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US and Israel Only 'No' Votes as UN Members Demand End to 61-Year Cuba Embargo
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As an American, I'd like the US to end it's embargo on Cuba.
Well the US isn't a democracy so our votes don't matter.
Democracy index has it listed as a flawed democracy at 7.85. The cutoff for a hybrid regime is 6.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
"land of the free"
That which is pro-capitalist is utterly anti-democratic - so I wouldn't trust anything The Economist has to say about the subject.
Please explain. Seems to me like democracy is people having a roughly equal say in what the government does. (If it's a representative democracy, then though electing officials who will do so)
I have to explain this to you? Fine.
Do tell... how democratic is the place you work?
I don't work in the government, so it isn't.
People can freely travel to places like Saudi Arabia but somehow Cuba still on embargo
The difference is that Saudi dissidents aren't a significant voting block in any US state.
Still we've been attacked in multiple ways by the Saudis but not Cuba.
fuck the power of oil
Ahhh, but you see, Cuba is attacking the US with it's dangerous ideas - such as, for instance, the idea that you could not treat healthcare simply as a glorified scam to enrich billionaire parasites and nothing else.
That is far, far worse than people flying airplanes full of people into buildings full of people.
(/s - for the terminally bewildered)
Uhh, we have an embargo on being attacked by Cuba though.
You can thank the orange baby for cancelling all progress made by Obama, I'm surprised Biden didn't start normalizing relations again...
Biden is a warm blanket of piss of a Democrat, don't expect too much from his administration
I mean, by non-US Western standards the USA has never elected someone further left than center right so even Obama wasn't very progressive either...
I would argue that Carter was, he was even pro solar energy back during his presidency. He got screwed by the whiplash from previous administrations economic policy and got all the blame, so that really framed his time in office. It's only recently that people have really started looking at his tenure differently.
Just to add https://theconversation.com/jimmy-carter-in-cuba-46109
Yeah I guess he's the exception, too bad he was sandwiched between Ford and Reagan...
Tell that to a Republican voter and their heads would explode. "YOU'RE AN IGNORANT LIAR, ALL OF THE DEMOCRATS ARE COMMUNISTS!"
This is what they're told to think by the media they choose to consume. :/
I agree, there's little to no benefit in making an enemy out of Cuba.
There's a bunch of votes in Florida on the line. What I don't understand is why Democrats care, since they aren't getting most of them anyway.
That's only changed in the last few years, Florida was a swing state before that
Capitalism versus socialism.
No benefit at all, but I doubt the U.S. will be discussing much with Cuba unless they agreed to get rid of the Chinese base that was built there. Id rather it be lifted but it'll be staying for awhile.
Well, you see, the "good" part is that your opinion doesn't matter to the US government, if it makes you feel any better. Most Americans don't support many things, yet they still have to live with the decisions of a small elitist group that have hijacked power.
And instead of banding together and doing something about those evil motherfuckers, you all meekly submit to other rotting flesh bags who have no more right to rule over you than a sack of potatoes does.
They have no other choice, muh capitalism
So? There's no official language in the US, and there shouldn't be. People should be able to speak whatever language they want.