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[Dec. 28th, 2006|10:18 am] |
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You know, whenever I hear about the Cuban exile community in Miami I just get pissed off at them. Please, don't bitch about Castro. I'm sure you could've stayed in your wonderful homeland if you could've lived without private property and maybe a little less money than you were accustomed to. Maybe if your parents and grandparents, dear Miami Cubans, weren't sugar planters who fucked a bunch of people over with their private property/private business, or academics and other idlers who make money for doing essentially nothing for their living, they wouldn't have had to flea to a country where we love businesses who fuck people over and people who've figured out how to survive by sitting around acting smarter than everyone else. And maybe Cuba wouldn't be in the shite state of affairs it's in now if their money stayed there to help the people of your homeland. So I'd like to give a big fuck you to Cuban exiles in Miami. And saying "fuck you" isn't nearly as bad as wishing death on a man who is already dying and relishing every last bit of news of his suffering, selling cider with a label indicating it is to be opened only upon the death of Fidel Castro, selling toilet paper with his picture on it -- you're in the States, living as high if not higher on the hog as you did in Cuba so just shut up, stop drawing attention to yourselves. We don't need any more people bitching about Communism, we had our fill in the fucking 1950s and that's why the Left of this country is full of effete rich liberals who bought their degrees from goddamn Yale or Harvard or whatever other puffed up Ivy League school that harbors more idiots, more fools, more unskilled, uninformed so-called students than a community college of all places (and yes, I've spoken to my share of Ivy Leaguers/those who want to be/have been and Community Collegers, and the latter are much more together with their lives -- we're all made to believe the opposite is true. The fact that I have a 4.0 at NAU, a public Univeristy and get confused for a student attending Coconino Community College only because I'm decent to fellow human beings and don't act like a damned fool is sad) who do nothing but throw money at problems. (But I digress) You're in a fucking country that allows you to have private property and enough money to buy opportunity; if Cuba, your homeland, was so important to you, perhaps you'd have stayed there and dealt with that pesky little thing called Socialism. I think your money and property are more important; maybe you miss the climate, you miss the land, but if you were in Cuba you'd miss your ownership of the land and money a lot more and I guess the impoverished people there would cramp your style so just shut up about Castro ruining your life when most Miami Cubans at this point were born and raised in Miami making them American not Cuban. Castro didn't impose suffering on the Cuban people, I don't think pinko trash commie bastards are really into the suffering of the People, last I checked. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think Fidel should have been in power for 47 years, the man's no saint but look at the mess he had to deal with. The Embargo, goddamn perestroika and the disintegration of the USSR have done more damage than a dictator perpetuus could. Rome lasted for a good long while with that sort of deal, remember? Cuba did a goddamn better job because it lasted with that sort of leader while not being the Imperialistic Dungheap that Rome was. Oh, I forgot, we like Imperialism; never mind. For God's sake, the Revolution got rid of Batista (who was a great nasty sonofabitch, wasn't he, himself, mind you...oh, but he let American businesses own a whole bunch of Cuba, so that makes him much, much better, doesn't it?) if enough people in Cuba were that unhappy with their lives they could have -- would have by God -- gotten rid of Castro. The Love of Capitalism is what ruinied "your" Country; not Socialism, not Communism, not the Revolution, not Castro. The almighty Dollar and America as World Police did the damage, not some poor bastard wearing fatigues, who wanted to do good despite practically the rest of the World thinking it's just fine to have a few people with everything and a whole bunch with very little or nothing, who's now dying of a goddamned cancerous GI tract. I know I'm biased: I don't like big business, I don't like private property, I don't like Capitalism, I don't like America's version of "Democracy," I think Imperialism is nasty, I'd rather go back to living in tiny autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers for the love of God, so maybe I'm a little insensitive to the plight of people who had to leave a country because they had too much. But there is a man who is old and dying who also happens to be Fidel Castro. I'll rant and rave until I'm blue in the goddamn face and foaming at the mouth, but I'd never wish a death by cancer on the aged leader of a sovereign nation, for God's sake, no matter how much I didn't like him. I certainly wouldn't have a big fuckin shindig whenever I heard he was doing worse, and I'm the godless heathen pinko trash, for the love of God! Have some respect for the dying and the dead, Miami Cuban exiles. Big Bad Fidel Castro won't mess up your lives for much longer. You and America will have your go at Cuba soon enough, I'm sure. Just lay off for now. It's disrespectful. It pisses me off.
[And I know this is long as hell, but it's not going behind a cut.] |
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