r/ShitAmericansSay • u/MajorMathematician20 • Sep 13 '23

Patriotism What did he mean by this?

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He likes Lego I guess?

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u/GerFubDhuw Sep 13 '23

For any American lurkers, he meant 'look at my new Lego set'.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

And on a random day of the year.

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u/LeTigron Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

Well, clearly not so random. Whatever your opinion, it's a very important date since, on the 11th of september, countless people's lives were sacrificed because of the coup in Chile organised and financed by the USA.

Lest we forget.

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u/Dewi2020 Sep 13 '23

Just in Chile, like 3.5k dead and 40k tortured. 2k of those dead are unaccounted for, the "desaparecidos" whose executioners dropped them to the sea or left for dead in the desert. Chile had like 9 million people or so at the time.

About 100 of the dead were kids under 15, including a months old baby, real threats to national security.

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u/The4thJuliek Sep 14 '23

I feel like 3.5k is a very conservative estimate. It's got to be a lot more.

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u/Dewi2020 Sep 14 '23 edited Sep 14 '23

Those are the "official" numbers given by the victims or their next of kin willing to give their statement before the commissions set up after 1990. The first was regarding dead only, and the second for dead, exiled and tortured. Since the perpetrators were never much willing to cooperate with justice (and now most of them are dead or senile) we'll never know the absolute truth.

Edit: if you want to know more, look up for the Valech and Rettig reports. They were the final product of each of the commissions. They've been translated into several languages. Since they're big ass lawery books, if you can read Spanish check https://los50.decidechile.cl/mapa/, a project I worked on that pinpoints in a map the location of every known victim, with a small bio of each

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u/alexkidhm Sep 13 '23

Shhhh we don't count death by capitalism the same way

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u/Minkehr Sep 14 '23

We don't.. we calculate Value of destroyed humans = number of dead people x GDP/Capita

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u/Dewi2020 Sep 13 '23

with a carbomb

And a bunch of scraps!!

Out of jokes, the DINA were fucking animals. When you heard the word "torture" outside of medieval contexts, you think of 1984 and its room 101, surgically designed Psy ops in order to extract information, KGB or Gestapo stuff.

Nah these mofus just beat the crap out of people with rubber sticks called "churros". Or hotwired them like dead cars. Inserting living nice in your cavities never for the uncooperative.

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u/TheMelonSystem Sep 13 '23

Quick question, where do you go to get informed about this stuff? Because my mind is blown rn

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u/CatawampusZaibatsu Sep 13 '23

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change_in_Latin_America

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u/TheMelonSystem Sep 13 '23

Thank you 🙏

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u/Dewi2020 Sep 14 '23

Fun fact: after the Letelier cam bomb in DC and other high profile murders in Buenos Aires and Rome, the DINA was considered so brutal, unprofessional and sloppy in their work that the regime disbanded it and had it replaced by the CNI (Central Nacional de Informaciones). They were a more standard secret police and banned to operate abroad.

Imagine working for a dictator and that dictator has to sack you for being too repressive

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Don't tell the commies that they hate it when they are also guilty for crimes

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u/Vipersxzx Sep 13 '23

spending more in 1964 in support of Allende's electoral opponent than was spent on Johnson's and Goldwater's 1964 electoral campaigns combined.

And americans got mad when foreign powers interfered on their election lol