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@mekkaokereke Here's an update you'll like: the satirical Dutch newsprograms 'Even tot hier' ('Up until here') has placed duplicate panels just outside the US controlled grounds, including panels about Trumps discriminatory executive orders, and spelled out the name William F. James Junior in hay bales in an adjacent field. Unfortunately, all panels were soon removed by the police; they are now looking for a permanent location. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLiberators #Margraten #Veterans #BlackFedi

@mekkaokereke
"Killing a lot of Nazis" is not in itself a good thing. Liberating French cities is a good thing. Killing mostly young, mostly conscripted, heavily indoctrinated men is never good in itself. Sadly, the nature of war is that powerful men make it necessary to kill in order to liberate.
Two generations ago I had relatives fighting on both sides of WWII. My grandmother was in a column of German refugees straffed by American bombers. My grandfather was at

@mekkaokereke that being said, for the french, it’s harder commemorating the North African soldiers who helped us…

@mekkaokereke

The whole point of the authoritarian government is not to govern only to demonstrate who is subordinate.

The only thing MAGA is after is the eraser of history to fit what they think will bring a golden age.

This isn’t any different than the very famous modification of history Stalin engaged in

Besides state stakes in companies like Intel the pumpkin spice, Stalin is engaging another behavior familiar from the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commissar_Vanishes

@mekkaokereke

Why would Netherlands comply?

@mekkaokereke

Apparently this was done by the US without notifying officials in the Netherlands. It's clearly part of the attack on DEI initiated by Trump. No doubt the fact that Biden had them installed in 2024 added an element of revenge.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/military/us-memorial-black-soldiers-removed-netherlands-cemetery-606547

@mekkaokereke Even when force is used, you can always refuse. They did it because they wanted to. What power does Dozy dementia Don have over them?

@mekkaokereke

Actually, the American cemetery in the Netherlands is operated by a US entity. The US entity took down the rotating display honoring Black veterans who both built the cemetery and fought bravely in WWII.

@mekkaokereke
I was wondering how the Americans could force the Dutch to do anything like this. Sounds like an American did it and the Dutch want it reversed.

"two panels highlighting the role of Black American liberators in World War II had been removed by the cemetery’s American administrator.

https://nltimes.nl/2025/11/10/limburg-demands-answers-us-whitewashing-black-history-wwii-cemetery

@mekkaokereke

Just recently heard a radio program about a Dutch town that searched for the history of indigenous soldiers from Canada buried over there, and then built a memorial exhibit honouring and teaching about their involvement in the war.

Now the exhibit will travel to Canada, because we shamefully need others to teach us our own erased history.

@mekkaokereke @nflux Just double checked and although it doesn’t change that they are indeed removed, please correct the statement that the Dutch would have done so, as they haven’t. Inquiries are ongoing of how they have been removed and when, Americans in charge of maintaining the graveyard have likely removed them by executive order from the US.

@mekkaokereke The kleptocratic powermongers who have managed to seize control of our government are despicable people, every one of them.