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    • Bakdunis [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Hadn't actually thought about this for a while and have lost track of all the reactionaries that have fled to the US. Mind naming a few to help rile me up about this shit?

      • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        South Vietnamese that assisted the U.S. A classmate last semester wouldn’t stop going on and on about being part of the Jorai an indigenous group in vietnam and his dad fought for the US.

        South Koreans after the fall of the dictatorship.

        Cubans the most famous gusanos.

        Venezolanos after Chavez won and stayed winning because of the failed coup (my parents brought us here soon after). Additionally one of our dictators sought asylum and lived in Miami

        Mexicans and latinx on the American side of the border joined the Border Patrol, all the time.

        The filipino mafia in the navy.

        just a few I can think of, off the top of my head.

        • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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          4 years ago

          First thing that comes to mind for me is following WWII the US snatching up as many Nazi scientists as they could before they could be tried for their crimes, so that the US could put them to use in advancing its own imperialist war machine.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        4 years ago

        There's a Louis Malle film, . . .and the Pursuit of Happiness, that shows a disabled Salvadoran man being deported for no fucking reason, obviously being sent to his death. It then cuts to Jose Somoza , brother of the Nicaraguan dictator, giving the documentary crew a tour of his lovely Miami home where he lives in complete prosperity. A perfect and nauseating encapsulation of U.S. foreign policy in two domestic scenes.

      • determinism [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The man who shot Victor Jara.

        https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-rights-jara-idUSKBN1KA2MG

    • phimosis__jones [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yasha Levine has had some good writing on this recently: https://yasha.substack.com/p/weaponized-immigrants-and-the-history