https://nitter.net/philiplord/status/1747309239830478852#m
He died in 1933 when Castro was like 7. This is so intentionally misleading it's basically a lie.
https://www.socialistalternative.org/2007/11/12/cubas-revolutionary-tribunals-separating-fact-from-fiction/
TL;DR the revolutionary tribunals went after the worst of the worst - the individuals who otherwise would have gotten ripped limb from limb by the Cuban people for the atrocities they committed. Every single one of them who was found guilty got what they deserved.
I believe the revolutionary Cuban government initially oppose executing Bautista’s people but had to give in after the Cuban people demanded they pay for their crimes
wow who would guess that executing the porkiest of porkies is following the mass line? the history experts in the burger reich told me that these were excesses committed against the will of the people!
Yes. But when you start a 20 year (and still ongoing) war despite the largest mass protests ever seen in the world, that’s democracy.
Don't worry, Phil found his own people to exploit like slaves
Edit: updated the article link to not be some stupid aggregate article
Oh, he was probably friends with my tobacco and slave owning family.
Took me way too long to realize it's "soy" as in "I am", no "soy" as in "soy face".
What a fucking clown. And my god, it's the old "their own people" cry-wank. I managed to go a while without seeing it and I forgot how fucking obnoxious and gross it is as a talking point.
No American president murdered thousands of dissidents
Is this real and true?
His own citizens
Hitler’s alt
There's a lot of work being done with those qualifiers of dissidents and civilians. Because Andrew Jackson killed tens of thousands of indigenous people and he died peacefully in his bed at the age of 78.
without trial
wow that sounds bad, but the Unite—
According to a study conducted by the American Bar Association, plea bargaining has increasingly become the predominant method for resolving criminal cases in the United States, accounting for as many as 98% of all convictions.
oh.
firing squad
wow that sounds bad, but the Unite—
The family of [Lashawn Johnson] who [...] was 'eaten alive' by bed bugs in a filthy jail cell has agreed to a $4 million settlement
oh. well still, that's better than being execu—
Darren Rainey was locked in a shower for two hours. It was designed so that he had no control over the temperature of the water, later measured to be 160 °F (71 °C). A paramedic who attempted to help Rainey wrote that he had second- and third-degree burns on over 30% of his body. It subsequently became known that his skin "fell off at the touch".
oh.
Firing squad is categorically more humane than lethal injection. Lethal injection uses a paralytic that prevents the victim from making their pain visibly apparent, and that's really the only reason it's used.
we can say the truth without being sent to jail
Chelsea Manning who?
no American president murdered thousands of dissidents, his own citizens
Yeah this isn't true at all. Low estimates for deaths during the trail of tears are around 15,000. But maybe liberals don't consider them citizens. Then if you consider confederate soldiers dissidents, then Lincoln killed something like 250,000 of them. I'm not gonna cry any tears for dead confederate troops though, fuck them. Truman killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but that also doesn't seem to count because they're not American citizens.
I hate when liberals play this game of adding qualifiers to the types of people who presidents kill. Yes, the federal government doesn't tend to kill dissenters who are basically smug liberals whose dissent consists of posting or various consumer habits. The federal government kills dissenters like Fred Hampton, John Brown, and Malcolm X.
The "dissidents" killed in the revolution were also mostly Batista supporters (so literal fascists) or plantation owners and their security.
There were lots of public sector workers that fled, but they also tended to be Batista supporters.
My grandmother worked under a Cuban expat as a teacher in Florida who was administrator under the Batista regime and he was so openly misogynist it was wild.
yeah exactly, the losing side of the Cuban revolution were a coalition of plantation owners, mafia, and literal fascists. They weren't just dissenters for no reason.
If you listen to liberals you'd think Castro was going around personally shooting everyday normal people for holding a sign that says "I respectfully disagree"
WAY WAY BACK IN THE 1960S
SECRET GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
HARBORED COUNTER REVOLUTIONARIES
TO FIGHT A MIND WAR A AGAINST THE COMMIES
NOW THOSE GUSANOES ARE PRODUCERS
BETRAYAL TREATED THEM RIGHT
HATING, LYING AND MISJUDGING
A TIME TO LAUGH AND SHIVER
AND CRYYYYYY
Alea was critical of the cuban government but he was so from the perspective of a supporter of revolutionary socialism. His goal was explicitly that the revolution through confronting its flaws could be perfected rather than destroyed.
Loser is still pissed nothing he makes can come close to Soviet cinema which did all that without torturing its animators
More importantly the Clone High guy. I wish I watched season 2 before realizing he sucks.
You're probably giving him too much credit. It sounds like good movies get made in spite of his and his co-directors efforts to work people to death.
Dude can't even work off of animatics and was demanding full renders for WIP stuff - he's a hack.
They're good writers but prior to thr Lego movie their animation experience was Clone High, the difference is massive. So yeah they've directed thr most limited animation ever but animated movies require people who worked on the Simpsons to be well animated.
Fuck that gusano.
My ex who visited Cuba first told me about Soy Cuba and I downloaded some really poor quality version that I didn't get around to watching. So fucking stoked to hear Criterion is releasing it on BluRay! It's going to be gorgeous to see Revolutionary Cuba in HD. I'm definitely buying it, glad I waited to watch it.
This got me to finally watch Soy Cuba. It's pretty interesting.
Soy Cuba is beautiful. Was able to see in in a theater a while back and loved it.
the r/criterion sub is actually having a solid response to this. better than expected.
