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You are here: Home / Popular Culture / Sunday Evening Open Thread: Choose Your Player

Sunday Evening Open Thread: Choose Your Player

by Anne Laurie|  July 11, 20215:59 pm| 107 Comments

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Ok I’ll bite. pic.twitter.com/zplL5VAkiA

— Mackenzie Wolf (@coffeeshopjihad) July 10, 2021

I have no idea where these illos were taken from, but I’m definitely the little bird at the top right.

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  1. 1.

    jeffreyw

    July 11, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    I'm the Gentleman who can play a harmonica.— jeffreyw (@imjeffreyw) July 11, 2021

  2. 2.

    Leto

    July 11, 2021 at 6:06 pm

    Top right. Def top right.

  3. 3.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    July 11, 2021 at 6:07 pm

    Make it three for top right.

  4. 4.

    Glidwrith

    July 11, 2021 at 6:07 pm

    Bottom left corner. Definitely.

    ETA: with a dash of bottom, third from the left

  5. 5.

    Yutsano

    July 11, 2021 at 6:09 pm

    Rabbit in the middle row. It me.​

    EDIT: We also need more information on what’s happening in Cuba. If anything. Twitter reports are unreliable at best.

  6. 6.

    Jackie

    July 11, 2021 at 6:12 pm

    4th for top right.

  7. 7.

    Geo Wilcox

    July 11, 2021 at 6:13 pm

    Bottom left with a little bit of the badger and raccoon thrown in for good measure.

  8. 8.

    Tom Levenson

    July 11, 2021 at 6:13 pm

    @Yutsano:  Also me.

  9. 9.

    Hilbertsubspace

    July 11, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    Reads a lot of theory.  No one knows wtf they’re ever talking about.

    Well damn.

    My pretentious choice of name makes this easy.

  10. 10.

    Emma

    July 11, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    It looks like Redwall? I like to think that I’m the bottom left corner, but I may actually be the hedgehog above…

  11. 11.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 11, 2021 at 6:18 pm

    Where’s Toad?

  12. 12.

    cain

    July 11, 2021 at 6:20 pm

    The pro-fascists are cheering the cuban people and their protest against the govt.

  13. 13.

    JoyceH

    July 11, 2021 at 6:22 pm

    (raIses hand) – another top right here.

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    July 11, 2021 at 6:23 pm

    Row 2, column 3.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 11, 2021 at 6:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Specifically, one of the Toad Hall variety.  That’s my boy.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    July 11, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    I’m the over-erudite blue jay (I think it’s a blue jay), bottom third from left.

    Or possibly the cute-and-doomed hedgehog.

  17. 17.

    Morzer

    July 11, 2021 at 6:27 pm

    Bottom left/top right hybrid here.

  18. 18.

    Anne Laurie

    July 11, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    @CaseyL:I’m the over-erudite blue jay (I think it’s a blue jay), bottom third from left.

    Pretty sure that’s a kingfisher.

    (And the top-right bird, despite my first impression, is not a chickadee but a Eurasian blue tit.)

  19. 19.

    Kropacetic

    July 11, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    Please just put me down for all of column 3.

  20. 20.

    Morzer

    July 11, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    Cole is definitely top left with more than a hint of top right.

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    July 11, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Specifically, one of the Toad Hall variety. That’s my boy.

    Sad but true: A.A. Milne Kenneth Grahame based Toad on his only son, who was (undiagnosed but) bipolar, and who came to a sorry end.

  22. 22.

    James E Powell

    July 11, 2021 at 6:33 pm

    This place is a have for the top right types, me included. I have developed some “Seems deep, etc.” in my older, isolated days.

  23. 23.

    Jay

    July 11, 2021 at 6:34 pm

    Mix of #8 and #9.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    July 11, 2021 at 6:39 pm

    @Anne Laurie:

    Eh? A.A. Milne’s play is an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

  25. 25.

    Nutmeg again

    July 11, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    @Emma: Yes! thank you–was trying to remember the name. My kid was very into Redwall. I seem to remember she even built a castle from a kit-type-thing?

  26. 26.

    TomatoQueen

    July 11, 2021 at 6:43 pm

    Badger. Always Badger.

  27. 27.

    RSA

    July 11, 2021 at 6:44 pm

    Nice. I think they need a dilettante: “Knows a little about a lot, but nothing really useful.”

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    July 11, 2021 at 6:45 pm

    While it certainly won’t click with everyone, be it noted the softly surreal Rosalie Goes Shopping is available on Prime. If you liked Bagdad Cafe (a much, much better outing), you might want to give this one a go.

    Frustrating in that one can see where it wants to go but it never quite reaches the target. Nice to see Brad Davis was seemingly unconcerned with showing he isn’t exactly the tallest guy in the room. Also was bemused in that no matter how often he showed up, Judge Reinhold looks all of maybe 15 years old. Painless enough way to escape for 90 minutes if nothing else is beckoning your attention. Would suggest turning on closed captioning as some of the accents run to the thick side.

  29. 29.

    Cermet

    July 11, 2021 at 6:45 pm

    Little doubt I’d be the Kingfisher – bottom line, second from the right. Always reading, always (well, most times) right.

  30. 30.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 11, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    Oh bottom left and a wee bit of the mushroom mouse.

  31. 31.

    Elizabelle

    July 11, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    I’m going with the rabbit with the axe.

  32. 32.

    dexwood

    July 11, 2021 at 6:49 pm

    Over the decades of my life? Been a third of them during different growth spurts. More like a good old dog now.

  33. 33.

    scav

    July 11, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    Read a lot of theory — but that’s far from the only reason no one ever understands wtf I’m talking about.

  34. 34.

    Kropacetic

    July 11, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    @RSA: Ooh, I’d have picked that too.

  35. 35.

    dmsilev

    July 11, 2021 at 6:51 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Twitter reports are unreliable at best.

    A general truth there.

  36. 36.

    MagdaInBlack

    July 11, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    @NotMax: I watched that years ago, and still make obscure references to “Rosalie Goes Shopping” that I then have to explain ?

  37. 37.

    SFBayAreaGal

    July 11, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    Top right and bottom left for me with a dash of the rabbit in the middle.

  38. 38.

    debbie

    July 11, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Me too! (I can sing and scream at the same time.)

  39. 39.

    Josie

    July 11, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    Bottom left, even though I’m old. That’s why no one suspects me.

  40. 40.

    Miss Bianca

    July 11, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    A number of them would fit me, but I’m opting for top left. Wincingly.

  41. 41.

    JPL

    July 11, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @Josie: Same, but the mushrooms appeal to me also.

  42. 42.

    evap

    July 11, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    @Hilbertsubspace:   Ha-ha, me too, but the algebraic version.

  43. 43.

    satby

    July 11, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    Raccoon.

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 11, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    @Anne Laurie: Kenneth Grahame?

  45. 45.

    Almost Retired

    July 11, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    Open thread? So I have to go play the part tonight of dutiful faculty husband at an event at the home of my wife’s school’s new Executive Pooh-bah Czar Supreme Suzerain (they’re a bit casual with titles there, but he’s essentially her new boss). And I have been provided with a list of sartorial and conversational rules of behavior – no politics, no flip flops (both sartorial and political), no sarcasm, no more than two drinks (size not specified, so I spy a loophole), and absolutely no negative opinions whatsoever about the Catholic Church or Catholicism at her Jesuit institution. I think it would be best if I fake laryngitis and hang out at the kid’s table. Long night ahead.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 11, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @RSA: ​
      That’s me.

  47. 47.

    Amir Khalid

    July 11, 2021 at 7:10 pm

    Bottom right for me.

  48. 48.

    Immanentize

    July 11, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    @TomatoQueen: me too. Even though no one ever understands what I’m taking about.

  49. 49.

    geg6

    July 11, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    Same, AL.  Same.

  50. 50.

    NotMax

    July 11, 2021 at 7:12 pm

    @Almost Retired

    no sarcasm

    Cruel and unusual punishment, that.

    ;)

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 11, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    @Almost Retired: if your drink has never been fully emptied, adding to it doesn’t constitute another drink.  One drink, never empty, but never full.

  52. 52.

    satby

    July 11, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    Been watching the new Leverage: Redemption and, man I missed this show while it was off the air. So happy it’s back!

  53. 53.

    Chetan Murthy

    July 11, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    @Almost Retired:

    play the part tonight of dutiful faculty husband

    Isn’t it lovely?  When I was in grad school, there was, like, *one* female faculty member in my department (mid-80s).  So great that there are so many more now.  I wonder how that works: I bet there are guides for faculty spouses about how to prepare for such shindigs, how to assemble lists of conversation topics, etc, etc.

  54. 54.

    Josie

    July 11, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: An intriguing theory

  55. 55.

    Immanentize

    July 11, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    @Almost Retired: a thought…. Just ask:

    “If Jesus was to return as a thief in the night, how do we discern if he has returned?

    Jesuits love fucking love when people ask about “discernment.”

  56. 56.

    Immanentize

    July 11, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    @satby: Is it on Netflix?

  57. 57.

    Immanentize

    July 11, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    @Chetan Murthy:

    *one* female faculty member in my department (mid-80s).

    Man! She was OLD!

  58. 58.

    HeleninEire

    July 11, 2021 at 7:19 pm

    Too old for this shit but got nowhere else to be.

    Easy.

    ETA: LOL looks like I’ve got lots of company!

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 11, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    @Josie: Rugby is useful for something.

  60. 60.

    PaulB

    July 11, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    Bottom right for me, although I would change it to “Whistles and sings even though everyone wants him to stop.”

    Unlike most people who whistle, I’m quite good at it. Still annoying to those around me, though. Unfortunately, it’s an unconscious habit and I’m not always aware I’m doing it.

  61. 61.

    Benw

    July 11, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    I’m the bunny without the seeming deep part

  62. 62.

    LiminalOwl

    July 11, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    @RSA: Now _that_ is me.

    (Also theory, bottom, second from right.)

  63. 63.

    MomSense

    July 11, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    Kids’ album is on Spotify as of today. We just drove home with it blasting.

  64. 64.

    CaseyL

    July 11, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    @Anne Laurie: OK: erudite about a wide number of subjects, but identifying birds is not one of them :)

    @Almost Retired:  Sounds like a normal faculty mixer in some ways – I can’t imagine any negative remarks about the institution being welcome at an event celebrating that institution, secular or sectarian.

  65. 65.

    Another Scott

    July 11, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    I guess I’m the badger today.

    J came home from a Target pickup and said her brake light was flashing. The car has had a small drip for a while, but I thought that was an oil drip (as it was low on oil recently too). Hmm.

    Open the hood, brake fluid is about 1/4″ below Minimum level. Yeah, that’s a problem. Top up the brake fluid reservoir, turn on the engine, pump the brake pedal. Hmm. That doesn’t feel right. Pump it some more.

    “POP”

    Pedal goes to floor. What was that noise?

    Get out, see brake reservoir level drop as I look at it. Look under the car, see brake fluid streaming down the center of the firewall, but it’s not clear where it’s leaking – can’t see anything unusual when looking down from up above. Maybe at some metal brake pressure distribution union at the firewall? Master cylinder? Metal brake line?

    2000 Corolla with 118,000 miles.

    I’ve hated the car for ages (it was extremely cheaply made and just about every plastic bit on the car has broken at least once – door handles (inside and out), trim around the doors, front seatbelt light rarely goes out properly, etc., etc.), but J wants to keep it alive for now and has no interest in car shopping during COVID.

    Monday will be fun – getting the car towed, maybe getting a rental, etc., etc. :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  66. 66.

    dexwood

    July 11, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    I think most images are being chosen based upon how you’d like others to see you. Night all.

  67. 67.

    Baud

    July 11, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    @satby:

    Me too!

  68. 68.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 11, 2021 at 7:38 pm

    @Baud:

    Where is it?

  69. 69.

    Jay

    July 11, 2021 at 7:41 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Master Cylinder rear seal, should be an easy replacement.

  70. 70.

    Baud

    July 11, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    Amazon Prime or IMDb

  71. 71.

    Mary G

    July 11, 2021 at 7:50 pm

    Bottom left with top right thrown in plus the other seven, I think I have multiple personalities.//

  72. 72.

    Dan B

    July 11, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    @Another Scott: A good friend had a 20 year old car that she bought new.  She didn’t want anything newer.  Finally the repairs were thousands more than the car was worth.  After much anxious shopping she found a top of the line, leather interior, bells, whistles Prius.  She ecstatic.  Then the rental unit in her house was vacated and toxic mold discovered, plus expensive leaks.

     

    We had to ditch the Leaf we were leasing because the Lead Acid battery regularly discharged.  New model is nicer.  Then TV died…..

  73. 73.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 11, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    @Yutsano: ​ 
    Come sit by me, I’ll hold your bindle for ya and you can check out mine.

  74. 74.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    July 11, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    @Another Scott:  If your car has drum brakes in the rear, then you’ve popped one of the wheel cylinders. You may not see any oil until you take off the tire and drum. This happened to me once.​

    If that’s the case, let a pro repair it.

  75. 75.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    July 11, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    A mixture of raccoon, badger, and the rabbit on the bottom left.  This is not my own opinion, it is based on my last performance review.  There in writing was that my work was excellent, timely, innovative, and professional, but that management found me intimidating, so my good ideas were not considered.  I asked my manager what I was to do with this.  She denied writing it and said her supervisor wrote it. I asked her supervisor what was up, and he denied writing it.  I decided to figure out was a fool’s game and that since I had 30 years in and could retire, I needed to be away from them. So I retired.

  76. 76.

    2liberal

    July 11, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    blue collar = me.

    re:  cuba

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/11/americas/cuba-protests/index.html

  77. 77.

    CaseyL

    July 11, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    @Cheryl from Maryland: Good for you!

    That’s the problem with some managers, esp. the ones who have only been managers (rather than techs, designers, etc.): they don’t understand *what* they’re managing, and are intimidated by people who do.

    It’s a lovely feeling to be able to give ’em a FU and dance out the door.

  78. 78.

    Spanky

    July 11, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    50% Chickadee, 50% Badger.

  79. 79.

    stinger

    July 11, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    @Emma:

    It looks like Redwall

    That was my thought, too — that these were residents of Mossflower Woods!

    I also was looking for an additional 4 critters, thinking they could all be matched to one of the 16 personality types.

  80. 80.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    July 11, 2021 at 8:44 pm

    @CaseyL: You are absolutely correct.  And it was a joy.  I had to “befriend” those managers on Facebook, so unfriending them once I retired was another pleasure.  I’m happy to say that the staff members at my level whom I mentored are still my friends and email me at times on how to solve a problem.  I email them back with what I think are good exhibition ideas — one which appears to be going forward is on Lowriders as that is a worldwide phenomenon (there are Lowrider clubs in Japan).

  81. 81.

    Steve in the ATL

    July 11, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    @MomSense: that’s good, but would be upgraded to awesome with a link

  82. 82.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    July 11, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    Since so many people opted for the upper-right, I guess I’ll pick… “Reads a lot of theory”.

    I’m watching the recording of the Virgin Galactic flight from earlier today. It’s so obviously commercial and hokey, one big commercial for Virgin. But that somehow makes it all the more exciting. This is truly private business in space, just the way so much of early sci-fi imagined it. It’s really a new era.

    Also one of the panel of commentators, a company scientist who will be flying a future mission, apparently has a daughter named “Delta-Vee”. How beautifully geeky.

  83. 83.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    July 11, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    @Baud:

    Thanks. Justwatch.com showed only IMDB, which seemed odd.

  84. 84.

    Another Scott

    July 11, 2021 at 9:12 pm

    @Jay: @Dan B: @David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:  Thanks for the comments. I looked around some more – still can’t find where the leak is. Of course, 20+ years of grime and corrosion could be hiding cracks..
    The MC and booster seems dry, as do the lines and the distribution block. Nothing obvious up above, but the huge leak is definitely along the firewall or somewhere nearby. The front half of the MC (for the rear brakes) is empty while the rear half still has fluid, so that’s a clue, or at least cuts the problem in half.

    I don’t have time to fight with it and try replacing parts – we’ll have it taken to our neighborhood shop and let them troubleshoot it…

    Thanks again.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  85. 85.

    NotMax

    July 11, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    @Steeplejack

    IMDb TV (free but with ads streaming) is included at no additional cost with Prime.

  86. 86.

    Steeplejack

    July 11, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    @NotMax:

    Thanks. I finally figured that out after some fumbling around on Amazon. Maybe I’m a feeb, but I find that their channel information is maddeningly opaque. Do I have to subscribe to the IMDB channel, or do I just call up each episode and assume it’s free. What I see is “Stream episode 1 with ads,” which seems to hint that subsequent episodes wouldn’t be free.

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    July 11, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    Now starting Professor T on PBS. OCD criminology professor consults with the police, pisses everybody off but gets results. Starring one of the Death in Paradise guys. The Belgian original of this series was pretty good (streamed it on PBS Passport).

  88. 88.

    laura

    July 11, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    I’m a badger, from a long line of badgers and yet, I wasted years wishing I was the wee hedgehog because no one was interested in young badger.

  89. 89.

    satby

    July 11, 2021 at 10:35 pm

    @Steeplejack: Just go ahead and play each episode, that’s what I did.

  90. 90.

    Steeplejack

    July 11, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    @satby:

    Thanks.

  91. 91.

    Mag

    July 11, 2021 at 10:41 pm

    The artist is Lily Seika Jones (rivuletpaper on Instagram) if anyone is wondering.

  92. 92.

    Steeplejack

    July 11, 2021 at 10:50 pm

    Professor T was pretty good. Worth a look. This episode followed the script of the original Belgian one very closely. Almost spooky in places. The star is Ben Miller, with a good supporting cast. I found myself comparing them with the Belgian originals.

  93. 93.

    Elizabelle

    July 11, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    @Mag:   Thank you.  I really like her art. Good to see an attribution.

  94. 94.

    rikyrah

    July 11, 2021 at 11:24 pm

     

    The New York Times (@nytimes) tweeted at 11:00 AM on Sun, Jul 11, 2021:
    Before Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee, other Black students faced decades of discrimination and doubts about their abilities. https://t.co/hRcDgKpe7H
    (https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1414253189440868357?s=03)

  95. 95.

    Jean

    July 11, 2021 at 11:29 pm

    @Elizabelle: Me, too.  Rabbit with the axe

  96. 96.

    NotMax

    July 11, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    @Steeplejack

    The Prime interface could indeed be less congested, however if you scroll down vertically through the categories (Watch Next, Movies We Think You’ll Like, etc.) eventually you’ll come to one titled IMDb TV through which you can then scroll horizontally to find what’s there. When then you click on a title you’ll get an interim screen with a small notation just below its Watch button as to what seasons or episodes are included free. That interim screen is handy as it will also state if a specific episode or season is not part of the free offerings and enable you to backtrack before incurring a charge.

  97. 97.

    stinger

    July 11, 2021 at 11:44 pm

    @Steeplejack: Watched it tonight. Was hoping it would be a new season of the Belgian version, but it was British. I admit it’s easier to watch without subtitles so I can multitask.

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    July 11, 2021 at 11:56 pm

    @Steeplejack

    First season of the original version happens the be available on Prime for the month of July only. There’s a category, by whatever logic often hidden pretty far down so requires a lot of vertical scrolling to get to it, labeled ‘Titles to sample this month.’ Find it there.

  99. 99.

    HumboldtBlue

    July 12, 2021 at 12:01 am

    Hey everyone, here’s a pyrovortex!

    The climate is just fine. Nothing to see here.

  100. 100.

    Steeplejack

    July 12, 2021 at 12:17 am

    @NotMax:

    Thanks for the road map. So is the IMDB channel à la carte or is there some option to subscribe to the whole channel (if I wanted to)?

  101. 101.

    Steeplejack

    July 12, 2021 at 12:21 am

    @stinger:

    LOL. The “can’t multitask with subtitles” thing really hampers my foreign-media viewing.

  102. 102.

    NotMax

    July 12, 2021 at 2:00 am

    @Steeplejack

    By having a Prime membership one is already subscribed to the IMDb channel. Amazon is not very clear about that being the case. The challenge is finding it amongst all the listings; it tends to move around. Sometimes it’s there after scrolling vertically down only 4 or 5 blocks, other times it may be 10, 12, or more places down.

    Of course, once you find something on it you want to watch you have the option to add that title to your watchlist to get to later on or else just begin watching. Doing either will cause the title you’ve chosen to appear in the Watch Next queue.

  103. 103.

    James E Powell

    July 12, 2021 at 2:05 am

    @2liberal:

    I’m not understanding why we don’t have normalized, no sanctions relations with Cuba.

    Do Cuban Americans in Florida still insist upon a policy of inflicting pain on people living there? Castro’s dead. Isn’t it time to move on from rage over the revolution?

  104. 104.

    Steeplejack

    July 12, 2021 at 3:18 am

    @James E Powell:

    A Castro is dead. Fidel’s brother Raúl just stepped down from leadership in April and still has a position of some power. The aftermath of the revolution is still alive, at least for some people.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    July 12, 2021 at 3:24 am

    @NotMax:

    Thanks for the further clarification.

  106. 106.

    BarbR

    July 12, 2021 at 6:22 am

    Def. bottom line, last one on right. Trying to learn violin at 70; not going well.

    Reading these tags a great way to start the day.

  107. 107.

    J R in WV

    July 12, 2021 at 12:37 pm

    I’m about out of patience with Cuban refugees who still want their grandparents’ material possessions in Cuba returned 2 or 3 generations after they fled. Many of those people are still very well to do from their ancestor’s success.

    Prior to the Castro revolution Cuba was owned and operated by fascists and mobsters, I have no pity for their descendants and their financial condition.

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