The sole reason many American commentators purport to care about Castro's authoritarianism is perfectly captured by today's NYT headline:pic.twitter.com/BOzPejFNQp
The amount of attention and concern a foreign leader's abuses receive in US discourse is solely determined by how much they "defy" the US.
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name 3 ruthless dictators the US currently supports and I'll name 20 it rejects. Or do you go back to the Cold War for examples?
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The regimes of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain & Egypt. Let me know if you want more. US/UK support & arm planet's most repressive tyrants.
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Kim, Mugabe, Khamenei, Maduro, Lukashevich, Putin. "Defiance" is often defiance of human rights, gun trafficking and militarism
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Berdymukhamedov, Karimov, al-Bashir, Burmese junta. Strat. important countries lose US support after repressions start.
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I chose to remember the millions of lives ruined and the thousands that died fighting or sailing for liberty
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@edmcgrath@ggreenwald Yeah, viva Batista -
Hillarios! Does it not fit in your brain that both can be evil?
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@edmcgrath@ggreenwald Binary thinking. GW Bush killed way more innocents in 6mths than Castro in his whole life. Is GWB "Good" or "Evil"? -
both evil. Hilarious that you immediately suggest I am a GWB or Batista supporter. Talk about binary thinking.
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@edmcgrath I said no such thing. Was rather pointing out the pitfalls of binary thinking.
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Aside from US's attitude against him, it is a fact that Castro was a dictator.
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remember the reactions in 2015 to king Abdullah dying. Will Fareed Zakaria be as emotional this time.
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you can be as authoritarian and horrible as you want.....as long as you play our game
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Fuck the USA. |
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there's also the question of whether or not they need democracy depending on how much oil they have
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The amount of excuses you make for a tyrant seems to work the same way.
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Read the intros of the NYT obits of Castro and Pinochet side by side and that claim falls apart fast.
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