Poor Castro Hope he gets better
#16
Posted 22 January 2007 - 10:45 AM
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#17
Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:01 AM
And by the way, Octavius totally kicks Augustus's ass.
#18
Posted 22 January 2007 - 11:25 AM
It's the same as basing your idea of Iraq off of the opinions of Iraqi exiles, which as we established was a bad thing.
And Octavian WAS Caesar Augustus, by the way.
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#19
Posted 22 January 2007 - 01:07 PM
It's also a bad thing to just brush off those people's opinions and observations because you don't like them or you think they're biased. They're getting those opinions from somewhere.
#20
Posted 22 January 2007 - 01:12 PM
So we have to clone him, call one Octavian, one Caesar Augustus, and put them in a death match to see who wins.
PM me, we'll talk.
#21
Posted 22 January 2007 - 02:18 PM
Jm, I don't even remember you mentioning you talked to people etc. That does make your argument rise a little in my eyes.
However, the fact that you've clumped everyone that has left Cuba together as the same and wrong, puts it back down. Because they've left Cuba, they're biased and therefore wrong? Hmm... How about, because you're from America and you haven't moved, you're a republican jackass with bleached blonde hair? You're just assigning attributes to people, without a real reason for it. You know why SOME people left Cuba, and so you're assuming that everyone else left Cuba for those same reasons. And not listening to the reasons they give, because don't forget - they're biased.
Now, I'm not saying that Cuba is hell or any of that. I'm just saying it's very unfair to discredit everyone other than those who agree with you and whose stories contribute to your argument, especially those people who are speaking from experience (i.e. those who have left Cuba).
#22
Posted 22 January 2007 - 06:41 PM
Godwin's Law strikes again.
#28
Posted 30 January 2007 - 09:01 PM
The US hypes every case of Cubans coming here from Cuba, but the real numbers aren't all that large. No one is starving in Cuba because the government subsidizes food. Everyone has free health care. There are indeed elections. Gay rights are starting to be recognized. And the education system is the best in South America. But, of course, it's clearly a commie death trap because it's not a part of America anymore like it was before the Revolution. Come on, open your eyes and look beyond the borders of this empire you live in.
There are people who are quite happy in other parts of the world regardless of whether they have X Boxes and all this bullshit or not. There are people who are unhappy here in the US, people living on the streets and killing eachother just for money to survive. There are thousands of kids who have to join the military and go half a world away to butcher women and children because they have no way to pay for education (unlike in Cuba, where college is free) and there are no jobs in their towns.
But yeah, everywhere that isn't the US is clearly a terrible place.
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#30
Posted 30 January 2007 - 10:14 PM
only while they're in college. after that they stop dating the interesting guys and start seeing the boring ones
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