Nelson Mandela RIP

[Admiral Yi]

I'm not savvy to the arguments about Mandela being evil. How do you respond to the AIDS thing?

I never read or heard anything about Mandela and AIDS.  I think the knock on him, to the extent there is one at all, is that he didn't speak out against his bonehead successor's beliefs and policies.

[Razgovory]

It's sociable not to heap invective on the recently deceased.  Just accept it Raz, it's one of those facets of human behavior that you don't understand.

Seems okay thing to do on Languish, if it wasn't Tuna my still be here.

[derspiess]

Many Conservative politicians in this country opposed Mandela's efforts and called him a terrorist back in the 1980's.

How Mandela was viewed by the GOP in the 80s has little to do with how he's viewed by Languish in 2013.

I think he's saying Languish in 2013 is full of GOP leaders from the 80s. 

I'm Pierre DuPont.

[Ed Anger]

Many Conservative politicians in this country opposed Mandela's efforts and called him a terrorist back in the 1980's.

How Mandela was viewed by the GOP in the 80s has little to do with how he's viewed by Languish in 2013.

I think he's saying Languish in 2013 is full of GOP leaders from the 80s. 

I'm Pierre DuPont.

I'm Bob Dole.

[Razgovory]

Many Conservative politicians in this country opposed Mandela's efforts and called him a terrorist back in the 1980's.

How Mandela was viewed by the GOP in the 80s has little to do with how he's viewed by Languish in 2013.

I think he's saying Languish in 2013 is full of GOP leaders from the 80s. 

I'm Pierre DuPont.

Think harder Derspeiss.

[PDH]

Just think about this, Raz.  Mandela allowed people to change, to take what they were saying at the present as the truth.  He allowed people to change, to repudiate their actions as long as they lived up to their new words.  He obviously had hard feelings and pain, he obviously had anger and resentment, but he allowed people to change.

We have all been asses, we have all sponsored causes that proved to be idiotic.  Some of us have even backed such things as regimes that were evil and awful.  Still, it is important to allow humans to own up to their mistakes and use that to become better.

I am sure there are those on this board who 20 years ago did not think Mandela would be an ANC terrorist again (though most are too young to really remember), but given what he did after that those people have said that he ended up immensely important.

Or, in other words, give it a rest.  Even those whom you might imagine as his enemies have said they respect the man.

(don't bother to reply to this.  I won't engage you in a pseudo debate)

[CountDeMoney]

I fully expect Fidel Castro to get some love around here as well when he passes away, PDH.

[garbon]

I fully expect Fidel Castro to get some love around here as well when he passes away, PDH.

Aren't there some here that do that already? We already have/had the Chavez supporters.

[CountDeMoney]

Chavez is a douche.  El Caballo is a horse of a different color.  Chavez isn't fit to carry Castro's combat boots.

[Razgovory]

I fully expect Fidel Castro to get some love around here as well when he passes away, PDH.

We'll find he was actually a conservative fighting against the liberals Kennedy and Batista.

[Eddie Teach]

I fully expect Fidel Castro to get some love around here as well when he passes away, PDH.

Josephus will be mourning the loss of his American-free vacation spot.

[Eddie Teach]

I fully expect Fidel Castro to get some love around here as well when he passes away, PDH.

We'll find he was actually a conservative fighting against the liberals Kennedy and Batista.

Can you really not tell the difference between Languish and the right-wing news sites that you and Hans frequent? 

[Razgovory]

Since it's immaterial, I really don't care.

[Admiral Yi]

As a point of fact, Batista was a liberal.

[11B4V]

I fully expect Fidel Castro to get some love around here as well when he passes away, PDH.

Castro was a cunt, as was his henchmen Guevara.