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In reply to the discussion: What did Bernie's comments on Cuba at the last #DemDebate mean? Here's where he (and Obama) stand [View all]booley
(3,855 posts)1. Bernie's critics are trying to do a Hitler liked Sugar Fallacy
Cuba has done a number of good things considering the 60 years of embargo. They had a superpower doing everything they could topple to it.
AND Cuba is also an authoritarian country with human rights abuses.
Both things can be true at the same time. People can and do understand the difference.
This whole thing sounds like a Hitler liked Sugar fallacy.
Bernie liked what Cuba did with its literacy program
Cuba was a totalitarian regime
Therefore Bernie likes Totalitarian regimes.
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What did Bernie's comments on Cuba at the last #DemDebate mean? Here's where he (and Obama) stand [View all]
Donkees
Feb 2020
OP
On the contrary, I had a Bernie supporter today unequivocably tell me that Bernie was a Marxist
sweetloukillbot
Feb 2020
#27
Sanders' comments were made in the 1980s when Castro was still running rampant....
George II
Feb 2020
#3
Link what, prove what? We've all seen the comments of both and when they made them.
George II
Feb 2020
#6
More Democrats are women than men. They don't have "cahones" (cojones), they have persistence.
George II
Feb 2020
#19
Nah, I think I'm good. You might want to let go of Cold War Propaganda, though.
Cuthbert Allgood
Feb 2020
#30
Bernie and Barack know Cuba. What they say about it is the truth Americans need to hear.
ancianita
Feb 2020
#4
Yes they do, NOW. But Sanders' comments in the 1970s and 1980s show that at the time he did not....
George II
Feb 2020
#9
Niggling. It's the double standard of "the perfect being the enemy of the good." Bernie and many
ancianita
Feb 2020
#13