Who would you rather be president: Pinochet, or Marjorie Taylor Greene?

[kaoras]

As a related question, do you think MTG would willingly step down from office if she was voted out?

Pinochet didn't want to step down. He didn't want to recognize the results of the plebiscite, that's why the early results got stuck at like 2% showing the Yes ahead until 2 am in the morning. The Air Force Commander refused to sign Pinochet's decree giving all the powers and then went to the press to say that No won.

But well, at least this myth is more understandable than the "but muh the economy was good", which, no, it wasn't, it was awful.

Voted for MTG since I don't think she has raped women with dogs or tied children to trees telling them that they are going to kill his father.

[kaoras]

BTW, I recently interviewed my grandmother about her experiences over the different chilean goverments:

My 3 brothers were from the Socialist Party, and the one that was arrested was ___. He was imprisoned, they tortured him, they did whatever they wanted to him. When the coup took place, they did not arrest him right away because he was hiding, but on September 20 they took him. When I went to see him in jail here in Valdivia, if his fingernails weren't missing, he was missing a tooth. I went to see him once and he was swollen from the beatings. I wanted to hug him and he told me "no sister" ... He had just arrived from the SIM.

The SIM was the place where they were tortured. One day when I went to visit him in jail, I arrived when they were taking him to torture. They were taking him and a guy called ___ , a man from Río Bueno who was also from the PS, they were blindfolded, feet and hands chained. The other man was crying and my brother was standing upright, his forehead held high and He nodded to me ... I went home crying because I started to think about the atrocities that were being done to him.

His family had a really bad time because their little children... they were very young, they tied them to trees and asked them where the weapons were. And what weapons? He didn't even have a gun. And they always threatened his wife that they were going to kill him, "tomorrow we will kill your husband" they told her.

(...)

He never offended anyone when he made his speeches, he never offended the rich and the rich people of Río Bueno helped him and got him out of jail. They started gathering signatures, I don't know how they did it, but they managed to get him out in 3 months, that's why they didn't kill him.

These are the kind of atrocities you people always relativize with these stupid questions or in those USGD threads. And honestly, this is fairly tame for the Dictatorship standards.

[kaoras]

MTG would be too distracted by whatever nonsensical right wing outrage moment of the week like Mr Potato Head or Cat in the Hat to be able to set up death camps for her critics.

3,000 people killed over 17 years does not indicate “death camps” in any meaningful terms.

Here’s a question that’s slightly unrelated: how many people do you think Trump, Biden, Bush, Clinton, etc. killed?

So what do you call Pisagua then? Villa Grimaldi?

You are really getting on my nerves with all this Pinochet downplaying.

[kaoras]

MTG would be too distracted by whatever nonsensical right wing outrage moment of the week like Mr Potato Head or Cat in the Hat to be able to set up death camps for her critics.

3,000 people killed over 17 years does not indicate “death camps” in any meaningful terms.

Here’s a question that’s slightly unrelated: how many people do you think Trump, Biden, Bush, Clinton, etc. killed?

So what do you call Pisagua then? Villa Grimaldi?

You are really getting on my nerves with all this Pinochet downplaying.

The fact that less than 10% of people who were detained at those camps were killed shows that they weren’t “death camps.” They were prisons with large amounts of executions.

So according to you a place where thousand of people are tortured and hundred are killed isn't a death camp? This is the absolute state of gringo conservatism