Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[Loptr Chaote]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:15:27 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 20:39 -0600, ABrady wrote:
>
> > Take your politics and black helicopter theories elsewhere.
>
> Not necessary and somewhat harsh!
> I think you might owe an apology for that one.
>

I'm not sure I fully agree actually. From how the original mail was
formulated, Ubuntu users seemed to be divided up into two parts; Cuba
friends and Fascists/bigots.

Since I am not a big fan of Cuba, does that make me a fascist?
I think the one who needs to apologize is Shango.

I've been an active anti-fascist and sympathized with different
anarchist and socialist organisations around the world since I was
13.. But I still do not call Cuba a "social democracy". Actually, I
think it's a mockery. The last election by municipal delegates, where
Partido Comunista de Cuba was elected for a five year period, no other
parties were allowed. Wow.. Democracy eh?

Not fully supporting the Castro-regime does not mean that you consider
the western Empire (Bush/Kerry/whatnot) less evil. And sure, Cuba does
have a lot of good points concerning governing a country, but
"democracy" is certainly not one of them.

And I think that what ABrady was trying to say was, this is a thread
that can lead to very few places, most of them being total havoc and
rampant political discussions.

I support Cuba in this case, but only as a part of the struggle
against multinational corporative monopoly and the enforcement of
restrictions, may it be trading restrictions, intellectual property,
or whatever corporations such as Microsoft and the other beasts of
Babylon can come up with.

With full respects,
Loptr Chaote.