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(182,794 posts)They seem to think they are really clever for some reason.
Nevilledog
(51,094 posts)Seems like most of these cretins like to out themselves. I didn't know the helicopter thingy.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,599 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)the helicopter is a reference to the Contras in Honduras throwing leftists out of flying helicopters.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,599 posts)I was confused about why they used used that symbol.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)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)Ive 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)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.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)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)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.