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Honestly its rude to be invited by a country to meet their president who decided to respond to your criticisms of their administration only to not show up and go meet the opposition.

Being invided and then no showing shows complete disregard to basic diplomatic Etiquette since it was a mission to show solidarity against the embargo

Bonus socdems being cringe part 4.5: about another member that didnt show up to the presidential meeting

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Deeply unserious people

  • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    But there is a second aspect of the crisis which we did not focus on during this delegation: a crisis of political legitimacy. Cuba’s government is a regime where decision-making power rests in the hands of the Central Committee of the PCC (the only legal political party) alongside its bureaucracy while the elected legislature is a disempowered rubber-stamp committee. Legally recognized mass organizations we met with on this delegation, like the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, Federation of Cuban Women, and the Workers’ Central Union of Cuba, are loyal to the bureaucracy, while independent political organizing is repressed.

    This is from that "comrade" who skipped the meeting with the president. Tells you all you need to know about them. The DSA didn't focus on this "second aspect" but she really wanted to hijack the trip and make it about this instead of the blockade, so she pulled some immature stunt to get attention for her idealist bullshit

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      7 months ago

      Bloviating about your concerns and then refusing to meet with the President of the fucking country to address those very concerns shows that it’s just a bad faith stunt to put yourself on a pedestal above the unclean impure real-life socialist country that has to deal with matters of practical governance.

      Vague critiques of “authoritarianism” betray a total lack of understanding as to the functioning of literally any state on the planet.

      The whole “how can you criticize X when they’ve been doing things in real life while you just sit there with your stupid books”, aside from being presumptuous, is just bog standard anti-intellectualism that friend of the site Roderic Day does a much better job of taking apart than me.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        friend of the site Roderic Day does a much better job of taking apart than me.

        I thought people were joking about that until I saw him actually talking about hexbear and saying our doomers are dooming too much

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      7 months ago

      You saw the other comment I made about if I pulled a diplomatic faux pas like that I would want to resign out of embarrassment?

      I really hope she feels embarrassment on a whole different magnitude