It's also in my experience the most terminally online leftists are the ones going online complaining about other people not voting instead of like actually doing organizing. I certainly don't see a lot of them outside the internet or when doing things that actually matter instead of putting a piece of paper in a box thinking it changes anything.

  • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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    8 months ago

    Trump also made the situation in Cuba, the sole AES state in the Americas beyond Chiapas, far far worse. Biden hasn't intensified it but also hasn't made it less bad, so, they're both overwhelmingly negative in that regard.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      8 months ago

      Trump also made the situation in Cuba, the sole AES state in the Americas beyond Chiapas, far far worse.

      Worse than the 90s? Idk. Its very hard to get a read on what's happening in Cuba when I'm not being inundated with pictures of Miguel Díaz-Canel at a sit-in with captions like "This Man Yearns For Freedom". Trump rolled back a bunch of the milquetoast reforms implemented under Obama, which definitely sucked. But I don't see much to suggest he subjected Cuba to anything like what Puerto Rico or Haiti endured under Obama.

      • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        Nope, I have to tell you flatly that it is a second special period there. For more information and context watch The War on Cuba by the Belly of the Beast Collective. Ever since the US has been buying Venezuelan oil and Trump made the blockade worse it's been harder to do anything and 400k Cubans have emigrated every year.

        Without the communist party at the helm and it's good governance things would be so, so much worse; but things are still bad for the average person.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          8 months ago

          That's deeply depressing.

          The War on Cuba by the Belly of the Beast Collective

          Executive produced by Oliver Stone and Danny Glover? No shit, I'll definitely check that out.