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> we don't want to fund what their government is doing What is their government doing that is so terrible? Anyway let's suppose Cuba is a brutal dictatorship,
by ossobuco 2y ago
> we don't want to fund what their government is doing
What is their government doing that is so terrible?
Anyway let's suppose Cuba is a brutal dictatorship, even though it really isn't by any metric. Why are there no sanctions on Saudi Arabia? Why no sanctions on Taiwan during the white terror? Why no sanctions on Chile when they threw alive protesters from flying helicopters? I could go on for a while.
- hyperliner 2y ago[dead]
- hollandheese 2y ago>What is their government doing that is so terrible? Surviving while Communist.
- phyzix5761 2y agoMy whole family was murdered by the government of Cuba because they verbally disagreed with Fidel and communism. No crimes other than speaking out were committed. That's what they're doing that is so terrible.
- ossobuco 2y agoThat's how revolutions work, if you disagree you usually get killed. The thing is that people would get killed for disagreeing even under Batista. If your family was happy with Batista then I don't think they were in a clean line of business.
- zdragnar 2y agoThe US did put an arms embargo on Batista's government, though far too late given the violent suppression of the protests towards the end.
- ossobuco 2y agoI agree, especially considering that Batista had been sold arms until 1958, when the fights with the rebels had been ongoing for a while already (1956 I believe). The result is that Batista fought the rebels using USA weapons, embargo or not.
- phyzix5761 2y agoBatista was a dictator too. No one, except criminals, liked him.
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