I mean to say we act like the internet/information has always been this ubiquitous which borders on erasing history. We also act like we know the stories behind everything, and this is a good example of why you shouldn’t treat fallible humans like superheroes because you don’t know half the shit you think you do

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

i find it rather unlikely that fidel knew shit (especially if this is indeed from 2003), the title is ironic shrug-outta-hecks

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Agreed, but I’ve already seen some comments elsewhere “Cancelling” him

I’m getting too old for this shit yells-at-cloud

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

pfft, my man made 1 (one) mistake and owned up to it soviet-huff

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

I guess he's with former Colombian Right-Wing President Andres Pastrana.

Pastrana wrote in a Twitter statement: 'Amid journalistic revelations about horrifying and reprehensible sex scandals of financier Jeffrey Epstein, a trip of mine on his plane to Nassau, Bahamas has appeared, to transfer to the final destination of Havana, Cuba, invited by President Fidel Castro,' . 'Mr. Jeffrey Epstein left Cuba a day or two later; I stayed on the island,' he added.

The 73-page flight record, which was acquired by the Miami Herald, didn't show the Cuban leg of the trip nor did it appear in data stored by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Pastrana, who attempted to disassociate himself from the child predator, acknowledged he first met Epstein at the Academy of Achievement summit held in Ireland in June 2002.

'I met Mr. Jeffrey Epstein in Ireland when I was honored at the 'Summit of Achievements' in Dublin, a widely publicized ceremony that was attended by Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Bono and Jeremy Irons. I never knew about Mr. Jeffrey Epstein's now-infamous island,' said Pastrana.

Pastrana was president of Colombia from August 1998 until August 2002, and went on to be Ambassador to the United States in 2005 and 2006.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Presentism is distilled idealism as it is an undialectical method of examining the past and strips from the historian the tools of historical materialism as it erases the analysis of human activity through dialectics and historical facts and runs into the fundamental problem all other idealistic social theories that analyze human activity being the problem of the relationship between people’s consciousness and their existence.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’m guessing that this doesn’t bode well for stoicism

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

Quoting Karl here, "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it"

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Said it much better than I ever could rat-salute-2