists out of flying helicopters.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
7. The helicopter rides thing goes back to the time of Pinochet, if not before
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 04:05 PM
Sep 2020

Oregier Benavente, Pinochet's former personal helicopter pilot, has admitted that, many times, he threw prisoners into the ocean or into the high peaks of the Andes.[14]

Flights were also used to make bodies of already killed dissidents disappear. A testimony describes the following procedure: corpses were put in gunny sacks, the sacks were attached to a piece of rail using wire, and a second gunny sack was put around both. The sacks were carried on a pickup truck to the helicopters that flew towards the open sea off the coast of the Valparaíso Region,[15] where the bodies were thrown into the ocean. Osvaldo Romo confessed in a 1995 interview to having participated in death flights. Showing no remorse, he added, "Now, would it not be better throwing bodies into a volcano?"[16]

In 2001, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos informed the nation that during Pinochet's rule, 120 civilians had been tossed from helicopters into "the ocean, the lakes and the rivers of Chile".[17 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights

It's been used by other authoritarian regimes like Mobutu's as well.

Deacon Blue

(252 posts)
8. Viet Nam, Southeast Asia?
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 04:22 PM
Sep 2020

I’ve encountered this practice in apocrypha about the CIA, but nothing reliable. ‘Legacy of Ashes’ by Tim Weiner is a meticulously-sourced, unflinching history you see on a lot of background bookshelves. Carrie has it on her desk in the last episode of Homeland. Highly recommended. The book, and the series.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Thanks. Two other white power emojis on @MagaVitality are
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 04:56 PM
Sep 2020

the OK hand sign and a glass of milk. I couldn't figure what seemed to be a glass out at first, but a white nationalist creep helped me out.

"You’ve been drinking the fascist, white supremacist, white neo-Nazi milk … To be a successful antifa soldier, you have to become a soy boy."

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
10. I think it has to do with the gene for lactose tolerance
Wed Sep 30, 2020, 06:19 PM
Sep 2020

being more prevalent in northern European backgrounds than southern European and Asian ones. There is a milk chugging challenge to prove your genetic "superiority", I understand.

The irony is there are African backgrounds with similar prevalence. Genetics, it's a funny thing.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. Lol. I'd forgotten that. And dancing and spitting milk
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 09:47 AM
Oct 2020

in some white power display. Guessing their female partners are supposed to just admire that ejaculatory ritual without emulating.

Just read that a Neanderthal gene cluster makes its carriers more susceptible to Covid, but it's significantly more prevalent in white folk than African, while highest in Bangladeshis. So we likely shouldn't expect Trump and company to be bragging about those superior genes.

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