@cnni now offficially no difference in @cnn and @TheOnion
— syd (@SydneyCarton1) April 14, 2015
I guess @TheOnion can call it quits. There is nothing left to parody. @cnni
— The Holy Goat (@trueholygoat) April 14, 2015
This tweet from CNN International is amazing — in the worst possible way:
See Cuba before American investors ruin it: http://t.co/TiwSK7ZV4T pic.twitter.com/BUBv61FJ3Y
— CNN International (@cnni) April 14, 2015
Allow them to elaborate:
To some outsiders, it looks firmly stuck in the 1950s. Vintage cars roam the streets, the landscape is absent of strip malls and global chains, and the buildings — though crumbling — hark back to a grander time.
It is these throwbacks that lend Havana, the country’s capital, an undeniable charm. A charm that, some worry, is in peril once the U.S. embargo lifts.
“We’re still in 1959, that’s the beauty of the city, and eventually all of this is going to change,” says Hugo Cancio, a Cuban-American entrepreneur and president of Fuego Media Group.
That is, like, so true! After all, nothing says “undeniable charm” and “beauty” like nonexistent infrastructure, jailed dissidents, abject poverty, rampant death and disease …
@cnni Yes, the Communists kept the country in such great shape.
— Fjordman (@Fjordman1) April 14, 2015
@cnni yeah, I'm sure having massive cash flow, will ruin their love of starvation.
— Emjeyjackson (@EmJeyJackson) April 14, 2015
@cnni What's called "charm" in Cuba is referred to as Urban Decay and Abject Poverty here in Detroit…must be the accents.
— Jeff G. (@jeffs_2_cents) April 14, 2015
@cnni Like some good old cock fighting & teenage prostitutes & hospitals w no equipment-Yeah bad old America will ruin all that greatness
— Jon Regas (@Jonx13) April 14, 2015
@cnni Yes, poverty sure is great.
— Zach (@Speederson12) April 14, 2015
Capitalism ruins everything: If you want to see Cubans in their idyllic, Smurf-like state, you'd better hurry pic.twitter.com/4PXfic6w4Z
— Salon (@Salondotcom) April 14, 2015
Yes oppressive authoritarian regimes that execute and starve poverty stricken populations is beautiful.https://t.co/g36h8icFpf
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/588006292989554688
@pipandbaby @cnni @JayCaruso Brutal oppression, no free press, no health care, no education, BUT LOOK HOW CHARMING THAT RUSTY OLD CAR IS!
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) April 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/adamgurri/status/588002842016899074
Sorry, CNN International. But you trippin’.
MT @cnni: See Cuba before it's out of the clutches of an evil dictatorship and soul crushing poverty. http://t.co/PlX3tqvR6E
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) April 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/MaeWunder/status/588008218053455873
@cnni what kind of dumb ass statement is that?
— James E. Cox (@jamesecox50) April 14, 2015
@cnni it looks like it needs a good ruining
— pappy (@PappyMalcolm) April 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/588007805627592705
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/588007407193849857
@cnni Question…. Did the allied forces 'ruin' the concentration camps?
— Andrews Dad (@Andrew_Dad) April 14, 2015
Next up from CNN International:
@cnni "See the idyllic famine in Darfur before US aid ruins it"
— Die Gedanken sind frei ?️ (@frankgrauzone) April 14, 2015
@BecketAdams "See Dachau before American troops ruin it… err, liberate it!"
— Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) April 14, 2015
@cnni "See the Sowjet Gulag before western civilsation ruines it"
— Die Gedanken sind frei ?️ (@frankgrauzone) April 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/588008008099229697
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/588008186503897088
Just you wait.
Parody Is Dead: Exhibit 3,887,419 https://t.co/5fGKzVAwC4
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 14, 2015
Dead as a doornail.
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