• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Idk, Fidel might not meet your definition of maniac, but he threw enough gay people and political dissidents into “work” camps (where you were worked to death, but “totally not death camps”) for me to call him a maniac.

    Sure, later he said whoopsie daisies, but imo to do it in the first place he had to be a maniac.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      4 days ago

      I don’t think Castro was a maniac by any means, but I think he does show that uncontested power is a dangerous thing to wield. All your preconceptions and prejudices become principles, and anyone working against them is clearly and ontologically evil.