The continuing American embargo on Cuba after the Cold War has always been toddler tantrum level of pettiness.
I thought Obama had finally closed that chapter, but I was wrong.
Obama had started. But Trump reversed.
This was so fucked up. I know presidents shouldn’t be able to set things in stone, but it shouldn’t be so easy for a petty president to just undo the all last ones things just cause they’re a thin skinned bitch
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Soooo wtf are these Cubans thinking? These embargoes hurt the people in Cuba. So Cubans in Florida are basically Republican women? As in, they’d gladly hurt those like them as long as they can feel superior?
Absolutely. See also: increasingly conservative Mexicans in US border states who support building a wall.
Its the “pull up the ladder” phenomenon. You even see it in places you wouldn’t expect, like US workers opposing student loan forgiveness proposals because they had to pay, and want to make damn sure everyone else has to go through the pain that they did.
Yet I’m called childish when I say the student loan forgiveness shit was just a cheap grab of public support. It is not actually doing anything to prevent further accumulation of more debt for future students.
Yeah, Canadian universities and colleges are subsidized and collectively bargain for having Canadian students
Unfortunately provinces refused to raise the amount given with inflation so the schools turned to international students and imported a lot of people
I watched an immigrant buy the house across the street and turn it into a compound, build a business with undocumented folk he kept in campers outside his house, and now that its established he ditched the campers, flys Trump flags, and advocates for mass deportation.
The “I got mine” mentality is strong.
The ones that made it to Florida were the former ownership class that had the choice of staying to face trial for their crimes against the Cuban people, or get on the boat. Occasionally a “politically persecuted” person or group would “escape” in later years. Usually these people either helped the CIA with their destabilization attempts or were just ordinary criminals that fled prosecution like many Americans go to Russia to do. The US was more than happy to accept both groups without any vetting as that helped their narrative that Castro was a tyrant making up charges.
Floridian Cubans, Gusanos, hate communism for the same reason anyone in the parasite class hates communism; they’re mad the playing field was leveled and they had to answer for their crimes against humanity.
The Cuban refugees were mostly supporters of the Batista regime, owners of sugar plantations, etc.
Well, the world certainly understands that the US holds a grudge. But Castro is dead. Feels a bit silly at this point
From everything I’ve read over time - it’s not even the US that holds a grudge, it’s been popular on both sides of politics to end the embargo.
But neither will since it means losing the massive voting bloc of Cuban-Americans in Florida, Florida itself often being a decider of US elections. They don’t want the embargo to end and anyone who supports ending it losses their vote.
Their reasons seem to vary, from the worst being wealthy land owners who had their lands taken by Castro only wanting relations normalised if they get their land back to the more common escapees who don’t want to normalise relations with the ‘Castro government’ ever, that Cuba needs to ditch the regime first.
Florida hasn’t been a swing state in years, and it’s not like Cuban Americans are ever going to vote Democrat regardless.
There is no reason to further antagonize Cuban expats for zero political gain elsewhere in the US. No other major voting block in the US gives a shit about Cuba.
Except, you know, to do the right thing. Caring what a bunch of parasitic cowards think is such a stupid justification for cruelty.
If they’re never going to vote Democrat then you want to eliminate reasons for them to go vote for Republicans. A Democrat running on eliminating the embargo would energize more of them to vote Republican rather than sit it out.
Why don’t they want it to end?
Silly and grudge are very interesting terms to describe an illegal embargo that brings millions in the brink of starvation and poverty.
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This is the only map I can find where Israel disagrees with the US.
Why is Israel voting against itself
Ah, the cracker index chart
Less so that they disagree and more so that it would damage their propaganda potential too much
Ironic.
Why is Ukraine against?
It’s had a nazi government since the 2014 coup
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Americans are the most propagandized population in the entire history of the world
Because they have had a nazi gouvernement since the coup in 2014
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I don’t understand what you’re telling us. But as a reminder, last year Ukraine was the one to abstain from voting in the Cuba blockade stop (still with the US and Israel voting against)
In order to not anger the US, is my guess (they need the support for fighting off the Russian invasion).
Russia did author this one, and it was in November 2021
The proposal was submitted by the Russian Federation shortly after they attacked Ukraine, back when Russia was still claiming that “de-nazifying” Ukraine was the purpose of the invasion.
https://press.un.org/en/2022/gashc4365.doc.htm
Several delegates took to the floor to express concerns over Moscow’s attempt to exploit the pretext of combating neo-Nazism to justify its brutal war against Ukraine, with Ukraine’s delegate asserting that the draft has nothing in common with the genuine fight against Nazism and neo-Nazism. Echoing his concerns, the United Kingdom’s delegate stressed that the resolution is part of Moscow’s attempt to justify its aggression against Ukraine by furthering lies and distorting history.
The United States’ delegate called the resolution “a cynical attempt” of Moscow to further its geopolitical aims by invoking the Holocaust and Second World War. In the same vein, Australia’s delegate called Moscow’s weaponization of the Holocaust and Nazism unacceptable.
lol why do you think?
Always the same map
looks like impunity
I used to believe that the Cuba embargo is due to Cuban refugee vote in Florida.
But that doesn’t make sense anymore given that Florida is no longer a swing state. In fact it never really made sense since the demo that is very pro-embargo has always been solidly Republican and therefore unwinnable.
So what really explains the embargo? Quite frankly I think it’s banana republic foreign policy and wealthy people in the US not wanting there to be a successful socialist state. For instance, the recent energy crisis in Cuba is driven by the Biden administration sanctioning oil tankers who visit the island. Why on earth would the supposedly pro-Cuba democrats do that? Who asked them to do that? Who had the clout to make them do that? Some losers in Florida who were going to vote for Trump in a red state anyway?
This is correct, the US takes the threat of a good example very seriously, and has meddled in every single attempt at building any state, not only communist ones, that refuse to be controlled by US capitalists.
NGL kinda shocked that the CIA wasn’t involved with the Argentine junta.
EDIT: It was! Your map needs more red on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Argentine_coup_d’%C3%A9tat
"Do you know why there has never been a coup in America? Because there is no US Embassy there! "
Old joke from down here
What a stupid policy.
Axis of evil.
Embarrassing country to live within, but Hitler talk and our genocidal crusaders state make us the evil of greater proportions now.
The author needs to learn the difference between a blockade and an embargo. Cuba hasn’t been under blockade since the end of the missile crisis.
It’s very much a blockade in practice since it prevents the vast majority of companies of any country from trading with Cuba.
There are very few companies that would survive competition by sacrificing trade with the nearby US to trade with Cuba instead the way the “embargo” forces them to.
That’s an embargo.
A blockade is military stopping traffic. “Effectively a blockade” is an embargo.
An embargo would imply its just America that can’t trade with Cuba. In reality, almost nobody can trade with Cuba, because any ship that does cannot enter American ports to trade with America.
It may not be a blockade by the dictionary definition, but it’s certainly not just an embargo.
Just imagine if the UN had teeth for enforcement, at least for overwhelming votes like this. I feel like its one of the biggest oversights of the post WWII order they tried to make.
Big countries, of course, would never allow that, but still.
The UN is not meant to be a world government. It’s meant to be a forum that allows all countries to maintain a bare minimum of diplomatic relations. The overarching goal is to prevent nuclear war and prevent WWIII.
It’s predecessor, the League of Nations, was meant to prevent WWII and had some teeth to help enforce their decisions. The result was that it collapsed quickly and did very little to prevent another global conflict.
It’s also a shame that Argentina, while it voted in favor, actually wanted to vote against.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl4y6w2r33o
Not surprising because:
What worse can Orange buffoon do to the world. At least with him in the helm the world will understand the truth US doesnt care about anyone or anything but itself.
He can, in fact, make a lot of stuff worse. And I promise you, he will if he gets the chance.
He could also destroy the US, which would be a dramatic improvement for the rest of the world.
In some ways, maybe. But I think a destruction of the US would also cause a lot of problems.
Yes, a controlled dismantlement would be better than collapse, and proletarian revolution would be best, but currently there’s not much prospects for either of those, so:
“There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.” ― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs!
Tell that to the power vacuum left behind after…
That’s called multipolarity.
“power vacuum” is when all the filth was vacuumed and there is a chance. that chance vanishes when filth starts piling up again and someone else gets into power, creating the need to vacuum again. i’ld rather like it tidy and clean than filth-controlled.
Is what people say, until they are the egg that is to be broken.
I’m trans in a red state. I am not safe.
I just recognize that the US is a blight and must be destroyed, and that one candidate is more likely to result in the US’s defeat.
That’s more of a silver lining, though.
I sincerely hope for you, that the candidate thats worse for the us wont win.
And i continue to hope youll be safe someday.
if you live in an unsafe country, its maybe better for you to flee before it gets even worse.
so then its fully okay for you if its the us thats to be broken then, thanks for admitting it. and after breaking the omlettes eater’s own eggs for him to consume there’s then a chance that no omlettes need to be made any more. a chance of improvement is always better than no chance for it.
The US government is putting the boot on your necks too. The empire isn’t run for your benefit, it is run at your expense.
the ‘empire’ is run to everyone’s expense including the 'empire’s own expense even if they show a whole mess of false evidences that their’re not. they are.
Empires can not be improved, they can only collapse or be destroyed.
i meant improving society and strengthen its immune system against threats that would otherwise cause collapses. imperiums cause and collapse/vanish all the time, just try to count the already vanished ones in “known” history, i guess while you are still busy counting the known ones there will be even more “newly found” by archaelogists. while lots of them just vanished without trace, some vanished but just weren’t found yet.
Comments like this are one of a few things.
Bad faith, and useful idiots intentionally trying to keep people from wanting to go out and vote, which only helps MAGAts.
And dumbass, blind as shit privileged people who think nothing has changed in the last decade because you’re simply not part of the target groups yet.
Life is so much worse for so many people because of Trump and to pretend like it wouldn’t get worse with a second presidency (you know, the one where they intend to destroy democracy and the voting process and have said as much and have documents detailing how they plan to do it) is simply idiotic.
Hell even on the issue of Cuba specifically, during his presidency Trump chose to undo the progress Obama had made. He has already made it worse
guess making things worse is just his “modus operandi”
But democracy and the voting process brought us Trump! It brought us genocide, it brought us child separation, it brought us the CIA, it brought us children in solitary confinement, it brought us the police force, it brought us Vietnam, it brought us nuking Japanese civilians, it brought us indigenous genocide, it brought us Flint, it brought us the highest rate of incarceration in the world over the last century.
What does destroying US democracy and US voting actually, materially, change?
But democracy and the voting process brought us Trump! It brought us genocide
the genocide filth that imho lasts >400years now has never been removed in the first place, i’ld guess it wasn’t brought there by voting process, but it wasn’t removed by it either.
Oh the genocide was absolutely a function of the republic qua republic. Elected representatives dealt with “the Indian problem” in various ways that garnered votes.
Well for one, he’d make it worse for Americans, specfically women.
America often acts it’s own self interests which are going to run counter to the world sometimes. But if I am chosing between voting to benefit my fellow Americans or some other country… it’s gonna be America. I expect and witness the same from every other country as well.
Toppling elected governments, propping up dictators, attacking countries without reason, suppoting terrorists all in the name of self interest.
Don’t feel bad if the world wishes the same to your country.
We do and we dont. Almost 350 million people have differences of opinion quite frequently. Thankfully most of the world thinks our positives outweighs our negatives.
Either that or they are too weak to stop us in any meaningful way. We’ve seen how many genocides over the past few years from superpowers and no one does anything? Only way you’ll see a real check on America or China’s power is through a world War which everyone rightfully wants to avoid.
Only way you’ll see a real check on America or China’s power is through a world War which everyone rightfully wants to avoid.
Other way is to use your tactics of election interference on you and gift you Trump.
Yeah, always an option. I mean it won’t alleviate any of the world’s problems but if you like chaos and death by America’s hands it’s an option counties can take.
Chaos and death by American hands with chaos and death in America too please.
Ah, well at least we know where you stand on that. 😆
welcome to the rules based world order that yankeestan is peddling
Wtf are those colors, jfc… How bout a hand for us colorblinds.
This works?
So much better, thanks!
oh that’s so much better! thank you!!
Well Israel and US are one colour
Every one else is a different one
^_^ thank you
Is there a website that can help me make sure I am covering colorblind? Like my work does green/red for pass/fail, but we are trying to add some alternate colors for user to enable as needed.
Yes! One easy/good one to use is https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ It lets you pick two colors, and you can even use the eyedropper tool in their Color Picker box to select a color right off your screen. Then it’ll tell you the Contrast Ratio of the two selected colors. Higher is better. It will give you a pass/fail for WCAG AA and AAA (two levels of web accessibility standards). I just now checked the red and green from the linked map and it had a ratio of 1.3:1 which is a fail for both AA and AAA.
Some websites (like Trello) give accessibility options to skip colors altogether, and use patterns (cross-hatch, polka-dot, etc.). But in general, going for a high enough contrast ratio should be good enough. I’m a web dev as well and we just run everything through one of those WCAG tools (I believe we’ve been using the WAVE browser plugin) and fix it until it passes. :) But, being the colorblind one on the team, I can often just be like “uhmm, that one ain’t gonna work.” lol.
btw sorry I got so spicy in my initial comment. I really wanted to see the map. :P
Edit: Another reply to my comment had a link to a more colorblind-friendly version of the map, with red and blue instead of red and green. Much clearer to my eyes. I eyedropped those two colors into that webaim checker, and I was surprised to see it also failed quite badly on the color contrast! For example you wouldn’t want red text on a blue background (unless it was a bright red and dark blue, or vice versa). But for map colors, well… I guess that goes to show that for colorblind checking you have to use a little common sense and know what the most common no-no combos are (red/green seems to be the most common). I checked the accessibility docs at my work just now and we sometimes use this site to check what a site looks like under various types of colorblindness: https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter
Make the green a little bluer.
