my connection with the tea party

[kandrathe]

You warn us about the problem of using relative vs. absolute measures of poverty, and then walk smack dab into that exact problem? The CIA world fact book explicitly states that these figures are not comparable...

By US "absolute" measures of poverty, Denmark has almost no poverty. By Danish "relative" measures of poverty, the US is a lot worse than 12%. (Actually, even by US standards, it's higher - about 15%. Remember the crisis?)

Poverty scarcely exists in Denmark, by absolute or most historical measures. In the United States, it's worse, although you're right to say that there is nothing like what exists in most third world countries, either in terms of inequality, or in terms of absolute deprivation.

Yes! It was my intention to show that when you grab statistics you need to look at them in context. I found a source that showed the US to be equal to Denmark, unless you dig into the numbers they are meaningless.

I am guilty of not reference checking the quote. I agree the quote took liberal license with the translation, and that they took it out of context.

That's not "liberal licence". Spanish is not that hard - sentences about millions of atomic casualties do not appear and disappear based on translation nuances! They are simply inventing things, whole cloth, in order to make their ideological opponents look bad.

Funny enough, the context is actually more or less correct. It is an address by Che, telling the people of the world they must nurture their hate as part of hardening themselves for revolutionary struggle - which is more or less the same context Conservapaedia et al. present it in. It's the content that's the problem...

See my edit in the previous note. It's not really invention, other than in construction. It is actually snippets of many statements made by Che, over time, then sewn together much like a Micheal Moore film. It is a deception I do not condone. Had I realized it was a mishmash, I would have taken just the hatred snippet.

The atomic bomb part came from an interview after the Cuban Missile crisis, and is referenced by Anderson, Jon Lee (1997). Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. New York: Grove Press. ISBN 0-8021-1600-0. Page 545.