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Do you own anything of value? What about your family? Now let's try practicing some empathy: How would you feel if I just took that from you?
by brigadier132 2y ago
Do you own anything of value? What about your family?
Now let's try practicing some empathy: How would you feel if I just took that from you?
- vundercind 2y agoOh, I get it. It’s just not gonna get them anything. That ship sailed decades ago. On a policy level, all this is doing is causing harm.
- LtWorf 2y agoAh. So uk should sanction the whole USA, on account of that revolution that costed some people something?
- brigadier132 2y agoThey did and it took a war and a long time for relations to be reestablished
- rgbrenner 2y agoNot true. After the Treaty of Paris (1783) was signed, trade between the US and UK resumed almost immediately; and diplomatic relations were reestablished in 1785. Shortly after the war (1793), when France and Britain went to war, rather than back up the French, the US signed the Jay Treaty to maintain trade and positive relations with the UK... angering France who helped us gain independence. Other than the revolutionary war from 1776 to 1785, the other break we had was from 1812-1815 during the War of 1812. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom%E2%80%93United_States_relations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom%E2%80%93United_...
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- brigadier132 2y agoAh ok so other than the war and the tarrifs and the blockade it isnt true
- 1oooqooq 2y agothe point is it took less than a decade and half...
- valicord 2y agoIn this scenario, should everyone born in the same city as you be punished for your crimes?
- beaglesss 2y agoThis is foundational to American legal system in many cases. If your local cops for instance unjustly beat say Cubans and get sued for it the inhabitants will pay and possibly even their children through debt.
- SllX 2y agoWell, that's how it should work. Qualified immunity massively complicates this in favor of the cop and therefore the city employing said cop and the residents of the city. It is technically not impossible to win such a case if you get a court to take it, but you might be facing some insurmountable odds getting a court to take the case.
- dantondwa 2y agoSorry, but I don’t think families who escaped in those times were exactly just innocent property owners.
- tpm 2y agoSorry, but that does not matter. If they did anything illegal, they should be prosecuted by and in the country it happened, but you are presuming collective guilt here. That is always, universally, the wrong thing to do.
- coooolbear 2y agoWe are talking about the descendants of the wealthy or dissident people who were escaping the Cuban revolution, where Cuba at the time was largely owned by foreign sugar plantations which was perpetuated by the the brutal military dictatorship of Batista, which was supported by the US government as well as organized crime (and where one ends and the other begins is sometimes unclear…) It’s a tale as old as time!
- Gibbon1 2y agoThe legacy of colonialism still casts a dark shadow. You can replace who rules much easier than changing how they rule. Batista a dictator replaced by Castro another dictator.
- Nasrudith 2y agoIt was a better lie when "the people we robbed and killed totally deserved it" was about Kulaks. Seriously it is the same victim blaming bullshit to absolve a government of thieves.
- tpm 2y agoYes and collective guilt is still wrong. Being a descendant is not a punishable deed, nor should it be. Also many professionals had to leave too.
- brigadier132 2y ago
- brendoelfrendo 2y agoDepends; were I or my family aligned or complicit with a military dictatorship?
- 1oooqooq 2y agothanks for letting us know you never read a book and take lessons from the tv.