My first time experience here had been very politically charged and I asked about it in askLemmy and I was told to immediately block you people in the options I was given

I had the opportunity to browse around and found out that you folk were decent and weren't as awful as told in that post I made

How do you view .world and by extension other instances that defederate (and view negatively) towards you?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 days ago

    Stalin and Fidel pics

    fidel-si We absolutely stan Fidel here. People that don't understand why have probably never actually engaged in listening to him and seeing the man he really was. Reddit link but here's where I like to start people. And here's a little bit of humanisation.

    bugs-stalin Stalin? 70% good, 30% bad. The man should be analysed as an actual human being though, not as a cartoon caricature of evil as depicted by propaganda, and also not as a supreme dictator given that he was never one, the USSR had collective leadership and he did not have higher powers than the other members of the Politburo at any point in time.

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      The thing that made me love Fidel was Blowback season 2. That made me a full on Cuba stan. I'm hoping to use that season to radicalize some other friends because the country is so close to the US, people like to know about it, and the only perspectives we get here are from gusano immigrants.

      Those are also some good links you have, though. Going to save those lol.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 days ago

        Those are also some good links you have, though. Going to save those lol.

        I love the video of him on the plane. The way he engages with these people is so raw and authentic. The smile is real, charismatic, friendly and you can feel a real compassion for the people around him, he likes people. Nobody feels unsafe around him. The humility and self confidence in just taking his clothes off is wild. It is not the aura of a monsters like the gusanos paint him as.

        This mismatch between how he's portrayed and how he actually behaved very quickly tears down incorrect perceptions of him. The only politician I've seen with as much raw charisma as Fidel had is Obama, but he has never given off the vibe of humility and genuine compassion for the people around him that Fidel gives off.