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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by Breazy on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:38PM (#30393935)
The communist regime being mentioned by name in this discussion is Cuba. I'm not aware of any genocides attributed to Cuba, so where do you get this talk of genocide?

Answer: It's your strawman.

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by cwkoss on Saturday February 19, 2022 @02:02AM (#30394983)
Where did Cuba come into this thread?

Is the man with a sword a specific person? What are you talking about?

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by TeeMassive on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:25AM (#30394844)
> I'm not aware of any genocides attributed to Cuba

Communist regimes are known for the opacity and media suppression. It's not like they'll tell the whole world about it.

And contrary to what is believed, Cuba is not totally sealed off the world and still relies on capitalism to survive (cigar, rum and tourism), which mainly prevented it from going full North-Korea.

https://www.therichest.com/shocking/the-15-worst-atrocities-...

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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by seanmcdirmid on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:43AM (#30394916)
Batista also committed a lot of atrocities from a fairly capitalism-based position in collusion with Cuba’s wealthy landowners. Not that the previous regime excuses the current communist regime, but opacity, media suppression, and human rights violations are of course not exclusive to communism.
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Re:Why We Banned Legos (2006) by TeeMassive on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:33PM (#30403236)
Except nobody is wearing Batista shirts.
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