• axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    no American president murdered thousands of dissidents, his own citizens

    Yeah this isn’t true at all. Low estimates for deaths during the trail of tears are around 15,000. But maybe liberals don’t consider them citizens. Then if you consider confederate soldiers dissidents, then Lincoln killed something like 250,000 of them. I’m not gonna cry any tears for dead confederate troops though, fuck them. Truman killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but that also doesn’t seem to count because they’re not American citizens.

    I hate when liberals play this game of adding qualifiers to the types of people who presidents kill. Yes, the federal government doesn’t tend to kill dissenters who are basically smug liberals whose dissent consists of posting or various consumer habits. The federal government kills dissenters like Fred Hampton, John Brown, and Malcolm X.

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      10 months ago

      The “dissidents” killed in the revolution were also mostly Batista supporters (so literal fascists) or plantation owners and their security.

      There were lots of public sector workers that fled, but they also tended to be Batista supporters.

      My grandmother worked under a Cuban expat as a teacher in Florida who was administrator under the Batista regime and he was so openly misogynist it was wild.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        yeah exactly, the losing side of the Cuban revolution were a coalition of plantation owners, mafia, and literal fascists. They weren’t just dissenters for no reason.

        If you listen to liberals you’d think Castro was going around personally shooting everyday normal people for holding a sign that says “I respectfully disagree”