Let's talk about hypocrisy regarding Cuba

Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 6:56pm

2015
2015.PNG
2018
2018_0.PNG
Today
2021.PNG

Oh that had to hit the spot.
You want more? Consider how much the U.S. wants to help Cuba.

cuba_1.PNG

See we want to send them our vaccines. How nice of us.
There's just one catch.

cuba1.PNG
cuba2.PNG

Oh, right! Cuba's vaccines are better than ours. Yet we can't get their vaccines because of capitalism.

Is that not enough for you? You want more?
How about this.

blm_0.PNG

You see, we care deeply about the rights of people to protest...as long as they aren't Americans.

blm2_0.PNG
blm3_0.PNG

OK. Let's do one more, but make it outside of the United States.

bbc_0.PNG
bbc1.PNG
BBC cares deeply about press freedom. Trust us.

bbc3.PNG
bbc2_0.PNG

Tags: 
Cuba
Share
up
24 users have voted.

Comments

Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 6:59pm

The next election won't be the Dem's fault

The Biden administration is receiving regular intelligence reports indicating Russian efforts to interfere in US elections are evolving and ongoing, current and former officials say, and in fact, never stopped, despite President Joe Biden's warnings to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the summer and a new round of sanctions imposed in the spring.
Biden made deliberate mention of Russia's operations two weeks ago when he revealed in public remarks to the intelligence community that that he had received fresh intelligence about "what Russia's doing already about the 2022 election and misinformation" in his daily intelligence briefing that day.
"It's a pure violation of our sovereignty," Biden said at the time.
up
19 users have voted.
Submitted by edg on Sat, 08/14/2021 - 12:35am
edg's picture

@gjohnsit

We would never interfere in Russia's internal affairs (Navalny? Who dat?) or try to influence their policies (it's raining sanctions!!) or disrupt their capitalist business dealings (we must stop Nord Stream 2 at all costs!!!). How dare they violate the sanctity of our sovereign elections?!?!

up
14 users have voted.
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 7:18pm

up
12 users have voted.
Submitted by CB on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 11:14pm
CB's picture

@gjohnsit @gjohnsit
pulls people out of poverty by giving them homes, better and higher paying jobs, subsidized education and universal health care. The US pushes people into poverty by forcing them from their homes, preventing wage increases, increasing the cost of education and restricting health care to those who can pay.

But 85% of Americans still say the USA is the "Greatest country in the world". Maybe that's because America ranks 26th to China's 1st in education ranking?

Education Rankings By Country 2021

up
17 users have voted.
Submitted by doh1304 on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 7:56pm

The Republicans are Russian agents!
The Progressives are Russian agents!
The Greens are Russian agents!
The Young are all Russian agents!
Give me the red button!
Mr President, that was Jen Psaki's cell phone; you just ordered a pizza.

up
15 users have voted.
—

On to Biden since 1973

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 8:06pm

almost since forever. It would be so much more peaceful to sell them Haiti and
Puerto Rico and call it a (with) draw. As in withdraw from Guantánamo. Then leave the
nation alone, without the sanctified sanctions. Send the CIA war mongers elsewhere.

Just because they are socialized and in the proximity of Florida does not make
them an enemy deserving of the US stink eye. Give it up. Stop making enemies.

up
12 users have voted.
Submitted by lotlizard on Sun, 08/15/2021 - 2:50am
lotlizard's picture

@QMS  
steering their own course, open to friendly relations with, but nonetheless independent of, the U.S.

They don’t want Tahiti or New Caledonia to be able to imagine a future not being ruled by France.

Whenever a Cuba, or other left-populist government in Latin America or the Arabic-speaking regions, is successful in any way, the US-EU-Five-Eyes-NATO bloc’s neo-colonial / neoliberal model of “democracy” is shown to be a rigged game and a sham. Can’t be allowed!

up
4 users have voted.
Submitted by Snode on Sat, 08/14/2021 - 7:41am

Our government runs on lies, our press has devolved into a bunch of influencers, our leaders are capitalist tools and doing the right thing only applies to their own well being. We need a better word.

up
13 users have voted.
Submitted by Tall Bald and Ugly on Sat, 08/14/2021 - 10:11am

always agree with you, but Dude

You’re Priceless for info/analysis

up
4 users have voted.
—

Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .

Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .

If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march

Submitted by Dr. John Carpenter on Sat, 08/14/2021 - 12:30pm

I highly, highly recommend season two of the podcast The Blowback. They are doing a deep dive into the US’s Cuba history. Last episode is just past the Bay of Pigs and inching towards the missile crisis. I knew very little of this but, whew, I really can’t be cynical enough. I’m starting to believe studying Cuba unlocks a lot of US foreign policy since.

up
9 users have voted.
—

Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

Submitted by CB on Sat, 08/14/2021 - 1:09pm
CB's picture

@Dr. John Carpenter

https://blowback.show/
After a critically-acclaimed retelling of the Iraq War, season two of Blowback presents the unlikely story of the Cuban Revolution: America’s Cold War crusade brings the world to a nuclear-tipped showdown between the Kennedy brothers, Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, the CIA, and the Mafia. Co-hosted by Brendan James and Noah Kulwin, season two is a 10-part account of how the United States tried and failed to thwart the creation of a socialist government less than a hundred miles to its south.

up
8 users have voted.
Submitted by The Wizard on Sun, 08/15/2021 - 9:54am

There are a handful of owner-class Cuban expats that want their property back, and poor Cubans working for them again for peanuts. Make Cuba great again as it was before Castro, with gambling, prostitution, corruption and organized crime, but a great vacation spot for wealthy Americans. For this, we make Cuba economically sweat.

up
5 users have voted.
—

Capitalism has always been the rule of the people by the oligarchs. You only have two choices, eliminate them or restrict their power.