If it was some western mother sending tweets from her child’s perspective about waiting for Santa Clause or something else banal no one would bat an eye, but because people don’t want to comprehend the suffering this child is going through they’ll try and find any reason to dismiss the source.

This seems like such an odd thing for people to get their panties in a twist about. Between the Russians, voter suppression efforts, and Trump claiming the election was rigged I don’t see how taking a closer look at a couple of states can hurt, maybe it will help restore some confidence in our voting system. It’s…

It’s sequential. Run if you can, hide if you can’t run, fight if you can’t hide.

Fight is the last resort. Note that it’s listed third.

It’s the appropriate protocol. You run if you can. If you can’t run, you hide. If you can’t run or hide, fight.

I’m seeing some criticism of the fight part of the message. It’s a list of priorities. Run if you can, hide if you can’t, and fight if you’re found. The truth is that if an active shooter finds you and you don’t fight you’ll die anyway. It doesn’t mean to proactively go out and play Yosemite Sam trying to hunt down…

In other shooting news, anyone seen that Roof plans to represent himself? That ought to go well for him...

Because everyone likes to claim none of those countries were “really” communist. People who actually lived there sure as hell aren’t on the “yay communism!” train but people who are on that train like to act like none of them exist. One reply I dismissed said I needed to look at the Paris Commune for “real” communism.…

Despite all the heroic revolutionary imagery and free healthcare, Castro was the linchpin for a lot of horrible shit that went down in Central and South America over the last 50 years. His “success” emboldened scores of right-wing military dictators (with the help of the US) to brutally clamp down on any possibly…

The romance lives on mostly due to young quasi-liberals who REALLY haven’t done their research. For crying out loud there’s been lots of recent posts going round tumblr from a bit from older liberals begging the younger ones to PLEASE stop romanticizing the Soviet Union already. Because yes there are a lot of young…

I have family members saying the same thing. Fidel betrayed the people and later, manipulated VZLA, and now look at Caracas. His regime never could provide decent food, but never skimped on PR.

Cuba is like the perfect cautionary tale of cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. Like, good on you and congrats to “sticking it to the man,” but how many mouths did that end up feeding? And on the other end of things, America’s obsession with this island elevated it as a symbol in a way that while it may not…

My mom called me crying from a casino in Vegas. She was born in Havana a month after he took power and lived in that hell for twelve years. I’m so happy my Grandpa got to see this day. Fuck Castro.

While I have friends who did their med school in Cuba, acknowledge the role he played in supporting Mandela (to a large degree because he wanted to tweak the nose of the US any way he could) and agree that US policy in Latin America has often been a disaster, I have little sympathy for someone who executed 5000…

Never. Gets. Resurrected Old.

But he is also responsible for the central planning blunders and stifling government controls that – along with the US embargo – have strangled the economy, leaving most Cubans scrabbling for decent food and desperate for better living standards.

Good. Fuck him. Like many “communist” predecessors, he abused a system meant for the people to benefit himself first and foremost.

Also, this just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

I’m broke, but if I won the lotto, I think I’d donate a whole pile of money to the Innocence Project.