Jonathan Starling

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Normalize telling warmongering gusanos to shut the fuck up. US regime change interventionism is evil regardless of wherever your family happens to come from. Your family fleeing Cuba in the sixties does not magically make siege warfare and mass murder acceptable. Shut up.

"Some of the people’s leaders who come forward to lead the revolution have nowhere to lead the people, and revolution must be as fiercely against them as against the imperialists.” -C.L.R. James

all socialists should be learning from the tactics of the bolivian people and the indigenous communities there. they aren't just on strike, they're putting up roadblocks around the major cities, they're actually shutting the economy down.

I no longer feel a sense of relief when the US war machine shows signs of de-escalation, because these days it's just a sign they're getting ready to escalate somewhere else. If Washington sets up an MOU with Iran it only means they're preparing to regime change Cuba, with plans to re-target Iran using different strategies already being drawn up for a later date. It's like when you know a guy who always abuses his girlfriends. If you see one of his partners escape her abusive relationship, after a certain point you're going to stop feeling a sense of relief, because after watching the patterns play out over and over again you know he's just going to find some other unfortunate woman to put in that spot. The amount of abuse remains constant; all that changes is the victim. The violence of the US empire remains constant. It moves around, but it doesn't diminish. If you see it pulling back a bit, that only means it's preparing to come roaring back, like a wave to the shore. The tide of imperial violence is going to keep returning until the empire is dismantled.

Baristas literally spend their time in a steamy room pulling levers on dangerous machinery converting a raw commodity into a value added product for near minimum wage and yet every 2 months we decide that isn’t working class bc they have tattoos or something.

We’re actually having a strategy meeting tomorrow morning! Sanitizing U.S. imperialist violence through sport spectacle is👎🏾..The U.S. should not be hosting the World Cup.

One doesn't have to support everything that Cuba is. Nothing is free from criticism. However, many of the valid criticisms of Cuba are a direct result of decades of US aggression towards them, & right now it is a binary choice of defending Cuban independence or not.

Of course, think global & act local. And sometimes ones ability to act is constrained. There's very little I can do right now re Cuba. All the same, I'm watching. I'm thinking, I'm learning. I'll do what I can, even if it's to support others having more options to act later.

And I mean that not just spatially, but in the sense of intersectionality. Decolonisation has to be confront all power structures - race, sex, religion, class, psychology, sociology, etc. Everything.

One key lesson I learned from this was the importance of solidarity & not seeing things in isolation. Imperialism interconnects all things, & resistance to it has to similarly confront it universally.

In undergrad, as part of my anthropology half of ny degree, I studied linguistics & cultural anthropology through a prism of Latin America & the Caribbean. This involved reading lots of classic Latin American novels! One of my favorites was Hasipungo by Jorge Icaza.

Bro I cannot stop thinking about Cuba. an absolute giant of history, theyve done SO much for the whole world - Apartheid only fell in South Africa because Cuban troops went to fight the fascists in Angola!!! - and now they're abandoned, being strangled in front of us

Adding to this is legion. Reversing women's rights, disability rights, racist applications of aid, killing the planet, it just goes on. But it's not enough for so many who are only interested in convenience & shopping in NYC or partying in Miami...

I keep wondering where people's red lines are with the US. For me it was genocide & electing a fascist. We see them murdering fishermen, kidnapping a head of state, concentration camps, Jim Crow 2.0, illegal wars. I'm doubtful even death camps will be a red line for many.

I see Cuba very much like I see Haiti. They fought for their freedom, expelled the colonizers, & the colonizers have been punishing them ever since. You either stand for freedom or with the colonizer. Freedom is never free.

Honestly, I'm at the point that if I see that a local business is using AI for images, I'm gonna boycott it as much as is possible on a very small island.

The way we killed NFTs by not using them or buying into the hype, I feel like we could've done the same with AI. But people are lazy. They don't want to learn new skills. And now AI is more common than it ever should've been and killing the planet at a fast rate.

Cuba assiégée, martyrisée et maintenant directement menacée d'intervention militaire USA. Aucune aide française. La peur de Trump. Les pièces de rechange de la centrale électrique française sur place sont dans les conteneurs que CMA CGM de Saadé ne veut plus livrer. Pourtant, la France avait promis.

US media keeps using the phrase “heightened tensions with Cuba” to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone.