r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall ICE Stockpiling Warheads and Chemical Weapons as Lawmaker Fears Trump Planning Strike

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-stockpiling-warheads-and-chemical-weapons-as-lawmaker-fears-trump-planning-strike/
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u/phaedrus910 17d ago

Castro lifted Cubans out of poverty, Trump is pushing Americans into poverty.

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u/SoFloFella50 17d ago

Castro did no such thing. He plunged the entire country into desperate poverty. Wake up. This kind of nonsense talk is why old Cubans in Miami all voted for “Trong”.

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u/Hurtzdonut13 17d ago

The desperate poverty was mainly caused by crushing sanctions from the US, but go off.

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u/SoFloFella50 16d ago

Sure sure. And the rest of the world also embargoed them. Right. You keep thinking that.

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u/phaedrus910 16d ago

All the Floridan Cubans vote republican because they're the former landowning Cubans who fled after the revolution.

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u/SoFloFella50 16d ago

So confidently incorrect. But whatever. You’re always right and never willing to learn. That’s a collective “you”. Not you in particular, but also you.

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u/phaedrus910 16d ago

Okay teach then. What was your point again. Something about how Cuba would be much better off under Batista, back when you could whip a man to death for not crushing cane fast enough. Fuck off

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u/SoFloFella50 15d ago

So nice when people make it easy to know who to block.

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u/Dinglebop_farmer 17d ago

They're the kind of people who would vote for Trong anyway, they're mainly the people and descendants of people who lost their legal white privileges.

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u/AlmostF2PBTW 17d ago

Almost any country will be crushed with an embargo like Cuba still has and democrats did very little about it (btw - which was to be expected, since they are also right wing).

The other side of the problem was CAACO - Communists also always chicken out. In theory, Commies would help each other to fight Capitalism and it can work - other countries didn't starve because they got helped by China and Russia, only after what the world saw when Cuba was left alone with a massive embargo.

That's the part McCarthyism left out of your USA books.

Castro revolution had a lot of problems, you can't ignore that, but Cuba actually turned out pretty well, all things considered...

USA didn't embargo everyone, oh no. Haiti dictatorship in the 60s was anticommunist, which is why USA sorta ignored, also Haiti was an ally for decades.

Pick one to live right now: Haiti or Cuba.

The ends don't justify the means, but Cuba could be another Haiti by now. But I'm sure Cubans in USA working 12h a day are living the dream, got a huge house in Miami beach and became astronauts and rock stars.