We NEED Ch*na to become a liberal democracy, like us! [goes on to describe how shitty their own country is]

Nah, I think it’s still comprehensible if you haven’t read it, I read it quite a while ago

Thanks for spelling out your thoughts! Very cool connection

I love Hofstadter and have read that book, how does it relate? Btw, I’m not agreeing with the 4chan post wholeheartedly, just wanted to see how you all would roast it

there’s definitely nothing more substantial to criticize ben shapiro on, right?

Yes, Hasan should’ve responded with something like “Your hatred of Big Government and your love of the police is contradictory” because nobody’s made that point before

I love posting these JFK quotes on Cuba:

I believe that there is no country in the world including any and all the countries under colonial domination, where economic colonization, humiliation and exploitation were worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country’s policies during the Batista regime. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption. I will even go further: to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.

— U.S. President John F. Kennedy, to Jean Daniel, October 24, 1963

Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years … and he turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state—destroying every individual liberty. Yet our aid to his regime, and the ineptness of our policies, enabled Batista to invoke the name of the United States in support of his reign of terror. Administration spokesmen publicly praised Batista—hailed him as a staunch ally and a good friend—at a time when Batista was murdering thousands, destroying the last vestiges of freedom, and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the Cuban people, and we failed to press for free elections -JFK, October 6, 1960

Obviously anecdotal, but my Jamaican ex coworker said pretty much exactly this in 2016/17 to me

That’s what really gets me. She’s so rich! A billionaire! Even if it’s one of your “issues”, I cannot imagine spending one second being mad on twitter if I was a billionaire, instead of eating cuttlefish jizz or whatever