A tale of two countries:

[demi-conservative]

Is Putin despised because he is a brutal dictator or because he has embarrassed the neoliberals on several occasions?

Fixed.

[demi-conservative]

Translation:

Pope to Catholics: For Lent, give up trolling

Be good, simplicio.

Lent isn't over, simplicio.

[simplicio]

Lent isn't over, simplicio.

Yes, Demi, I know you are a real Christian, trolling for Christ with the objective of making a mockery of the faith. And you are doing such a good job too.

[demi-conservative]

Yes, Demi, I know you are a real Christian, trolling for Christ with the objective of making a mockery of the faith. And you are doing such a good job too.

Yes, I am a Christian.

Are you?

[Watermelon]

Yes, this is the same rationalization that one could use to declare that Hitler's youth programs were a good thing because they got kids off the street and helped them develop a sense of camaraderie.

[Mountain Man]

Watermelon was not making any rationalization with that post. I think he was objecting to the cognitive distortions of black and white thinking.

Frankly, this idea that we can cordon off individual actions and judge them in isolation without looking at the bigger picture seems absurd to me.

[Mountain Man]

You really believe this? This isn't you trolling us with satire?

[Watermelon]

You really believe this? This isn't you trolling us with satire?

[Watermelon]

Frankly, this idea that we can cordon off individual actions and judge them in isolation without looking at the bigger picture seems absurd to me.

[Sparko]

He already is.

History's Most Evil Leaders : Biograpies of Fidel Castro, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler
https://www.amazon.com/Historys-Most.../dp/B07RF64YXK

[lilpixieofterror]

Castro is a tyrant, who killed tens of thousands of the Cuban people and suppressed the rights of generations of Cubans. Both Hitler and Castro are tyrants, the difference is Hitler controlled one of the most powerful countries in the world, while Castro controlled a small, island nation.

[Mountain Man]

Castro is a tyrant, who killed tens of thousands of the Cuban people and suppressed the rights of generations of Cubans.

But he taught them to read! That's a good thing, isn't it? How can you be so judgmental?

[Mountain Man]

Why do you think Castro is admired in many parts of the world?

Possibly because like Bernie Sanders and other ignorant liberals, they are only familiar with a whitewashed, idealized version of Cuban history and don't know what Castro really did.

Now if only we could figure out how to downplay that pesky Holocaust then Hitler would look like a pretty righteous dude who brought unity and prosperity to Germany. Unity and prosperity are good things!

[Watermelon]

Possibly because like Bernie Sanders and other ignorant liberals, they are only familiar with a whitewashed, idealized version of Cuban history and don't know what Castro really did.

Now if only we could figure out how to downplay that pesky Holocaust then Hitler would look like a pretty righteous dude who brought unity and prosperity to Germany. Unity and prosperity are good things!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deat...f_Fidel_Castrohttps://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12212.doc.htm

What did Castro actually do? Does Florida have anything to do with it?

[One Bad Pig]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deat...f_Fidel_Castrohttps://www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12212.doc.htm

What did Castro actually do? Does Florida have anything to do with it?

Dictators tend to have great admiration for dictators who have managed to stay on top for as long and as successfully as Castro did. Just sayin'.

ETA: Also, argumentum ad populum ftw!