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Claiming Cuba and the US are comparable in the respect is absurd. Castro killed thousands of his own civilians to stay in power. Here in the US, you can literal
by gragas 10y ago
Claiming Cuba and the US are comparable in the respect is absurd. Castro killed thousands of his own civilians to stay in power. Here in the US, you can literally disavow the president (c.f. #NotMyPresident) without any consequence.
>To be fair in the US there are also attacks for supporting political parties.
There is a HUGE difference between your government killing you for your political beliefs and a member of the opposing political party "attacking" you for your political beliefs. People break the law all the time. It's a whole other level of unfair when the government murders you.
I would never trade the freedoms I have in the US for the "freedoms" seen in Cuba.
- wallace_f 10y agoI agree with you, but if your argument for why Cuba is bad is based on a principle that you can be oppressed for political views, then you should still be consistent about it and not selectively apply that principle to only Cuba. Even if it's only a minority that is being oppressed, and even if both you and I don't agree with their awful politics, it doesn't make it any less wrong to attack them.