Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[Philip]

In the ubuntu spirit I am willing to forgive a political outburst once. But
Mr. Oluwa et al need to realize this is a technical mailing list. I don't
come here for politics mine yours or theirs. Now please return to other
nonsense.

Happy Festivus!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loptr Chaote" <loptr.chaote at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu Users" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world


> 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.
>
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