International Massive Protests Erupt In Cuba As Citizens Demand End To Communist Dictatorship: ‘We Want Freedom!’

[Possum Jenkins]

Commies hoarding missiles get exactly what they were asking for.

LOL

Ahhh, the law of the jungle. Nothing beats it when you have zero moral arguments.

 

[2DUM2TAP]

U.S. trade embargo has cost Cuba $130 billion, U.N. says

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-cost-cuba-130-billion-u-n-says-idUSKBN1IA00T

And obviously this only started to really matter after the fall of the Soviet Union. So 130 billion in 27 years.

Absolutely criminal on the part of the US.

Why is it criminal in part of the US?

 

[SanchoMF]

LOL

Ahhh, the law of the jungle. Nothing beats it when you have zero moral arguments.

Yes, let's all just bow down to totalitarian regimes crushing their citizen's freedom of choice over political systems, economy, travel and work. Let's give them a seat at the table because it's morally right.
LOL

 

[nostradumbass]

Yes, it's the US not propping them up that is preventing Cubans from "choosing their own government", not the 60 year dictatorship that has been raiding people's homes and murdering and arresting dissenters.

U.S. trade embargo has cost Cuba $130 billion, U.N. says

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-cost-cuba-130-billion-u-n-says-idUSKBN1IA00T

And obviously this only started to really matter after the fall of the Soviet Union. So 130 billion in 27 years.

Absolutely criminal on the part of the US.

Yeah, that 2% of their gdp would have pushed them from dire poverty to a bunch of monopoly men running around. Comes out to a little over $100/year per person, which the government confiscates, but yeah, would have been a communist paradise if the US would just buy shit they don't need to prop up a dictatorship. It's such a raging success that they need to be propped up by a capitalist country.

The same people who scream about a broken system when a business owner makes more than the cashier he hired can't seem to criticize the Castro family running a slave plantation for the last 60 years and becoming billionaires by forcing the country to work for free and live in poverty, and arresting or killing anyone who complained about it.

 

[SanchoMF]

Yeah we crippled their oil industry by purging all the competent people in order to keep Chavez in power and nationalized a ton of business, ruining the economy, then became extremely repressive and block foreign aid in fear of losing control when their citizens were/are starving.

Yeah, it’s a joy to discuss politics with low info people.

Everything, anywhere is US's fault according to the people that have a soft spot for murderous commies.

 

[ultramanhyata]

So socialism/communism.

You won't find those sorts of shortages in the neighboring island of democratic, free-market Haiti, that's for sure.

 

[oldshadow]

Yea have love the left "Cuba would be a great communist country if the US would just support them financially ".

 

[Yehudim]

You won't find those sorts of shortages in the neighboring island of democratic, free-market Haiti, that's for sure.

Haiti doesn’t have an economy to speak of but it’s funny how you always pull that line out, as if you can pull off any system without a system (governance)

They wouldn’t fair any better under communism.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

Yeah, that 2% of their gdp would have pushed them from dire poverty to a bunch of monopoly men running around. Comes out to a little over $100/year per person, which the government confiscates, but yeah, would have been a communist paradise if the US would just buy shit they don't need to prop up a dictatorship. It's such a raging success that they need to be propped up by a capitalist country.

That $130 billion over 27 years (from the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 until 2018, when that article was published) comes out to $4.8 billion per year.

That would have been heaven sent in the 90s, when their GDP was well under $40 billion.

https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/gdp

And no, lifting the embargo wouldn't mean the US would "prop up" Cuba, just trade with it, the way it does with 99% of all other countries.

The embargo also involves countries aside from the US and Cuba:

Economic embargo, any non-U.S. company that deals economically with Cuba can be subjected to legal action and that company's leadership can be barred from entry into the United States. Sanctions may be applied to non-U.S. companies trading with Cuba. This means that internationally operating companies have to choose between Cuba and the U.S., which is a much larger market.

This is why the embargo has been severely condemned, even by staunch US allies:

The Helms–Burton Act was condemned by the Council of Europe, the European Union, Britain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and other U.S. allies that enjoy normal trade relations with Cuba. The governments argued that the law ran counter to the spirit of international law and sovereignty.

After a complaint by the European Union with the World Trade Organization, a dispute settlement panel was established. Later, the work of the panel was suspended to find a solution through negotiations. After a year, the panel lost its jurisdiction over the matter, and the EU did not pursue the matter any further before the WTO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms–Burton_Act

 

[nostradumbass]

That $130 billion over 27 years (from the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 until 2018, when that article was published) comes out to $4.8 billion per year.

That would have been heaven sent in the 90s, when their GDP was well under $40 billion.

https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/gdp

And no, lifting the embargo wouldn't mean the US would "prop up" Cuba, just trade with it, the way it does with 99% of all other countries.

The embargo also involves countries aside from the US and Cuba:



This is why the embargo has been severely condemned, even by staunch US allies:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helms–Burton_Act

1. It isn't 27 years, the inflated $130 billion estimate is for the 60 year embargo.

2. Yes, it is propping it up. If only 1 side needed the trading and the other doesn't, then that is a favor to prop up the side that needed it. It already doesn't apply to food and humanitarian supplies.

Why would the US prop up a massive slave plantation for the Castro family a century after abolishing slavery?

 

[Possum Jenkins]

1. It isn't 27 years, the inflated $130 billion estimate is for the 60 year embargo.

2. Yes, it is propping it up. If only 1 side needed the trading and the other doesn't, then that is a favor to prop up the side that needed it. It already doesn't apply to food and humanitarian supplies.

Why would the US prop up a massive slave plantation for the Castro family a century after abolishing slavery?

1. It had a limited impact prior to the dissolution of the USSR.

The US embargo against Cuba began in 1961 after the 1959 Cuban revolution.18 At that time, it had a limited impact because of Soviet assistance and equalitarian distribution policies. During the following 3 decades, 70% to 90% of Cuba's international trade was with the former Soviet bloc

http://archives.usaengage.org/archives/news/9701ajph.html

2. So again, the law of the jungle. I'm stronger than you so I can punish you. My ceasing the punishment isn't just being normal, it's "propping you up" or helping you.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Leftist Narrative - "The only way to solve racism is through Communism."



“If you want to see the most equal multi-racial democ… — it’s not a democracy — the most equal multi-racial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba,” Hannah-Jones said.

“Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere. I mean the Caribbean — most of the Caribbean — it’s hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small, they’re countries run by black folks, but in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that’s largely due to socialism, which I’m sure no one wants to hear,” Hannah-Jones argued.

These remarks echoed Hannah-Jones 2008 article published in The Oregonian. In that article, she disputes the official narrative that “Cuba is poor. Cuba is communist. Cuba violates human rights and represses dissent.”

“Education is the cornerstone of the revolution,” she wrote. She praised the communist country’s education and health care systems, saying the latter, in particular, is a “world model.”


This woman's philosophy - the 1619 project - is being woven into our public school history books and taught to our children.

Think about that.

 

[AtomicPanther]

Can't blame US for every shit hole nation.

 

[nostradumbass]

1. It had a limited impact prior to the dissolution of the USSR.



http://archives.usaengage.org/archives/news/9701ajph.html

2. So again, the law of the jungle. I'm stronger than you so I can punish you. My ceasing the punishment isn't just being normal, it's "propping you up" or helping you.

Yes, if you rely on me to feed you with food that I've hunted so you can run back and tell everyone you hunted it, and I stop giving it to you, then you were relying on me to prop you up.

Similarly, and more comparably, if you start a company and require your dad to buy a bunch of whatever you're selling that he doesn't need to keep from going under, then it's a crap business that is being propped up by your dad.

 

[Bald1]

Leftist Narrative - "The only way to solve racism is through Communism."



“If you want to see the most equal multi-racial democ… — it’s not a democracy — the most equal multi-racial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba,” Hannah-Jones said.

“Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere. I mean the Caribbean — most of the Caribbean — it’s hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small, they’re countries run by black folks, but in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that’s largely due to socialism, which I’m sure no one wants to hear,” Hannah-Jones argued.

These remarks echoed Hannah-Jones 2008 article published in The Oregonian. In that article, she disputes the official narrative that “Cuba is poor. Cuba is communist. Cuba violates human rights and represses dissent.”

“Education is the cornerstone of the revolution,” she wrote. She praised the communist country’s education and health care systems, saying the latter, in particular, is a “world model.”


This woman's philosophy - the 1619 project - is being woven into our public school history books and taught to our children.

Think about that.

"Least inequality". Lol. When nobody has anything we'll all be equal. Hilariously stupid thinking.

 

[SanchoMF]

Leftist Narrative - "The only way to solve racism is through Communism."



“If you want to see the most equal multi-racial democ… — it’s not a democracy — the most equal multi-racial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba,” Hannah-Jones said.

“Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere. I mean the Caribbean — most of the Caribbean — it’s hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small, they’re countries run by black folks, but in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that’s largely due to socialism, which I’m sure no one wants to hear,” Hannah-Jones argued.

These remarks echoed Hannah-Jones 2008 article published in The Oregonian. In that article, she disputes the official narrative that “Cuba is poor. Cuba is communist. Cuba violates human rights and represses dissent.”

“Education is the cornerstone of the revolution,” she wrote. She praised the communist country’s education and health care systems, saying the latter, in particular, is a “world model.”


This woman's philosophy - the 1619 project - is being woven into our public school history books and taught to our children.

Think about that.

"In Cuba everyone except the chosen elite is equally dirt poor : that's a great model to have!"
Said your average retarded Western liberal who has also made her career out of grievances.

 

[Red Dragoniop]

LOL

Ahhh, the law of the jungle. Nothing beats it when you have zero moral arguments.

ahhh meanwhile you have nothing to say lol...... rekt

 

[GearSolidMetal]

"Least inequality". Lol. When nobody has anything we'll all be equal. Hilariously stupid thinking.

Actually, its very honest and accurate.

Think about it. In communist countries they have the least income inequality, because everyone (but their ruling class) are equally poor... not counting the citizens in the slave camps working until they die.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

"In Cuba everyone except the chosen elite is equally dirt poor : that's a great model to have!"
Said your average retarded Western liberal who has also made her career out of grievances.

Every one of these leftists themselves to be in the ruling class once communism takes over.

 

[Bald1]

Actually, its very honest and accurate.

Think about it. In communist countries they have the least income inequality, because everyone (but their ruling class) are equally poor... not counting the citizens in the slave camps working until they die.

I understand that it's true and know the inevitable outcome of that economic model.

Doesn't mean it's not the height of stupidity to want such a result.