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I believe the poster is using <prove me wrong> as tongue in cheek homage. Thank dog somebody can suss out stuff. Thank you.
The C130 quip was intentionally hyperbolic... but then we just got hit with a huge 50%? tariff/tax because Trump is pissed that his soul-mate Bolsonaro was convicted in Argentina; a country that DID show numerous people to the airborne door after Peron was deposed.
<"As The Guardian reported in 2004, the dictatorship would carry out its six-year reign of terror with the explicit and surreptitious support of the U.S. government. "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told the Argentine foreign minister after the coup. "We won't cause you unnecessary difficulties. If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better."
Lt. Scilingo led the crew of two death flights that left from a Buenos Aires military airport in the summer of 1977. He said that the prisoners were told they were going to be transferred to concentration camps elsewhere in the country and needed to be vaccinated. But the "vaccine" they were given was actually a sedative that rendered them nearly unable to walk.Once on the plane, they were given another sedative that completely knocked them out, and then they were stripped naked. The crew flew them out over the ocean, where they knew the currents would most likely carry the bodies out to sea, and threw the victims out of the plane. "I personally threw them out," said Scilingo, who added that at one point he almost fell out of the plane himself. To this day he is haunted by the possibility, stating that he often envisions himself plummeting into the cold depths of the Atlantic.">
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/305154/the-truth-behind-ado... More than a few social media commenting MAGA have endorsed death flights for those they perceive to be woke/commie/lib/democrat. So...hyperbolic? We're dealing with anonymous masked thugs who enjoy shooting people in the face with pepper balls and get their rocks off terrorizing people.
How many got deportees flying lessons? Does it really matter? How many is acceptable to our Republic?
What would be worse; a painless death by impact with the ocean, versus <"the deportees will enjoy “workforce training, health care and accommodation”> AKA torture and forced labor in Djibouti, South Sudan, Uganda or Eswatini...those paragons of human rights
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/8/23/what-w...
