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Nobody said that and I am not OK with that. That is reprehensible, for Jews or Arabs.

Well, they have been there for thousands of years.

The immigration from Cuba doesn't paint Cuban communism in a worse light than immigration from elsewhere and different socio-economic systems, including capitalist ones. Cuba is no paradise. Communism there should have had its reforms long ago. However, the question was intended to point out how bad it was under Batista and the fact that there are systems much worse than Cuban communism. The average Cuban was less free under Batista than they are 50+ years after the revolution. The revolution didn't happen in a vacuum.

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No, he is advocating ethnic cleansing.

What is it when somebody says it quacks like a communist even when others demonstrate it doesn't?

Not Israel, Willie.

Yep, it cuts both ways.

Sounds like you are coming around!

Yeah, they look good. Advertised performance is good also.

What you describe is definitively ethnic cleansing.

Most of the ones I know bought Teslas. They like to be early adopters of technology and they like the power. It is the former more than anything. I haven't bought a car in a long time, but I'm considering a Ford Lightning when my number comes up in a few years.

At least the teenager they mock is paying attention. Where have we seen that before?!

It is lonely at the top!!

Well said.

Too late. We already have one. It is funded by almost 1000 billionaires, which is more than any other country BTW.

I'm not a communist sympathizer but I can objectively spot a communist society. Further, I can understand the appeal and practicality that socialism or communism holds for the masses of an absolutely corrupt society, such as the one in Batista's Cuba.

I don't have any labels for it. Communist is communist. That ain't it.

I liked the practical design of the Chevy Volt. Market didn't like it as much, it appears.

Well, Zhong ShanShan, who is worth > 62,000,000,000 dollars, lands on my side of the argument.

You didn't answer the question. The question seeks to determine whether life was diminished under communism for the average Cuban, not the wealthy. Immigration numbers fifty years add nothing meaningful.

I didn't say Cuba and DRK are or aren't communist. I implied Cuba is when I asked jross a question. I haven't given it much thought. Fun fact: Expected life span is Cuba is longer than that of the US.

Not answering the question/answering a question with a question, which is understandable when you don't fancy the answer to the original question. Most of the first immigrants were the ruling class, which had nothing to do with the average person and in fact were the cause of the revolution. The rest of the immigrants are consistent with immigration numbers from Latin America or even less, which is independent of economic or ideological philosophy.

They can say anything they want. We learned that from the teenager.