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@sudogrot @AtlasLGBT At the end of the day, it really wouldnt have mattered even if your initial false claim that its unnatural is true, because nature is not related to morality. Gay people objectively don't hurt anyone else, and don't hurt themselves. Case closed morally.

@sudogrot @AtlasLGBT And 2) falls apart because many animals are gayer than we are. After that's pointed out, you point at an example of stuff we see as immoral and gross occurring like a mother bunny eating her babies or something and say not all what happens in nature is good.

@NegativeN11926 @kunley_drukpa You do realize all market economies have many government sectors, yet we still call them market economies. Planning works a lot better in a decentralized and democratized fashion, but i do agree some luxury goods work better in markets. Good thing we have worker cooperatives.

@mepply @kunley_drukpa "planned economy" and "private businesses" are incompatible, just by definition

WHAT CUBA IS LIKE AT THE MOMENT AND HOW LIKELY IT IS TO COLLAPSE 🇨🇺 With rolling blackouts in Cuba and Communist concessions towards opening up the country’s economy you could credibly think the Havana government is on the verge of finally collapsing. In retrospect, based on my time there last year, there was a read of the situation where there was always an inevitability that things were eventually going to come to a head, since the situation was so bad already Let me just describe the conditions in 2025. Havana itself, in the downtown and especially near the tourist area yes it is quite dilapidated, litter strewn everywhere etc - but also it was basically fine in the sense you can get everything you need as a tourist; a nice AirBnb, a nice meal, internet and even money despite the island nominally being disconnected from the international banking system. Watch out for scams but you won’t really be in any physical harm, it isn’t unsafe - it just smells and none of the women look anything like Ana de Armas except maybe if you go in two or three very specific highend bars and restaurants Thereafter though Cuba excepting tourist areas like Varadero (which were basically fine) was a mess. For example, many cities you visited outside of Havana the lights would almost always be out at night. You walk around and there are a few houses with electricity but they’re running their lights on a generator. So you have a majority of the population sitting around in darkness every day after the sun sets at about 6:30pm. Then of course nobody has any money because of communism. A large but necessary black market for everyday goods. You get really rural (difficult because of the fuel shortages) and there were even apparently problems with diseases like cholera and typhoid because of sanitation and infrastructure problems. This is on top of the epidemics of tropical diseases that exist in Cuba. Some 10-15% of Cuba’s entire population left since 2020 alone Thought at the time firstly what a shitshow and then secondly how impressive in a roundabout way it was the state hadn’t imploded yet. But you know that’s to the point - you can have blackouts for weeks on end, the return of pre-modern diseases in the countryside or whatever but the whole thing can still just limp on. Indefinite ‘Enshittification’ so-called On top of this the Trump admin’s recent Venezuela intervention cut the limited oil supply Cuba already had and the Iran strikes signalled they may possibly be prepared to remove Cuba’s leaders. Does this mean the regime is going to come to an end soon? As far as I am concerned the state Cuba is in presently is indefensible but of course now it seems like they might get oil supplies from two major latino socialista countries - Sheinbaum’s Mexico and Sanchez’s Spain. Which is a revealed preference obvious ideological commitment from those countries given just how materially irredeemable actually existing Cuban communism is (which we knew they had anyway but still) Don’t want to predict whether communism in Cuba definitely will or won’t fall but will say it is not impossible that it doesn’t fall yet as dire as the situation is simply because ‘these things’ can unfortunately just go on indefinitely. You have some Mexican or Spanish oil, you open the market up to some modest reforms and suspicion is despite everything you can last a while longer yet At the same time, I visited Assad’s Syria at the end of the Civil War, before the surprise Al-Jolani blitzkrieg - and while the country seemed totally exhausted it did also seem possible at the time Assad had ‘won out’. Turns out though all it needed for ‘regime change’ was a little push. Nobody had any energy for a fight anymore so they just gave up and rolled over. I say little push, in the Syria case more like a heavily armed and highly motivated militia. Maybe in the Cuba case too, who knows. Point being despite the conditions it is unlikely to collapse of its own accord internally

@Pepin_cu @katewillett In apartheid south africa, whites voted and there was an opposition. It is still a fact that South Africa was not a democracy because a liberal democracy cannot be built in a society where the indigenous population are second class citizens who cant vote. Like in israel.

Idiot, in Israel people vote and there is opposition; even Netanyahu has opposition, and many Israelis are against the war and can express it. Idiot. In Israel, people of different religions live—Arabs, Christians, and Jews. And in Cuba, there haven’t been real elections since 1959; there is only one political party, and dissent is persecuted to death or exile.

We are going to Cuba

@kunley_drukpa And cuba itself knows that central planning is inefficient. It's been trying to move into a worker cooperative and decentralized planned economy with some small private businesses. But it literally cant be done under the embargo, the us dollar is the world currency.

@kunley_drukpa Gibberish. Cuba has been under an embargo for more than 60 years. I dont agree with central planning, many communists want other systems of organizing the economy in the hands of the working class. BUT central planning historically did a lot better than what cuba is today.

@Pepin_cu @katewillett The "country" in your flag literally oes not allow the second class citizens (Palestinians) to vote. It is not a democracy, its an apartheid state. Even cuba, the authoritarian country, allows all its citizens to vote in the local elections.

@katewillett Are you going to Cuba to support the people or the dictatorship?

Anti leftist gays are always not queer. Queerness is inherently leftist. And this person, who is a cuban rightist who blames the government entirely for cuba's issues and not the embargo is certainly not queer. What a pig.

@kp556x45 @righteousgin @ryangrim Taiwan is relatively far more free and woke than china. Both are capitalist nations, only one is a dictatorship that is passing "ethnic hegemony" laws. So in your scenario, the confederate would be woke. I would not support that invasion, would you?

@righteousgin @ryangrim If the confederate states ran to Cuba in 1865 and maintained they were the legitimate government to this day i would support forcibly reunifying them into the union, too.

You cannot consolidate the progressive vote today while saber-rattling war with China. That era is over.

@Yaoi_is_XY Scrolled through your account what level of mental illness is this

@juIesupremacy @venturekisser Its not misogyny kiriko just sucks ass. Everyone likes tracer, and she has a shitton of skins. It's not about her being a female. It's about her hollow personality, terrible and inconsistent lore, and the general unlikability of her corporate designed vibe. She just sucks lmao

are y’all gonna make noise about these men getting a ton of skins just wondering

@YunaanBanaanaa @sethrys Cuz one is from what is meant to be sparta and another is meant to be Athens. Its different kingdoms, like different areas. It's also not a brute stereotype, he's actually very intelligent and as a poc i never once felt this was that kinda situation

@sethrys I'm lowkey too woke, I haven't read the captive prince because why the dark skinned Asia minor ethnic character has to be the big burly brute warrior prince and the white blonde has to be the educated dainty fem prince. Like switch the roles if ur a real one. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

These two were destined for each other

@TheeJustinMason @Justanavrage @JosephineDocma Word salad. It's not "emotional stakes", a movie is meant to comment on social issues. It's a fact that more deforestation, more environmental destruction will lead to worse outcomes. Painting a compromise being good between environmentalists and fossil fuel CEOs is asinine.

@mepply @Justanavrage @JosephineDocma K, you tell me which side is evil: the person with emotional stakes tied to a place and using animals as tools for their own emotional preservation or the person with emotional stakes tied to a position using shameful tactics to remain in that position? Where's the literacy?

Spoilers: the climax is a liberal environmentalist befriending the rich major who was going to destroy the habitat she wanted to protect to build a freeway while the animal who was going to kill him is revealed as the true villain of the movie.

@Justanavrage @JosephineDocma 1 side is good, the other is evil. If you make "compromises", you legitimize the evil side as a valid position to have. It's not, environmental destruction is bad.

@JosephineDocma I don’t really see an issue in both sides coming to a compromise

@FruityTa3meya @kevztus I lived in qatar most of my life. These are adults, with reasonable intelligence. Being forced to stay quiet and pretending the religion isn't oppressive are two different things

@mepply @kevztus You live in canada bro. Have some empathy for the rest of us who are still living in Muslim countries and suffering from religion. I'm not even Muslim anymore and idc about religion but beating people when they're already down doesn't help them

”Struggles with homosexuality” I cannot explain how much I f**king hate religious people and religion. Religion brainwashes these dumb people to think shit like this. Makes even gay people themself think being gay is apparently a ”struggle”. F**k off

@FruityTa3meya @kevztus I grew up in a muslim household and i'm a gay man. I can tell you that that cancer of a religion deserve no respect nor validation. They are struggling cuz they were indoctrinated into thinking what they are is a sinful disease, fuck yall

@kevztus I love how you're all here on your high horses thinking you're better than them. Being raised with Islam/in a muslim country is an experience most of you know nothing about. They are struggling and i hope one day they'll be able to love, accept themselves and be happy

@IfYouReHaPyCLAP Genuinely Insane to draw this at any point in time lmfaoo.

Yo fuckers I drew this before the war and I'm drawing whatever I want so hush

@CramerEcramer @ekwatts1 @AlanRMacLeod People can die without being killed. The purpose is to remove intent and culpabilit

@mepply @ekwatts1 @AlanRMacLeod And when someone is killed they “die” which is what it says.

A perfect example of the double standards in media. 🇮🇱🇵🇸

@ekwatts1 @AlanRMacLeod Its not an English essay, if someone's killed you say someone's killed

@AlanRMacLeod Is it? Is it not more likely that the headline writer didn't want to repeat the same word twice in the same sentence?