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fixed cyberghost's "meme" (thelemmy.club)
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[–] somename@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Cuba is a beacon of progress and humanity in the Americas. Fidel Castro was a hero. Also a pro at dodging the CIA's kill squads.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

fidel-salute he's the all time CIA dodging champ

[–] JealousCactus@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Fidel Castro is morally superior to every US president.

[–] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

A very low bar that Fidel soars over without even getting close. Even Gaddafi and Assad are better than every US President lmao

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 years ago

No shot on that.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Jimmy Carter?

[–] Babs@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Supplied arms to support genocide in Indonesia, among other crimes. Him building homes now is just some light penance before he's shipped off to hell. https://fair.org/media-beat-column/jimmy-carter-and-human-rights-behind-the-media-myth/

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Set up all the groundwork for funding the Mujahideen terrorists in Afghanistan, the funding of the dictatorship and death squads in El Salvadore, setting up the groundwork for the fuckery Reagan did with Iran-Contra.

[–] kidleviathan@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Carter also jumpstarted neoliberalism rot monetization and the drive to privatize. Willingly laid the foundation for Reagan.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

I agree. Fascist countries like Denmark, Germany and Canada often get called "socialist" and they have been disastrous for the reputation of socialism.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago

Prepare for the 14year Olds on hexbear to come in and pretend that China has a great government

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Very interesting how all those "pretend socialists" only exist in the third world, and all the "real socialists" existin the west. Yet all the successful revolutions have been done in the third world by "pretend socialists", and the so called "real socialists" in the west have accomplished nothing. Their biggest success of the "real socialists" in the west being capitalist welfare states or social democracies that rely on old school imperial relationships to fund their welfare in a select few areas.

No Eurocentrism present to this line of thought here at all...

What do you think of Nelson Mandela OP? He was a very good leader, right? You know that he considered Cuba an ally and supported their revolution as Cuba sent troops to fight against the apartheid government in the border wars, took inspiration from Mao and called the Chinese revolution a miracle, thanked the Soviets for giving unending support in the fight against apartheid while receiving the a Lenin Peace Prize? So is Nelson Mandela now a fascist according to your meme?

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

"Authoritarian" is completely drtetmined by us-foreign-policy