Yes, it’s an interview with a gusano. Yes, his family were business owners. Here’s the peach:
“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! I remember my mother’s reaction: ‘Helado! Que rico!’ She totally avoided any other comment for fear of whatever she said making it back to my sister’s teacher.”
“In Cuba, we were upper-middle-class,” Vivian said. “My grandfather was a bank vice president; my father worked for another bank and also wrote comedy sketches. We lived with extended family in a chic apartment. My sister and I had our own room; my brother had his own; we had a maid who lived in a small room behind the kitchen. She was a Spaniard and blind in one eye. I was a little scared of her.”
i thought this site was supposed to be funny
Cracked was one of the sites that leaned in hard on video production back when FB was lying to everyone about their metrics. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/facebook-driven-video-push-may-have-cost-483-journalists-their-jobs/573403/
Fidel is better than Jesus
:yes-comm:
“Let the one whom has no sword sell his cloak and buy one,” I love Fidel as much as the next person, but Jesus was kind of based as well
I feel that this is a misinterpretation.
The gospels, even more so the Gospel of Luke, where (I think?) that’s from very much portray Jesus as a pacifist, even within the the context of that passage.
The very next line from the Gospel of Luke Chapter 22 verse 36 is
For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me have an end.” So they said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” And He said to them, “It is enough.”
The usual interpretation of that passage, is that Jesus had His followers buy swords so that surrender would have meaning, and not simply be because they were incapable of fighting, or to fulfill the prophecy of Isaiah that he would be treated as the head of a band of brigands.
It was in no way a general call for Christians to arm themselves.
When, in the same chapter of the Gospel of Luke one of his followers did draw his sword at the arrest, and cut the ear of one of the pharisees, Jesus rebuked His follower and healed the man he’d attacked.
When Jesus’ followers saw what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?” And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him
–Gospel of Luke Chapter 22 Verse 49.
i dont know why but i clicked on this expecting it to be an article about awesome facts about cuba, but written sarcastically.
I swear shit like this is custom-made to make me depressed
Exactly. These stories are always written so deliberately, almost like creepypastas.
