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  • I literally said I blame every president since the Spanish-American war. Why would Biden’s continuation of Trump’s policies of Cuba be a problem for me if I didn’t also oppose Trump’s policies? You’re making no sense. Obama’s policy was a significant improvement over all other administrations but still falls significantly short. Because the Cuban people have continued to be under our collective punishment policies. If I oppose not only the policies of Biden, Trump 1, all previous presidents since we started exploiting Cuba (pro-revolution), why the fuck would you think I support Trump’s 2 policies? Please, use a crumb of critical thinking. Go ahead and search my history for Trump as see what you find.








  • Calling out the unjustifiable policies of Biden on Cuba is ‘throwing a tantrum?’ Grow up, I’ll call out good and bad policies from any president. I don’t care about your dogmatic support, you can make excuses all you want. Doesn’t change the harm of the blockade and sanctions.

    Ahead of the UN vote, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released its annual report outlining the material effects of the blockade in numbers. According to the report, the cost of 25 days of the blockade are the funds necessary to meet the requirements of the country’s National List of Essential Medicines for one year. Damages as a result of the blockade are USD 421 million a month, more than USD 13.8 million a day, and more than USD 575,683 per hour.

    Trump then obviously comes in, imposes 243 sanctions, puts Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, and takes this very extreme position towards Cuba. Many people voted for Biden expecting that he would reverse this, that he would honor the legacy of his previous Democratic president. But reality has shown that Biden, like every other US president since 1959, has a zero sum mentality of the Cuban revolution, that it must be overthrown by all means. The US has seen in Cuba’s difficult moments the opportunity to further tighten the noose on Cuba.

    Obviously, that hasn’t worked to the extent that the US would hope, because despite the noose being tightened on Cuba, the Cuban people haven’t given up on their independence, they haven’t given up their sovereignty, they haven’t given up their political project and their democratic process that they’ve designed and they’ve made a choice to build.

    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/23/as-cubans-face-blackouts-us-based-activists-organize-material-solidarity/


  • You understand that Trump was also president before Biden, right? And yes, those policies were continued, they were not changed. Choosing not to reverse the 1st Trump admins policies was a deliberate decision. The goal was to further destabilize Cuba, not normalize relations and end our illegal blockade. You can praise Biden all you want. I’m not going to praise our unjustifiable and illegal collective punishment on the Cuban people. This ratchet effect is exactly the problem, normalizing the previous Republican policies, and paving the way for the next Republican admin to expand on the brutality.

    May 2021: The Biden-Harris administration sustained Trump-era Cuba policy by maintaining Cuba on the list of countries certified as not cooperating fully with U.S. antiterrorism efforts.

    On June 23, the U.S. voted against a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba at the 75th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, signaling their support for the embargo. Each year since 1992, the UN has voted on a resolution to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba and, at all but one meeting, the U.S. has voted against the resolution. In 2016, the Obama-Biden administration historically abstained from voting on the resolution for the first time. Following the abstention, the Trump administration reverted back to voting in support of the U.S. embargo on Cuba.

    July 2021: The State Department released the 2021 Trafficking In Persons Report and designated Cuba as one of the 15 countries with a Tier 3 ranking. Countries with Tier 3 rankings are subject to financial penalties, may be subject to restrictions of foreign assistance, and may also face possible U.S. opposition to similar assistance from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The report also listed Cuba’s government as one of 11 governments committing state-sponsored human trafficking. In the report’s launch ceremony, Secretary Blinken specifically noted Cuba’s international medical missions.

    On July 22, the Biden-Harris administration announced sanctions “targeting elements of the Cuban regime responsible for this crackdown… to hold them accountable for their actions.” Specifically, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) instated sanctions on Cuba’s Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR), Álvaro López Miera, and the Ministry of the Interior’s (MINIT) Special National Brigade, or “Boinas Negras” (Black Berets).

    On July 30, OFAC announced additional sanctions on Cuba’s Revolutionary National Police, as well as individual sanctions against the chief, Oscar Callejas Valcarce, and deputy chief, Eddy Sierra Arias, of the National Police.

    On August 13, the U.S. State Department announced a third round of sanctions issued by OFAC in response to the J11 protests.

    On August 19, OFAC announced a fourth round of sanctions since the July 11 protests on three top Cuban officials.






  • Israel will only get more unpopular

    More and more people see day after day the billions we spend sending weapons to Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing campaigns, billions that aren’t being used to help everyday americans

    This type of resentment and anger is only growing, and will only grow faster as material conditions continue to worsen, which the vast majority of Americans are experiencing

    So on top of the, rightfully, moral outrage at what Israel is, it’s also fuelled by that economic outrage, and both are only increasing

    With berniecrat types, like Zohran and others, we see massive grassroots motion precisely because they can authentically tackle both those aspects. Calling out the truth of Apartheid and Genocide, demanding Divestment, on top of taxing the rich, moving all those funds to instead help cost of living at home

    More and more berniecrats are winning races across the country because people are demanding a disruption to the status quo. The scare mongering of the socialist label doesn’t work anymore. People don’t care, they just hear that those policies can improve things. And as those policies do improve things, it only gets more and more popular

    A Candidate whose unapologetically anti-zionist shows authenticity, so people are more charitable to that candidates socialist policies and more willing to give them a chance. The Republican policies aren’t working, the Liberal Democrat policies aren’t working, so fuck it, we ball





  • Relevant section from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

    As [Edmund] Morgan says, masters, “initially at least, perceived slaves in much the same way they had always perceived servants . . . shiftless, irresponsible, unfaithful, ungrateful, dishonest. . . .” And “if freemen with disappointed hopes should make common cause with slaves of desperate hope, the results might be worse than anything Bacon had done.” And so, measures were taken. About the same time that slave codes, involving discipline and punishment, were passed by the Virginia Assembly,

    Virginia’s ruling class, having proclaimed that all white men were superior to black, went on to offer their social (but white) inferiors a number of benefits previously denied them. In 1705 a law was passed requiring masters to provide white servants whose indenture time was up with ten bushels of corn, thirty shillings, and a gun, while women servants were to get 15 bushels of corn and forty shillings. Also, the newly freed servants were to get 50 acres of land.

    Morgan concludes: “Once the small planter felt less exploited by taxation and began to prosper a little, he became less turbulent, less dangerous, more respectable. He could begin to see his big neighbor not as an extortionist but as a powerful protector of their common interests.”

    We see now a complex web of historical threads to ensnare blacks for slavery in America: the desperation of starving settlers, the special helplessness of the displaced African, the powerful incentive of profit for slave trader and planter, the temptation of superior status for poor whites, the elaborate controls against escape and rebellion, the legal and social punishment of black and white collaboration.