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🇰🇵 A few years after Japanese colonisers left the Korean Peninsula at the end of WW2, the South Korean government, under US occupation, began to round up & slaughter communists — figures range from 30,000 to 50,000, in merely months.

This caused the Northern forces to come to the rescue of their comrades stuck in the South, in 1950, or what is called in the West an “invasion”.

The US military then used this as an excuse to intervene, in an actual invasion whose actual goals were beyond maintaining US control of the South, and even beyond expanding US control to the North.

“If we have made the decision to use military force to solve problems, then we ought to use it, and use an overwhelming amount; use too much, and deliberately use too much, so that there are no errors”

Curtis LeMay, US General (1952, Korean

The US army burnt forests, poisoned rivers, used white phosphorous, agent orange, and other chemical and biological weapons on civilians. Koreans moved entire farms & factories underground.

As an autistic person I’ve decided that I don’t struggle to read social cues. It’s that I’m hyper aware of and see through non-autistic people’s bullshit. And the “problem” is responding to what I really see (as opposed to playing along) essentially clocking them.

Reminder: if you're preparing for rebellion, so is the State. Not only are police & national guard being mobilized. All our favorite "local community leaders" are also being tapped to engage in peace-policing & other cooptation techniques.

You don't have to listen to "community leaders" or "movement elders". Most people who use such titles have been shown to be ineffective for decades. In order for us to succeed in the present, we must acknowledge the abject failures our elders.

On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the 6 million Jews and millions of Slavs, Roma, Communists, Disabled people, Queer people, Afro-Germans, and many others killed by Nazis and their collaborators (Thread)

Year after Year we say “never again” to honor the memory of those who were murdered and prevent another genocide, but historical memory is a fickle thing which was long ago murdered too and there is very little interest for honoring the truth

There is this version of the Holocaust that ppl want to maintain-that it was solely a German genocide built out of blame of Jews for economic conditions after WWI and all the nazis who did it are dead and no one living has any culpability

It does not play down the Holocaust at all to say that it cannot and must not be treated as unique and independent within the history of the world, and in fact to properly understand it we must understand it within the history of other colonial projects

People don’t want to understand the true conditions and the historical basis from which the Holocaust was perpetuated and from which many genocides since have been built from.