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You’re probably familiar with Cracked.com, the epic listicle site that was popular a decade ago and now mainly exists to promote paid content. In their heyday, they made many of the standard “lol look at how evil North Korea is” articles, but what stood out more to me was this article, 6 Ugly Facts Of Life In Communist Cuba, which wasw ritten with input from some gusanos and reads like US state department propaganda.
Most of the article is literally anecdotes from these people, which are the standard “Castro bad” crap, but one is notably ridiculous:
One day, my sister came home and exclaimed, ‘Fidel is better than Jesus!’ In school they had asked the kindergartners to close their eyes and pray to Jesus for ice cream. When they opened their eyes – nothing. Then they closed their eyes again and prayed to Fidel for ice cream, and … surprise! Ice cream cups on their desks!
Wow, such a plausible story! How could Fidel deceive the children like this?
The few sections that are actually sourced aren’t any better:
It’s hard to say how many people Castro’s new regime gunned down (evil dictators being notoriously spotty record-keepers), but the butcher’s bill was probably around 30,000.
This links to the 1995-ass website of some rando Italian-American writer called Piero Scaruffi, who cites The Black Book of Communism among others. A very credible source, I’m sure.
He got lucky: Thanks to Operation Pedro Pan, a joint venture between the Swiss embassy and the Catholic Church to spirit children to America, he secured permission to leave … alone. “So I came to the U.S. without my parents and lived in a refugee camp in Florida.”
No criticism of Operation Pedro Pan? At all? Alright!
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we had a maid
:sus:
who we basically kept in a fucking closet
Also let’s use a bit of logic and think about why the family maid who they treated like a slave may have been blind in one eye
Could definitely see it being the result of some abuse from the family
Wow, just like Harry potter :soyjack-pointing:
It’s always some variation of “I exploited human beings and the evil gommulists stopped me from doing that and now I’m sad” lol
lmao even
Beyond parody.
Is it not?
This is so ridiculous and it being from Cracked makes me feel like we’re eating the Onion.
Tbf, those children would not have had ice cream without Fidel. Particularly free ice cream. Getting ice cream to happen for everybody in Cuba was a huge endeavour for Castro, as he believed every person in Cuba deserved at least that luxury.
I think ice cream is just the nice little treat on top of something much more important. Making it accessible means widespread electrification and refrigeration. Two things absolutely critical for a modern society.
Those kids would not have been in school without Fidel.
Cracked.com more like Crackkker.com amarite fellas
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Wow, I never would’ve figured out that Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner wasn’t meant to be a straight-laced anthem!
Thanks for telling me about that hidden message, Cracked!edit: 99 Luftballons had a ”hidden message”, unless of course you were one of the millions of people who spoke German, in which case it wasn’t hidden at all. Must’ve been a good gig getting paid to write this.
to be fair, it’s incredibly clever to hide the message in the song’s lyrics. nobody would think to look for it there
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One day, my sister came home and exclaimed, ‘Fidel is better than Jesus!’ In school they had asked the kindergartners to close their eyes and pray to Jesus for ice cream. When they opened their eyes – nothing. Then they closed their eyes again and prayed to Fidel for ice cream, and … surprise! Ice cream cups on their desks!
Can’t argue with those results
that part is so fucking funny
that’s it, imma start praying to Fidel before every set at the gym
Update: it worked.
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Aren’t we always being told how the Nazis were meticulously documenting everything?
Well yes, I’m quite confident they will.
Libs will just tell you that’s fabricated anyway and can’t be trusted because it’s Soviet
Except for when they want to say communists are like nazis, then we’re suddenly meticulous record keepers and that’s a sign of evil.
Or the massive archives of the third Reich. Fuckers tried to burn as much as possible and what’s left still shows a meticolous documentation of their actions.
The Quorators got a partnership with Cracked for like 3 months then got fired for supporting Palestine and clogging the Cracked office’s toilet
You’d be surprised how many Cracked alumni show up in media.
Soren Bowie writes for American Dad! now (which I think is actually the most tolerable Seth show, probably because it’s currently just absurdist humour and not random jabs at minorities like Family Guy)
Dan O’Brien writes for Last Week Tonight, which is lib but did help “radicalize” at least one person I know from radical centrism so I’ll forgive the show for being lib
Doctor Mister Cody Johnson has a show on Youtube about how bad feral boars are with Katy Stoll
Robert Evans is now a famous fed
Cracked inexplicably fired all those people and shut down their video section, then the site pretty much died.
IIRC they got owned as part of facebook’s “pivot to video” where they lied about analytics.
All the more reason why I don’t understand why we’re digging up this dead horse to beat it more. Who cares?
I expect more refined dunking from my fellow hexbears
They also had a decent podcast hosted by the editor in chief Jack O’Brien but then he left for another site and all of cracked went downhill.
Cracked, home of the fact.
Fidel is better than Jesus!
Yes.
Never seen Jesus redistributing any land or persecuting plantation owners
Ah Cracked, where Robert Fedvans cut his teeth before making it big as a podcaster grifting baby leftists.
Don’t forget bellingcat
bellingcracked
Praying to Fidel works though, I prayed for him to persecute plantation owners and it came true
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There was already a post about this
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I remember seeing that Ice Cream thing in a really shitty anti communist PSA we watched on hextube lmao
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