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Fidel Castro dies at age 90

So Habsy, how are american cubans reacting to this down in florida? I see all of them with flags and stuff celebrating. Our dumbass PM just issued a statement saying he's full of sorrow from learning of the death.
 
Trudeau’s turn from cool to laughing stock

It was bound to happen sooner or later.

Ever since his election as Canada’s prime minister last October, Justin Trudeau has revelled in global tributes, raves and swoons. He’s the Disney prince with the trippy dance moves, the groovy Haida tattoo and the gender-balanced cabinet. He’s the last best hope for globalization, the star attraction at the Pride Parades, the hero of the Paris Climate Summit, the guy everyone wants a selfie with.

Trudeau made himself synonymous with Canada. He made Canada cool again. It was fun while it lasted.

By the early hours of Saturday morning, Havana time, Trudeau was an international laughing stock. Canada’s “brand,” so carefully constructed in Vogue photo essays and Economist magazine cover features, seemed to suddenly implode into a bonspiel of the vanities, with humiliating headlines streaming from the Washington Post to the Guardian, and from Huffington Post to USA Today.

Times have changed, and the Trudeau family’s bonds with the Castro family, first cultivated while Pierre Trudeau was prime minister and carefully nurtured during the years that followed, now seem somehow unhygienic. Greasy, even. Definitely not cool.
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Twitter lit up with hilarious mockeries under the hashtag #trudeaueulogies. Florida senator Marco Rubio wanted to know whether Trudeau’s statement came from a parody account. The impeccably liberal Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief the Atlantic magazine, called Trudeau’s praise of Castro “a sad statement for the leader of a democracy to make.”

Whether or not Trudeau saw any of this coming, he didn’t appear to notice that he was delivering a speech to the Francophonie delegates in Madagascar that emphasized justice for lesbian, gay and transgendered people, while from the other side of his mouth he was praising the legacy of a caudillo who spent the first decade of his rule rounding up gay people for “re-education” in labour camps. Homosexuals were irredeemably bourgeois “maricones” and agents of imperialism, Castro once explained.
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Any political activity outside the Communist Party of Cuba is a criminal offence. Political dissent of any kind is a criminal offence. Dissidents are spied on, harassed and roughed up by the Castros’ neighbourhood vigilante committees. Freedom of movement is non-existent. Last year, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN) documented 8,616 cases of politically-motivated arbitrary arrest. For all our prime minister’s accolades about Cuba’s health care system, basic medicines are scarce to non-existent. For all the claims about high literacy rates, Cubans are allowed to read only what the Castro crime family allows.
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For all the parochial Canadian susceptibility to the propaganda myth that pits a shabby-bearded rebel in olive fatigues against the imperialist American hegemon, by the time he died on Friday night Castro was one of the richest men in Latin America. Ten years ago, when he was handing the presidency to Raúl, Forbes magazine calculated that Fidel’s personal wealth was already nearly a billion dollars.

In his twilight years, Castro was enjoying himself at his gawdy 30-hectare Punto Cero estate in Havana’s suburban Jaimanitas district, or occasionally retreating to his private yacht, or to his beachside house in Cayo Piedra, or to his house at La Caleta del Rosario with its private marina, or to his duck-hunting chalet at La Deseada.
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http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/trudeau%e2%80%99s-turn-from-cool-to-laughing-stock/ar-AAkOT04?li=AAggNb9&ocid=mailsignout

and in nutshell, there's your facking Fidel Castro, folks. Praise him.
 
Justin's father was also a communist sympathizer/apologist, so not sure why some are surprised that a brainless child like him would emulate daddy dearest.
 
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CH1 said:
some #trudeaueulogies are very funny
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I had no love for Castro but it is funny when Cuban Americans dance on his death when many of those same were offended when a few Palestinians in the middle east cheered when the WTC collapsed.

Sad part is, Castro was an improvement over Batista who he replaced.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I had no love for Castro but it is funny when Cuban Americans dance on his death when many of those same were offended when a few Palestinians in the middle east cheered when the WTC collapsed.

Sad part is, Castro was an improvement over Batista who he replaced.
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Towel heads celebrating the death of thousands of innocent people dying is the same as celebrating a dictator dying of old age who killed possibly thousands of innocent people? What kind of crack is in the water in BC because I want to start selling it here.
 
xposbrad said:
Towel heads celebrating the death of thousands of innocent people dying is the same as celebrating a dictator dying of old age who killed possibly thousands of innocent people? What kind of crack is in the water in BC because I want to start selling it here.
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Towel Heads?

Imagine your reaction if Habs25 called you a "insert jewish slur here".
 
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