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On May 21, 2024 at 8:39:39 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 22 May 2024 03:03:55 +0000
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>>  On May 21, 2024 at 11:57:57 AM PDT, "Rhino"
>>  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>  
>>  > On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:05:23 +0000
>>  > BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>  >   
>>  >>  A man who tortured pregnant women and was responsible for the
>>  >>  slaughter of thousands...
>>  >>  
>>  >>  Joe Biden says America is sorry for your loss.
>>  >>  
>>  >> 
>>  >>
>>>> https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/on-the-death-of-iranian-president-raisi-and-others-in-a-helicopter-crash/
>>  >>  
>>  >>  For fuck's sake...  
>>  > 
>>  > In the same vein, I saw one video that referred to the crash that
>>  > killed the Iranians as a "tragedy". To the people in the helicopter
>>  > and their families, probably, but not to many others. 
>>  > 
>>  > I wonder if Harry Truman issued condolences when Hitler died? I
>>  > can't remember any such thing happening....  
>>  
>>  Well, Trudeau did express both his grief and admiration for Castro on
>>  the occasion of his death...
>>  
>>  
> I remember that. I was horrified. He actually hurried down to Cuba a
> day or two before Fidel died in the hope that he could see him one last
> time but apparently didn't get a meeting.

His own dad wouldn't see him? That must have hurt!

> That probably helped fuel the "Fidel Castro was his father" myth that
> you see so often in online comments. (That can't actually be true
> because his mother only met Fidel for the first time when Justin was
> five - unless, of course, his mother met Castro secretly about 6 years
> earlier than the first meeting we know about.)