• Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You understand that Castro went after than more than just slave owners right? It’s super disingenuous to pretend that most of the 1.5 million people who have fled Cuba were slave owners.

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        1 year ago

        If they were fine with Batista being a military dictator, but drew the line at someone trying to upend his stint as one, I’m going to ask, why the military dictatorship didn’t cause them to flee every time.

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        1 year ago

        You understand people fled Cuba not only because Castro was trying to take their plantation or Casino, but because the US has spent over have a century carrying out terrorist attacks and engineered a famine right?

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    1 year ago

    You know what’s great for getting Cuban votes in Miami? Supporting sanctions and starving out Cuba.

    The gusano voting bloc is mutually exclusive with people who don’t like starving foreign countries.

    There may be hope for Cubans who fled in the 90s due to famine, but the social relations and economic and cultural history of the ones who fled either fearing the wrath of the people they’d exploited or seeking to restore the privilege they had pre-revolution are always going to vote for the fascists.