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Nov 27, 2016 11:17
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Frijolero posted:We just lost a great man. Kit Harrington died? 
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Nov 27, 2016 17:48
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Helen Highwater posted:Kit Harrington died? If you think that's weird, the US Capitol has a museum dedicated to the holocaust! 
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Nov 27, 2016 17:58
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Feral Integral posted:If you think that's weird, the US Capitol has a museum dedicated to the holocaust! 
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Nov 27, 2016 18:09
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What's 'Corporate Buddhism'?
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Nov 27, 2016 18:16
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wow, i can already feel the plight of the jewish people handy chart to see who you were allowed to marry in nazi germany and whether you were performing miscegenation 
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Nov 27, 2016 18:19
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Guavanaut posted:What's 'Corporate Buddhism'?  The gentrification of the dharma for the benefit of the upper-management class.
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Nov 27, 2016 18:35
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Guavanaut posted:What's 'Corporate Buddhism'? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgHaFvmY3s
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Nov 27, 2016 18:50
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Real talk: was Castro good or bad? I'm a milennial idiot who had no historical education and gets his news from internet articles and documentaries. I've never really gotten to the bottom of this. I got the impression that he believed in some truly positive things and revolted in the name of them, but that he fell into a lot of the habits that 'evil' dictators have. (Why there was no freedom of the press under him or Chavez is very confusing to me.) If there's any good in-depth documentaries or articles discussing the (relatively) unbiased good and bad, I would be super interested.  (this is apparently him holding the brother of Canadian PM Justin Trudeau. Their father, Pierre Eliot Trudeau was also a PM and a friend of Fidel Castro following Canada's recognition of the Cuban government and a visit to Cuba in 1976. Castro was also apparently a pallbearer at Pierre Trudeau's funeral.)
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Nov 27, 2016 19:21
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Nov 27, 2016 19:34
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VagueRant posted:Real talk: was Castro good or bad? I'm a milennial idiot who had no historical education and gets his news from internet articles and documentaries. I've never really gotten to the bottom of this. I got the impression that he believed in some truly positive things and revolted in the name of them, but that he fell into a lot of the habits that 'evil' dictators have. (Why there was no freedom of the press under him or Chavez is very confusing to me.)  Like any other major historical figure Castro can't be boiled down to being merely good or bad. He brought down a US-backed dictator that farmed out Cuba as a mafia-run tourist trap. He sent revolutionary shockwaves through the third world and weathered decades of assassination attempts and blockades by successive US governments. He brought widespread literacy and nationwide access to quality healthcare to Cuba. At the same time he ruthlessly repressed dissent and centralised the power of the state, exiled thousands of Cubans, persecuted homosexuals and cemented an unaccountable bureaucracy that will likely continue to rule the country for the next few decades at least. With such a sharply polarised legacy I don't know if there's a single source you can go to that could be considered unbiased.
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Nov 27, 2016 19:53
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TomViolence posted:
Nope, thats good. My dude barry o has killed some brown kids in far off lands, on the other hand he didn't execute political rivals. The answer: its super loving convoluted.  e: oh yea, I noticed that untold history of the united states is on netflix now.
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Nov 27, 2016 20:12
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Nov 27, 2016 22:02
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VagueRant posted:Real talk: was Castro good or bad? I'm a milennial idiot who had no historical education and gets his news from internet articles and documentaries. I've never really gotten to the bottom of this. I got the impression that he believed in some truly positive things and revolted in the name of them, but that he fell into a lot of the habits that 'evil' dictators have. (Why there was no freedom of the press under him or Chavez is very confusing to me.) I can't believe a communist dictator would disallow freedom of the press. 
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Nov 27, 2016 22:40
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WHY CHOOSE
Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Nov 27, 2016 22:48
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Nov 27, 2016 23:57
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VagueRant posted:Real talk: was Castro good or bad? I'm a milennial idiot who had no historical education and gets his news from internet articles and documentaries. I've never really gotten to the bottom of this. I got the impression that he believed in some truly positive things and revolted in the name of them, but that he fell into a lot of the habits that 'evil' dictators have. (Why there was no freedom of the press under him or Chavez is very confusing to me.) Freedom of the press you say Comrade? 
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Nov 28, 2016 00:04
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i'm the 'animal collective' cleverly snuck in to level five 
PIZZA.BAT fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Nov 28, 2016 |
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Nov 28, 2016 00:07
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Thanks for the garbage photoshop  Decorate your Christmas three with dumpster fire ornaments because it's 2016
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Nov 28, 2016 00:20
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VagueRant posted:Real talk: was Castro good or bad? I'm a milennial idiot who had no historical education and gets his news from internet articles and documentaries. I've never really gotten to the bottom of this. I got the impression that he believed in some truly positive things and revolted in the name of them, but that he fell into a lot of the habits that 'evil' dictators have. (Why there was no freedom of the press under him or Chavez is very confusing to me.) 
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Nov 28, 2016 01:56
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please tell me this one has legs.  
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Nov 28, 2016 04:00
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Nov 28, 2016 08:25
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Nov 28, 2016 12:00
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 http://www.upworthy.com/my-wife-surprised-her-coworkers-when-she-came-out-as-trans-then-they-surprised-her?c=ufb3
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Nov 28, 2016 12:03
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Nov 28, 2016 17:34
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MageMage posted:
Is that Zack Braff? 
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Nov 29, 2016 03:55
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TomViolence posted:
While this is a good snapshot, some of those criticisms deserve more detail. Castro gets a bad rap for "brutally cracking down" on opposition. Yes, hundreds of counterrevolutionaries were arrested and many sentenced to death This was mainly during the actual revolution from 1959-1961. The Cuban Revolution and the July 26th Movement was a popular uprising and a violent overthrow of an authoritarian regime. Castro cannot solely be blamed for the killing and repression of Batista's backers and henchmen (many of them violent criminals who ultimately belonged in jail). Liberals, trade unionists, socialists, anarchists, and peasants participated in the revolution and supported the arrest and execution of anywhere from 300-2,000 fighters. (There is only concrete evidence of ~300 executions, Western scholars and pundits claim that they number in the thousands). Treatment of homosexuals: What's often talked about are the "labor camps" of the UMAPs. Some homosexuals, along with conscientious objectors to the Revolution, were sent to agricultural camps as a form of alternative civil service. After 3 years, Castro realized the camps were a mistake and shut them down. By the late 1970s, Castro and the party realized they were being unjust towards gays. Throughout the 80s and 90s gay Cubans began to be treated equally by the state. Cuban exiles: Castro never expelled people en masse. On the contrary, he made it hard for people to leave the island. Rather, thousands of Cubans, in several waves throughout the decades, decided to flee the country on their own volition. Some of them were aided by the Catholic Church. We can't solely blame Castro for people wanting to flee from the revolution. Furthermore, the vast majority of Cuban exiles were economic migrants rather than political refugees. I am completely aware that some of this sounds like I'm trying to mask the illiberalism and repression of Castro's rule. I am not. It is difficult to defend someone like Castro against decades of American interpretations of him. But he should always be viewed as a suis generis political leader of Cuba. Without context, it's easy to see why Americans see him as a brutal dictator. But then we lose understanding of why millions of people around the world consider him a hero. He is both a hero and a villain, both revolutionary and conventional, both a product of his times and completely avant garde, both a traditional Hispanic strongman caudillo and a radically new progressive leader. 
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Nov 29, 2016 07:13
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in conclusion, fidel castro is a land of contrasts
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Nov 29, 2016 07:46
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After all the info that came out decades after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it seems like Castro was a True Believer™, at least at the time. I don't know whether that is good or bad but it seems better than being an empty cynic. 
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Nov 29, 2016 08:13
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Nov 29, 2016 10:45
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 pools closed due to aids Wrestlepig fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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Nov 29, 2016 11:15
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Nov 29, 2016 11:34
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Is that Zack Braff? No. 
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Nov 29, 2016 14:35
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Just your average tale of Syrian refugees living in a Wild West theme park in Sweden.
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Nov 29, 2016 14:52
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Nov 29, 2016 14:55
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10 minute docu on High Chapperal, literal swedish westworld doubling as a Syrian refugee camp during the off season https://vimeo.com/158882001
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Nov 29, 2016 15:32
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That's two posts up, yo.
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