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Fidel Castro, Longtime Dictator of Cuba, Has Died

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You ever been to a Communist Country? They're all poor... except for the Ruling Class.

These are/were the most equal societies out there... as everyone lived in misery. They're an absolute disgrace to humanity.

Tell me about it. When I traveled in he USSR for a month by train in 1987, there was no such thing as a snack (except for the Navel Oranges I brought with me. They lasted the first week--one a night). You ate three times a day. There was no menu on the trains. If you didn't like pork fat, cabbage soup, and Georgian mineral water, you starved. Simple as that. I took small comfort in the idea that, as an American tourist, I was eating high on the hog. Hotels tended to be spartan as well. And the stores were a joke, too. Nothing in them, unless you went, like I did, to a so-called Beriozka where they only accepted foreign currency. Thank god for those.
 
Yes they can be helped, just as the French helped us. Right now, our best shot at helping them is to trade with them, especially tourism. Let them see better how we live, that they may make up their own minds the destiny they want to follow.

I think the Cuban people know exactly how those in the US live, particularly the million or so US citizens of Cuban descent in Florida. The problem is Kevin that in a dictatorship you don't get to " make up your own mind" about your destiny. You do as you are bloody well told or face the consequences.

Fidel's death may result in a tightening of suppression in Cuba - just in case the people start getting ideas.
 
Anxious to see what Trump has to say and does about this..

I would like to see us take cuba under our wing if we can..
Sure, let's poison Cuba with McDonald's, mega churches and reality TV. Let's be sure turn the place into an offshore gentrified suburbia. I'm sure Trump is already thinking about building ithree hotels and a golf course there.
 
Sure, let's poison Cuba with McDonald's, mega churches and reality TV. Let's be sure turn the place into an offshore gentrified suburbia. I'm sure Trump is already thinking about building ithree hotels and a golf course there.

Says the Lib who has all the benefits of a free society. Typical... Libs are fine with others having their lives destroyed and living in squalor to satisfy their image of Utopia.

If that's what they want... why shouldn't they be FREE to choose.

If any of those things do not have a following... they will die, as they aren't propped up by the state.

If you find their current existence so attractive, why not move there?
 
Sure, let's poison Cuba with McDonald's, mega churches and reality TV. Let's be sure turn the place into an offshore gentrified suburbia. I'm sure Trump is already thinking about building ithree hotels and a golf course there.

Sounds like jobs for more Cubans to me.

What's your problem with that?

God helps us if anyone is to make a buck.........................huh?
 
Yes they can be helped, just as the French helped us. Right now, our best shot at helping them is to trade with them, especially tourism. Let them see better how we live, that they may make up their own minds the destiny they want to follow.
Make up their minds... ROTFLMFAO...

This is the extremely sad state of education in America.
 
I will remember this thread the next time a MOD calls me out for being disrespectful in a RIP thread.
 
RIP to a great leader who defended a country from western financial and cultural imperialism for decades.
 
Sure, let's poison Cuba with McDonald's, mega churches and reality TV. Let's be sure turn the place into an offshore gentrified suburbia. I'm sure Trump is already thinking about building ithree hotels and a golf course there.

I wish Henry! More likely if Cuba is ever free from Communist tyranny it will go for Chicago style gun and gang culture - much, much worse than the most gentrified of suburbias.
 
RIP to a great leader who defended a country from western financial and cultural imperialism for decades.
Sick.

The only sad thing about Fidel dying is he died of natural causes.

I wish he and his co-henchmen died in manners similar to what the coward, sadist and racist Che Guevara used on everyday Cubans.
 
Says the Lib who has all the benefits of a free society. Typical... Libs are fine with others having their lives destroyed and living in squalor to satisfy their image of Utopia.

If that's what they want... why shouldn't they be FREE to choose.

If any of those things do not have a following... they will die, as they aren't propped up by the state.

If you find their current existence so attractive, why not move there?
It's a shame, they're not gonna have their own identity soon and their cultures slowly going fade away. Of course they should have freedom and be able to choose. But McDonald's doesn't benefit the Cubans, it benefits McDonald's
 
It's a shame, they're not gonna have their own identity soon and their cultures slowly going fade away. Of course they should have freedom and be able to choose. But McDonald's doesn't benefit the Cubans, it benefits McDonald's

Their identity has been stolen... their freedom has been stolen... their dignity has been stolen.

There are examples... the best being the vast difference in mentality from former East Germans and West Germans. Same Volk before the end of the war... but after 50-years of the sewer known as Communism, the Easterners are different due to Communism, and not in a good way.

I've lived in a few former Commi countries, and been to a slew of others. Communism is pure rot... it rots the soul and mind.

Former East Bloc countries are going to take several more generations until they begin to purge the sickness.

Communism turns people into barbarians.

McDonalds sells fast food... and like all businesses that survive, it makes a profit. Soooo Evil.

McDonald's hasn't stopped Europeans from being Europeans... the argument is fully retarded.
 
It is my pleasure to share the news that Fidel Castro has at last given up the ghost. May the thousands he murdered, and the many more who he imprisoned and tortured, haunt him.

Cuba's Fidel Castro, former president, dies aged 90 - BBC News

1 down and 1 to go.

Hopefully Raul drops dead soon.

I just got a phone call who was a shipmate of mine back in Groton Ct. His father was in prison back in Cuba from 1977 -1983 for trying to get off the island.
 
Make up their minds... ROTFLMFAO...

This is the extremely sad state of education in America.

Citizens outnumber soldiers, massively. And those soldiers come from citizens.



So yes. Make up their minds.
 
Their identity has been stolen... their freedom has been stolen... their dignity has been stolen.

I've lived in a few former Commi countries, and been to a slew of others. Communism is pure rot... it rots the soul and mind.

Former East Bloc countries are going to take several more generations until they begin to purge the sickness.

Communism turns people into barbarians.

McDonalds sells fast food... and like all businesses that survive, it makes a profit. Soooo Evil.

McDonald's hasn't stopped Europeans from being Europeans... the argument is fully retarded.
Another form of exploitation will take over. The place is gonna wind up an offshore Disney World playground for white bread tourists.
 
Citizens outnumber soldiers, massively. And those soldiers come from citizens.



So yes. Make up their minds.
Once again, exhibiting ignorance on a grand scale.

Have you ever bothered to read anything about how Communists states are run? Or do you believe every scrap of **** Leftists feed you about Socialists states?

****ing amazing... really.
 
This.

While many nations turned a blind eye to the Apartheid regime and its invasion of Angola, Castro put troops in and defeated them in Angola, eventually leading to the freedom of Namibia and Angola. Obviously American citizens and Cuban escapees have very different opinions shaped by years of hostility but the situation in Africa was dire for decades without help from sources such as Castro and Cuba.

So tonight, I raise a glass of whisky to someone who actually made a difference for the positive in Africa.

Not many communist countries survived after the Soviet Union collapse, he did though.
 
Another form of exploitation will take over. The place is gonna wind up an offshore Disney World playground for white bread tourists.

That would take a while as there is nothing there... and... exploitation? ROTFLMFAO...

The people are being worse than exploited now.

You Leftists cry about Trump turning around and taking away YOUR rights... which is a massive joke.

Well... Cubans have had their rights taken away since these lunatics have been running and ruining the country... and you're worried they might not live up to your ****hole expectations of Utopia.

Un ****ing believable.

The arrogance of you folks is simply astounding.

The great thing is there are Cuban families in Florida who once had large holdings there... and they'll be going back to help fix the current cesspool.

The infrastructure will be easy to fix... the minds ****ed by Communism not.
 
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I just heard the great news! I hope the bastard died slow and suffered. Too bad he didn't get planted 60 years ago.
 
The poorest person in Cuba is better off than the poorest person in America.


Really? Can you source this? Who is the poorest person in each respective country, were they interviewed about this?
 
Can't say I'm going to miss him.
 
Really? Can you source this? Who is the poorest person in each respective country, were they interviewed about this?

Aristaeus hasn't a clue what he is talking about.

The Communist suffers a poverty of freedoms and basics for existence.

The American has the freedom to rise out of poverty.

His notion is absurd at best, demented at worst.
 
RIP to a great leader who defended a country from western financial and cultural imperialism for decades.

A truly disgusting view of a murderer, torturer and brutal dictator. GW Bush is burned in effigy for waterboarding but Castro is held upon high as a "great leader". :lamo
 
I doubt there will be many people morning his death, but this will change nothing in
Cuba. His brother is just as bad.
 
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