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Why Are Trump Supporters Offering People 'Free Helicopter Rides' Online?
Gizmodo ^ | 10/12/2018 | Matt Novak

Posted on 10/12/2018 4:17:21 PM PDT by thoughtomator

If you’ve spent time on the Trump-supporting parts of social media, you’ve 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 Pinochet’s “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 Pinochet’s Free Helicopter Rides, and even websites that sell t-shirts and other gear with the phrase.

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KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; boogedyboogedy; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2018; election2020; freehelicopterrides; gizmodo; hate; mattnovak; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: Califreak

Dude! we’re on the same freq!


41 posted on 10/12/2018 5:21:45 PM PDT by no-s (when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote...)
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To: CaptainPhilFan
a follow-up just to bring you up to date - the helicopter meme is years old already, one thing that makes this funny is that they're just now catching onto it

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:


42 posted on 10/12/2018 5:22:26 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: no-s

That was in the comments section of the article.


43 posted on 10/12/2018 5:24:31 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: thoughtomator

“As God is my witness, I thought liberals could fly.”


44 posted on 10/12/2018 5:30:50 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Pollster1

“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.


45 posted on 10/12/2018 5:33:26 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Dr.Deth

lolz


46 posted on 10/12/2018 5:36:14 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: thoughtomator

The left are at war with America

It’s #killorbekilled baby


47 posted on 10/12/2018 5:36:47 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: bagster

That’s funny. I don’t care who you are...


48 posted on 10/12/2018 5:37:44 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: thoughtomator
Yup, The_Donald's enjoying it..."MS-NPC" etc...

http://www.npcsimulator.com/


49 posted on 10/12/2018 6:05:53 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime!" - Donald J. Trump)
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To: thoughtomator

http://www.npcsimulator.com/


50 posted on 10/12/2018 6:06:59 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime!" - Donald J. Trump)
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To: 4Liberty
Love it.


51 posted on 10/12/2018 6:13:49 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: Covenantor

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. It’s 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.


52 posted on 10/12/2018 6:19:51 PM PDT by Huaynero
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To: CaptainPhilFan

Ive used here,own the t shirt

And have zero regrets or remorse for doing so


53 posted on 10/12/2018 6:25:57 PM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: thoughtomator

54 posted on 10/12/2018 6:27:26 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime!" - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Huaynero

Yes, the Argies were guilty of about six times as many “desaperdecedos” (?) as always-getting-the-blame Chile.


55 posted on 10/12/2018 6:35:46 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: GreenHornet

Omglmbo!


56 posted on 10/12/2018 6:53:23 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: 4Liberty
Another winner! Right back at ya.


57 posted on 10/12/2018 6:56:03 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: thoughtomator

“Operation Pinochet” has been the name of my portable WiFi hotspot for some time now.


58 posted on 10/12/2018 7:06:41 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: thoughtomator

But wearing a Che t-shirt is ok.


59 posted on 10/12/2018 7:17:11 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: 4Liberty
Some of these are just devastating.


60 posted on 10/12/2018 7:43:34 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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