Comments by "blazednlovinit" (@blazednlovinit) on "What is life like in Cuba after Fidel Castro? BBC News" video.

  1. Well, he killed about 100,000, I'm not defending the man but it's important to be correct, there's no need for exaggeration, most people can agree killing (especially on this scale) is wrong.
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  2. He seized power, never held elections and killed between 50,000-100,000 people :/
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  3. Punkster Daddy Thanks, it's nice to see some voice of reason, sometimes it feels like I've gone to sleep and woken up on bizzaro Earth. Next week, we'll remember Stalin and Mao fondly xD
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  4. Daedalx Al-Maurikanos Maybe I just care about human beings that I've never met before, some people are strange like that.
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  5. Punkster Daddy Haha my reputation precedes me xD Yeah, so many people are spoon fed their opinions pretty much, and have a simple "left means good and right means bad" formula in their heads, when it's Mao and Stalin on the left who are 1st and 2nd for most people ever killed by a single person. Again, it's like bizzaro Earth in that Russia are now the nationalists and the west are the Marxist/Leninist socialists. British empire wasn't saintly, but people aught to be damn grateful the Brits got to them first, it's because of Britain's imperial might that the transafrican slave trade was abolished, many places were united and developed, and considering how close the second world war was, we may all be drinking schnapps and wearing leiderhosen right now without it. But no, to them we're just nasty warmongers and the source of the evil anglosaxon.
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  6. ***** You saying we should all launch and end the world because the Americans dropped a couple 70+ years ago? Forgive me for questioning logic like that.
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  7. serjthereturn How do you know he is who he says he is for a start.... Secondly you're taking his disagreement blindly, because it maintains your ideological bubble. Thirdly, the guy says it's "lunatic" to suggest it goes into the 10,000s and then estimated himself that it was 16,000, so he doesn't even seem to have a basic grasp of numbers.
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  8. serjthereturn You're whining because I attacked Castro, your justification being that there are other bad people out there xD I clearly said where I got the numbers, the problem is, is that you have blinkers on and information slides off you like you've got a Teflon mind.
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  9. serjthereturn "you are re-writing history" ^ By quoting academics, apparently.
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  10. serjthereturn http://cubaarchive.org/home/images/stories/1.25.2012_update.pdf Just saying.....
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  11. serjthereturn Not all the documented cases is it, people don't tend to have immaculate record keeping of their atrocities, as a rule of thumb. Also, the fact you can be flippant with 10k people's lives is disgusting. Like 10k is alright but 50-100k is bad I guess.
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  12. serjthereturn The late and widely respected University of Hawaii historian R. J. Rummel, who made a career out of studying what he termed “democide,” the killing of people by their own government, reported in 1987 that credible estimates of the Castro regime’s death toll ran from 35,000 to 141,000, with a median of 73,000. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article118282148.html ^ Here's a historian if that will help persuade you, I wouldn't want to accuse you of not believing a historian and being partisan.
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  13. serjthereturn Well I hope that was sarcasm, if it is you're agreeing with my quoting an academic, if not, then you have no respect for knowledge, so.... choose your poison.
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  14. serjthereturn Professors generally are considered as such.
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  15. serjthereturn If a biologist was telling me I was actually a bird then I'd not trust him, as all the evidence points to me not being a bird xD
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  16. serjthereturn What's my agenda? To listen to facts? The guy never ran an election, he seized power by force and killed countless people, locked away others for political opinion and prevented people from leaving the country, he turned Cuba into one of the world's biggest prisons, and almost started a nuclear war with the capability to wipe out our species, I don't know off the top of my head if North Korea is bigger than Cuba or not. Also, speaking of North Korea, the dear leader also expresses his remorse for his friend Castro. I'm guessing you think Kim Jong isn't such a bad guy either!?
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  17. ***** I can get behind that mate :)
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  18. serjthereturn Well he's a historian that specialised in these kinds of regimes XD "Documented" is the qualifier I would like to highlight in your quote btw. After what you quoted it goes on to say.... “Those are the ones we’ve documented, using either information released by the government or the testimony of eyewitnesses, not hearsay or guesswork,” says Maria Werlau, the group’s president. “We know the numbers are much, much higher, but this is what we can actually document so far.”
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  19. @Marcus, nice what-aboutery. Why are you changing the subject, friend?
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  20. @Daedalx, what a fallacious argument, By your logic no one should give to charity that benefits someone they don't know about. You seem like a person who doesn't care about people unless they have some kind of connection to you, I'm not a psychiatrist but I think they call that sociopathy.
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  21. @Boss, I think your politicians in Denmark hold elections, (unlike Castro) and political descent is not silenced (unlike in Cuba) and you're allowed to leave Denmark anytime you like (a right, the Cubans (at least at one point, not so sure about currently) didn't have). It's the authoritarianism of Castro that I personally take exception to.
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  22. serjthereturn I googled "Fidel Casto's death toll" and clicked the first link.
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  23.  @kimobrien.  Which communist country were you born in/ moved to?
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  24. serjthereturn I trust mine more, it confirms what I already knew and adheres to the reality closer. http://cubaarchive.org/home/images/stories/1.25.2012_update.pdf
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  25. serjthereturn I agree that facts are more important than lying to defame someone who is bad, the ends don't justify the means, that being said I don't take anything back and haven't changed my stance on it.
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  26. @Boss, every single time something becomes communist, it becomes shit and people starve, then people like you come along and say "well, it just wasn't done right all those previous times". Look at all the cases of communism in history and all the cases of free market capitalism, do you see some kind of pattern in how those countries develop?
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  27. @Boss, so hard that the many societies that have tried and put forward their best to achieve it, have failed. So at this point we're talking about it being technically possible, kind of like it's technically possible for one guy to win the lottery every week 5 years straight. There's a certain point where something is a practical impossibility, even if it is technically possible. If humans were ants or bees, maybe communism would be the way to go, but we're not ants or bees and have a strong sense of individualism.
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  28. @Boss, if communism fails in these times because of human nature, then perhaps that is a sign that communism doesn't work with human nature... xD
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  29.  @wernerbeinhart2320  Who are you? You apparently know me and my ongoing behaviour.
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  30.  @wernerbeinhart2320  I'm glad you enjoyed the thread that I started.
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  31.  Krónika  You are two years too late
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  32.  Krónika Breath, take a walk, you seem tense.
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  33.  Krónika  What's sad is that you think your opinion matters.
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  34.  Krónika  You stated it two years too late and now you show up late demanding to know the link I used two years ago. Look yourself, it isn't difficult to google.
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  35.  Krónika  My English was perfect, so you might want to read what I put again if you are confused about something.
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