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   ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ (starwall@wizzzard.online)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 02:21:01 JST ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ

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   the lesson taken away by nearly every survivor of the slaughter of these movements is basically that the guerrillas and hardliners were right--the West will never accept even a mild leftist government and will always try to crush it with terror, be it through well funded paramilitaries or militaries or direct intervention. The western mode of control when push comes to shove isn't just lies and rewriting history, it's killings fueled by those lies. Dissapearings, or even killing whole villages wholesale. At this specific historical juncture I can't help but be reminded of the anti-colonial struggle of survival which Palestine and Lebanon are engaged in. The rhetorical leaps to justify mass killings are all there, they're all the same, and as it gets more extreme and less apologetic and media becomes more censored and consolidated... The violence of this system, the mass killing machine called US empire has not stopped, not even slowed since "winning" the cold war.

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     ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ (starwall@wizzzard.online)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 02:21:03 JST ᔅᑕᕐᐗᓪ

     I've finished reading The Jakarta Method and it's a good read to follow up having just recently read Blackshirts and Reds. Blackshirts and Reds was about the fall of the Second World, whereas this was the same story but centered around the Third World, it's about the killing of the dream associated with that phrase. Third not to mean third rate, but Third sequentially, having learned from both before.

     carl marks repeated this.