RE: https://mastodon.social/@LiamOMaraIV/116284628184330948 Today is the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, and I'd really like to encourage people to read up on Operation Condor generally and the Argentine junta in particular. The coup ushered in a seven-year dictatorship under which, in particular, left-wing dissidents were abducted, tortured, and murdered in huge numbers. But if you need a link with the present to make that a bit more salient (particularly in the US), allow me to remind you of the very high likelihood that many of the new hires at ICE and CBP over the past year are old Proud Boys -- an organization whose members frequently wore patches with the letters "RWDS" (short for Right-Wing Death Squad) and t-shirts promoting "helicopter rides" for "communists" in reference to the practice in both Pinochet's Chile and Argentina under the junta of drugging prisoners and then flinging their prone bodies into the ocean from helicopters (see also: Proud Boys' "Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong" t-shirts). Of course, they were always "just kidding," because obviously that's hilarious. At any rate, while there are armed people with murderous fantasies on our streets (and currently all over our airports) who take inspiration from the Argentine dictatorship, it seems wise to learn some of the history they're drawing on.