• AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Sure, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, hundreds of assassination attempts, supporting Fulgencio Batista’s crimes, etc. all just completely harmless pranks, right? Not a single Cuban was ever harmed or murdered.

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      1 year ago

      Harmless, no, but they didn’t destroy the Cuban economy

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        1 year ago

        I’m pretty sure that bombing the shit out of Cuba, like many US politicians were planning to do, would have completely destroyed the economy, and you know, more importantly, would have killed a lot of innocent people.

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          1 year ago

          And I’m sure that if the US had carpet bombed Cuba, then it would have been very destructive. Of course, that never happened, so any attempt to blame the utter failure of Cuban communism to build wealth and increase the economic fortunes of the people of Cuba on a supposed carpet bombing of Havana sounds rather divorced from reality.

          • somename [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            The United States actually did bomb Cuba, believe it or not. It wasn’t carpet bombing, but at times they totally did drop bombs on Cuban sugar farms. Not to mention the stated back terrorism we inflicted on the Island, which bombed them in a different way.

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            1 year ago

            Ugh, wealth is not the most important thing in the world especially considering that it would take over 5 earths if every human wasted as many resources as Freedom People do. That’s neither sustainable nor a smart thing to do. What Cuba instead focuses on is ensuring that every citizen has their basic necessities covered, which the US does not. Healthcare, housing, social security, … all things that are taken for granted in properly developed countries, as it should. There’s a reason the life expectancy in Cuba is superior to the US.

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              1 year ago

              Yes, yes, that’s why Cubans defect at every opportunity. The Cuban healthcare system is quite remarkable for such a poor nation. It’s just telling that they have to work so hard to keep those doctors captive to it.

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                1 year ago

                They do the complete opposite. They send them to other countries all over South America to help them. Ironically, in the middle of the pandemic some US politicians tried to stop this by threatening sanctions against the countries that made use of Cuba’s aid.

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                  1 year ago

                  Sure, yes, countries which wouldn’t harbor Cuban defectors.

                  • AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]@hexbear.net
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                    1 year ago

                    Defectors? Dude, your head is filled with so much propaganda shit, I don’t even know what to say. Like do some reading about migration within South America or migration laws in those countries. Just educate yourself instead of dropping some stupid Reddit one-liner.