• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Mandatory Note: Castro is certainly an interesting figure, and certainly not devoid of praiseworthy qualities.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Yep, plenty of flaws. But then so does any human. But you’re not wrong. I think the necessity of focusing at home and isolation are the two things that saved him from doing/being worse. It’s still sad to see in many ways. Despite the blockades and barriers that the west put up around the Cuban people, that he was only second to them.

      • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        I mean, considering how international the Cold War was, and how active Cuba was in foreign affairs, I think it’s fair to say focus at home and isolation were not major factors in Castro’s policies. I think he was legitimately an idealist, just one who went down a dark path.

        But an idealist going down a dark path is still preferable to a shithead going down the same. At a time in the Cold War when people starved while their dictators - Soviet or Western aligned - celebrated in style, Cuba maintained a reasonable standard of living instead of wasting its immense aid on rampant corruption.

        On the downside, he made Cuba reliant on that aid, and when it dried up with the fall of the Soviet Union, so did Cuba’s fortunes.

        • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          So we are largely agreed. I have a bad habit of favoring entandre to the point that I become cryptic.

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Where is the special military operation to remove Zelenskyy is great but the special military operation to remove Maduro is bad?

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 days ago

    “Describing the persecution of queers in yemen as a ‘religious nightmare’ is western imperialism” was a personal favorite interaction I was reminded of last night. I get along fine with most marxist socialists but goddamn some of the most prominent leftist voices on here are just true lunatics.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Those aren’t leftists, they’re radical centrists. If you’re conservative they look like leftists, but if you’re a communist they look like MAGA

  • NoiseColor @lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    I heard this on my favorite radio station. I couldn’t believe it. I can’t even imagine how such thoughts could be put together. I went to complain on their website and found a thread of such complaints already there. But also a few posts defending that opinion piece that were even more bizarre.