Missed the ‘May 1st’ part of it and made a comment referencing an earlier protest; it seems there was a small protest on May 1st that was hampered by two separate groups not coordinating.

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LET’S KNOOK IT UP

I appreciate the thought, but you don’t have to - my ban from Blahaj means that you can’t see my posts or comments from Blahaj.zone; I can still see your’s.

Not really sure that saying I didn’t believe in dragons while noting that I always made an effort to respect Drag’s pronouns anyway in a conversation on DB0 that didn’t involve Ada months after I’d stopped posting on Blahaj warrants a ban, quite, but I guess that’s subjective.

By Azura by Azura by Azura!

I love when people use the results of the ratfucking to try to prove there was no ratfucking

Oh, great, we’re back to the “Every poll was forged in a massive media conspiracy to cover the DNC’s vote forgery” hours, it must be 2016 or 2020 after Super Tuesday.

I don’t see you pointing anything out that might refute it.

Most members of the DSA are also Dems. Communist Parties in the US are immensely tiny and, for that matter, often put forward positions that directly refuse cooperation with filthy shitlib movements like 50501.

Unless you have a remarkably specific local milieu, it’s unlikely that you’d see more of both of them than of Dems.

The DNC is still operating in Business-As-Usual mode.

Okay?

I’m just disappointed there are people like you around here.

People with basic reading comprehension?

Yes, I suppose that must be deeply disappointing for people who want to peddle thought-free narratives.

I never said it completely blocks trade but it heavily does.

Yes, I’m sure that the grapes are just rotting on the vine for lack of international trade partners in Cuba.

When I was down there I saw Turkey had a shipping port, Canada has a strong relationship with them, China improves some of the infrastructure.

So sad that the Great Socialist Experiment can’t succeed even with all these trade partners, because the capitalist dogs in the Great Satan won’t subsidize them.

But the US hates what Fidel & Cuba did so they inflict the blockade on them and since it has global hegemony, succeeds.

The ‘blockade’ that doesn’t actually block other countries from freely trading with Cuba, that includes US trade with Cuba, and that funds a fourth of Cuba’s GDP by free fucking money from Cuban expats.

Truly, the US ‘blockade’ is the cause of Cuba’s woes.

Also I work with a woman who has spent the last 50 years getting aid to Cuba that the US previously blocked, recently included 3 million syringes for the covid vaccine.

Cuba literally rejected a US offer of COVID vaccines, but go off about how the US is secretly sabotaging Cuba.

Another organization here that sends unused wasted medical supplies to Latin America just got threatened and had their license removed to send aid to Cuba by Trump.

I believe it. That’s not the same as saying that 95% of Cuba’s problems are because of the embargo.

These things are happening. You have the Communist Manifesto linked in the community, you should support Cuba more.

I suppose you must think we should support the Soviet Union as well, completely missing the fucking point of the comm.

At least thats what the Cubans down there had to say.

“I went down to Cuba for some Voluntourism and the Cuban people repeated the government line”

How very convincing!

Yes Cuba has internal problems and corruption but its not the source of their problems.

Christ.

Fuck off with your red-painted fascist apologia.

Oh we give them our shitty bleached chicken, good for us

So now we’ve gone from “THE US STOPS THE WORLD FROM TRADING WITH CUBA” to “Sure, even the US itself trades with Cuba, but US trade goods are stinky!”

Fucking fantastic, what a high-quality position we’re dealing with here.

I forgot to answer. Cuba diversified their economy by funding research to their medical field to be able to trade medical care for things like oil etc

Cuba’s medical field declined in the 90s, though it remains high-quality. It sure as shit didn’t ‘diversify’ in that period.

opened up tourism (which has been the biggest part of the economy),

Waoh, and the United Snakes of Amerikkka didn’t stop them with the Imperialist Blockade???

and began incredible urban garden programs to become food self-sufficient.

“To become food self-sufficient”

Wow, it would be really impressive if the Great Socialist Experiment™ managed to make Cuba what it was before the revolution. Maybe someday, with a lot of capitalist reforms, it’ll become a net exporter of food! Then we can watch all the good little bootlickers line up to praise “Socialism with Cuban Characteristics” just like they do for the PRC.

No one’s slurping down ML propaganda, but you seem to like spreading your’s

You’re fucking sitting here praising one of the great failures of ML ideology as a socialist success that only the embargo from the US is keeping down, instead of a Soviet holdover that refused meaningful reforms for some 20 years due to the intransigence of its ruling class in refusing to recognize that running the country as a plantation for a dead superpower was no longer viable (and was never a good idea in the first fucking place).

You’re slurping down ML propaganda, pal.

Who, precisely, are you accusing of this

Ghouls who constantly advocated things like “Voting doesn’t matter, both sides are the same!” and we’re now reaping the ‘rewards’ of.

and how do you think they are strengthrning the regime?

By literally putting it into fucking power, and then sneering at all action against it for being insufficiently ‘revolutionary’.

I’m a freelance contractor, man.

What groundwork? I see more of the DSA and communist parties at 50501s than Democrats.

What a bizarre claim.

I’m pretty sure it’s fucking up to us.

Aw, someone’s mad that it was pointed out that their own source disproves their point.

couldn’t help yourself could you

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It is a blockade, part of it is the US blocks aid and resources from getting into Cuba

Jesus fucking Christ.

and any ship from a country that trades with Cuba is blocked from US ports for six months, which would heavily effect other countries so they don’t so that.

Oh, the fact that the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, and Germany are some of Cuba’s largest trading partners must’ve been a fever dream I had.

Every country in the UN votes to uplift the blockade because they want to trade with Cuba,

Do you… do you understand that most of the world, and even the US to some degree, does trade with Cuba?

Like, the reason the UN constantly requests the US to lift the embargo is because it’s stupid as fuck, not because the international community can’t trade with Cuba at the moment.

This is one of the stupidest takes I’ve seen on Cuba, and I’ve seen some pretty fucking stupid takes.

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Well, you see what they are doing to Mamdani.

Bitching about him?

Bipartisan, fully backed by the oligarchy and increasingly hysterical mainstream media.

I mean, other than the usual suspects (Fox, CNN), not really sure I’d call the coverage of Mamdani hysterical. Nor would I really call the opposition to Mamdani bipartisan - at most, I’d say that most of the neoliberal ghouls of the Dem old guard are keeping him at arm’s length at the moment, which, considering he’s literally the Dem candidate for one of the most important cities in the country, is unfuckingconsciable, don’t get me wrong, but it’s also not joining arms with the panicked drumbeating of the GOP. Which, tbh, has been absolutely hilarious to watch so far.

Cant have anyone up for election that isnt approved by the ruling class. We will see if Mamdani even survives until the election or of he gets assassinated before.

I think you both overestimate the willingness of the current spineless (for once in our favor) political class to resort to outright political murder, and the importance of the position of mayor of a single city, no matter how important. Even in moderately authoritarian regimes outright enemies of the regime can manage to win important municipal elections. The current vile behavior of the fascists in government is still, at the moment, predicated on deniability and limited adherence to established procedures (particularly, the use of government officials - ICE - to perform their unlawful detainments) which lend the regime legitimacy in the eyes of the electorate.

Authoritarian regimes can be very funny about this (not ha-ha funny, unfortunately); in the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, for example, you could have your fingernails torn out, or be outright tortured to death (illegally, according to the laws of the Soviet Union), but without a written and signed confession, even one literally flecked with blood, the criminal trial against a Soviet citizen very often would not be able to go forward. The line between “I told the NKVD to go fuck themselves long enough that they did” and “I told the NKVD to go fuck themselves long enough that they put a bullet in my head” is thin, but the uncertainty inherent in authoritarian regimes works against them - no one knows when someone is going to be made a scapegoat for PR reasons, so no one wants to be the one who interrupts demonstrable, documented, or public procedure, even if they don’t actually give a single good goddamn about the law as a principle.

Now, Mamdani being stripped of his citizenship and disqualified from running? That is, bizarrely and concerningly, a very real threat, even if one I still think is overall unlikely at the moment.

Would you like me to quote some folks on this very site?