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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (2531)	5/18/2019 7:42:21 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3350

I am not endorsing Cuba's regime.. just saying lots got a leg up.. that could not have under Batista.. Yeah. Get that. And don't disagree with you that "they're obviously different"... also not in disagreement that there's not a lot of real social advantage in choosing one set of thugs over another. The muddle occurs in the reality discussed before... that it does still matter who the king is... not all being equal. The common element in the difference... tracks in the different nature of corruption under one system versus another... so that the "free market" tolerance or enabling of particular types of corruption is of a different character than "state controlled" variant... which makes about zero difference to those hurt by it... even if they are different people... that's mostly still a function of luck, timing, and team sports... Cuba was a cesspool of US crime syndicates before that.. So was Las Vegas ? Which would you rather suffer under today ? Hard for me to see JFK as the hero many do.. Agree with that, too... not heroism to dodge the worst possible outcomes of one's own prior mismanagement... Although, I do value more than others seem to, that he, like many Presidents before him, had a very steep learning curve... and figured it all out pretty quickly in the wake of that experience... which is why they had to kill him before he could begin to transfer that experience into change we might believe in... like... having the Treasury start printing U.S. currency... instead of using Federal Reserve currency... I was in class.. Grade 3.. 7 years old.. and the nuns came and told us of the tragedy of Kennedy History is an open book eventually History is always an open book... just a question of whether or not the book is "fake history"... the Who said it well Agree with that choice, too... but... not being fooled is just a start, still isn't close to an endpoint... so here's an alternate choice from the Phil Collins original I often posted... a bit raw... oddly and overtly commercial... but, cool acoustics...