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Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts) Sat Nov 26, 2016, 08:35 AM Nov 2016

Good riddance dicktator!! Nt

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Good riddance dicktator!! Nt (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Nov 2016 OP

He was around way too long jehop61 Nov 2016 #1

Still, people in the streets celebrating the death of a 90 year old man seems weird. Zen Democrat Nov 2016 #2

Meh. More meaningful for them than me Bacchus4.0 Nov 2016 #3

Can't say there's much to celebrate for me Marksman_91 Nov 2016 #4

jehop61

(1,735 posts)

1. He was around way too long

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Sat Nov 26, 2016, 08:56 AM

Nov 2016

When he came to power, I was a high school girl. Today I am a great grandmother. Not sorry he's gone.

Zen Democrat

(5,901 posts)

2. Still, people in the streets celebrating the death of a 90 year old man seems weird.

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Sat Nov 26, 2016, 10:41 AM

Nov 2016

Cuban-Americans never defeated him. Old Man Time gets everyone eventually, so the kids jumping around with Cuban flags and the people cheering and weeping seems, well, strange.

Bacchus4.0

(6,837 posts)

3. Meh. More meaningful for them than me

Reply to Zen Democrat (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 26, 2016, 10:57 AM

Nov 2016

I will have a cuba libre and move on

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)

4. Can't say there's much to celebrate for me

Reply to Bacchus4.0 (Original post)

Sun Nov 27, 2016, 02:03 AM

Nov 2016

I feel bittersweet about it more or less the same way when Chavez died. In the end, Fidel got to live a long prosperous life. He ruled as a tyrant, lived as an oligarch, and died as a king, and never faced justice for all the crimes he committed against his own people. Guy died on his own terms, and never got to serve even one second behind bars, and even retired 10 years before he passed away and simply passed on the throne to his next of kin. To me, that means ultimately he was the victor.

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