re: #25 KGxvi

I’m Cuban, my mom came with her sister and parents with a suitcase between them in the 60s. A year after my uncle and his cousin came alone so they wouldn’t be conscripted as 12 year olds into Castro’s new army. I’ve got extended family that were Marielitos. You can talk about a new/better policy toward Cuba without offering praise to an authoritarian who killed thousands and exiled millions.

Respect (*thumps chest*)

I was in Cuba in ‘88, and it was the grimmest goddamn place I’ve ever been, and dude, I’ve been to Chernobyl, South Sudan & Azerbaijan.

I have good friends who live & try to work in Cuba, trying like hell to pry the fucking withered, evil claws of the bastards in the Cuban Communist party just a micron off the throats of ordinary people.

I am a full-throated leftie. But Communism does not work. Human nature just isn’t built that way. Free people living & working under common-sense regulations that APPLY TO ALL, especially towards breaking up monopolies, is the best system we’ve come up with, even if the Washington elites starting losing their goddam minds under Reagan and now the middle class is getting roto-fucked.