Her tweet isn't aimed at us. It's aimed at the people replying to her:
Considering the Cubans are being oppressed by an authoritarian regime, an embargo is the best option. Sure, it hurts the people but it hurts the government more. It’s a easier way to bring them to the table.
The embargo doesn’t restrict food & medical supplies.
The sixty years of suffering in Cuba has been caused by socialism a system that promises utopia and delivers violent repression. Also you fail to voice support for accepting the Cubans trying to flee the Cuban regime.
I agree that the US embargo WAS a mistake, it remains a mistake, but you don't want to end it right now when it's so close to achieve its goal, it WAS the wrong policy, but right now the regime is almost finished, lifting the embargo would give them a speed boost. PLEASE, DON'T
What you're not seeming to piece together is that the regime will simply steal whatever comes in. Ending the embargo would only benefit the party. This is a feature of the communist system. Furthermore, the embargo doesn't restrict food and medical aid and hasn't since 2000.
The problem is not the embargo but the brutality of the regime which needs to go.
The embargo is not the author of the cruelty, the authoritarian regime is. But there is one solution to both problems. Free, open, fair elections in Cuba will also result in the end of the embargo.
I love you for your heart @RepAOC @AOC I will always support you but I’m afraid the embargo is the smallest tip of the iceberg and ultimately is not phasing the Cuban people as much as it is their oppressive tyrannical govt.
You do understand that Cuba can trade with any other country in the world right? Each and every one of them. China, Europe, Russia of course… all of them. They can’t pay their bills but they CAN trade w them.
Sorry, deeply sorry, but you're wrong. There's no other way to say it to you. US embargo is not the main reason and will never be. Cuban people lives under a dictatorship, and we, the Cuban people, claim for FREEDOM. Spread the word!!!
Cubans know about the embargo but can you hear them asking for the embargo to finish or they begging for freedom and help from the U.S government? My people ask for freedom!!!
I mean, AOC's tweets are never aimed at us and I don't think anyone thought they were? AOC is appropriating the socialist label for her SocDem positions, she doesn't communicate with or consider socialists at all in her messaging.
The libs who simultaneously propagated warhawk talking points while saying, "let's not invade Iraq" got the same response, failed to coherently oppose the war build-up, by the way. The classic anti-communist ineffective peacenik that says, "the North Vietnamese are horrible monsters doing unconscionable things that must be stopped but let's get out of 'Nam but also I'll vote for your war budget".
Best case scenario, some ignorant libs learn that the blockade even exists even exists and then do some research.
PS not calling anyone out, but it's useful to remember that "embargo" is the empire's preferred euphemism and it allows for belief that it's just preventing US trade with Cuba. It is actually enforced on trade between Cuba and other countries as well and makes heavy use of US IP monopolies, so it's more of a blockade. It prevents entire classes of medicines and technologies and industrial parts from being traded with Cuba.