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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Just a little reminder that governments have killed more people than any other entity and it isn't even close. You could try to point at religion - and that history is also fucked - but even if you exclude "holy wars" waged by religious government leaders, religious killing still doesn't add up to what has been done by governments where religion wasn't really a factor. The proletariat must not be disarmed. You might trust your current government, but give it a generation (or even an election) and things could be very different.

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[–] vegafjord@freeradical.zone 6 points 9 hours ago

@Confidant6198 That's why I like to call them the Genocidal Regimes of America.

[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Can someone tell me more about Washington? Wiki says he purchased the teeth from slaves. I'm sure that's not entirely true, or is it?

[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago

William Henry Harrison should have ate it at Tippecanoe but at least he corrected his misstep during his first month in office

[–] McCrankyface@midwest.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)
[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What does that mean? The name Carter doesn't show up on the Wikipedia page for timor from what I can find.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

JIMMY CARTER: "Well, as you may know, I had a policy when I was president of not selling weapons if it would exacerbate a potential conflict in a region of the world, and some of our allies were very irate about this policy. And I have to say that I was not, you know, as thoroughly briefed about what was going on in East Timor as I should have been. I was more concerned about other parts of the world then."

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/10/jimmy_carter_indonesia_east_timor_genocide

That sounds like a completely believable explanation to me. I can completely believe that that the military advisors didn't give him the full picture of what was happening there.

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