Castro would have been called an "ally" managing a "struggling democracy." But there is room for constructive criticisms (hear that dumbeddown demonizers?) However, perhaps the biggest thing intentially ignored by U.S. ultranationalists is the negative impact of the U.S. embargo (El Bloqueo). Several votes (though nonbinding) in the UN General Assembly shown that the world opposes it. A superpower/empire punishing a small, Third World nation: Sounds like fascistic bullying don't you think?
to feast-&-famine Third World capitalism. Briefly, there are positives & negatives. But the positives have made Cuba a major player on the world stage, shedding its noteriety as "The Whorehouse of the Americans." What U.S. leaders, e.g., have really hated about Castro is that he didn't play the game. They really don't have sincere priorities for the Cuban people or Cuba as a soveriegn nation. If Castro was a willing tool, U.S. leaders would have called him an "ally" regardless of his behavior.
Castro & other Cubans risked years of imprisonment at hard labor. They were set free as a "goodwill" gesture. Then Castro, etc. took the biggest risk, potentially endangering their lives, to continue an armed struggle based in the Sierra Maestra. I wouldn't exactly call this a convenient manuever. But Castro, etc. were determined to liberate Cuba from being a U.S. market satellite/virtual neocolony a la Cuba's national hero Jose Marti. And to usher in an alternative system...(Contd)
An overview of Fidel Castro: His detractors & demonizers have called him a dictator out for raw, naked power. But if Castro was simply after that, he could have taken a much easier path. W/ his intelligence, he could have purely aligned himself w/ the Cuban elite, like previous Cuban leaders. In turn, Castro could have curried favor w/ U.S. imperialism & thus in combo could have had a better chance to rise to power maintaining business-as-usual. But he & other Cubans didn't. (Contd)
Most of these hollywood people are morons who should stick to what they know anyways. Seriously, if you're gaining your political philosophy from men like Brad Pitt, you should probably just shut your mouth.
those celebrities are just a bunch of fucking imbeciles for supporting a 53-YEAR DICTATORSHIP....will they allow the same thing to happen in the US??? No.
@MrTaQiNonen Castro has been "governing" Cuba for 53 years; the US by Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt, etc etc etc.
@mazingerZful Do you notice those US presidents are DIFFERENT PEOPLE? Do you notice Fidel Castro is ONE PERSON "governing" Cuba for more than half a century? Notice the difference? Get it?
@mazingerZful HAHA. The US change their president every now and then to create the illusion that democracy is dominating the political process. But in fact, it's Wall Street and corporations that are controlling the White House, and the best way to maintain this status is to support two parties whose policies may differ in the way they speak, but not the way they act. Remember Obama's campaign? He made dozens of promises to win the election; which of them has he kept by now? Think about it.
@mazingerZful They say "Wall Street is always governing you" but they don't say that you don't have to be the son of the president if you want to work in Wall Street!
@mazingerZful These fucks say "The US has a dictatorship. They say that Colombia, Mexico, Chile and any non-leftist country is under dictatorship" while Chavez, Castro and Ahmadinejad close TV channels and send people to jail because they think different.
@DieGoth74 Socialism is a form of mental illness, and it has no cure. It is the major proof that idiocy exists in this world, or, as Churchill said: "Socialism is the philosophy of failure". That's all.
@mazingerZful You could very well be refering to the U.S.-backed-50-year-old Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua w/ its 19th century-like capitalist "Eden" for the few fetishly feeding at the country's trough while many coped w/ its poverty, illiteracy, inequality, substandard healthcare because local & foreign elites' profiteering was held high over the interests of the country. I guess some fucking Right-wing imbeciles don't recognize the dictatorship of the "invisible hand."
@revolution123ize I didn't know you could read my mind (I never said i was right-wing). Congratulations. Did Jimmy Carter support Somoza??? Nope, i don't think so. In fact, Carter stopped backing his dictatorship and prohibited Somoza from entering th US. And Reagan never supported D'Aubuisson and Arena (he compared them with the nazis). Maybe you should improve your reading skills when using history books. The imbeciles here are you and the celebrities who spit on the system that made them rich
@mazingerZful I never said you were Right-wing. (My last statement wasn't necessarily directed toward you, but...) Carter supported him at least for a while. Regardless, previous U.S. presidents supported the Somoza crime family, as I said, for 50 years. FDR said of the first Somoza, "He's an SOB but he's our SOB." Reagan supported Rios Mont, the Contras, & so it wouldn't be surprising that he supported the Salvadoran gov. which included D'Aubuisson & ARENA. Improve on your imbeciliality.
@revolution123ize you forgot one little detail: Somoza's dictatorship ENDED 33 YEARS AGO, while Castro's regime is still going on, torturing and sending to jail "enemies of the state" (translation: people who want democracy in Cuba). But if you admire this bastard, i'm sure you also admire Bush, whose decisions have killed thousands of people in Irak, apart from ordering tortures in Guantanamo. It's curious how left wing and right wing fascists have so much in common. Don't you think so??
If Cuba & Fidel are so great then it shouldnt be difficult to find someone who went from Miami to Cuba on a shitty homemade raft b/c they just couldnt take living under America's oppressive rule anymore & wanted a brighter future for their children which they planned to find in Cuba
@mikedd56 Maybe if there wasn't a 40 year long trade embargo on Cuba conditions would be better. Maybe we should let other countries govern themselves instead dictating how other countries should be run.
@mikedd56 Cuba has been under US embargo for decades, hindering their efforts at industrialization. Taking this into account, Cuba's a pretty impressive case, especially for a Latin American country.
Its always our fault isnt it. If we remove brutal dictators like Sadaam were assholes. Although he was a swell guy & it was esp. rude of us to bust up all of his torture/rape chambers that had woman AND children, but still no reason to cock block. If we do nothing leave Fidel alone its our fault for the shape of his country. Why is it always anti america
BTW Cuba has the 2nd highest rate of imprisoned journalists in the world.
@mikedd56 I've never heard anybody call the US an "asshole" for removing brutal dictatorships, but for imposing them like in Chile, supporting them like in Cuba and El Salvador, or co-opting the energy resources while destroying a country like in Iraq and Libya. The fact that the US is a superpower and has influence in every country is not an argument against the fact that the US has an economic embargo against Cuba. An embargo is not "leaving" Castro (I think you mean Raul?) alone.
...too that you say we destroyed Libya & took its resources. It was Libya's people who rebelled against their dictator. We gave them the tiniest bit of aid. They just captured the dictator there. I'm guessing its pretty volatile right now plus they just won their independence, I dont think it would go too smoothly the US just strolling in there saying move aside we're here for oil.
@mikedd56 The tiniest bit of aid? You genuinely think the NTC could have conceivably won that war against Gaddafy's superior military might and technology without French weapons and US/Britian/France bombing? They captured the dictator after a French bomb hit his convoy in Sirte. The US has already opened up the country for foreign investment. This is reported in the establishment media. You could find it in the New York Times.
@mikedd56 No, it doesn't. The Committee to Protect Journalists cites 4 journalists imprisoned in Cuba. Uzbekistan has 6, Vietnam has 5, Ethiopia has 4. Myanmer has 13, Eritrea has 17, Iran has 34 and China has 34. An International Press Institute report has Turkey topping the list at 57. Cuba released 17 journalists last October, dropping it way down the list. This is easy information to find.
...would be so high. And OMG even if we did we just fought a fucking war for these people, its so horrible to ask for a lil discount oil in return. We have to be fucking saints now. You do realize that embargo was b/c Fidel wouldnt meet certain established humanitarian policies or w/e. But either way everything you just said seems to coincide with what I originally said. We take any sort of foreign action we are the bad guys. We dont take action we are the bad guys. Thats amazing..
@mikedd56@mikedd56 An occupying power is supposed to pay reparations, not demand them. A war where we killed a million of them and ruined their infrastructure and still have about 75% of the population opposed to our presence is not a war for the people, it's a war against them. If we care about humanitarianism in Cuba, why didn't we in Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Indonesia, South Africa, Egypt, Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war... the examples could continue.
@mikedd56 The last three journalists, contrary to your assertion that Cubans view the US as some utopia, say they want to *stay in Cuba* after they're released. How strange.
Right so my data was outdated but it doesnt change much. It still means 17 journalists were in jail. And its funny how you say no one called us assholes for removing dictators but go on to criticize our Iraq engagement, the very example I used. What do you think we did in Iraq, we removed Sadaam. Would you want to live under a brutal dictator, the Iraqi people didnt. We gave the country back to its people & contrary to popular belief we didnt get any oil. If we did you think gas...
@mikedd56 It wasn't specifically for removing Saddam. I was about as in favor of the US removing Saddam as I would have been of Nazi Germany invading Russia and removing Stalin. You'll note that a country being free at home usually has literally no affect on its client states. We removed Saddam and occupied their country for eight years. We didn't get oil, true, the goal was to secure Mideast oil so we have control of its exports to Europe.
@mikedd56 An occupying power has two responsibilities - to pay massive reparations for all the damage it caused (in Iraq, probably a million deaths and the destruction of Iraqi infrastructure by decades of bombing) and then to do what the population wants it to do - in Iraq, besides the Kurds who hated Saddam with a special fervor because he used our chemical weapons to massacre them, probably 80-85% of the population wants us out and has for the entire war. For good reason, too.
@mikedd56 If we wanted Saddam out of power, why didn't we support the insurrection in the South during the Gulf War? An opportunity opened up to remove him from power, but US troops stood aside, on order from their generals, and let Iraq crush the rebellion. I'm a libertarian, of course I wouldn't want to live under a brutal dictator. I would also hate to live under a brutal occupation. Invasion and aggression by the powerful states is not a step towards freedom.
@mikedd56 Yes, 17 journalists were in jail. Surely an awful crime. Good thing they've been freed. The US has imprisoned journalists in its past, too. It doesn't mean we're some despotic police state. We're the freest country in the world.
On Iraq: "...78% of the population opposed the presence of Coalition forces in Iraq, 69% believed the presence of U.S. forces is making things worse, 51% of the population considered attacks on coalition forces acceptable, up from 17% in 2004 and 35% in 2006."
If he's such a horrible man, why does everyone in the nation fuckin' love him like family? You live in a country pumped full of American media- the only stories that get through are the bad ones.
'Course you won't hear the stories about their praise of their government, or the American national who suicide bombed the Cuban plane in a manner not unlike 9/11. Think about it. -shrugagain-
@RidingBesideMe Fidel Castro is a fucking genocide. He supported all the anti-democratic guerrillas in South America. He trained and gave money from the SSSR to terrorist groups during many years.
@DieGoth74 That's a LIE! They had no money for doing that... jaja
I know why your problably mistaken:
USA financially supported ALL the dictatorships in Latin America during the 70's. And don't try to teach me about this, I'm Argentinian. I've studied history.
Google CIA support to Lat Am dictatorships.
And that also happened in Africa.
GET SOME EDUCATION PEOPLE!!! Your ignorance is murdering the world!!!
@jimiabad IGNORANT! The Soviet Union gave over $ 4 billions to Cuba EVERY YEAR. Part of that money was to train South American guerrillas. Stupid leftist Argentinian! GET REAL EDUCATION, IDIOT! Cuba sent troops to Angola and they supported a bloddy war there! Fucking leftists! You have killed over 100 millions!
@DieGoth74 The U.S. empire (despite whatever degree of democracy it has) gave billions in military aid to RIGHTWING TYRANNIES not only in Latin America but worldwide. Whatever aid Cuba provided to "export" revolution was nil compared to U.S. aid for counterrevolution for regressive regimes & policies. Cuba's role in Angola was to defend it against Aparthied-backed & RIGHTWING SCUM Savimbi. Your death toll of 100 mils is exaggerated. But RIGHTWING SLIMEBALLS are "pure" right? WRONG!
@revolution123ize Hey, idiot! I'm speaking about FIDEL CASTRO, asshole! I don't care what you have to say about the US! Cuba killed THOUSANDS in Angola and now that country has a communist regime that keeps people poor. Read history! Some people say that communist may have caused 200 millions of deads, not only 100. LEFTIST ASSHOLE, GO TO LICK CASTRO'S BUTT! IDIOT!
@DieGoth74 What is the alternative? The socialist regime in helped Cuba have the highest literacy rate in South America. Health care and education are extraordinarily good and free. I agree that the regime violates human rights and that there should be some market to make the people richer, but Cuba's not as bad as American media say. Capitalism, on the other hand, leaves billions of people in the third world starving. Everybody refuses to help them in order not to interfere in the free market.
@MrTaQiNonen Haha. Liar! Cuba has the highest literacy for taxi drivers! You can see engineers and doctors driving taxis, that's all! Cubans can study whatever they want for free... but they can't found companies! Hahahaha. Socialism makes stupid people - like you - believing that governments have to give you everything. Just look Europe and their crisis. Socialist countries are broken!
@DieGoth74 By the way, it was not Socialism who killed them, for the ideology itself doesn't imply the killing of millions of people. It was the dictators who exploited their power in order to sustain their position. Every dictator does that, not only the socialist ones, as a dictator doesn't have to fear any endangerment to his predominance due to the fact that there are no elections. You should think through your behavior. Your ignorance towards other people reflects your immaturity.
@MrTaQiNonen Hahaha. Of course socialism kills people just like national socialism destroyed Europe during the WWII. Dictators follow ideologies and such ideologies come from dictators. I see that you are following the same old lies to justify socialism. You're so ignorant that you behave like another stupid brick in the wall, loser!
@DieGoth74 Before Castro, Cuba was a dictatorship of the right in which the overwhelming majority of the population was starving and had no rights. After Fidel, no one goes hungry and everyone has free access to education, health, food and transport. It is also useless to explain that in Cuba there are no children begging in the street and that the majority of the population has higher education available free of charge.
@DieGoth74 He didn't say Africa was capitalist, he meant that capitalism denies the African people access to the goods and services that we are provided with. You can't disclaim this, it's a fact. They are too poor to afford the things we're used to and they stay poor because in capitalism, they never gain access to those things. That's the logic of capitalism. The rich become richer, the poor become poorer. This is amplified by global warming, which, of course, is being denied by capitalists.
@MrTaQiNonen Haha. Stupid! How can capitalism deny anything to people if capitalism is all about giving products and receiving money for that? Hahahahahaha. You make me laugh! Stupid socialist! Go back to school!
Of course, stupid asshole!!! Africa is a economical colony from UE and US. Capitalist, bur the another 80% of world where the "american way of life" is not cool...
@00Shinkar00 Hahahaha. Fucking ignorant! These commies are the worse of the world! Why don't you found a company and give jobs to people instead of commenting bullshit in Youtube?
@DieGoth74 Hey Pinnochio! Just checking back to see if you're nose has gotten any longer w/ more lies that would provide enough fodder for a second volume of Mein Kampf. Nothing like that the dictatorship of the bourgiosie w/ U.S. backing: Cuba's Batista, Machado; El Salvador's DuAubuisson, ARENA; Guatemala's Rios Mont; Chile's Pinochet; ETC. How's that "Fucking Leftists" death toll going? Reach 500 mils yet "according to some people"? History for you is like toilet training for an infant.
@revolution123ize Stop using drugs! Your Nazi mother tought you to be as fascist as Fidel Castro. If you want to lie at least try to do it the smart way, retard!
@DieGoth74 You do have the "charm" of a reactionary anticommunist: a sewer for a mouth & shit for brains. You do know that Nazis are the most fervent of anticommunists: Shall I put 2 & 2 together? Well, your nose got longer. It's the equilevant of Hitler's Big Lie. Careful, I may start calling you Hitler Jr. Back to your potty training for history. Since you & the other slug are not on my list of priorities (which makes sense), I'll be back sooner or later. On to more worthy matters, & people.
@revolution123ize You stink like a fucking communist.Ignorant. Nazis were SOCIALISTS like communists are. Both love big and strong governments controlling economy and people's life. Of course your brain is fucked up because of an accident when you were born and I can't fix that in Youtube's comments. You understand, fucking Hitler-Castro?
@Alexander021 Hahaha. Ignorant! Socialism is a mask for comunism! Western Europe has had social-democrat countries, not socialist regimes like Cuba or Venezuela!
@DieGoth74 You call Europe socialist? So the banks are socialist? And what about the US then? Also socialist? You need to get your facts straight.. even the UN admit Cuba has the highest literacy rate. In the US, on the other hand, only millionaires can study at university.. great, great capitalism, with 20% of the people living in poverty and the richest 1% controlling basically everything. Capitalism obliterates democracy, but of course, you close-minded capitalists don't want to see that.
@DieGoth74 I don't even know why I'm arguing, I've already made my point and every human being with an IQ of over 60 is able to see that I'm right. You're not even able to conduct a conversation that isn't based on offending others. You haven't produced one single valid and reasonable argument so far. Close-minded people like you will never see the truth, instead all they do is insulting people with other views and opinions on the internet. YOU, sir, are the loser here. I pity you.
@MrTaQiNonen Your stupid point is that you didn't receive education in your school. You received indoctrination instead! Stupid asshole! Nobody with an IQ over 50 would agree with you! You fascist, think that you are the owner of the truth. Loser! Hahahaha. You must be a retarded or a teen!
@MrTaQiNonen No, idiot! English is not my mother tongue, asshole! Hahahahaha. I received a very good education although some teachers tried to indoctrinate me. It seems that in your case you were easy to fool by some loser commie.
@DieGoth74 English isn't my mother tongue either, but apparently I've acquired more knowledge of it than you; probably the same with history, politics and sociology. And, most important, you've obviously never learnt to have respect for other people either. You should have rather listened to your teachers, I guess.
@MrTaQiNonen Mr. Idiot, what are you doing speaking the language "of the Empire"? Your ignorance in history and politics is obvious as your indoctrination in school. I can respect people, not commies! Hahaha.
just like you are for supporting that scum Castro and his tyrranical government. Obviously you're not from Cuba because Cubans can't use the internet.
@fshjshshhs I never said I supported Castro, this is ridiculous to have this right wing tool Beck spewing his hatred for all these actors who support Castro or whatever supposedly, it goes back to McCarthyism. I am sure you've never been to Cuba either so I wouldn't talk.
I have been to Cuba it's a shit hole, I know you stupid americans think it's an utopia but no, so stick your head out of your ass or your burger and THINK FOR ONCE IN YOU FUCKING LIFE YOU DISGUSTING APOLOGING PRICK.
I just picked up the ridiculous original video where the fucking presenter basically says they're all mad for praising Fidel and blabs a bunch of disgusting lies and edited in order to listen to what the velebrities had to say, the american media is simply digusting and revolting, if you search for "spielberg fidel" you'll find the original video and you'll be able to have a laugh.
Castro would have been called an "ally" managing a "struggling democracy." But there is room for constructive criticisms (hear that dumbeddown demonizers?) However, perhaps the biggest thing intentially ignored by U.S. ultranationalists is the negative impact of the U.S. embargo (El Bloqueo). Several votes (though nonbinding) in the UN General Assembly shown that the world opposes it. A superpower/empire punishing a small, Third World nation: Sounds like fascistic bullying don't you think?
revolution123ize 2 weeks ago
@revolution123ize This fuck is speaking from the USA. Why don't you move to Cuba if that jail is a paradise for you? Asshole!
DieGoth74 2 weeks ago
to feast-&-famine Third World capitalism. Briefly, there are positives & negatives. But the positives have made Cuba a major player on the world stage, shedding its noteriety as "The Whorehouse of the Americans." What U.S. leaders, e.g., have really hated about Castro is that he didn't play the game. They really don't have sincere priorities for the Cuban people or Cuba as a soveriegn nation. If Castro was a willing tool, U.S. leaders would have called him an "ally" regardless of his behavior.
revolution123ize 2 weeks ago
Castro & other Cubans risked years of imprisonment at hard labor. They were set free as a "goodwill" gesture. Then Castro, etc. took the biggest risk, potentially endangering their lives, to continue an armed struggle based in the Sierra Maestra. I wouldn't exactly call this a convenient manuever. But Castro, etc. were determined to liberate Cuba from being a U.S. market satellite/virtual neocolony a la Cuba's national hero Jose Marti. And to usher in an alternative system...(Contd)
revolution123ize 2 weeks ago
An overview of Fidel Castro: His detractors & demonizers have called him a dictator out for raw, naked power. But if Castro was simply after that, he could have taken a much easier path. W/ his intelligence, he could have purely aligned himself w/ the Cuban elite, like previous Cuban leaders. In turn, Castro could have curried favor w/ U.S. imperialism & thus in combo could have had a better chance to rise to power maintaining business-as-usual. But he & other Cubans didn't. (Contd)
revolution123ize 2 weeks ago
Most of these hollywood people are morons who should stick to what they know anyways. Seriously, if you're gaining your political philosophy from men like Brad Pitt, you should probably just shut your mouth.
KraphtyProductionz 3 weeks ago
those celebrities are just a bunch of fucking imbeciles for supporting a 53-YEAR DICTATORSHIP....will they allow the same thing to happen in the US??? No.
mazingerZful 1 month ago
@mazingerZful The US already have a dictatorship, or can you remember someone outside of the Reps and Dems governing?
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen Castro has been "governing" Cuba for 53 years; the US by Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt, etc etc etc.
mazingerZful 1 month ago
@mazingerZful Do you notice those US presidents are DIFFERENT PEOPLE? Do you notice Fidel Castro is ONE PERSON "governing" Cuba for more than half a century? Notice the difference? Get it?
mazingerZful 1 month ago
@mazingerZful HAHA. The US change their president every now and then to create the illusion that democracy is dominating the political process. But in fact, it's Wall Street and corporations that are controlling the White House, and the best way to maintain this status is to support two parties whose policies may differ in the way they speak, but not the way they act. Remember Obama's campaign? He made dozens of promises to win the election; which of them has he kept by now? Think about it.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen The only oligarchs that have a Mercedes-Benz in Cuba are brothers Castro!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@mazingerZful They say "Wall Street is always governing you" but they don't say that you don't have to be the son of the president if you want to work in Wall Street!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@mazingerZful These fucks say "The US has a dictatorship. They say that Colombia, Mexico, Chile and any non-leftist country is under dictatorship" while Chavez, Castro and Ahmadinejad close TV channels and send people to jail because they think different.
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 Socialism is a form of mental illness, and it has no cure. It is the major proof that idiocy exists in this world, or, as Churchill said: "Socialism is the philosophy of failure". That's all.
mazingerZful 1 month ago
@mazingerZful I AGREE. FUCK CASTRO.
catania642 1 month ago
@mazingerZful You could very well be refering to the U.S.-backed-50-year-old Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua w/ its 19th century-like capitalist "Eden" for the few fetishly feeding at the country's trough while many coped w/ its poverty, illiteracy, inequality, substandard healthcare because local & foreign elites' profiteering was held high over the interests of the country. I guess some fucking Right-wing imbeciles don't recognize the dictatorship of the "invisible hand."
revolution123ize 3 weeks ago
@revolution123ize I didn't know you could read my mind (I never said i was right-wing). Congratulations. Did Jimmy Carter support Somoza??? Nope, i don't think so. In fact, Carter stopped backing his dictatorship and prohibited Somoza from entering th US. And Reagan never supported D'Aubuisson and Arena (he compared them with the nazis). Maybe you should improve your reading skills when using history books. The imbeciles here are you and the celebrities who spit on the system that made them rich
mazingerZful 3 weeks ago
@mazingerZful I never said you were Right-wing. (My last statement wasn't necessarily directed toward you, but...) Carter supported him at least for a while. Regardless, previous U.S. presidents supported the Somoza crime family, as I said, for 50 years. FDR said of the first Somoza, "He's an SOB but he's our SOB." Reagan supported Rios Mont, the Contras, & so it wouldn't be surprising that he supported the Salvadoran gov. which included D'Aubuisson & ARENA. Improve on your imbeciliality.
revolution123ize 2 weeks ago
@revolution123ize you forgot one little detail: Somoza's dictatorship ENDED 33 YEARS AGO, while Castro's regime is still going on, torturing and sending to jail "enemies of the state" (translation: people who want democracy in Cuba). But if you admire this bastard, i'm sure you also admire Bush, whose decisions have killed thousands of people in Irak, apart from ordering tortures in Guantanamo. It's curious how left wing and right wing fascists have so much in common. Don't you think so??
mazingerZful 2 weeks ago
Yeah all the people who endorse socialism and dictatorship are the ones who haven't a clue about the difficulties of real life.
jacksoncapper 1 month ago
well... Spielberg is a dumbass... and an idiot, and a hypocrit... I am Cuban, by the way.
TheCF221 1 month ago
more yanks should watch this clip
MexicanKola 2 months ago
Would Glenn Beck not support the huge literacy successes that have been brought by the Castro regime and Che's nationwide campaign?
nocturnezero 3 months ago
If Cuba & Fidel are so great then it shouldnt be difficult to find someone who went from Miami to Cuba on a shitty homemade raft b/c they just couldnt take living under America's oppressive rule anymore & wanted a brighter future for their children which they planned to find in Cuba
mikedd56 4 months ago
@mikedd56 Maybe if there wasn't a 40 year long trade embargo on Cuba conditions would be better. Maybe we should let other countries govern themselves instead dictating how other countries should be run.
Kariakas 4 months ago
@mikedd56 Cuba has been under US embargo for decades, hindering their efforts at industrialization. Taking this into account, Cuba's a pretty impressive case, especially for a Latin American country.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@nocturnezero
Its always our fault isnt it. If we remove brutal dictators like Sadaam were assholes. Although he was a swell guy & it was esp. rude of us to bust up all of his torture/rape chambers that had woman AND children, but still no reason to cock block. If we do nothing leave Fidel alone its our fault for the shape of his country. Why is it always anti america
BTW Cuba has the 2nd highest rate of imprisoned journalists in the world.
mikedd56 3 months ago
@mikedd56 I've never heard anybody call the US an "asshole" for removing brutal dictatorships, but for imposing them like in Chile, supporting them like in Cuba and El Salvador, or co-opting the energy resources while destroying a country like in Iraq and Libya. The fact that the US is a superpower and has influence in every country is not an argument against the fact that the US has an economic embargo against Cuba. An embargo is not "leaving" Castro (I think you mean Raul?) alone.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@nocturnezero
...too that you say we destroyed Libya & took its resources. It was Libya's people who rebelled against their dictator. We gave them the tiniest bit of aid. They just captured the dictator there. I'm guessing its pretty volatile right now plus they just won their independence, I dont think it would go too smoothly the US just strolling in there saying move aside we're here for oil.
mikedd56 3 months ago
@mikedd56 The tiniest bit of aid? You genuinely think the NTC could have conceivably won that war against Gaddafy's superior military might and technology without French weapons and US/Britian/France bombing? They captured the dictator after a French bomb hit his convoy in Sirte. The US has already opened up the country for foreign investment. This is reported in the establishment media. You could find it in the New York Times.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@mikedd56 No, it doesn't. The Committee to Protect Journalists cites 4 journalists imprisoned in Cuba. Uzbekistan has 6, Vietnam has 5, Ethiopia has 4. Myanmer has 13, Eritrea has 17, Iran has 34 and China has 34. An International Press Institute report has Turkey topping the list at 57. Cuba released 17 journalists last October, dropping it way down the list. This is easy information to find.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@nocturnezero
...would be so high. And OMG even if we did we just fought a fucking war for these people, its so horrible to ask for a lil discount oil in return. We have to be fucking saints now. You do realize that embargo was b/c Fidel wouldnt meet certain established humanitarian policies or w/e. But either way everything you just said seems to coincide with what I originally said. We take any sort of foreign action we are the bad guys. We dont take action we are the bad guys. Thats amazing..
mikedd56 3 months ago
@mikedd56 @mikedd56 An occupying power is supposed to pay reparations, not demand them. A war where we killed a million of them and ruined their infrastructure and still have about 75% of the population opposed to our presence is not a war for the people, it's a war against them. If we care about humanitarianism in Cuba, why didn't we in Guatemala, El Salvador, Chile, Indonesia, South Africa, Egypt, Iraq during the Iran/Iraq war... the examples could continue.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@mikedd56 Besides Rwanda, I can't think of another foreign action where the US was condemned for not taking action.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@mikedd56 The last three journalists, contrary to your assertion that Cubans view the US as some utopia, say they want to *stay in Cuba* after they're released. How strange.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
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Right so my data was outdated but it doesnt change much. It still means 17 journalists were in jail. And its funny how you say no one called us assholes for removing dictators but go on to criticize our Iraq engagement, the very example I used. What do you think we did in Iraq, we removed Sadaam. Would you want to live under a brutal dictator, the Iraqi people didnt. We gave the country back to its people & contrary to popular belief we didnt get any oil. If we did you think gas...
mikedd56 3 months ago
@mikedd56 It wasn't specifically for removing Saddam. I was about as in favor of the US removing Saddam as I would have been of Nazi Germany invading Russia and removing Stalin. You'll note that a country being free at home usually has literally no affect on its client states. We removed Saddam and occupied their country for eight years. We didn't get oil, true, the goal was to secure Mideast oil so we have control of its exports to Europe.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@mikedd56 An occupying power has two responsibilities - to pay massive reparations for all the damage it caused (in Iraq, probably a million deaths and the destruction of Iraqi infrastructure by decades of bombing) and then to do what the population wants it to do - in Iraq, besides the Kurds who hated Saddam with a special fervor because he used our chemical weapons to massacre them, probably 80-85% of the population wants us out and has for the entire war. For good reason, too.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@mikedd56 If we wanted Saddam out of power, why didn't we support the insurrection in the South during the Gulf War? An opportunity opened up to remove him from power, but US troops stood aside, on order from their generals, and let Iraq crush the rebellion. I'm a libertarian, of course I wouldn't want to live under a brutal dictator. I would also hate to live under a brutal occupation. Invasion and aggression by the powerful states is not a step towards freedom.
nocturnezero 3 months ago
@mikedd56 Yes, 17 journalists were in jail. Surely an awful crime. Good thing they've been freed. The US has imprisoned journalists in its past, too. It doesn't mean we're some despotic police state. We're the freest country in the world.
On Iraq: "...78% of the population opposed the presence of Coalition forces in Iraq, 69% believed the presence of U.S. forces is making things worse, 51% of the population considered attacks on coalition forces acceptable, up from 17% in 2004 and 35% in 2006."
nocturnezero 3 months ago
-shrug-
If he's such a horrible man, why does everyone in the nation fuckin' love him like family? You live in a country pumped full of American media- the only stories that get through are the bad ones.
'Course you won't hear the stories about their praise of their government, or the American national who suicide bombed the Cuban plane in a manner not unlike 9/11. Think about it. -shrugagain-
RidingBesideMe 5 months ago
@RidingBesideMe Fidel Castro is a fucking genocide. He supported all the anti-democratic guerrillas in South America. He trained and gave money from the SSSR to terrorist groups during many years.
DieGoth74 2 months ago
@DieGoth74 That's a LIE! They had no money for doing that... jaja
I know why your problably mistaken:
USA financially supported ALL the dictatorships in Latin America during the 70's. And don't try to teach me about this, I'm Argentinian. I've studied history.
Google CIA support to Lat Am dictatorships.
And that also happened in Africa.
GET SOME EDUCATION PEOPLE!!! Your ignorance is murdering the world!!!
jimiabad 1 month ago
@jimiabad IGNORANT! The Soviet Union gave over $ 4 billions to Cuba EVERY YEAR. Part of that money was to train South American guerrillas. Stupid leftist Argentinian! GET REAL EDUCATION, IDIOT! Cuba sent troops to Angola and they supported a bloddy war there! Fucking leftists! You have killed over 100 millions!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 The U.S. empire (despite whatever degree of democracy it has) gave billions in military aid to RIGHTWING TYRANNIES not only in Latin America but worldwide. Whatever aid Cuba provided to "export" revolution was nil compared to U.S. aid for counterrevolution for regressive regimes & policies. Cuba's role in Angola was to defend it against Aparthied-backed & RIGHTWING SCUM Savimbi. Your death toll of 100 mils is exaggerated. But RIGHTWING SLIMEBALLS are "pure" right? WRONG!
revolution123ize 1 month ago
@revolution123ize Hey, idiot! I'm speaking about FIDEL CASTRO, asshole! I don't care what you have to say about the US! Cuba killed THOUSANDS in Angola and now that country has a communist regime that keeps people poor. Read history! Some people say that communist may have caused 200 millions of deads, not only 100. LEFTIST ASSHOLE, GO TO LICK CASTRO'S BUTT! IDIOT!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 What is the alternative? The socialist regime in helped Cuba have the highest literacy rate in South America. Health care and education are extraordinarily good and free. I agree that the regime violates human rights and that there should be some market to make the people richer, but Cuba's not as bad as American media say. Capitalism, on the other hand, leaves billions of people in the third world starving. Everybody refuses to help them in order not to interfere in the free market.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen Haha. Liar! Cuba has the highest literacy for taxi drivers! You can see engineers and doctors driving taxis, that's all! Cubans can study whatever they want for free... but they can't found companies! Hahahaha. Socialism makes stupid people - like you - believing that governments have to give you everything. Just look Europe and their crisis. Socialist countries are broken!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 By the way, it was not Socialism who killed them, for the ideology itself doesn't imply the killing of millions of people. It was the dictators who exploited their power in order to sustain their position. Every dictator does that, not only the socialist ones, as a dictator doesn't have to fear any endangerment to his predominance due to the fact that there are no elections. You should think through your behavior. Your ignorance towards other people reflects your immaturity.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen Hahaha. Of course socialism kills people just like national socialism destroyed Europe during the WWII. Dictators follow ideologies and such ideologies come from dictators. I see that you are following the same old lies to justify socialism. You're so ignorant that you behave like another stupid brick in the wall, loser!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 And just like capitalism kill thousands everyday.
5000 children die in Africa every day from hunger. How many children die of hunger in Cuba?
TheSeriesOnline 1 month ago
@TheSeriesOnline Haha. Idiot! Africa is not capitalist! Ignorant leftist.
DieGoth74 1 month ago
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@DieGoth74 How many children die of hunger in Cuba? Answer me!
TheSeriesOnline 1 month ago
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@DieGoth74 Before Castro, Cuba was a dictatorship of the right in which the overwhelming majority of the population was starving and had no rights. After Fidel, no one goes hungry and everyone has free access to education, health, food and transport. It is also useless to explain that in Cuba there are no children begging in the street and that the majority of the population has higher education available free of charge.
TheSeriesOnline 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 He didn't say Africa was capitalist, he meant that capitalism denies the African people access to the goods and services that we are provided with. You can't disclaim this, it's a fact. They are too poor to afford the things we're used to and they stay poor because in capitalism, they never gain access to those things. That's the logic of capitalism. The rich become richer, the poor become poorer. This is amplified by global warming, which, of course, is being denied by capitalists.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen Haha. Stupid! How can capitalism deny anything to people if capitalism is all about giving products and receiving money for that? Hahahahahaha. You make me laugh! Stupid socialist! Go back to school!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
Of course, stupid asshole!!! Africa is a economical colony from UE and US. Capitalist, bur the another 80% of world where the "american way of life" is not cool...
00Shinkar00 1 month ago
@00Shinkar00 Don't try to convince him, he's too ignorant to even consider other people's opinions.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@00Shinkar00 Hahahaha. Fucking ignorant! These commies are the worse of the world! Why don't you found a company and give jobs to people instead of commenting bullshit in Youtube?
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 Hey Pinnochio! Just checking back to see if you're nose has gotten any longer w/ more lies that would provide enough fodder for a second volume of Mein Kampf. Nothing like that the dictatorship of the bourgiosie w/ U.S. backing: Cuba's Batista, Machado; El Salvador's DuAubuisson, ARENA; Guatemala's Rios Mont; Chile's Pinochet; ETC. How's that "Fucking Leftists" death toll going? Reach 500 mils yet "according to some people"? History for you is like toilet training for an infant.
revolution123ize 3 weeks ago
@revolution123ize Stop using drugs! Your Nazi mother tought you to be as fascist as Fidel Castro. If you want to lie at least try to do it the smart way, retard!
DieGoth74 3 weeks ago
@DieGoth74 You do have the "charm" of a reactionary anticommunist: a sewer for a mouth & shit for brains. You do know that Nazis are the most fervent of anticommunists: Shall I put 2 & 2 together? Well, your nose got longer. It's the equilevant of Hitler's Big Lie. Careful, I may start calling you Hitler Jr. Back to your potty training for history. Since you & the other slug are not on my list of priorities (which makes sense), I'll be back sooner or later. On to more worthy matters, & people.
revolution123ize 2 weeks ago
@revolution123ize You stink like a fucking communist.Ignorant. Nazis were SOCIALISTS like communists are. Both love big and strong governments controlling economy and people's life. Of course your brain is fucked up because of an accident when you were born and I can't fix that in Youtube's comments. You understand, fucking Hitler-Castro?
DieGoth74 2 weeks ago
@DieGoth74 No thats actually not true! Most of europe is socialst and we are fiiiine!!
Alexander021 4 days ago
@Alexander021 Hahaha. Ignorant! Socialism is a mask for comunism! Western Europe has had social-democrat countries, not socialist regimes like Cuba or Venezuela!
DieGoth74 3 days ago
@DieGoth74 GOD BLESS YOU . IM SICILIAN BORN OF A CUBAN FATHER. FUCK CASTRO.
catania642 3 days ago 2
@DieGoth74 You call Europe socialist? So the banks are socialist? And what about the US then? Also socialist? You need to get your facts straight.. even the UN admit Cuba has the highest literacy rate. In the US, on the other hand, only millionaires can study at university.. great, great capitalism, with 20% of the people living in poverty and the richest 1% controlling basically everything. Capitalism obliterates democracy, but of course, you close-minded capitalists don't want to see that.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen Idiot! Can you read? Hahaha. Stupid fascist! Go back to school!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 I don't even know why I'm arguing, I've already made my point and every human being with an IQ of over 60 is able to see that I'm right. You're not even able to conduct a conversation that isn't based on offending others. You haven't produced one single valid and reasonable argument so far. Close-minded people like you will never see the truth, instead all they do is insulting people with other views and opinions on the internet. YOU, sir, are the loser here. I pity you.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen Your stupid point is that you didn't receive education in your school. You received indoctrination instead! Stupid asshole! Nobody with an IQ over 50 would agree with you! You fascist, think that you are the owner of the truth. Loser! Hahahaha. You must be a retarded or a teen!
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 It's called retard. Apparently, I received more education than you.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen No, idiot! English is not my mother tongue, asshole! Hahahahaha. I received a very good education although some teachers tried to indoctrinate me. It seems that in your case you were easy to fool by some loser commie.
DieGoth74 1 month ago
@DieGoth74 English isn't my mother tongue either, but apparently I've acquired more knowledge of it than you; probably the same with history, politics and sociology. And, most important, you've obviously never learnt to have respect for other people either. You should have rather listened to your teachers, I guess.
MrTaQiNonen 1 month ago
@MrTaQiNonen Mr. Idiot, what are you doing speaking the language "of the Empire"? Your ignorance in history and politics is obvious as your indoctrination in school. I can respect people, not commies! Hahaha.
DieGoth74 1 month ago
of course, we do love Fidel and Chavez and other socialist leaders and all comrades...
so fuck the undercover fascists
TheCanniball74 1 year ago
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fshjshshhs 1 year ago
Sweet! Now if only the U.S. can change its current political system.
Manolo1013 1 year ago
Glenn Beck is a fucking tool !!!
Aqualung71 2 years ago 8
absolutely! he was blabbing a bunch of bullshit about fidel, but i just cut his bullshit out!!
nunosapessoa 2 years ago 2
Seriously, this guy is a narrow minded twit. Thanks for cutting it out, the less of his rambling hate speech the better.
Aqualung71 2 years ago
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fshjshshhs 1 year ago
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@Aqualung71
just like you are for supporting that scum Castro and his tyrranical government. Obviously you're not from Cuba because Cubans can't use the internet.
fshjshshhs 1 year ago
@fshjshshhs I never said I supported Castro, this is ridiculous to have this right wing tool Beck spewing his hatred for all these actors who support Castro or whatever supposedly, it goes back to McCarthyism. I am sure you've never been to Cuba either so I wouldn't talk.
Aqualung71 1 year ago
@Aqualung71
I have been to Cuba it's a shit hole, I know you stupid americans think it's an utopia but no, so stick your head out of your ass or your burger and THINK FOR ONCE IN YOU FUCKING LIFE YOU DISGUSTING APOLOGING PRICK.
SturmKorps 1 year ago
@SturmKorps look i don't give a shit if you've been there, i never said i thought it was a utopia so screw you. I just think this guy is a moron.
Aqualung71 1 year ago
@SturmKorps shut up conquistador.
rlphmoran 5 months ago
ok what is this about?
Jdabomb93 2 years ago
I just picked up the ridiculous original video where the fucking presenter basically says they're all mad for praising Fidel and blabs a bunch of disgusting lies and edited in order to listen to what the velebrities had to say, the american media is simply digusting and revolting, if you search for "spielberg fidel" you'll find the original video and you'll be able to have a laugh.
nunosapessoa 2 years ago
oh ok
Jdabomb93 2 years ago