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Castro just doesn't belong in that sentence. Hitler does. Why does the Right Wing have such a love affair with Putin and such a hatred for Castro?
by CalChris 10y ago
Castro just doesn't belong in that sentence. Hitler does.
Why does the Right Wing have such a love affair with Putin and such a hatred for Castro?
- tehwebguy 10y agoMaybe some of us have distant relatives that died in Castro's prisons for the crime of dissent?
- peteretep 10y agoSomething that also happens in plenty of democracies.
- sooheon 10y agoChelsea Manning and Edward Snowden come to mind. Is the hypocrisy not palpable? Or is the world exactly as simple as America and sanctioned clique good, rest bad?
- CalChris 10y agoChelsea Manning is not in prison for dissent and Edward Snowden is not in prison at all.
- sooheon 10y agoHow is the imprisonment of Manning not essentially for dissent? Snowden yes, is technically not imprisoned, but effective exile and hiding under threat of imprisonment or worse.
- peteretep 10y agoThe same reason Ted Kaczynski isn't being imprisoned "essentially for dissent". You're allowed to hold any opinion you like in the US and the government can't touch you. That's what dissent means. But if you commit crimes due to your dissenting opinions, they go after you for those crimes.
- sooheon 10y agoThat is a good point. Dissent by voice, and without action, cannot be punished in the US. But classifying dissenting actions such as whistleblowing as such heinous crimes, and punishing to the point of torture, is a stifling of dissent as well. Recall the civil rights movement, where dissent by voice alone was not enough, and unjust laws had to be broken in order to bring attention to the more important issue. Beyond a point, the more severely a country punishes those dissenting actions, the less free the country is, in my opinion. Of course this can range from jailing, to waterboarding, to buck naked solitary confinement, to unceremonious executions, and military actions against civilians. The US isn't the worse by this measure, but it's not spotless either.
- CalChris 10y agoSomething that also happened with Batista. Something that happens with Putin.
- sebastianconcpt 10y agoAnd you are hoping to justify an error with another error?
- sebastianconcpt 10y agoPutin, an ex-KGB, is not right-wing. Check what cultural war is. Also hear what Yuri Maltsev, ex economic advisor of Gorbachev, have to say about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaB0jdODCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNaB0jdODCM
- CalChris 10y agoI didn't say that Putin is Right Wing although he has all the markings of a Right Wing authoritarian. What I want to understand is our Right Wing's infatuation with Putin.
- sebastianconcpt 10y agoAleksandr Dugin is advising Putin on how to appeal to the sub-informed people that leans to conservative and right-wing. But is a sheep cloth on a wolf. There is a very interesting debate between Dugin and true conservative philosopher Olavo de Carvalho here: http://debateolavodugin.blogspot.com.br/ http://debateolavodugin.blogspot.com.br/
- CalChris 10y agoThat's nice but it doesn't explain our Right Wing's infatuation with Putin.