Debates
17 Aug 21
@shavixmir saidFrom what you wrote a few years ago it seemed that you yourself spent time in the middle east. I figured you for one of those Europeans who joined the jihad for a season or two.
Uh… I think you’ll find, if you turn on the news, that the Taliban weren’t defeated…
And I am totally opposed to Jihad. As you should bloody well know by now.
In any case, we put them in their place, we can do it again.
@mott-the-hoople saidSays the gay who named himself after a glam-rock band that became gay icons.
LMFAO…they kill homosexuals…bring ‘em on by the truck load.
@no1marauder saidBecause of the island geography and the fact that it was Spain's primary hub colony and base of operations, deliberately or not, the indigenous Taino population was more or less wiped out and Cubans are therefore of primarily white Hispanic ancestry.
A "whataboutism".
Are Cubans "white" enough for you to warrant being allowed into the US? Why not Guatemalans and Hondurans fleeing intolerable conditions in their homelands?
I just find it amusing that all you right wingers were expressing outrage that Biden wasn't supposedly doing enough to let in Afghans who aided the US during the occupation there but let a few ...[text shortened]... of the white nationalist talking heads you listen to offer a negative spin and you all fall in line.
That wasn't possible in those mesoAmerican countries on the mainland which were connected by land to the huge empires of the Inca and Mexica (though Argentina somehow managed to develop a mostly white population).
So yes he likes Cubans because they are white and not the others because they are brown.
EDIT Oops I forgot lots of Cubans are fully or partially Black I was thinking about the indigenous ppls
18 Aug 21
@athousandyoung saidAre they? 64% of them self-identify as "white" but it's pretty common in Latin America to claim "white" heritage even if your ethnicity is "mixed". https://www.indexmundi.com/cuba/demographics_profile.html
Because of the island geography and the fact that it was Spain's primary hub colony and base of operations, deliberately or not, the indigenous Taino population was more or less wiped out and Cubans are therefore of primarily white Hispanic ancestry.
That wasn't possible in those mesoAmerican countries on the mainland which were connected by land to the huge empires ...[text shortened]... lation).
So yes he likes Cubans because they are white and not the others because they are brown.
The rest self-ID as "black" or "mixed race" and I'm sure the AJs, Eldys, Motts and the rest want no part of them.
18 Aug 21
@no1marauder saidOh yeah I forgot about the Black Cubans
Are they? 64% of them self-identify as "white" but it's pretty common in Latin America to claim "white" heritage even if your ethnicity is "mixed". https://www.indexmundi.com/cuba/demographics_profile.html
The rest self-ID as "black" or "mixed race" and I'm sure the AJs, Eldys, Motts and the rest want no part of them.
18 Aug 21
@averagejoe1 saidMaybe there are already enough cocaine kingpins in Miami and Florida is already safe for right wing republican congressmen and women. Why would you need more Cubans.
Another puzzle….Why not the Cubans? What is wrong with your President? Gag.
Quite the puzzle, isnt it Marauder.
Another conflicting mystery inside a conundrum, inside an enigma. (Churchill). A bed-wetter for sure (AvJoe)
It’s too late for nato to clear up the mess it made in Afghanistan so we need to accept our role as the fan but all the US has to do in Cuba is absolutely nothing except stop the sanctions.
@shavixmir saidWhat? Lawyers make good money, hundreds per hour. Educators and teachers are salaried. Which is more dependent? You lost me there. Hell, teachers get paid leave!! Not lawyers.
As I’ve pointed out, a good amount of Afghans who came to Europe were secular and well educated (doctors, lawyers… although I admit to thinking lawyers are more parasitical than educates, teachers, etc. ) .
19 Aug 21
@shallow-blue saidWorked well enough. Not many airplanes flying into buildings while we were in Afghanistan.
Yeah, that worked well for the last 20 years...
If UN peace keepers can work in former Yugoslavian areas, they can work in Afghanistan.
19 Aug 21
@Eladar
Fortunately you are not in power and your opinions are worthless.
So you are POTUS, how many troops would you send to eliminate Taliban?
We only had a few thousand troops there, not like Vietnam.
And comparing Afghan to Viet Nam doesn't work, for instance, 50 THOUSAND lost their lives in Nam while under 3000 died in Afghanastan in 20 years, like a death every other day or so.
Of course ANY death in military is bad but Afghan Americans dead there less then 10% of Nam.
Also I see our military KNOWS we left Apachie helicopters and such behind and they are now in the process of launching air strikes to destroy as many of them as they can before we get out completely.
19 Aug 21
@averagejoe1 saidYou racist fool.
@AverageJoe1. Are there any covid-ridden terrorists among them? Just asking... What if one moves into my duplex?
I HOPE they move some into my neighborhood. It would balance out all the white house-flippers coming in here buying up all the houses at low prices that the banks have screwed from the minority families living in them.
At least there will once again be normal families living here instead of all the snot-nosed brats from rich white families buying the flipped houses for outrageous prices.
19 Aug 21
@eladar saidYour history is abysmal.
From what you wrote a few years ago it seemed that you yourself spent time in the middle east. I figured you for one of those Europeans who joined the jihad for a season or two.
In any case, we put them in their place, we can do it again.
The US removed the Taliban from power, but never actually came anywhere to crushing them. They’ve been active since 2005 or something.
Any leader the US managed to kill was in Pakistan.
As a communist and an atheist, what on Earth makes you think I’d fight for a moslim cause?
Just because I disagree with the US invasion of Afghanistan, doesn’t mean I have any feelings of sympathy towards religious extremists.