Posted on 10/12/2018 4:17:21 PM PDT by thoughtomator
If youve spent time on the Trump-supporting parts of social media, youve probably come across a strange meme in the past couple of years. MAGA-loving Twitter is constantly offering people free helicopter rides. But what does it mean?
The offer of free helicopter rides is a reference to the practice of killing people by dropping them from helicopters, made most famous by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s. Sometimes Pinochets death flights were conducted over the ocean, but they were also done over rivers and sometimes the land. Hundreds of political dissidents are still unaccounted for from the Pinochet era, but a conservative government estimate from 2001 puts the number of people killed in Chile by being thrown from helicopters at 120.
Despite its disgusting connotations, free helicopter rides has become quite a meme online for people who support President Trump and his neo-fascist policies. There are entire Facebook pages devoted to Pinochets Free Helicopter Rides, and even websites that sell t-shirts and other gear with the phrase.
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Dude! we’re on the same freq!
Here's the next, fresh meme to get you current: "NPCs" (Non-Player Characters). They act according to their programming only, are interchangable and indistinguishable from each other:
That was in the comments section of the article.
“As God is my witness, I thought liberals could fly.”
“Globalist, it should be noted, is often a code word for Jewish on right-wing social media.”
I hadn’t seen this one before, but it reminds me of the old canard that would make the rounds that if you used the word “neocon” you were anti-Jewish. The Alinskyite leftists like to make up the rules.
lolz
The left are at war with America
It’s #killorbekilled baby
That’s funny. I don’t care who you are...
http://www.npcsimulator.com/
Recently seeing Pinochet - Free Helicopter Ride t-shirts was a bit of an unknown for me. My first knowledge of Free Rides comes from the Dirty War - Guerra Sucia of 1974-1983 in Argentina. The phrase Flying Nuns was used denote the execution of an unknown number of Catholic nuns by tossing them from a helo.
The Dirty War was basically government action against socialists. Different sources claim different numbers but during The Dirty War, The Disappeared Los Desaparecidos, Argentine citizens abducted by military or government police, may number as high as 30,000. Of that number an estimated 1,500-2,000 were tossed out of aircraft into rivers or the Atlantic Ocean. Some victims were already dead but others were in a drugged state.
Much of the confinement-interrogations-executions occurred at the former Navy School of Mechanics in Buenos Aires. Its infamy is on par with that of Prinz-Albrechtstrasse in Berlin or Lubyanka Prison in Moscow.
Some speculation that citizen pressure on the Argentine government due to their Dirty War resulted in the Falklands Malvinas War of 1982. Government tried to unite citizens with a war and losing both conflicts, got both sides of their ass kicked.
Ive used here,own the t shirt
And have zero regrets or remorse for doing so
Yes, the Argies were guilty of about six times as many “desaperdecedos” (?) as always-getting-the-blame Chile.
Omglmbo!
“Operation Pinochet” has been the name of my portable WiFi hotspot for some time now.
But wearing a Che t-shirt is ok.
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