To be fair, most commenters on Hacker News are more likely to have suffered the detrimental effects of Jack Welch's acts and philosophy than the effects of Fidel Castro's rule. Not every moral judgment needs to be made on pure global utilitarian principles
Wow. Reading just the top comment there and then the responses in this thread is pretty eye opening.
But then again - "I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan."