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@DylanShandley @ComradeJak3 @Ginjitsu420 If you look at their renewable energy sector in recent years they have shown development above what the US or any capitalist nation could ever hope to replicate under a free market. Only through a planned economy could any country achieve that level of development

Because the success started the second they ditched Mao’s communism for capitalist market reforms, lol. Communism is the part that caused the famines and kept them poor for decades. The “capitalist” bits are why they’re not still there. Why *would* we adopt policies that kept one of the most economically and militarily strong countries on earth, in extreme poverty? They achieved their success *despite* the authoritarian system their under, not *because* of that shit, so why would we want to replicate it?

This kind of propaganda completely falls apart when you understand that ration cards were not a limit on how much food you could have. They were a guarantee of your basic necessities. You could still buy surplus food in addition to your rations.

A transnational Jewish-Italian mob network centered on Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante ran Cuba as a privatized extraction arm of US empire: gambling, laundering, narcotics, prostitution, political bribery. What the US could not openly run on its own border, the syndicate ran for it in Havana. Batista was on a $ 1.28-million-a-month retainer, delivered every Monday at noon. His development bank bankrolled half of every new mob casino. And this was not just gambling. Havana was a key node in the postwar heroin pipeline: Turkish opium, Marseille labs, Havana transshipment, New York distribution. By the late 1960s, that French Connection network supplied most of America’s heroin. Then Castro won. In January 1959 the casinos were smashed, the bosses fled or were detained, and Batista escaped with a fortune estimated around $300 million. The national lottery, once a graft channel, was converted into a housing fund. But the mob did not disappear. It was redeployed. Lansky’s lieutenant Doc Stacher later said Lansky offered to finance Castro’s assassination as early as 1959. By September 1960, the CIA was running the operation directly. The Agency hired Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante. The opening offer was $150,000. The weapon: poison pills from the CIA’s Technical Services Division. The 1975 Church Committee found concrete evidence of at least eight CIA plots against Castro between 1960 and 1965. The same Havana-Miami underworld that lost Cuba in 1959 became useful again as the deniable violence arm of US policy. Of the three mob figures the CIA hired, Giancana was murdered before he could testify to Congress. Rosselli was murdered after he did. Trafficante survived. The continuity is structural, not anecdotal: Tampa, Havana, Miami. Casinos became exile paramilitaries. Exile paramilitaries became lobby infrastructure. Jorge Mas Canosa, a Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA-radio figure, founded the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 at the suggestion of Reagan's advisors. It was modeled on AIPAC and built to harden Cuba policy permanently. The lobby's most famous operative was Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-trained, Bay of Pigs veteran, Iran-Contra contractor under Oliver North, perpetrator of the 1976 mid-air bombing of Cubana Flight 455 (73 dead) and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings. By 1998, he had publicly named Mas Canosa as his financier. He died free in Miami in 2018. They did not just lobby. They wrote the laws. 1992: Cuban Democracy Act. 1996: Helms-Burton. 2019: Trump activates Title III, letting US claimants sue foreign firms using confiscated Cuban property. Today the legal afterlife of Batista’s Cuba runs through federal court: hotel chains, expropriation claims, embargo law, and Miami political power. Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a product of that machine. When he says “freedom in Cuba,” hear the history underneath it: the old casino mobster class wants its island back

@eaccoon @bugmode Rats are also domesticated animals. I also feel like not wanting to touch a rat or a pigeon is a valid reason not to intervene

@bugmode Pigeons are domesticated animals, if you'll save a cat being eaten by a coyote save a pigeon being mauled. Takes a scumbag to watch a rat kill a pigeon and laugh abt it.

this video is the new york equivalent of a wildlife photographer not interfering with a hyena mauling a baby zebra

The Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arabian Gulf officially regarded the UAE as territory forcibly severed from Oman by colonial powers. It was the progressive position then, as it is today. The UAE is Omani territory.

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro Also why did Tudeh (Iranian communist party) release a joint statement with the CPUSA and the communist party of Israel? If I wanted to be taken seriously as a communist I would stay far away from either of those groups. And they contradicted the point you’re trying to make

@_papitofrito_ @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro So do you think the Iranian communists know less about their country than the Iranian bourgeoisie?

Ignoring the dumb fuck caption There are anarchists who will look you in your eye and say the proper anarchist response is to support this.

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro So it would seem the issues anarchists have with Iran is not independent to them. This line of thinking shows no prioritization and is only found amongst the Western left. The primary contradiction is US imperialism, Iran is one of few entities actively fighting against it

@_papitofrito_ @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro I’m not an anarchist dude I’m just pointing out that too broad of a stroke was painted of anarchists

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro I think anyone who says Iran should be overthrown at this moment of confrontation with the West is aiding the US State Department. Do you think the nonexistent Iranian communist revolution is more pressing than the Palestinian struggle which is being fought for currently?

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro It’s a position grounded in idealism, not reality. Iran has materially supported the PFLP and other communist groups. Despite ideological differences they aid Cuba without calling for regime change. Your “support” is calling for regime change without any actual material support

@_papitofrito_ @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro Iran being a dogshit regime is a BASIC Leninist position. I’m not an anarchist I’m just an actual Marxist unlike you. Talking about vibes based politics when you are no better than the anarchists you critique is crazy. “ruthless critique wall that exists except existing states”

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro Also we started this conversation discussing anarchist “support” of Iran. You claimed that yall “critically support” Iran then turned around and called them a “dogshit regime.” Anarchism is itself “vibes based”

@_papitofrito_ @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro Guy who thinks proletarian revolution only gets to happen in the imperial core. Some vibes based “communist” you are. You would have called Lenin a German agent. Tell me who gets to have a revolution? Nobody but NATO states? Our duty is our state as theirs is theirs

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro And my opinion is that of the PFLP, a communist group actively engaged in armed struggle

@_papitofrito_ @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro Btw my opinion is literally that of the Iranian communist party.

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro You claim to want worker revolution so you’ll cheer on color revolutions sponsored by CIA and Mossad. Saying they shouldn’t be invaded but also they should be overthrown is not “critical support,” it’s not any kind of support. These kinds of takes only serve US imperial interests

@_papitofrito_ @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro I mean it’s not really. Iran is a dogshit regime that should be toppled by its own workers, just as Ukraine and Russia are. You will find anarchists, Marxist, etc who are all campists

@elcumster @grimmmnm @EcoTechBro I’ve seen anarchists condemning the US invasion, but also regurgitating the US propaganda that was used as justification for said invasion. Which is literally probably the exact same analysis you would get from AOC, Sanders, or Mamdani. “Critical support” doesn’t mean centrism

@grimmmnm @EcoTechBro This seems to be a very broad brush. Anarchists tend to support Iran the same way they support Iran, critically and with the understanding they are countries being invaded.

@BrayForJade Couple that with his defeat over Italy and his statements in support of black liberation at the UN, it’s easy to see how people drew this conclusion. Also, they didn’t have the internet to see his expansionist ambitions and other problematic qualities (3/3)

@BrayForJade Ethiopia’s history directly refuted the idea that Christianity was new to Africa. Ethiopia had Christianity since 400 AD and Selassie was the last emperor of a dynasty known as the Solomonic dynasty. These emperors, including Selassie, claimed to be of king Solomons lineage (2/3)

The more I read about this man, the more I’m confused about why people worship him, much less a whole movement or what about him spoke to liberating black people. I feel like there’s a big part of his story I’m missing but idk where to get it.

@666_Ennnnnn2 @eshaLegal @MerriamWebster Usually but sometimes it can be pronounced silent. I’ve heard the name Juana pronounced like Wana instead of Hwana. Not sure if it’s a dialect thing or what

@eshaLegal @MerriamWebster In spanish J is pronounced as H.

'Marijuana' is the only English word in which the 'j' is silent.

@3Dalf @oodhamboi You’re gobbling dictator dick like it’s on the deal menu at Applebee

@_papitofrito_ @oodhamboi You literally support terrorist bud, your brain is cooked beyond recognition.

The “Edgar” haircut has immense Indigenous roots specifically in Mexico. It resembles the type of hairstyle worn by the Jumano peoples residing in what is now called-Texas/Mexico. The banning of Indigenous-inspired hairstyles calling it “discipline” mimics colonial authority.

@3Dalf @oodhamboi Slow down you might choke

@oodhamboi He’s the president of El Salvador bud, it’s not America he don’t give a fuck about your politically correct cry baby shit, he’s a man on a mission & I salute him👍🏼

@jayfeely @3Dalf I believe the word you were looking for is “abject.” But then again the average American adult reads at a 7th grade reading level. A perfect example why capitalism is always an abject failure

You could buy a grocery store for 2 million You could build a grocery store for 3 million And yet somehow, when the socialist government does it, it won’t open until 2029 and cost 30 million. Thank you for the perfect example why socialism is always an object failure