re: #43 Charles Johnson

And Fidel Castro was a murderous SOB, no matter what good he may have done. At the very least, Sanders should have acknowledged THAT much. It’s just amazingly tone deaf to phrase it like, “Well, he wasn’t ALL bad.”

Not just murderous. Utterly incompetent. Friends of mine in Havana have been working on a project to track the effects of the toxic waste left behind by the Soviets, that is poisoning & killing people.

An entire housing development was evacuated when lead & heavy metals were found in basically every surface, and that were killing & deforming children. And then, a year later, the people who fled were rounded up and forced back into the grim apartment blocks, because their continuing emptiness was politically embarassing, an undeniable daily demonstration of failure.

Fuck those murderous bastards.