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TexasMommaWithAHat

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54. I see it on Facebook

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #44)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 12:30 PM

Nov 2016

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And I honestly do not understand what is "right wing" about that phrase!

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It's not as simple as "Castro was an evil dictator". [View all] Ken Burch Nov 2016 OP

Agree get the red out Nov 2016 #1

I agree! I am very conflicted Fichefinder Nov 2016 #2

Can the US "send" it's doctors somewhere? hughee99 Nov 2016 #4

The U.S. sends them to a decade or more of deep debt lostnfound Nov 2016 #5

I completely agree. hughee99 Nov 2016 #6

My Danish brother in law spend five years in Greenland as malaise Nov 2016 #19

That sounds like a fair deal. Some of the Cuban doctors don't seem to like their deal as much. hughee99 Nov 2016 #20

Another source is to read Jose Marti's book guillaumeb Nov 2016 #3

Right. He imprisoned gays because of American imperialism. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2016 #7

Yeah melman Nov 2016 #22

You should provide your source to that charge, shouldn't you? Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #41

Good grief. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2016 #53

I know we tried but we should have tried harder to co-opt him. DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2016 #8

Nixon(as vice president)basically sabotaged any chance of that. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #16

1 flamingdem Nov 2016 #46

Lin-Manuel Miranda should write a musical about that, come to think of it. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #48

As I've been writing here - it's not just the last 60 years flamingdem Nov 2016 #49

I agree with all that you posted there. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #50

Ironically it may be pressure from Putin that saves Cuba flamingdem Nov 2016 #51

fuck Castro, he was a racist, homophobic, sexist, murderous goon Grey Lemercier Nov 2016 #9

Dear respected DUer: Allow me to dissent. If the "evil dictator" is too simple, at least UTUSN Nov 2016 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author randome Nov 2016 #12

Fine. It still goes without saying that, if the revolution, with its flaws, had been overthrown Ken Burch Nov 2016 #21

Yep. Not like he was Dick Cheney. Iggo Nov 2016 #11

Was Roosevelt a great President? Many of Asian ethnicity would say 'No'. randome Nov 2016 #13

about a year before Obamas new Cuba policy, russia was going to start oil drilling Sunlei Nov 2016 #14

You should've stopped here nini Nov 2016 #15

Excellent post malaise Nov 2016 #17

Sorry but it as simple as he was an evil dictator. hrmjustin Nov 2016 #18

The people who want him out don't want anything better for Cuba. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #23

Really? The people who want him out don't want anything better for Cuba? hrmjustin Nov 2016 #24

They want "elections"...which, by themselves, aren't anything. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #25

If they want socialism, communism, or capitalism it should be up to the people who live there throug hrmjustin Nov 2016 #26

They could only be free and fair... Ken Burch Nov 2016 #28

There will only be fair and free elections when the current dictator allows them. hrmjustin Nov 2016 #30

If they hated him, hated socialism, hated communism, he'd have been gone years ago Warpy Nov 2016 #32

If this is true let there be free and fair elections! hrmjustin Nov 2016 #33

You mean like these? Warpy Nov 2016 #34

You think these elections were fair? hrmjustin Nov 2016 #37

At least as fair as ours are. Warpy Nov 2016 #38

Clearly we disagree. Have a good evening! hrmjustin Nov 2016 #39

Isn't amazing that the free and fair Cuban elections keep the Castro bros. in power for 50 years? brooklynite Nov 2016 #42

That assumes the ruling capitalists will not resort to violence. rug Nov 2016 #55

Yes that is a fair point. hrmjustin Nov 2016 #56

I am having a hard time with this jargon hfojvt Nov 2016 #40

OK...what you need to do, white heterosexuality aside... Ken Burch Nov 2016 #52

you seem not to have noticed hfojvt Nov 2016 #59

I was going on your statement that you hadn't read Latin American history. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #61

Ok. Castro was a dictator. TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2016 #27

It's not that simple. And "Fixed it" is a right-wing meme. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #29

Fixed it is a right wing meme? hrmjustin Nov 2016 #31

In my experience, yes. Ken Burch Nov 2016 #45

"Fixed it" is a right wing meme? TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2016 #36

It's something I usually see Trump trolls(We could call them "Trumplestiltskins") Ken Burch Nov 2016 #44

I see it on Facebook TexasMommaWithAHat Nov 2016 #54

It's a way of saying "your opinion is not worthy of any respect-and you didn't even mean it". Ken Burch Nov 2016 #58

I stopped at "right-wing coup in Venezuela" Blue_Tires Nov 2016 #35

Why not consider staying on topic? This is not an invitation to take a kick at all leftists. Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #43

The masks come off when it comes to Fidel! flamingdem Nov 2016 #47

They turned Miami into what the FBI termed "America's Murder Capital" at one time. Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #60

totalitarianism in the name of the left is still totalitarianism Blue_Tires Dec 2016 #62

We are very selective in the dictators we condemn. alarimer Nov 2016 #57