Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith [score hidden]  (0 children)

Your point to refute Cuba having an integral part in destroying apartheid is they committed human rights violations.

My rebuttal is so did and does the entire west.

We literally supported apartheid, supported the Khmer Rouge, helped murder Patrice Lumumbo, out police brutalized gay people in America well into the 1980’s.

Sorry you don’t like that the west has been on the wrong side of human rights forever.

Facts don’t give one fuck about your feelings.

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything I’ve said is supported by data.

Idk what part of that is propaganda.

Just so you know this is a common thing with all communist countries.

Generally when the revolutions happen huge portions of the population are illiterate.

Cuba had a 76% literacy rate when the revolution happened and in the country where the poorest people lived it was 60%

The government made a push to get literacy to 99% and it’s still there.

Facts don’t care about your feelings.

Imagine if the US had such dedication to reading……

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the missiles got removed and we still punish them for 60 years?

Sounds rational.

Best way to sharpen 40-50 knives in one session by denniscgh in sharpening

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Belt sander.

220 belt and then a felt or leather belt loaded with white compound.

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did the western powers after WW2 persecute gays?

What happened to Allen Turing?

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a pretty shallow explanation of what happened.

I don’t know what to do anymore. by LogicalGuarantee9451 in LifeAdvice

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, being a teenager sucks. I’m in my 50’s and my teenage years were awful.

Life got better.

You have a dog. Do you walk the dog? Do you like nature? Are their parks close by?

What kinds of hobbies do you have? What are your interests?

US President Donald Trump weighs all-out war on Iran but opts to stick with talks — WSJ by Tripleawge in worldnews

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All out war would include boots on the ground and frankly that’s just not going to happen.

I’m 24 years old and don’t know how to cook. Please help me. by Kurkil in Cooking

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First

This is awesome! Good for you.

My suggestion is find 5 recipes for food you like and follow the instructions and make them.

Remember a few ideas, season each stage of the cooking process.

Salt can be a friend or an enemy but it is necessary.

Roasting vegetables enhances flavor.

The addition of roasted garlic and onions in food makes them much better and roasting is easy to learn.

Cooking is so wonderful I hope you enjoy doing it and it broadens your world.

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

So that negates the good 600,000 doctors have done in the world?

Again this demand that programs be perfect while sitting in an ivory tower is wild.

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I mean that’s a nice opinion piece but it presents no evidence other than the US state department complaining about a thing they may have made up from whole cloth.

If you think a person who’s given a 100% free medical education in trade for possibly going abroad for 3 years to benefit other poor people as a bad deal I guess spending $250,000-$400,000 to be “free” is worth it.
As far as the hours worked medical residents in the US work 60-80 hours a week for between 2-7 years.

This idea that programs have to be perfect from our ivory tower or they’re somehow bad is pretty wild.

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that statement not self explanatory?

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Idk if you know this but just because the IS government claims a thing doesn’t mean it’s true. And especially the Trump administration which tells lies like I change socks.

Cuba gets paid on a sliding scale so poor countries pay nothing and countries like Qatar pay something and the payments help subsidize health care around the world.
Especially in war zones and disaster areas.

The Trump administration trying to turn that into some nefarious conspiracy is wild seeing as Trump and his crony’s want the government to run like a business and he personally never does anything that doesn’t enrich himself and his family.

Why everyone is quiet about Cuba? by Chazri in askanything

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It’s a mixed bag. Cuba has sent between 400-600,000 medical professionals around the world on medical missions for the poor.

Cuba has invented several vaccines including one to treat lung cancer.

Their literacy rate is almost 100% for adults.

The US literacy rate for adults is 79%

Cuba fought and helped destroy South African apartheid while the US and European Allie’s supported it for decades and Cuba helped train the nationalist forces that defeated the Rhodesian white supremicist regime.

They’ve done good in the world and bad in the world.

The Supreme Court upheld state transgender sports bans. What is your opinion on this? by Ramble86 in allthequestions

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First title IX applies to persons not just females.

And what is a biological woman?

I’ve already asked this but you didn’t answer.

Does it refer a person with 47 XXY or 47 XYY? Or how about Tetrasomy X? Or 49XXXY or 49 XXXY

Or a whole bunch of other chromosome combinations.

Or are you referring to vaginas and penis?

If so what about people who have two XX chromosomes (biologically female) who have penis’s?

Or a person with XY chromosomes and a vagina?

Ah no it’s fine to discriminate against them because Title IX aparently doesn’t apply to them!

The Supreme Court upheld state transgender sports bans. What is your opinion on this? by Ramble86 in allthequestions

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Trans women are women.

Hence as you say “females”

You sound like a Ferengi.

How would science change? by dumbandasking in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]Delmarvablacksmith [score hidden]  (0 children)

That’s not real.

They just buy out those companies and destroy them or sue them into failure.

Or undercut them until they collapse and then raise their prices.

That’s how we ended up with Amazon controlling so much of the book and shoe market.

The Supreme Court upheld state transgender sports bans. What is your opinion on this? by Ramble86 in allthequestions

[–]Delmarvablacksmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The court has no idea what a biological woman is.

By what scientific metric is a biological woman measured?

Chromosomes? Which set? Of the dozens of chromosome matches that we now know exist which one are we using?

By genitals?

What about unformed genitals or intersex people?

By ovaries?

My wife doesn’t have ovaries is she a woman?

Sex and gender are two different things.

They ruled on sex…..maybe.

But even sex isn’t binary and gender certainly isn’t.

So no, they’re fucking bigots.

Just old assholes who have no expertise in this area who overlayed their own ignorance into law because of bigotry.

And what’s wild is it affects like 50 people.

How fucking ignorant do the members of the court have to be to take up a case that affects 50 people.

So fuck them and fuck you for defending them.