• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    If I was a big country with a mighty military and more money than God, I’d be scared too. /s

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    13 hours ago

    Yes I bet Cuba is about as much a threat as Greenland is, and Greenland is a NATO ally!

    Fuck the Satanist Americans (under the guise of Christianity) for causing human suffering around the globe.
    They even do it at home too, and apparently Americans think that’s how things should be. 🤡 🤮

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    21 hours ago

    😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

    Anyone who believes this bullshit is a braindead moron. What are they going to do? Spread knowledge of how to develop a decent healthcare system that doesn’t financially burden patients?

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      15 hours ago

      That sounds like a real threat to the interest of the American Oligarchs. So, yeah, they are technically right.

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      Along with how to destroy an entire’s country economy, quality of life and democracy. I don’t think either that Cuba represent any kind of threat to the US, but for a really different reason than you. You can’t defend Baphomet just to fight Lucifer, because both are two pieces of shit. And how do I lnow this? Because I personally know Cubans, and my country is going in the same direction (and is more or less the same: Venezuela).

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        You personally know gusanos who are still butt-hurt over their comprador parents losing their plantations.

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        Am Cuban, can confirm. Americans believe so much bullshit propaganda about our country. We have been suffering the 42 years I’ve been alive. Members of my family escaped to the US by any means necessary over the years. It’s the kind of hell you risk anything to escape!

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          You realize the rest of the world has been able to freely travel to Cuba and come back safe and sound since the 60s, right? Like…

          We have been suffering the 42 years I’ve been alive […] It’s the kind of hell you risk anything to escape!

          ??? How the fuck do 4.7 million people visit/year on cruise ships and air planes if Cuba is suffering? I know many Canadian-Cubans that visit family and have families that visit Canada no problem.

          Americans believe so much bullshit propaganda about our country

          Yeah, and you’re literally one of them lmao

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            That’s a rather weak argument. Rich people travel to plenty of dangerous places. Those places typically then develop high class resorts with security to attend to them

            Don’t mistake my comment to be saying the US is right about Cuba. It absolutely isn’t. I just don’t think “people travel there” is much of an indicator of anything

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              In fact; is committing a fallacy of intransitivity, that’s a type of non sequitur fallacy.

              And that’s how it is in Cuba and in my country too, and that’s why I’m able to believe that about Cuba in the first place.

              The Cuban and Venezuelan governments are the same: the vast majority of the population is below the global thresholds of extreme poverty, in a very precarious situation, where basic services do not work most of the time (in my country we are privileged compared to Cuba; here at least water can reach us from time to time, even if it takes a long time [normally more than a month; although the duty is that it is always present], and the electricity is cut off 8 hours a day [at least that is how it is in the state] where alive], but there is almost no drinking water service and the normal thing is that there is no electricity; they can be without electricity service for more than 18 hours); but obviously they are not going to demonstrate that just as in Brazil they are not going to show you the Favelas, they directly create tourist areas that are a bubble isolated from the reality of the country. It is simply a political ploy to pretend that everything is fine, a facade.

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            So what you’re really saying is that Cuba’s being economically propped up by the thick rope of tourism, without which it would quickly collapse, right?

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    16 hours ago

    If Cuba is a threat, Hegseth really must’ve done an inconceivably bad job.

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    I love the semantic shenanigans that “risk” and “threat” sorts use – Risk is totally just snake oil.

    “They’re a threat!”, sure… a low risk, insignificant threat. But still technically a threat. You can claim anything is a threat, given that risk assessments are totally subjective silly things. “We’ve identified flying pigs as a threat in our risk registry, so we gotta invest billions into an anti-flying pig slush fund! Security!!”

    The states has been openly boasting about the numerous international war crimes its been committing for the past two years. No other country has challenged them directly on it, and few have even voiced their disagreement, out of fear of economic repercussions. No one is a threat to the US, except the US and its idiotic people / administration. Its partly why their self-destruction in international politics is so tragic.

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      But still technically a threat.

      Yes, but Realistically no, Cuba never did anything that harmed USA in any meaningful way.
      USA however has massively harmed Cuba for 70 years now.

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        Threat verbiage allows for non-threats to still be called threats, that’s the point of what I was highlighting. Flying pigs are not a threat, they don’t exist – dragons are not a threat, they don’t exist either. You can still throw them on a Risk Registry/Threat listing, and call them a threat, because there’s no definitive, objective, quantifiable process for determining what a threat is.

        So yes, you can say Cuba is a threat. Even though for all practical purposes it isn’t a “real” threat or a credible threat, you can still put it on a list and declare it ‘technically’ a threat to US national security. Just like you could put flying pigs on that list, or dragons, even though neither of those things exist, nor would any sane person think theres a real risk of america falling due to flying pig attacks – if they’re on a threat list, they’re a threat.

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          I didn’t contradict you, technically yes, realistically no.
          Which is also what you write in your response.

          I edited my post to make that part more clear.

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    16 hours ago

    If Cuba is a threat, then any country, group, or individual can be deemed a threat to their national security. Sounds like a whole lot of INSECURITY.

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    22 hours ago

    How many distractions does this regime need from the Epstein files?

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      The capitalist and political class of the entire western world and it’s allied countries were exposed as covering up for and being pedophiles.

      This isn’t a distraction. People like you and me in the working class gave them permission to stop the charade when we didn’t chop off their heads. It’s not a distraction. It’s a continuation of it.

      They are telling you bluntly that there will be no justice without us taking it by force. They are killing innocent children NOW in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Cuba. They are separating children from their parents and putting them in concentration camps on our own soil. Do you think that’s a distraction?

      The only distraction that is working is the same comment (like yours) being posted over and over that seems to weigh the importance of past crimes more heavily than the ones they are enacting now and boasting about on the news. Start caring more about the “distractions” and one day we might get vengeance for all of the children this class of pedophiles makes suffer.

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      No no. Iran was a distraction from the Epstein files. Cuba is a distraction from Iran. Greenland will be a distraction from Cuba, and Canada will be a distraction from Greenland.

      Probably.