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Fidel Castro has died

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Re: Fidel Castro has died

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Post by sctb »

mimimimi wrote: post #442

Lots of people followed Fidel probably for similar reasons they followed Trump, their willingness to be easily lied to. Fidel and Trump, same stuff.

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Re: Fidel Castro has died

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Post by mempko »

__s wrote: post #449
forgetsusername wrote: post #416

Where do American administrators who are droning Arabs to death fit on that list of "evil peole"? What's the line you need to cross to make it on there?

Why, let's include everyone who pays their taxes to support those dronings. Every American citizen who isn't evading taxes is evil Oh no I'm defending Trump, get me out of here

Taxes don't pay for federal government spending. So you don't even need to pay taxes to be culpable.

Re: Fidel Castro has died

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Post by tehwebguy »

jpttsn wrote: post #591
tehwebguy wrote: post #451

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, executing dissenters is one of the bools. Not sure there is any getting around that.

So if you execute one person, you may as well keep going, because you're already evil and there's no scale?

Executes dissenters

Re: Fidel Castro has died

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Post by sooheon »

pmarreck wrote: post #516
sooheon wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only a fallacy if it is being employed to absolve Castro of every crime. I think the point of the comparison was to remind pots not to call kettles black.

What makes you think it requires a total absolution to be tu quoque? If I murder 100 people and punch a grandma, and I point out it was OK to punch a grandma because I just saw YOU do it, it's still tu quoque despite the fact that nobody discussed the 100 I murdered

> ...and I point out it was OK... because I just saw YOU do it...

This is tu quoque, because you're trying to say bad thing you did was OK because someone else did a bad thing too. However, you'll notice the above poster definitely did not claim what Castro did was OK.

Re: Fidel Castro has died

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

sebastianconcpt wrote: post #419
ZeroGravitas wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"First they came for the Socialists..." Hitler was right-wing.

Hitler was NOT right-wing, please! His party was national socialist workers party. He learned from the best, his friend Stalin. Then they do what communists do best betray themselves and kill adversaries. Nobody, nobody come even close to kill even a fraction of the number of communists killed by other communists http://louderwithcrowder.com/myth-busted-actually-yes-hitler... So no, nobody is coming for you in a free…

Someone please explain to me how the workers controlled the means of production in Nazi Germany.

Re: Fidel Castro has died

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Post by [deleted] »

67726e wrote: post #568
tomp wrote: post #560

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hillary expressed a wish to "drone" Assange, and Obama actually "droned" a lot of people (that the US has branded "terrorists").

Killing terrorists does not put you on the same level as Castro.

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