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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/RepMariaSalazar/status/1460259044879486976?s=20
Congress posting their Ls.

https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1460352152396828672?s=20
It sucks when you really promote an event for weeks and no one shows up.

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ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
give me a freak in an uncle sam getup with no pants or something at least jfc

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
lol there's more protesters on the steps of the capitol building than in all of cuba

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

vyelkin posted:

lol there's more protesters on the steps of the capitol building than in all of cuba

I saw a clip of some guy who put an anti cuban government sign outside his house in cuba and he was getting yelled at by his neighbors.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/melaniejoly/status/1460355737432039425?s=20

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I saw a clip of some guy who put an anti cuban government sign outside his house in cuba and he was getting yelled at by his neighbors.

was that the one which said "I am under blockade in my home"

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Atrocious Joe posted:

was that the one which said "I am under blockade in my home"

That might have been the one. He sounded like he was crying too.

Lustful Man Hugs
Jul 18, 2010

You know, I actually expected the protests to be at least slightly less pathetic than this.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I mean what were they even protesting.

I’ve heard about freedom but you need something concrete to hang it on

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

probably the internal security in cuba has indeed been cracking down on this, but if there was a huge groundswell of popular support for the protest you'd expect to see more than two awkward-looking guys on a square somewhere regardless of crackdowns

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

oh hang on were they literal clowns i thought she was being pejorative lol

Honky Mao
Dec 26, 2012

CharlestheHammer posted:

I mean what were they even protesting.

I’ve heard about freedom but you need something concrete to hang it on

Nothing bc nobody showed up, just another in an amazingly long line of really bad attempts by the US govt to destroy Cuba

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

SorePotato posted:

Nothing bc nobody showed up, just another in an amazingly long line of really bad attempts by the US govt to destroy Cuba

I mean that’s my point. if you want people to show up you got to give them something

Ghost of Mussolini
Jun 26, 2011

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Cross posting from the Eurasia thread

Very cool post and pics

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/RepMariaSalazar/status/1460259044879486976?s=20
Congress posting their Ls.

https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1460352152396828672?s=20
It sucks when you really promote an event for weeks and no one shows up.

Bigger turn out in DC than Havana

John Charity Spring
Nov 4, 2009

SCREEEEE

V. Illych L. posted:

oh hang on were they literal clowns i thought she was being pejorative lol

yep just two actual clowns performing there

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/mjorgec1994/status/1460072423059984388?s=20

quote:

They have been kidnapping our symbols for more than 60 years ... I am not surprised that they are tarnished in this way ... images for history !!
#VergüenzaNacional #15NCuba
Posting your L's online

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/RepMariaSalazar/status/1460259044879486976?s=20
Congress posting their Ls.

https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1460352152396828672?s=20
It sucks when you really promote an event for weeks and no one shows up.

everyone is too terrified of the clowns having communist havana rays like in that bond movie with the soviet clown assassin

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!

https://twitter.com/FartCrab/status/1460397791918837766

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 20 days!)

V. Illych L. posted:

oh hang on were they literal clowns i thought she was being pejorative lol

the clowns are more popular than overthrowing the government

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

oh yeah wasn't that protest supposed to be today? weird how theres no photos of protesting crowds anywhere

They're all slightly offscreen making ls

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

MonsieurChoc posted:

My mp. :negative:

She posted a smiling selfie of when she met Henry Kissinger at some point.

https://twitter.com/PalestineTurtle/status/1459865361520672770

powell too lol

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

Canada's main export is imperialist girl bosses

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
who's that rear end in a top hat in the back

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Atrocious Joe posted:

Canada's main export is imperialist girl bosses

It's a value-add on its main import, Ukrainian fascists.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Atrocious Joe posted:

Canada's main export is imperialist girl bosses

The nazi to girlboss pipeline.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

US officials have been hyping up today for months, but now that nothing has happened they're silent.

Except for celebrating the new sanctions on Nicaragua
https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/status/1460415380393009154?s=20

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

https://twitter.com/roun_sa_ville/status/1460366244046163968

:allears:

Crusader
Apr 11, 2002


how long can cuba keep up this brutal response

quote:

On Sunday, a leader of the movement, Yunior García Aguilera, had planned to march alone holding a white rose, but government supporters prevented him from leaving his house, videos posted on Facebook show. At one point, he peeked through the blinds of his apartment window with a white flower in his hand — until someone on a higher floor lowered a huge Cuban flag, blocking the view.

“This community is not going to allow a media show,” one of Mr. García’s neighbors shouted in his face, according to a video posted on Facebook.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Lol I hate her so much.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.


Who's this for, who's going to be swayed into demanding a color revolution that wasn't already for it

zetamind2000 has issued a correction as of 03:59 on Nov 16, 2021

brugroffil
Nov 30, 2015


Atrocious Joe posted:

US officials have been hyping up today for months, but now that nothing has happened they're silent.

Except for celebrating the new sanctions on Nicaragua
https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/status/1460415380393009154?s=20

Does anyone actually buy this rhetoric? I get posturing for global political purposes etc but does anyone take these stances as genuine? The US loving loves dictators that don't even make pretenses at democracy in plenty of places.

AnEdgelord
Dec 12, 2016

brugroffil posted:

Does anyone actually buy this rhetoric? I get posturing for global political purposes etc but does anyone take these stances as genuine? The US loving loves dictators that don't even make pretenses at democracy in plenty of places.

it doesn't matter if anyone buys it, the US just needs some sort of plausible fig leaf to carry out its imperial project

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

brugroffil posted:

Does anyone actually buy this rhetoric? I get posturing for global political purposes etc but does anyone take these stances as genuine? The US loving loves dictators that don't even make pretenses at democracy in plenty of places.

on any statement like that you can basically find/replace "democracy and human rights" with "US interests and capitalism".

and tbh it makes perfect sense in the Cold War worldview that the Washington blob has never exited. They are the leader of the "democratic" side of the world, so anything that's good for the US is good for "democracy" and anything that's bad for the US is bad for "democracy" even if it's democratic. Your country elected a socialist? Well that's democratic but it's bad for "democracy" so we'd better murder them and replace them with a military dictator, this may seem undemocratic but only to the uninitiated, twenty years of military repression that results in a capitalist country joining the "democratic" side of the world is a win for "democracy" in the long run.

this worldview didn't end in 1991, the US just extended this paradigm to cover the entire world. honestly most of the time they aren't even consciously bullshitting, they are true believers who honestly think that they are doing what's right for democracy and justice even as they overthrow democratically elected leaders and put monsters in their place

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017
Probation
Can't post for 11 hours!

Crusader posted:

everyone is too terrified of the clowns having communist havana rays like in that bond movie with the soviet clown assassin

Why was this guy not in Goldeneye

30.5 Days
Nov 19, 2006

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Why was this guy not in Goldeneye

the communism eyebeams were actually bright red

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/RepMariaSalazar/status/1460259044879486976?s=20
Congress posting their Ls.

https://twitter.com/medeabenjamin/status/1460352152396828672?s=20
It sucks when you really promote an event for weeks and no one shows up.

More US Congresspeople showed up to protest the Cuban government than Cubans

Shocker. Don't you fucks have legislating you're supposed to be doing?

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

zetamind2000 posted:

Who's this for, who's going to be swayed into demanding a color revolution that wasn't already for it

It's for the quarterly activity report. Funding agencies like those.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/YassifyBot/status/1460344354476802055

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

genericnick posted:

It's for the quarterly activity report. Funding agencies like those.

they keep getting completely owned by the cuban internal intelligence service, though

also by the cuban government seemingly still having genuine support among the broad masses of its people

that looks terrible on quarterly reports!

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genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

V. Illych L. posted:

they keep getting completely owned by the cuban internal intelligence service, though

also by the cuban government seemingly still having genuine support among the broad masses of its people

that looks terrible on quarterly reports!

?? The results are measured in NYT opeds though?

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