maybe-later-honey They took my grandpa's slaves!

morello-shred Cry about it.

Also what kind of a fucking name is Robby Starbuck.

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    16 days ago

    It's been a while since I looked into it, but what I remember finding was that they engaged in a lot of terrorism that wasn't necessarily directed at the ruling class.

    -Massacred a lot of peasants.

    -Including babies

    -Sometimes executed people with boiling water or other forms of torture

    Abimael Guzman, their leader, IIRC admitted to most of this in interviews and called it revolutionary excess.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      16 days ago

      I've seen some dispute the boiling babies thing, but everyone seems to agree they killed a whole lot of peasants.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        16 days ago

        My understanding is that boiling peasants isn't disputed, and neither is killing peasant babies, but that specifically boiling babies is disputed.

        For me personally, "Hey, we only scalded adults to death, we shot their babies" is still really bad. That's like some IOF stuff.

    • Torenico [he/him]
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      16 days ago

      And it became ridiculously cult-like later in their existence, owing it more to their leader than any kind of revolutionary stance. And still kinda are to this day