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I've been to Cuba twice. I disagree. How many times have you been there?

• coldtea 10y ago
  It's not the relative number of times that counts. You can live for years in a place and have the wrong impression about it. In fact, you can even be born in a place and leave there all your life and have and have the wrong impression about it. And you can also have historical reasons to disagree that don't apply to the general population (e.g. one's relatives being big-shots under the previous regime). It's also easy to visit a place and just see what you wanted to see. Tourists traveling in utter misery do it all the time -- they have a great time, and people a few km from their hotel might be dying in slums. I'm not saying that you did those things and I didn't. Just that measuring how many times more one has been there is not really relevant.
  • fixxer 10y ago
    Translation: you've been there zero times and only know what you've read from your Progressive news sources and Michael fucking Moore. I went both times as part of a humanitarian mission to bring medical supplies. Cuba sucks. Great people. Horrible government.
    • coldtea 10y ago
      >Translation: you've been there zero times and only know what you've read from your Progressive news sources and Michael fucking Moore. Not an American, not interested in Michael Moore -- there are actual historians and accounts not just pop culture, and I've visited several times (and a large number of other parts of the world too). But the use of "progressive news" as some kind of bad source paints a picture.