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@MattWalshBlog I usually agree with you and always speak highly of you. But this is a shitty take. So someone who is suffering should only have the option to kill themselves by their own hand? That’s cold.

If suicide is “death with dignity” then how exactly is it more dignified to be put down like a dog in some sterile room after filling out paper work than to simply do it yourself completely on your own terms without dragging any accomplices into it and asking permission ahead of time? Again, I absolutely categorically unequivocally reject the idea that any form of suicide is dignified. I am anti-suicide in any iteration whatever. I’m just pointing out that even if you accept the extraordinary premise that suicide can be more dignified than a natural death, it still wouldn’t follow that euthanasia should be legalized. Societies across the world, even back in ancient times, have believed (wrongly) in committing suicide to preserve dignity and honor. But in all of those cases — seppuku in Japan, for example — the thing that supposedly made it honorable and dignified was that you were doing it by your own hand, often in a way that was deliberately MORE painful than a natural death would have been. Ours is the first society in history to suggest that being euthanized clinically in the exact way that stray dogs are put down — and by someone else’s hand, not your own — is the dignified way to go out. It’s totally incoherent. It fails even by its own logic.

All of the arguments for euthanasia fail. Even if I agreed that people have some kind of moral right to kill themselves (which I don’t), euthanasia wouldn’t be needed to exercise that “right.” You can already kill yourself. The idea that people need some kind of state sponsored system just to commit suicide is totally incoherent, even on its own terms. And those term are totally deranged because in truth, again, there is no moral right to suicide. But that’s almost a separate question, or at least a question further downstream. When it comes to euthanasia, the first and most immediate question is not whether people have the right to kill themselves, but whether the STATE and the MEDICAL INDUSTRY have the right to kill people. Should doctors be in the business of deliberately killing human beings? Should we have a bureaucracy for suicide? These are the real questions. And even if you (wrongly) think that humans have a moral right to murder themselves, you should still be able to see why doctors and bureaucrats ought to have no role in it.

@WH_NursingStaff @Osint613 Not communism at all?

That’s not quite the entire story. Buying oil and infrastructure requires money. We’ve had a boot on Cuba’s neck since the 60’s and don’t allow Americans to spend money there. They have some of the most pristine coral reefs remaining in the Caribbean. Allowing Americans to scuba there would revive the entire island.

Marco Rubio: "Everybody talks about these blackouts. Cuba’s been having blackouts all of last year, all the year before. There isn’t a naval blockade surrounding Cuba. The reason why Cuba doesn’t have oil and fuel is because they want it for free, and people don’t give away oil and fuel for free on a regular basis. The reason they’re having blackouts is because they have equipment from the 1950s and 60s that they never maintained or kept up."

@EmbaCubaUS @nytimes “Production of medicine has been mostly halted because factories run on diesel.” False. Propaganda at its finest. You should be ashamed. In 1995, Cuban hospitals were using syringes from the 70s and having to wash latex gloves after every use. Blaming the blockade is a silly lie.

⚕️🇨🇺 @nytimes "Cuban Patients Are Dying Because of U.S. Blockade, Doctors Say. In interviews, six Cuban doctors said that rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics across Cuba were causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable. The blockade’s effects are cascading through the system. Hospitals are canceling surgeries and sending patients home because doctors and nurses can’t commute to work. Clinics are struggling to administer treatments like chemotherapy and dialysis because of power outages. Production of medicine has been mostly halted because factories run on diesel. Vaccine makers are searching for ingredients because flights that once carried them are canceled because of a lack of jet fuel." 📸Jorge Luis Baños nytimes.com/2026/03/26/wor…

@bellybeastcuba @EmbaCubaUS Danny Valdes is a dumbass and part of the problem. Communist sympathizer. Patria y Vida!!!

“Not in our name,” says Danny Valdes, a Cuban American organizer who recently visited the island to bring humanitarian aid and rejects the hard-liner policies imposed by politicians like Marco Rubio. Watch full video, join live briefings and more: patreon.com/cw/Bellyoftheb…

@marcorubio If you don’t know now you know. I’m the granddaughter of Cuban exiles. We don’t “visit” Cuba. We lost it. Our families were labeled traitors and banned. Please don’t give up on this. This feels like our last chance. #cubalibre #patriayvida

@EmbaCubaUS @nytimes They’re dying because the regime is keeping the lights on for @codepink

@Azel_OhWell @EYakoby aka ‘gaslighting’

@EYakoby "In today's news, wealthy narcissistic capitalist demonstrates cognitive dissonance by confusing the concept of 'making the best of a terrible situation' with 'loving when bad things happen to you."

Hasan Piker claims Cubans don’t mind frequent blackouts, attributing it to a so-called “fun island mindset.”

@TeddiAthena You are grossly uninformed. Please remove this ignorant comment. The spokesperson for these disgusting individuals known as the regime publicly said that NOTHING will change the regime. Business was booming is laughable. This has to be spam.

I have been to Cuba several times & was there after Obama lifted several sanctions. Business was booming, hotels & restaurants packed, people were making $$. Along came trump. No one can tell me that US sanctions have nothing to do with the economic problems in Cuba.

@My2Cents0101 @ScooterCasterNY Communist sympathizer. Get the fuck out of here. Move to Cuba!!!

@ScooterCasterNY Trump caused this! This isn't because of the Cuban government. WTF is wrong with you? 🤔

“When is Trump coming?” is the question I heard most often while in Havana Cuba, observing daily life and the hardships many people face. Many Cubans spoke about wanting libertad. They described freedom from repression and real change. People spoke about how they struggle to obtain water and basic necessities, shortages of affordable food, gasoline largely sold on the black market for about $8 per liter, widespread housing decay with many families living in crumbling buildings, and overnight lines at banks and ATMs as crowds wait for withdrawals limited to about $20. Despite the conditions, people were incredibly warm, generous, and eager to have their voices heard. One man said to me, "I'm willing to die for freedom." He explained that it's important for him to speak up and not hide in fear. I’ll be posting the footage and interviews over the next few days.

@ScooterCasterNY Patria y Vida 🇨🇺 estoy con mis hermanos y hermanas. Libertad!!!!

@socks98230 Because of your lived experience or because of words you read in a book? You are invalidating all that I lived and witnessed. I feel sorry for you. You are anti-humanity and have made that very clear by essentially telling me that my lived experience does not matter.

@PinkIsTherapy Your experiences are very real, I don't deny that. I am saying your analysis, critique, and conclusions are incorrect.

Anti-intellectualism is a cancer in our society, every effort should be made to counter it. (you also usually can't argue people out of positions with rational facts and logic cf. below).

@codepink You are disgusting.

This is abhorrent. The US has sent 30,000 barrels of oil exclusively to private businesses in Cuba. Meanwhile, thousands of patients in Cuban hospitals are at risk of dying during blackouts. Tens of thousands are on surgery waitlists.

@socks98230 @muaddibseid @medeabenjamin I don’t need to. Experience means more than words. I know what happened. I know what is happening. You never will. And neither will Aviva Chomsky 🖕

@PinkIsTherapy @muaddibseid @medeabenjamin No. You can read "A history of the Cuban Revolution" by Aviva Chomsky if you want to learn more. Or you can watch a well-sourced video that critiques everything you said youtube.com/watch?v=dWTDXK…

Rick Scott says our trip to bring humanitarian aid to Cuba was “disgusting.” The policies he supports starve the people, block all fuel imports, and cause severe shortages in the healthcare system. We did our best to take all his questions, but it doesn't seem like he liked the answers.

@socks98230 @muaddibseid @medeabenjamin Did you get this off Wikipedia?

@PinkIsTherapy @muaddibseid @medeabenjamin Uh huh sure. Here's some reading about how Cuba was doing better when it had trading partners. Cuba has problems with its government but they are not the main cause of its suffering. Almost like it's current problems are a result of the embargo. x.com/overzealots_/s…

@Phamtast1cal @codepink The took SOLAR PANELS, don’t worry!! That’s how clueless they are!!!

@codepink Where's your medicine? Where's your aid? What had you brought over to Cuba to actually help the people: some painting materials to create a mural? Yeah, because that'll keep the lights on and the people fed

“We support the Cuban people” but what does that actually mean? To us, it means bringing medicine, showing up, and standing in solidarity. To Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, it means defending a policy that cuts off oil, shuts down hospitals, and pushes an entire country deeper into crisis. She shouts “freedom” while taking away people’s basic rights.

@codepink YOU ARE A DANGER TO THE COUNTRY AND THE CUBAN PEOPLE!!!! You should be ashamed making a mockery of human beings. Communist sympathizers. Go live there!!!!!

@JillianMichaels Get rid of this group! How can we defund them? Spread awareness! They are making a mockery of the Cuban people!!!

As Cuba’s power grid collapses, the Cuban people are enduring blackouts and uncertainty. Meanwhile, Code Pink activists arrived under the banner of humanitarianism — only to safely lodge at a beautiful hotel while the nation around them crumbles.

@OliLondonTV DON’T GO!!!! Defund these people!!!

Medea Benjamin says she wants to debunk ‘lies’ and “myths” around Code Pink’s Cuba trip. People said ‘you stayed in luxury hotels.’ We stayed in one of the only four hotels that the U.S. government allowed us to stay in and they are all fancy hotels.”

@jammles9 @SenRickScott Who pays these morons?

@PinkIsTherapy @SenRickScott They’re paid too much.

Medea Benjamin, co founder of Code Pink, just went on and fed @SenRickScott a completely different version of that Cuba trip. If this was really about “humanitarian aid,” where is it? No footage, no clips, nothing showing them actually handing anything out. But there are plenty of posts showing people in that group staying in hotels that U.S. policy specifically flags because the money goes straight back to the Cuban government. And every time that gets brought up, she just sidesteps it and moves on.