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I see what you're saying and I still think it's sensationalism...
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Posted by shikantaza on 2012-04-13 11:19:36

In Reply to: I think you are missing the point completely. posted by DC Warrior on 2012-04-13 11:14:14

but maybe I just am not in a position to understand because I haven't experienced that sort of trauma.

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more on Cuban-Americans' feelings towards Castro and Hitler comparisons - DC Warrior 2012-04-13 07:23:26 (105 views)

I rather liked this summary by Charles Pierce. - Earl j. Slick 2012-04-14 10:11:29 (69 views)

Lol at Minute Maid Venceremos Stadium. - BackseatGM 2012-04-14 10:55:22 (52 views)

You know he's basically right though. It would get sponsored. - Earl j. Slick 2012-04-14 13:27:08 (68 views)

Who killed more people, Bush or Castro? - Dick Nikon 2012-04-13 09:55:56 (101 views)

Stupid question. About par for the course here though. - gsw_hoops 2012-04-13 10:34:43 (90 views)

Why is it stupid? - nomad 2012-04-13 19:44:39 (54 views)

No one's making you come here. Feel free to go where you like the questions more. - BackseatGM 2012-04-13 17:38:38 (62 views)

Actually how many people did FDR kill and why? - gribble the mispost master 2012-04-13 10:45:15 (81 views)

I'm not making that claim, so I don't care. - gsw_hoops 2012-04-13 10:47:08 (62 views)

We know you don't care. It is part of your lack of charm. - gribble the mispost master 2012-04-13 10:49:08 (62 views)

I didn't ask the stupid question; I just pointed out that it was one. - gsw_hoops 2012-04-13 10:51:52 (59 views)

No, you pointed out that you thought it was stupid. Which lets us know once again you are not a - gribble the mispost master 2012-04-13 11:16:10 (84 views)

....and it's not even close. - playmaker 2012-04-13 10:10:43 (62 views)

perhaps but Castro was very up close and personal - DC Warrior 2012-04-13 10:25:25 (89 views)

Personally, I don't give a rat's ass what the Miami Cuban community thinks about Castro. - Earl j. Slick 2012-04-14 10:15:45 (59 views)

They not only drive Cuba policy but Florida politics - Dick Nikon 2012-04-14 11:55:22 (59 views)

Yeah, that too. - Earl j. Slick 2012-04-14 13:27:52 (61 views)

you can think it's stupid but it is the reality. - DC Warrior 2012-04-16 06:46:33 (49 views)

It's reality that people suck up to them, yes. - Earl j. Slick 2012-04-16 17:01:17 (55 views)

Yeah, but he didn't torture YOUR uncle - DC Warrior 2012-04-16 21:42:18 (50 views)

so "Hitler" is code for the government killing someone's family? - shikantaza 2012-04-13 10:58:41 (68 views)

I think you are missing the point completely. - DC Warrior 2012-04-13 11:14:14 (82 views)

I see what you're saying and I still think it's sensationalism... - shikantaza 2012-04-13 11:19:36 (75 views)

I met some Holocaust survivors - DC Warrior 2012-04-13 11:28:23 (87 views)

Similar thing with the Vietnamese-American community and the country they fled - dc 2012-04-13 11:36:06 (70 views)

Part of my opinion is just colored by the fact that everyone always goes to Hitler - shikantaza 2012-04-13 11:33:12 (81 views)

better analogy would be Mao-Taiwan or Khomeini-Persians - heathcliff 2012-04-16 13:48:33 (61 views)

any up-close and personal things, where those left behind suffered, yes - DC Warrior 2012-04-16 16:13:44 (52 views)

Do they? - Earl j. Slick 2012-04-14 15:52:31 (122 views)

Stop Quisling him, Hitlearl! - nomad 2012-04-14 20:22:35 (54 views)

But he's the poster child. His name is synonymus with brutal genocide just like Gandhi's is with - BackseatGM 2012-04-13 18:06:53 (67 views)

Right. Of course Saddam (frx) isn't on par with Hitler, but who really attains that Platonic Ideal? - nomad 2012-04-13 19:42:22 (66 views)

right... I think genocidaires can rightfully be compared to Hitler; Castro never committed genocide - shikantaza 2012-04-15 15:15:00 (58 views)

Agreed - nomad 2012-04-17 15:36:40 (53 views)

Great word, you should be proud of yourself (unreasonably, of course). - BackseatGM 2012-04-13 21:52:16 (48 views)

agreed on the overuse. - DC Warrior 2012-04-13 12:54:25 (65 views)

So why did you feel it necessary to bring up the prior regime, - gsw_hoops 2012-04-13 10:51:01 (81 views)

it's not a game - DC Warrior 2012-04-13 11:22:03 (89 views)

Obviously, all of the people who have fled other countries to - gsw_hoops 2012-04-13 12:01:24 (82 views)

That was fucking amazing. - Earl j. Slick 2012-04-14 15:49:54 (62 views)

Lenin = Batista = current Cuban Americans, Stalin = Castro - DC Warrior 2012-04-13 12:57:30 (85 views)

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