https://nitter.net/philiplord/status/1747309239830478852#m

  • AlkaliMarxist
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    10 months ago

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    Castro took away my Grandfather's plantations.

    • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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      10 months ago

      He died in 1933 when Castro was like 7. This is so intentionally misleading it's basically a lie.

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      https://www.socialistalternative.org/2007/11/12/cubas-revolutionary-tribunals-separating-fact-from-fiction/

      TL;DR the revolutionary tribunals went after the worst of the worst - the individuals who otherwise would have gotten ripped limb from limb by the Cuban people for the atrocities they committed. Every single one of them who was found guilty got what they deserved.

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        I believe the revolutionary Cuban government initially oppose executing Bautista’s people but had to give in after the Cuban people demanded they pay for their crimes

        • Tachanka@lemmygrad.ml
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          10 months ago

          wow who would guess that executing the porkiest of porkies is following the mass line? the history experts in the burger reich told me that these were excesses committed against the will of the people!

          • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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            10 months ago

            Yes. But when you start a 20 year (and still ongoing) war despite the largest mass protests ever seen in the world, that’s democracy.

        • voight [he/him, any]
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          10 months ago

          Damn I hope their hearts were able to bear the crushing guilt. 😔🤠

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      Don't worry, Phil found his own people to exploit like slaves

      Edit: updated the article link to not be some stupid aggregate article

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      10 months ago

      Oh, he was probably friends with my tobacco and slave owning family. stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2

  • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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    10 months ago

    Took me way too long to realize it's "soy" as in "I am", no "soy" as in "soy face".

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      What a fucking clown. And my god, it's the old "their own people" cry-wank. I managed to go a while without seeing it and I forgot how fucking obnoxious and gross it is as a talking point.

    • robinn_IV
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      10 months ago

      No American president murdered thousands of dissidents

      Is this real and true?

      His own citizens

      Hitler’s alt

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        10 months ago

        There's a lot of work being done with those qualifiers of dissidents and civilians. Because Andrew Jackson killed tens of thousands of indigenous people and he died peacefully in his bed at the age of 78.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      without trial

      wow that sounds bad, but the Unite—

      According to a study conducted by the American Bar Association, plea bargaining has increasingly become the predominant method for resolving criminal cases in the United States, accounting for as many as 98% of all convictions.

      oh.

      firing squad

      wow that sounds bad, but the Unite—

      The family of [Lashawn Johnson] who [...] was 'eaten alive' by bed bugs in a filthy jail cell has agreed to a $4 million settlement

      oh. well still, that's better than being execu—

      Darren Rainey was locked in a shower for two hours. It was designed so that he had no control over the temperature of the water, later measured to be 160 °F (71 °C). A paramedic who attempted to help Rainey wrote that he had second- and third-degree burns on over 30% of his body. It subsequently became known that his skin "fell off at the touch".

      oh.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Firing squad is categorically more humane than lethal injection. Lethal injection uses a paralytic that prevents the victim from making their pain visibly apparent, and that's really the only reason it's used.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      no American president murdered thousands of dissidents, his own citizens

      Yeah this isn't true at all. Low estimates for deaths during the trail of tears are around 15,000. But maybe liberals don't consider them citizens. Then if you consider confederate soldiers dissidents, then Lincoln killed something like 250,000 of them. I'm not gonna cry any tears for dead confederate troops though, fuck them. Truman killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but that also doesn't seem to count because they're not American citizens.

      I hate when liberals play this game of adding qualifiers to the types of people who presidents kill. Yes, the federal government doesn't tend to kill dissenters who are basically smug liberals whose dissent consists of posting or various consumer habits. The federal government kills dissenters like Fred Hampton, John Brown, and Malcolm X.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        The "dissidents" killed in the revolution were also mostly Batista supporters (so literal fascists) or plantation owners and their security.

        There were lots of public sector workers that fled, but they also tended to be Batista supporters.

        My grandmother worked under a Cuban expat as a teacher in Florida who was administrator under the Batista regime and he was so openly misogynist it was wild.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          yeah exactly, the losing side of the Cuban revolution were a coalition of plantation owners, mafia, and literal fascists. They weren't just dissenters for no reason.

          If you listen to liberals you'd think Castro was going around personally shooting everyday normal people for holding a sign that says "I respectfully disagree"

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    WAY WAY BACK IN THE 1960S

    SECRET GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

    HARBORED COUNTER REVOLUTIONARIES

    TO FIGHT A MIND WAR A AGAINST THE COMMIES

    NOW THOSE GUSANOES ARE PRODUCERS

    BETRAYAL TREATED THEM RIGHT

    HATING, LYING AND MISJUDGING

    A TIME TO LAUGH AND SHIVER

    AND CRYYYYYY

  • theposterformerlyknownasgood
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    10 months ago

    Alea was critical of the cuban government but he was so from the perspective of a supporter of revolutionary socialism. His goal was explicitly that the revolution through confronting its flaws could be perfected rather than destroyed.

  • Vncredleader
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    10 months ago

    Loser is still pissed nothing he makes can come close to Soviet cinema which did all that without torturing its animators

  • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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    10 months ago

    More importantly the Clone High guy. I wish I watched season 2 before realizing he sucks.

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          You're probably giving him too much credit. It sounds like good movies get made in spite of his and his co-directors efforts to work people to death.

          Dude can't even work off of animatics and was demanding full renders for WIP stuff - he's a hack.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            10 months ago

            They're good writers but prior to thr Lego movie their animation experience was Clone High, the difference is massive. So yeah they've directed thr most limited animation ever but animated movies require people who worked on the Simpsons to be well animated.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    Fuck that gusano.

    My ex who visited Cuba first told me about Soy Cuba and I downloaded some really poor quality version that I didn't get around to watching. So fucking stoked to hear Criterion is releasing it on BluRay! It's going to be gorgeous to see Revolutionary Cuba in HD. I'm definitely buying it, glad I waited to watch it.

  • muirc [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    Soy Cuba is beautiful. Was able to see in in a theater a while back and loved it.