Happy Trails Fidel Castro

[Coolidge]

@Orgasmo You went M.I.A again. What a cowardly intellectual lightweight you are. You had months to perfect the lie and I still made mincemeat out of you without even trying. Stick to drooling over pictures of Fidel without his beard, you sycophantic dictator-loving buffoon.

 

[7437]

Dipshit, stats about the enrollment of children != stats about the country's overall literacy rate. The fact that enrollment went up does not mean that the percentage that I gave was inaccurate. They address two separate things, you moron.

The CIA puts the literacy rate at 99%.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html

 

[Coolidge]

The CIA puts the literacy rate at 99%.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html

What does that have to do with anything? We were having a discussion about the literacy rate under the former Batista administration.

 

[7437]

What does that have to do with anything? We were having a discussion about the literacy rate under the former Batista administration.

Ok..... 60 to 75%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Literacy_Campaign

 

[Coolidge]

Ok..... 60 to 75%

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Literacy_Campaign

Did you follow the conversation?

"The literacy rate, 76%, was the fourth highest in Latin America. Cuba ranked 11th in the world in the number of doctors per capita."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/comandante-pre-castro-cuba/

Your own source (Wikipedia) estimates that between 60-76% were literate. So even the most conservative estimate doesn't support that lie you told. "An island of mostly illiterates" You must be on that alt facts diet.

 

[7437]

Did you follow the conversation?

I try not to

 

[Coolidge]

I try not to

I can see that. It doesn't appear that you do much reading in general.

 

[Rod1]

Education was probably the only thing the communists got right, Cubans tend to be the most educated of all latin Americans.

That being said, surgeons make less money than bellboys who get tips.

 

[Orgasmo]

@Orgasmo You went M.I.A again. What a cowardly intellectual lightweight you are. You had months to perfect the lie and I still made mincemeat out of you without even trying. Stick to drooling over pictures of Fidel without his beard, you sycophantic dictator-loving buffoon.

So you're telling me Cuba had 76% literacy rate prior to Castro, when only half the children age 7 to 14 were in school at that time. That doesn't add up. Let's say I buy your suspect numbers for a minute, 1 in 4 Cubans were still illiterate at the time. Cubans are better educated and enjoy longer life expectancy under Castro than Americans today. This was done under American embargo. Sounds to me like Castro improved the quality of life for his people despite the odds.

Sorry for not sticking around for hours waiting to reply to your alt facts. It's called going to work, but not that you would know anything about that. Nobody likes a needy loser. You'd really think I'd care to spend months in preparation just to reply you? Maybe you should see a shrink about your over inflated sense of self worth. I think you're suffering from a bad case of self delusion.

 

[manlyseaeagle]

What is it with these middle class dictator people wanting socialism for their people who don't want it forced on them.Castro wasn't even a music fan and I suspect he drove the Latin jazz/Salsa scene backwards and underground alongside Pro Boxing been outlawed.

 

[Coolidge]

So you're telling me Cuba had 76% literacy rate prior to Castro, when only half the children age 7 to 14 were in school at that time. That doesn't add up. Let's say I buy your suspect numbers for a minute, 1 in 4 Cubans were still illiterate at the time.[/quoted]

Your research consisted of looking at a Wikipedia page, and you did such a thorough job that you completely missed the top paragraph that contradicts the argument you were making. You don't have to accept the 76% figure that PBS, ABC News, and other publications have reported as fact. We can use your own source, Wikipedia, which says that between 60% and 76% of the Cuban population was literate. Is a 60% literacy rate consistent with your claim that Cuba was an island of mostly illiterate people? I don't think so, but maybe you're familiar with some 'alt math' that I'm not. An article posted on the Stanford sub-domain World Association of International Studies says that the literacy rate 'stood above' 60%. '1 in 4 Cubans...' Now you're shifting the goalposts. You were trying to make Castro out to be some sort of a savior and did so by painting a completely inaccurate picture of what Cuba was like before he came to power. In fact, the literacy rate was one of the highest in the region at the time, and was on an upward trend right along with life expectancy and infant mortality. 'Sounds to me...' There's a reason why thousands of Cubans literally fled and risked dying in shark infested water to escape a dictator. If Cuba was able to achieve all of this despite the embargo, then Castro apologists should stop blaming it for the areas where Cuba is failing.

It's called going to work, but not that you would know anything about that.

No, it's called you having no idea what to say and needing some time to think up an argument since the 'island of mostly illiterates' completely fell apart, like it did months ago when I debunked it then. You were online viewing this thread, as well as other threads, and even took the time to post in one, hours before you got around to making this latest response. Your 'I was at work' excuse, as you say, doesn't add up.

 

[Coolidge]

So you're telling me Cuba had 76% literacy rate prior to Castro, when only half the children age 7 to 14 were in school at that time. That doesn't add up. Let's say I buy your suspect numbers for a minute, 1 in 4 Cubans were still illiterate at the time. Cubans are better educated and enjoy longer life expectancy under Castro than Americans today. This was done under American embargo. Sounds to me like Castro improved the quality of life for his people despite the odds.

Sorry for not sticking around for hours waiting to reply to your alt facts. It's called going to work, but not that you would know anything about that. Nobody likes a needy loser. You'd really think I'd care to spend months in preparation just to reply you? Maybe you should see a shrink about your over inflated sense of self worth. I think you're suffering from a bad case of self delusion.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/comandante-pre-castro-cuba/

Your research consisted of looking at a Wikipedia page, and you did such a thorough job that you completely missed the top paragraph that contradicts the argument you were making. You don't have to accept the 76% figure that PBS, ABC News, and other publications have reported as fact. We can use your own source, Wikipedia, which says that between 60% and 76% of the Cuban population was literate. Is a 60% literacy rate consistent with your claim that Cuba was an island of mostly illiterate people? I don't think so, but maybe you're familiar with some 'alt math' that I'm not. An article posted on the Stanford sub-domain World Association of International Studies says that the literacy rate 'stood above' 60%. '1 in 4 Cubans...' Now you're shifting the goalposts. You were trying to make Castro out to be some sort of a savior and did so by painting a completely inaccurate picture of what Cuba was like before he came to power. In fact, the literacy rate was one of the highest in the region at the time, and was on an upward trend right along with life expectancy and infant mortality. 'Sounds to me...' There's a reason why thousands of Cubans literally fled and risked dying in shark infested water to escape a dictator. If Cuba was able to achieve all of this despite the embargo, then Castro apologists should stop blaming it for the areas where Cuba is failing.

No, it's called you having no idea what to say and needing some time to think up an argument since the 'island of mostly illiterates' completely fell apart, like it did months ago when I debunked it then. You were online viewing this thread, as well as other threads, and even took the time to post in one, hours before you got around to making this latest response. Your 'I was at work' excuse, as you say, doesn't add up.

 

[Orgasmo]

Your research consisted of looking at a Wikipedia page, and you did such a thorough job that you completely missed the top paragraph that contradicts the argument you were making. You don't have to accept the 76% figure that PBS, ABC News, and other publications have reported as fact. We can use your own source, Wikipedia, which says that between 60% and 76% of the Cuban population was literate. Is a 60% literacy rate consistent with your claim that Cuba was an island of mostly illiterate people? I don't think so, but maybe you're familiar with some 'alt math' that I'm not. An article posted on the Stanford sub-domain World Association of International Studies says that the literacy rate 'stood above' 60%. '1 in 4 Cubans...' Now you're shifting the goalposts. You were trying to make Castro out to be some sort of a savior and did so by painting a completely inaccurate picture of what Cuba was like before he came to power. In fact, the literacy rate was one of the highest in the region at the time, and was on an upward trend right along with life expectancy and infant mortality. 'Sounds to me...' There's a reason why thousands of Cubans literally fled and risked dying in shark infested water to escape a dictator. If Cuba was able to achieve all of this despite the embargo, then Castro apologists should stop blaming it for the areas where Cuba is failing.

No, it's called you having no idea what to say and needing some time to think up an argument since the 'island of mostly illiterates' completely fell apart, like it did months ago when I debunked it then. You were online viewing this thread, as well as other threads, and even took the time to post in one, hours before you got around to making this latest response. Your 'I was at work' excuse, as you say, doesn't add up.

Even if 60% to 76% of Cubans were able to read and write prior to Castro, that's still at least 2/5 or 1/4 of the population being illiterate. This was essentially eradicated within a decade. Life expectancy and infant mortality rates are both better than United States. Cuba before Castro was an American client state ruled plagued with inequality and corruption. While Cuba is certainly no paradise today, it was an improvement over its form as a banana republic presided over by Bautista. It was done under constant American embargo. The island could have been much more today without it. I already stated Castro was a dictator that suppressed dissent, and yet you're lying about me attempting to "glorify" him. Is that what a steady diet of alt facts does to you?

Now when you're employed, there are things called breaks that allows me to do my own shit. I could view threads on sherdog, or answer a psychotic alt fact idiot with overinflated sense of self worth with the limited time in a months old thread. Guess which one I prioritized? If you're that needy for attention, maybe dial a phone sex hotline. I will reply when I feel like it, and I feel I wasted at least 15 minutes writing this reply already.

 

[Coolidge]

Even if 60% to 76% of Cubans were able to read and write prior to Castro, that's still at least 2/5 or 1/4 of the population being illiterate.

'Even if' That's according to your own source, genius. If the 60-75% is in doubt, then so are the other figures you posted about school enrollment. You claimed that it was an island of 'mostly' illiterates. That is false. If you're going to repeatedly accuse someone of using 'alt facts', make sure you have your own facts in order.