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ass struggle
Dec 25, 2012

by Athanatos

Hollismason posted:

Maybe Castro was killed by the CIA through a very slow acting poison?
i dont think la cia came up with being born

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Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
i feel extremely sick, and bad, after thanksgiving

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Homework Explainer posted:

romania was a weird aberration from 20th century socialism that combined the worst backwardness of the 1930-53 soviet union with a complete selling out to foreign creditors. i don't mourn them even though i think the eastern bloc should have stayed socialist

see, there are differences between these historical figures that i'm well aware of, but you go ahead and assume i love any and all "authoritarians" on the basis of, i dunno, some pathology you believe me to have

In the absence of any coherence from you though people have a hard time figuring out why one would be cool and the other not

Maybe you really like cigars and base your political opinions on that. How do you feel about Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Swan Oat posted:

i feel extremely sick, and bad, after thanksgiving

punishment for your hubris

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.

Badger of Basra posted:

punishment for your hubris

i didnt drink on thanksgiving and my punishment was having to drive my wasted family home from the countryside, and, to feel bad today

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


Homework Explainer posted:

romania was a weird aberration from 20th century socialism that combined the worst backwardness of the 1930-53 soviet union with a complete selling out to foreign creditors. i don't mourn them even though i think the eastern bloc should have stayed socialist

see, there are differences between these historical figures that i'm well aware of, but you go ahead and assume i love any and all "authoritarians" on the basis of, i dunno, some pathology you believe me to have

maybe now you can grow to actually be a good poster

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Berke Negri posted:

maybe now you can grow to actually be a good poster

Berke Negri posted:

have my doubts

Berke Negri
Feb 15, 2012

Les Ricains tuent et moi je mue
Mao Mao
Les fous sont rois et moi je bois
Mao Mao
Les bombes tonnent et moi je sonne
Mao Mao
Les bebes fuient et moi je fuis
Mao Mao


some of us have been raised with christian charity but i don't expect everyone

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Berke Negri posted:

some of us have been raised with christian charity but i don't expect everyone

charity is for the dead, or something

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

kustomkarkommando posted:

libraries here are run and funded by a centralized authority

that sounds lame

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
i don't know what i would do with my free time if i couldn't go and agitate about library funding and youth programs at city council meetings

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
drink more i guess

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

drink more i guess

in front of your coworkers i hope

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Pirate Radar posted:

In the absence of any coherence from you though people have a hard time figuring out why one would be cool and the other not

Maybe you really like cigars and base your political opinions on that. How do you feel about Arnold Schwarzenegger?

It's this, yea. Castro was a moralist nationalism focused dictator who happened to want state ownership of things like many garbo east Europe authorities. If one was a failing aberration then what made the other worthy of the near reverence?

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Tatum Girlparts posted:

It's this, yea. Castro was a moralist nationalism focused dictator who happened to want state ownership of things like many garbo east Europe authorities. If one was a failing aberration then what made the other worthy of the near reverence?

they're really not the same at all. are all capitalist states the same? does the united states function in the exact same way as, say, switzerland?

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Badger of Basra posted:

in front of your coworkers i hope

it doesn't count if it isn't in the office

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
FEEL FREE TO DISREGARD THIS POST

It is guaranteed to be lazy, ignorant, and/or uninformed.
LOL at the poster in USPOL who's arguing with someone who's grandfather was tortured by Castro insisting maybe he was kind of nice

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Homework Explainer posted:

they're really not the same at all. are all capitalist states the same? does the united states function in the exact same way as, say, switzerland?

Actually, I'd like an answer to my question about Arnie.

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Hollismason posted:

LOL at the poster in USPOL who's arguing with someone who's grandfather was tortured by Castro insisting maybe he was kind of nice

no world leader was ever nice

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Pirate Radar posted:

Actually, I'd like an answer to my question about Arnie.

i think his movies are fun and he should have stuck to doing that

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
even leaving arnold's ideology to the side, he was poo poo at the basic political process. completely ineffective administrator

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

did arnold have an ideology

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
arnold talking about the pump is as inspirational to me as alex jones "im a human and im coming" rant

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

GhostofJohnMuir posted:

even leaving arnold's ideology to the side, he was poo poo at the basic political process. completely ineffective administrator

otoh he made Darrell Issa cry and thus gets a pass

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
the only ideology u need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZQ0YZ7ls4

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Badger of Basra posted:

did arnold have an ideology

low tax rates for the rich and giant suvs powered by french fry oil

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Raskolnikov38 posted:

otoh he made Darrell Issa cry and thus gets a pass

yeah, but then darrell issa went on to actually have a political career anyway

Rexicon1
Oct 9, 2007

A Shameful Path Led You Here
We are all eating at the trash can called "The Pump"

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
it's full of fried chicken and birthday cake

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
FEEL FREE TO DISREGARD THIS POST

It is guaranteed to be lazy, ignorant, and/or uninformed.
Welp, just had to call the cops because some guy is screaming at the top of his lungs for help and saying someone is hitting them with a baseball bat

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good
snitches get stitches hollismason

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007
FEEL FREE TO DISREGARD THIS POST

It is guaranteed to be lazy, ignorant, and/or uninformed.
Oh noe

Swan Oat
Oct 9, 2012

I was selected for my skill.
was it you?

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
field commander cohen, he was our most important spy
wounded in the line of duty
parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties
urging fidel castro to abandon field and castle
leave it all, and like a man
go back to nothing special

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
oh dear my brother is having a facebook meltdown about the death of castro, i'm not sure he's going to make it through this year alive

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
i like meyer lansky but it was pretty funny how he invested all his ill-gotten money into casinos in cuba and just as he was throwing a big mafia party for a job well done castro came along, outlawed everything, chased him out of the country and singlehandedly drove him into poverty for the rest of his life

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7PiWgBfPN0E

R. Guyovich
Dec 25, 1991

Avshalom posted:

i like meyer lansky but it was pretty funny how he invested all his ill-gotten money into casinos in cuba and just as he was throwing a big mafia party for a job well done castro came along, outlawed everything, chased him out of the country and singlehandedly drove him into poverty for the rest of his life

it owns a lot imo

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Homework Explainer posted:

yeah not gonna operate at arm's length from sincerity when something like this happens, sorry. this is a big loss
Hi, I'm Fidel Castro, and this is my pawn island. I rule here with my old man and my son, "Big Loss." Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 57 years - you never know what is gonna come through that door.

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Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Hey guys. Just woke up from a nap, what's new?

Avshalom posted:

oh dear my brother is having a facebook meltdown about the death of castro, i'm not sure he's going to make it through this year alive


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