Yo I have a trip to Cuba in like two weeks. What should I be doing?
I believe RevLeft recently had guests on and they mentioned even basic medical supplies such as ibuprofen were hard to come by. Maybe it would be possible to bring some of these types of supplies too?
theres still not enough suffering in the world, give us more!
the collective american political apparatus
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Exact same logic Israel uses to starve Gaza.
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Sanctions are always meant as collective punishment, it’s a siege warfare tactic. The goal is to torture innocent Cuban people for not overthrowing their government, starve them until they have no choice but to destroy the revolution. America has even directly admitted it:
This is the same policy as in Gaza, to starve the people until they turn their backs on the enemy.
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Does that have fucking anything to do with Cuba?
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Sanctions on economies are collective punishment.
You’ve sidestepped the problem, which is that there is a siege war being saved on Cuba and they’ve done nothing to deserve it.
Can you elaborate on how modern sanctions have materially changed from how they were pre-Iraq?
Obvious troll is obvious. If the overwhelming number of Cuban people really and truly didn’t support socialism. Then they would have taken over in a new revolution as they did getting rid of the US puppet state the last time. They have stood firm despite the literal attempts of US lead colour revolutions and refuse to be forced to bow to the self-appointed global police state that is the US. They aren’t the ones that should change to serve the rich fucks that steal from nations across the world. It is those rich fucks that should be put in the dirt so that peoples across the world could live their lives without fear.
This might be the dumbest fucking thing I’ve read in awhile.
The communist party in Cuba (like every other party) can’t “advertise” itself, it’s in the constitution ffs. If you wanted to pick a socialist country to portray as a “one party scary dictatorship” Cuba is not that. Cuba is a zero-party democracy in a way.
Most countries are actually fine with political parties on the ballot receiving funding, material/technical support, and terrorist attacks from a foreign power, it’s just the perfidious Cubans banning other parties that do this!
You’re going to bat for the collective punishment of the Cuban people. When is the collective punishment of civilians appropriate in your mind?
You’re also supporting a policy that has failed to achieve its stated result for 65 years. What other long-term policy failures do you support?
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Please cite me where I state that I support this policy?
I hate when people try to be slick, and it’s even more annoying when they suck at it:
Well it’s a one party dictatorship, and . . . the responsibility lies on the Cuban leadership.
All this ignoring that you are misrepresenting both Cuba and the effect of the sanctions.
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“It’s a Bad Country and the actions taken against it by the US are the fault of the Bad Country’s leadership, not the US”
“Oh, but I’m not supporting the US, merely absolving them of guilt”
Chickenshit nonsense
Makes pretty extreme implication
Denies any such implication and is insulted that anyone could read it such a way
???
Coward
Reddit brain
Please cite me where I state that I support this policy?
You excused it by blaming it on Cuba. There’s no meaningful difference between that and support. Any worthwhile take on the embargo starts with ending it immediately, and you can’t even manage that.
And sure, I would support sanctions against Nazi Germany. But until Cuba turns fascist, invades its neighbors, and starts a genocide, it’s nowhere near a situation where sanctions are appropriate.
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Are you a sith lord?
Well, if your horrible, uneducated, moronic, murderous political ideas didn’t already tell me that you have the mental capacity of someone who derives their political opinions from children’s media…There it is.
Use your words
If you think there’s some meaningful difference, let’s hear what it is. “I don’t support this but it’s totally their fault” is not convincing.
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“It’s their fault” is not an objective viewpoint. You are assigning blame to Cuba and excusing the U.S.
You do realize that kind of sanctions affect the poor civilians far more than the elite, if it even affect the elite at all, right?
Yeah they should’ve had two genocidal imperialist parties instead like the US
when you definitely understand what the word dictatorship means 😂
i mean, cuba is a dictatorship of the proletariat. libs just think thats a bad thing.
well yeah because libs are just temporarily inconvenienced billionaires
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I’m sure you have some kind of a source for such an outlandish claim. How much time do you spend looking at the compensation of Cuban politicians?
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I’ve read the thread. You have no source and you have not even tried to educate yourself on the basics of the Cuban government. You invented an accusation out of thin air and are somehow surprised people don’t uncritically believe it.
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cuba is literally the most egalitarian nation in the americas. what are you talking about?
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in the sense of the abolishment of class oppression
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you are being criticized for using the word “dictatorship” in a liberal sense, a sense that doesnt respect material reality due to being idealist.
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well, every state is authoritarian. thats part of the self preservation of any governance, be it progressive or reactionary. if you wanna abolish states alltogether ask the anarchists, since i am an ml and think that authoritarian measures are good for the liberation of mankind.
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equal competition for the power
Show me any state where there is an “equal competition for power” in any general sense. The Democrats and Republicans having similar degrees of power means nothing but a duopoly if they each exist above democracy as private entities (and they do) and there is no “equal” competition with more progressive groups.
Heidegger and Hannah Arendt will never answer for the crimes they have committed against your brainpan
:michael-laugh:
On being sanctioned as terrorist country? are you for fucking real?
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I guess you could call george floyd or la riots stomping a terrorist act
but for real, islands can’t survive on their own, if tomorrow uk stopped all trade, it will start starving in 2 months. usa sanctions are extra cruel with both finance and shipping conditions
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However what is important to remember is that the sanctions are imposed based on the regimes actions against it’s population
I don’t know every single sanction against the DPRK, but over the last 40 years the sanctions have all been in connection to nuclear development and things like that. Also, it’s rich that you talk about communists being hypocrites while you take western powers at their word for why they are imposing sanctions that starve people by your own admission. The US has done and is doing much crueler things to the people of these states than the states themselves have ever done in any but the most unhinged fantasies.
cuba and korea are already democratic, as in the sense of true democracy, workplace democracy. liberal “democracy” is nothing more than a cover for the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie and foreign imperialists. just look at cuba and korea under their respective american and japanese occupations. thats what the liberal west wants to return them to.
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you unironically did the “socialism is when the nordic model” meme, lmaooo
sorry, i tried taking you seriously, but this is just too much
Sorry but Scandinavian countries were still capitalist and still had a bourgeois class even before the neoliberals came around.
like how usa sanctions saudia arabia or uae or qatar or azerbaijan or japan over not moving towards democracy?
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Yes they can easily have the sanctions lifted by betraying the people of Cuba and allowing Global North neocolonizers to resume their pillaging of the nation.
What a dumbass turbolib.
Cause japan is one party state?
Submit or else, good to see gunboat diplomacy is a thing of the past
How is the US engaging in a blockade around a country with a popular government the fault of the Cuban leadership?
So Cuba should dissolve a government widely approved of by the people and return to client state gang run institutions for the ability to receive food? You’re a fucking idiot. Calling people sith lords, please learn to engage in world politics by using meaningful vocabulary instead of trying to equate everything to your favorite work of fiction
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It shouldn’t be hard to understand that what the US cares about are the rights of capital and of empire, not human rights
Hard to tell how popular the government is if you get jailed for voicing disagreement now isn’t it?
good thing that doesn’t happen then, huh?
No, you see, Display name@feddit.nu is the one true interpreter of the desires of all people. We should just let them pick every government since clearly they know best.
Hard to tell how popular the government is if you get jailed for voicing disagreement now isn’t it?
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What I’ve seen about the demand for the sanctions to be lifted it’s granting the population human rights regarding political freedoms. Would that mean the dissolvement of the government?
You’ve been given a link to a declassified CIA document in which they admit that the true objective of the sanctions is to have the Cuben government overthrown, did you read anything any of us have given you?
…did you read anything any of us have given you?
Lol, you know liberals choose not to read. I’d poke fun by saying they can’t read, but that would be giving them too much credit.
Well it’s a one party dictatorship
Yes, the dictatorship of the party of the working class, or in other words a proletarian democracy.
Meanwhile, whether one party or two or a hundred, we have a dictatorship of the capitalist class, or in other words a bourgeois democracy.
Literally the only answer this one deserved.
Very true, it seemed like bad faith arguments. But I’ve learnt quite a lot from the answers to that user’s asinine questions, and I’m sure I’m not the only one
For sure. It can be useful for others, even if the person you’re interacting with has a rock for a brain.
Bumping this. Ironically blew the rest of my funds on groceries last week.
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