Fidel is dead
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Shakepants
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about time.
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That's silly... No matter what you think of the guy...
You gotta admire the mans principles... He took on the USA... and I'm not sayin' he wasn't silly.. nearly causing WW 3...
But he was young then... Towards the end tho... he saw the need for change in his country...
A great man that was willing to change ...
RIP...
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The US tried to assassinate him time and time again, but 2016 finished the job.
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Fuck the slice, want the pie... why ask why, till we fry.
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red impact
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If he's partying anything like his father, who knows! Depends how one 8 balls.
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Nah, if the principles suck ass and cause shit loads of people misery and death then I'm not impressed. Hitler had principles too right. Don't get me started on Kim Fat Pong. NK is truly in it's own bubble on earth. Poor people. *Off for a double bread with meat* AKA the hamburger - invented by none other than Kim Jong Il. Awesome.
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WELL... the difference between Hitler and Fidel ... is he didn't want to arbitrarily kill a zillion people because they were "sub-human"...
Fidel didn't want to take over the world... He just wanted his part of the world free from Capitalism...
Your argument sucks ass... please go back to school and come back with a half decent response... We aint fucking college kids here...
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PS. I am implying... you are dumb as fuck btw...
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Castro was human garbage and so is anyone who advocates any form of socialism. Especially communism.
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That's not really what I'm implying here Fami...
There are actually arguments for and against... most forms of Government... Socialism... Capitalism... Dictatorships...
For people to imply that one form of Government is worse than another... hence, implying that any leader of that Government is a shitbag is sorta dumb...
I would suggest that Capitalism is dumb... where the everyman for himself policy is not condusive to humanity...
THEN again.. without capitalism... people would not want to strive for better...
Maybe you've been brainwashed in your 'Murikan education system... but I would say that I tend to think for myself....
I could give pros and cons of Communism as well...
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The ones that feel affection for him is largely because they judge him more for his nationalist triumphs than his communist failures.
Can't deny though that his government produced tens of thousands of doctors and teachers and achieved some of the lowest infant mortality and illiteracy rates in the Western hemisphere.
Can't deny though that his government produced tens of thousands of doctors and teachers and achieved some of the lowest infant mortality and illiteracy rates in the Western hemisphere.
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If you think there are pros to communism you don't understand what communism is, nor do you grasp basic economics.
Aside from all the moral concerns (of which there are many), communism doesn't allow for market prices in the factors of production because the state controls said factors and cannot bid against itself.
Without market prices in the factors of production it is literally impossible to rationally allocate resources. It's why the USSR fell, it's why China had to liberalize many aspects of its society, it's why Cuba has had to change, and it's why North Korea is a desolate wasteland.
Aside from all the moral concerns (of which there are many), communism doesn't allow for market prices in the factors of production because the state controls said factors and cannot bid against itself.
Without market prices in the factors of production it is literally impossible to rationally allocate resources. It's why the USSR fell, it's why China had to liberalize many aspects of its society, it's why Cuba has had to change, and it's why North Korea is a desolate wasteland.
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A command economy isn't "literally impossible", just extraordinarily difficult to implement - you don't get any of the free decision-making power of a market. The USSR existed for a long while, and was inefficient but functional for some of it.
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HEY... I know that already man.... Trust me I know...
However... you're beating on a man who actually BELIEVED in his form of Government... you agree or disagree...
I tend to look at most sides of a coin... because, I know for a fact that not EVERYONE loves the UK or the USA's... form of Government..
Will you be suggesting that we should abandon our forms of Government because people with the same mindset as you... can't see both sides of a story?
Just sayin' man...
You really need to understand this world aint a Disney movie... where the whole story is sugar coated for your benefit...
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Any and all governments can go fuck themselves, first of all.
But communism is not about a difference of opinion. Communism is the single most destructive ideology that has ever existed.
There aren't "two sides" to this. Anyone who advocates communism is advocating the wanton destruction of humanity and everything it has ever accomplished.
But communism is not about a difference of opinion. Communism is the single most destructive ideology that has ever existed.
There aren't "two sides" to this. Anyone who advocates communism is advocating the wanton destruction of humanity and everything it has ever accomplished.