Cuba - A Big Win For Obama

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Karen_J, Dec 17, 2014.

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  1. thedope

    thedope glad attention Lifetime Supporter

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    What does this discourse contribute to your family or what is your satisfaction from it? I live with dogs and I have to tell they don't eat each other. If it is a dog eats dog world does that mean you eat your own children, I mean since you choose to use the analogy that we are all dogs.?
     
  2. Gongshaman

    Gongshaman Modus Lascivious

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    doesn't...
     
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  3. *Yogi*

    *Yogi* Resident Racist

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    It means I don't give a flying fuck about anyone outside of close friends and family. It means im not going to do shit, Lift a finger unless it benefits me, In some way. Im not out to lend a helping hand and don't care to receive anything more than mentioned for humor reasons.
    Yes, There is obamaphones. Google search, Went and signed up, Free phone with free minutes through Verizon carrier.

    Once again, Grammar Nazi, Who gives a shit! Don't, Doesn't, Does not...... Like it fucking matters on the interwebz.
     
  4. Gongshaman

    Gongshaman Modus Lascivious

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    I'll bet you talk that way too.
     
  5. thedope

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    The words you use matter to your contextual appreciation of life, I don't care how you talk I can understand you. But if you do not understand the words you are using then you don't understand yourself so this is not an exercise in trading meaningless phrases unless you have nothing meaningful to say. Sorry if this confuses you but your confusion evidently comes with the territory.
     
  6. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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    You are that rich?

    Why do I need to contribute to humanity? Well, a lot of people with a family seem to think investing in the better for society, and/or the environment is helpful for your kids or grandkids and the world they have to live in. Please be aware: contributing to humanity can be done in many ways.

    Are you sure?
     
  7. Karen_J

    Karen_J Visitor

    Can we talk about something besides Yogi?
     
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  8. Asmodean

    Asmodean Slo motion rider

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  9. deleted

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    Id just like to see those classic cars ..
     
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  10. TheGhost

    TheGhost Auuhhhhmm ...

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    This is the internet. Very few people have creditability here.

    Or was it credibility?

    Whaddevah doood.
     
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  11. Meliai

    Meliai Members

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    you sound like a wonderful person
     
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  12. thedope

    thedope glad attention Lifetime Supporter

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    i sure wonder.
     
  13. NISKUNUDIST

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    I go to Cayo Largo Cuba every winter ! 20km Total of NUDE BEACH !

    800,000 Canadians per year Visit Cuba. Cayo Largo has repeat visits just for the Nude Beach.
     
  14. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Unfortunately Cuba is as Anti-Marijuana as any country.

    Perhaps the US can help change that too.

    Esp. when tourists visit from US. I wonder if ppl will try to smuggle some in.

    Penalties are bad for any kind of illegal drugs.
     
  15. Motion

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    Will U.S investment really improve Cuba?

    With Obama normalizing relations many are saying that more U.S investment will improve the island. But I've heard that other countries already invest in Cuba and yet Cuba is still poor because of gov't mismanagement. Will this change with more U.S investment?
     
  16. Gongshaman

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    You know they have to be growing the shit in the jungle.

    I'll bet there's a guy on the beach that will sell you a joint.

    Yep, draconian drugs laws there, might not even be worth the risk
     
  17. RooRshack

    RooRshack On Sabbatical

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    If cuba went full-on real balls-to-the-casual-use-in-public-wall legalization right now, they would make it as a country.

    They have a peaceful safe territory, low crime, an educated population, lots of potential - yeah the government is repressive, but if I was going to be a prisoner in cuba, I would pick being a prisoner of the cubans, than the americans.

    They've got the basics, it just needs some finishing and social liberalism.
     
  18. Karen_J

    Karen_J Visitor

    The Castro brothers are going to be dead soon. A lot of shit is going to change.
     
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  19. Piney

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    Cuba is a place where citizens are subject to torture. I've been hearing lately bout how terrible Torture is............ Odd that Cuba is embraced at this moment.

    To speak of Cigars and mistresses seems shallow and stereotyped. I married a Cuban girl, her family suffered from oppression, confiscation and expulsion.
     
  20. RooRshack

    RooRshack On Sabbatical

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    And what happens right now determines if cuba will have a "soft" or "hard" "landing".

    The castros know this, and no longer have any reason to resist it. At this point it doesn't affect them or their lives or their power, but affects the next big thing leaders care about: "legacy".

    If they die without changing anything, they die fools who drove their hermit nation into the ground for no lasting effect, save continued instability.

    If they liberalize things and die with cuba on a path to modernity and openness and it succeeds and integrates into the modern/free world without a revolution in between, then they are (legitimately) the heroes who took cuba from disgusting abuse and exploitation by the US, successfully played revolution, ran a sovereign nation that evaded the "united fruit" method of assassination and control by the US, possessed and controlled their own nuclear weapons, played a central role in global history, waited-out those who wanted to do cuba harm, and then presented a sovereign civilized nation to the world.

    The test of the castros is whether or not cuba can ride it's bike when they let go. This whole thing is encouraging.

    It appears, from my comfy non-cuban chair, that cuba has set, and now's the time for the cast to come off and physical therapy to begin.
     
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