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but it happened, period.
Cuba? u can't even get to a point for it to be brutal, bloody, and violent.
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but it happened, period.
Cuba? u can't even get to a point for it to be brutal, bloody, and violent.
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yadda yadda yadda
more blah blah about cuba
but unfortunately all of america's revolutionaries were murdered
more blah blah about cuba
but unfortunately all of america's revolutionaries were murdered
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Cubans didnt even have chance to have dissenters because da state murdered them... they're numbers are in da hundreds of thousands...in 2016 it still goes on.
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And America takes an early lead in the Oppression Olympics with Cuba hot on their tail
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Please don't let Mr. "Slavery was a cakewalk" derail another thread. Funny how he tries to play up the atrocities of Spanish speaking people, yet when it comes to others that share more of his complexion is downplayed.
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I'll admit Castro's done some foul ****, but cats (Mostly Cubans) will deny, deny, deny at the good things he has done
I still fox with you Kaep
Good things he's done. Let's go over the list:
He freed Cuba from harmful, exploitative, American influence, and then harmed and exploited it himself.
He spent millions of dollars providing aid to foreign countries, while his own was in desperate need of that money.
He spoke out against racism in other countries, while preventing his people from speaking out against racism in his.
He was opposed to imperialism and foreign influence yet had no problem cozying up to the USSR.
He demanded justice for others yet committed grievous injustices against his own.
He demanded liberty for others yet oppressed his own.
Like Rusty said in another thread, it's like running a women's shelter only to go home and brutally beat your wife. Is it any wonder why so many Cubans don't like him?
There are actual good things he had a hand in. First country to end mother to child HIV transmission, the lung cancer vaccine (big one), free med school, massive investments in education and social services. Some other random stuff you'd really have to look for, as I have never seen or heard any of it outside of articles online.
I fully suspect the enriched education system has other motives, my guess being dat communist brainwashing since you can get locked up for teaching your kids stuff outside of what the schools go over.
Dude was clearly an ******* though so I can see why people either ignore or don't know about the good stuff
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Ninja when the hell you start caring about oppressed people
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Ninja when the hell you start caring about oppressed people
Famb don't even talk Rafael Trujillo they way he talks about Castro
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oh, so downplaying = accurately describing da islamic trade trade compared to da Atlantic varieties?
yikes.
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Ninja when the hell you start caring about oppressed people
Famb don't even talk Rafael Trujillo they way he talks about Castro
Us Dominicans took care of Trujillo ourselves..got a swiss cheese whip for his troubles.
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oh look, we're comparing a Trump vote towards 3rd world dictatorships...
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never change NT
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Reagan was just as bad as Castro, worse if you consider the BS he did both domestically and abroad.
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Ninja about to come in here and cape like we've never seen before.
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I don't doubt it, but to be honest I don't really care about what his opinion on the matter is. Castro was a dictator, no doubt. But to argue that Reagan was this saint is absurd
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Castro was a savage that violently crushed opposition...u got state spys on every neighborhood block reporting to da state for any signs of dissents NOW in 2016.
had da Civil rights era happened in Cuba it would've ended like tiananmen square.
Like ya daddy reagan?
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I feel what you sayin, but we (i say we with the assumptions we are Americans) seem to talk down from our morally high perch when we guilty as well. We stay talkin like we this shiny community of just laws an we not.
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what u mean...like topple da USSR & free East Germany?
presided over some of da most robust economies da US ever seen?
how bout being elected with a 49 state landslide?
[emoji]129300[/emoji] can't remember Castro even having elections...
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How about the Iran contra fiasco? Supporting apartheid in South Africa? Fighting proxy wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador? Propping up Montt in Guatemala? Smuggling coke into the poor communities?
To make it 100% clear, I am not one of those on this site that view Castro as a good guy. I think he was a brutal dictator that had good ideas, that ultimately never came to fruition. But to argue Reagan was a good dude, especially as a minority is misguided at best, cornballish at worst
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no American President is "a saint" but are we really equating Reagan vs Castro? c'mon guys...
now AZ, you're not being unreasonable and i respect ur position...put it like this,
let's say you wanna be completely neutral and say Reagan was a lowkey scumbag overseas in da name of American interests...at least in a way u can see he was a doing it in da name of patriotism..
Castro couldn't even be a proper scum bag for da beneficiary of his own people.
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Ummm... Reagan’s presidency was marked by a record-setting number of scandals and crimes. Reagan’s Cold War obsessions helped unleash right-wing “death squads” and murderous militaries on the common people in many parts of the Third World, but nowhere worse than in Latin America.
I don't know how any Latin American can have any inch of respect for Reagan. Trust me, he abhorred Latin Americans and killed them with impunity through death squads. Boggles my mind how he can be supported or revered by any Latin American.
I don't know how any Latin American can have any inch of respect for Reagan. Trust me, he abhorred Latin Americans and killed them with impunity through death squads. Boggles my mind how he can be supported or revered by any Latin American.
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^^^ Because Latinos ain't a monolith b
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Ninja just doing his usual downplaying of black people. Da Hispanic > black narrative has now evolved into who was more severely oppressed
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ask da millions that were granted Amnesty under his watch.. something that'll never happened again politically for da foreseeable future.
we damn sure ain't.
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Yes, yes we are. Just cause that's ya daddy don't give you the right to downplay the pain he brought to millions of people.no American President is "a saint" but are we really equating Reagan vs Castro? c'mon guys...
Castro was ruthless dictatorship for 1/2 a century... Reagan was a 2 term President re-elected TWICE da second being a 49 state drubbing.
keep comparing Castro to Reagan..imma sit back & laugh at you.
