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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Fidel Castro is morally superior to every US president.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A very low bar that Fidel soars over without even getting close. Even Gaddafi and Assad are better than every US President lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

No shot on that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That's not saying much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint: Fidel is the reason Trudeau exists

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Supplied arms to support genocide in Indonesia, among other crimes. Him building homes now is just some light penance before he's shipped off to hell. https://fair.org/media-beat-column/jimmy-carter-and-human-rights-behind-the-media-myth/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Set up all the groundwork for funding the Mujahideen terrorists in Afghanistan, the funding of the dictatorship and death squads in El Salvadore, setting up the groundwork for the fuckery Reagan did with Iran-Contra.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Carter also jumpstarted neoliberalism rot monetization and the drive to privatize. Willingly laid the foundation for Reagan.