I just hope Colin Kaepernick doesn’t take this too hard!

I just hope Colin Kaepernick doesn’t take this too hard!

And that is relevant to the OP’s post... how? Batista was worse. Great, got it. It doesn’t make Fidel a great guy. Might as well be saying “Hey, Cuba: at least this abusive boyfriend only left bruises where they’d be covered by clothing, unlike the last one who’d fuck up your face, too! AND at least he’s nice to you…

THIS THIS THIS. The attitude of “I’ll take anything besides our current government/status quo” IS A FUCKING BAD ONE.

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.

My grandparents too! They’re 86 and 88—my grandfather went to university with Castro.

And Mussolini made the trains run on time....

I’ll settle for “he was terrible.” That’s an appropriate eulogy.

One corrupt regime was displaced by another corrupt regime.

My Facebook newsfeed is full of rational, left leaning friends celebrating the death of a Dictator. He ceased to be a “revolutionary hero” long ago yet the romance lives on...

Liberals don’t care about the sovereignty of Cuba. Don’t even bother.

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…

I hate admitting it, but I kinda thought he had died ages ago, for some reason. I saw that he had died and was like “wait.....he was still living?!”

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…

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.

Yes, all the world’s problems can be traced back to white males. When Japan, for example, only approves 11 out of the thousands of refugee applications received from Syria...white men are evil. When Boko Haram kidnaps hundreds of girls to wed to their soldiers...white men are evil. etc...

I’ve heard people claiming that, I haven’t read hard data to support the claim. That may sound “lawyerly” but in a country of 320,000,000, there will always be a certain number of crimes/hate speech, etc. Have those numbers increased as a result of this election? IDK. Instances like Adam Yauch Park being defaced:…

Do nothing. Because it will hurt the person with Alzheimer’s who needs a caretaker and it would hardly effect the election. But feel free to warn your family member that you know what they did and that you are keeping an eye on them; if you see any evidence that they aren’t taking the absolute best care of the…