You bored, not getting enough attention? Football season is right around the corner brah
Did you have a question?
Fascinating!
Edit to add substance â
An article about how people are surviving an oil embargo being called a âcommunist hit pieceâ shows just how blissfully ignorant people are willing to be in order to feel that their thinking is superior to others.
Or, maybe some of us need to go outside and breathe some fresh air.
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Fair reporting?
Does interviewing a dictator or its minions means/defines fair reporting?
Are YOU that NAIVE?
Mods, what is the meaning of a rant?
Is nrgcoog unable to better express his thoughts than using rant every time he disagrees?
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Try to take in new info instead of just sticking to your guns,
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When you interview the dictatorâs minions you know what type of proganda you are going to get.
Why is it that the nytimes is not reporting on the deaths and political inmates? Why is that?
That I would be interested to learn more. Donât you?
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Anything that doesnât align with your previous held view is indoctrination. Sad! These werenât minions and their interviews arenât propaganda
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Sounds like one or two never read the article yet feel obliged to comment on it.
Not really surprised.
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Same as it ever was.
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If you canât quote sentences, from the article you are slighting, that supports
your position , Iâm at a loss of a better term to categorize your response. Be
specific to the article being discussed. Provide references to the piece and donât
speak in generic terms not addressing anything in the article. Educate us. Highlight
the article specifics that support your point.
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My Cuban refugee kid was a member of the Olympic Volleyball team. I said that he ate better than the general population. He said no. beans, rice and an occasional chicken.
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Cool story. What year(s) was all this ? Apologies if youâve wrote about it before; I
just donât recall the story. I had assumed too that the olympic teams got special
treatment in communist countries. Guess they really do share the pain.
New info?
Every communist country treats its people horribly. Cubans today live in horrible conditions thanks to their communist dictatorship.
Communism or socialism brings tragedic economical conditions while their leaders live in palaces.
A great question would have been:
Mr. Dictatorâs minion would you mind opening up your house to us to verify what is in your fridge or how many under age prostitutes live under your house?
That is true journalism buddy.
In another word:
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
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Haha, capitalism totally prevents the ones in power from living in gold plated palaces, saying âaffordabilityâ is a made up word and paying off porn stars.
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Is this about the Cuban dictatorship or the bad orange monster?
Going off track?
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Just keeping it real
Power to the People
Iâd love to visit Cuba. Itâd be the greatest vintage car exhibit of all time.
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Iâll ask my brother. He has a Cuban wife whose family lives there. Him and his wife make several trips a year to Cuba.
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Yea, I used to want to visit too. Not sure if I do under current conditions though.
One thing I wish the article had investigated was the impact the oil embargo has had
on medical and hospital facilities ? Have things like surgeries or medical care been impacted ?
Getting off topic, but didnât we learn anything about the fallacy of the domino theory in
south east Asia ? Incidentally, we now have communist Vietnam as a major trade
partner, after having well over 50,000 US deaths during the war.
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U.S. goods and services trade with Vietnam totaled an estimated $155.1 billion in 2024, up 20.5 percent ($26.4 billion) from 2023.
U.S. goods trade with Vietnam totaled an estimated $209.5 billion in 2025. U.S. goods exports to Vietnam in 2025 were $15.7 billion, up 20.0 percent ($2.6 billion) from 2024. U.S. goods imports from Vietnam totaled $193.8 billion in 2025, up 42.0 percent ($57.3 billion) from 2024.
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