• theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The asshole you’re replying is gleeful that the Cuban people are starving and dying. The dipshit believes they deserve it.

    • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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      4 days ago

      I’m not gleeful about any suffering by the Cuban people. I just rightly place the blame for it on their shitty dictatorship.

      • frongt@lemmy.zip
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        4 days ago

        Ah yes, it’s Cuba’s fault that the US is blockading them, for the crime of… checks notes being socialist.

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          3 days ago

          Let’s not pretend the Castros aren’t a dynasty and still control most of the islands resources. Hardly a “Workers paradise” with them running largely on the same patronage system that embrittled and collapsed the Soviets.

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            3 days ago

            The Castros aren’t in charge of government any more. Most of the major figures are dead.

            It’s no worker’s utopia, sure, but it’s no hellscape either. They certainly seem to have outlasted the Soviet Union and are doing relatively well, given the circumstances.

            • GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world
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              3 days ago

              Raulito Castro is in charge of a personal security force and information networks all over the island. That is why the CIA met with him and not the “president” of Cuba.

              With no fuel, the island has essentially become a preindustrial society. The US is trying, and likely going to fail getting ahead of a complete and catastrophic collapse of the country, which would send hundreds of thousands of people towards Florida on a scale not seen since the Mariel boat lift.

              This whole recent push against cuba is Rubios little side quest, and he WILL fuck it up because he and the rest of the regime are fuckups.

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          4 days ago

          Socialism and Dictatorship are mutually exclusive. Cuba is being blockaded because they’ve frequently been used as a forward base for military actions by Russia and China against the USA and other nations.