op of the "you can vote fascism out actually" post turned reblogs off (lol) so i'm making my own post but
it is so egregious and insulting for gringo libs to use the pinochet as a shining example of how you actually can vote fascism away, especially as a chilean myself.
obviously a gringo wouldn't know this but for so many chileans the plebiscite itself was a monumental failure, the triumph of reformism over revolution, the cowardice of the older conservative wings of the opposition who effectively shat all over the people who risked their lives to fight the dictatorship.
let me reiterate: pinochet made a deal. he wasn't defeated, he made a fucking deal. and it allowed him to cement his own policy and constitution in the transition to democracy. this included the binominal electorate system that gave the right wing disproportionate representation in the government, the AFPs which are privatized pensions that LITERALLY STEAL THE PENSIONS of older chileans effectively keeping them in poverty and unable to retire, the privatization of water, the protecting of the military and the militarized police that actually comitted the atrocities of the dictatorship (as well as their income. to this day the copper mining industry provides a percentage of its profits to the military), as well as TOTAL IMMUNITY to Pinochet so he could never be tried at home and a special seat as a lifetime senator. like??? how exactly was this a win?
to this day chile suffers, the police beat and kill people with impunity, multinational corps have stolen our resources and wealth leaving us with nothing, the indigenous mapuche people are still under militarized occupation.
and this isn't even mentioning the collective trauma of our people, how do you heal from being exiled and tortured, from having your friends and family disappeared and murdered, from 17 years of terror and fear from the secret police if there is no justice? if that bastard never suffered any consequences for his atrocities? if the same shit keeps happening under democracy?
white gringos using our suffering as proof for their own agenda and their defense of biden the war-criminal is an insult and spits on the memory of all fallen. váyanse a la chucha gringos reculiaos.