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The author needs to learn the difference between a blockade and an embargo. Cuba hasn’t been under blockade since the end of the missile crisis.

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It’s very much a blockade in practice since it prevents the vast majority of companies of any country from trading with Cuba.

There are very few companies that would survive competition by sacrificing trade with the nearby US to trade with Cuba instead the way the “embargo” forces them to.

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That’s an embargo.

A blockade is military stopping traffic. “Effectively a blockade” is an embargo.

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What worse can Orange buffoon do to the world. At least with him in the helm the world will understand the truth US doesnt care about anyone or anything but itself.

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Comments like this are one of a few things.

Bad faith, and useful idiots intentionally trying to keep people from wanting to go out and vote, which only helps MAGAts.

And dumbass, blind as shit privileged people who think nothing has changed in the last decade because you’re simply not part of the target groups yet.

Life is so much worse for so many people because of Trump and to pretend like it wouldn’t get worse with a second presidency (you know, the one where they intend to destroy democracy and the voting process and have said as much and have documents detailing how they plan to do it) is simply idiotic.

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Hell even on the issue of Cuba specifically, during his presidency Trump chose to undo the progress Obama had made. He has already made it worse

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2 points

guess making things worse is just his “modus operandi”

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14 points

He can, in fact, make a lot of stuff worse. And I promise you, he will if he gets the chance.

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16 points

He could also destroy the US, which would be a dramatic improvement for the rest of the world.

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8 points

In some ways, maybe. But I think a destruction of the US would also cause a lot of problems.

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Well for one, he’d make it worse for Americans, specfically women.

America often acts it’s own self interests which are going to run counter to the world sometimes. But if I am chosing between voting to benefit my fellow Americans or some other country… it’s gonna be America. I expect and witness the same from every other country as well.

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Toppling elected governments, propping up dictators, attacking countries without reason, suppoting terrorists all in the name of self interest.

Don’t feel bad if the world wishes the same to your country.

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We do and we dont. Almost 350 million people have differences of opinion quite frequently. Thankfully most of the world thinks our positives outweighs our negatives.

Either that or they are too weak to stop us in any meaningful way. We’ve seen how many genocides over the past few years from superpowers and no one does anything? Only way you’ll see a real check on America or China’s power is through a world War which everyone rightfully wants to avoid.

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This is the only map I can find where Israel disagrees with the US.

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Ah, the cracker index chart

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6 points

Ironic.

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29 points

Why is Israel voting against itself

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3 points

Why is Ukraine against?

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It’s had a nazi government since the 2014 coup

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4 points

lol why do you think?

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The proposal was submitted by the Russian Federation shortly after they attacked Ukraine, back when Russia was still claiming that “de-nazifying” Ukraine was the purpose of the invasion.

https://press.un.org/en/2022/gashc4365.doc.htm

Several delegates took to the floor to express concerns over Moscow’s attempt to exploit the pretext of combating neo-Nazism to justify its brutal war against Ukraine, with Ukraine’s delegate asserting that the draft has nothing in common with the genuine fight against Nazism and neo-Nazism. Echoing his concerns, the United Kingdom’s delegate stressed that the resolution is part of Moscow’s attempt to justify its aggression against Ukraine by furthering lies and distorting history.

The United States’ delegate called the resolution “a cynical attempt” of Moscow to further its geopolitical aims by invoking the Holocaust and Second World War. In the same vein, Australia’s delegate called Moscow’s weaponization of the Holocaust and Nazism unacceptable.

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12 points

Less so that they disagree and more so that it would damage their propaganda potential too much

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-15 points

hello how do i block a whole instance?

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4 points

Libs when confronted with anything that slightly challenges their worldview

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11 points

Just go back to reddit if even this is intruding on your echo chamber too much lmao

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nah i’m trying to read less about america and i found if i block all the china/russia/palestinian left wing progressives/hacks/activists the fediverse becomes quite a nice place

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9 points

Reddit and stormfront should be fascist enough for your tastes then. Just go back there. An open source community will naturally have slightly better people on average.

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2 points

If paradise is an empty room.

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I think some apps allow it, not sure though. You can also move to an instance defederated from .ml if that instance is more aligned with what you’d like to see. You can also just subscribe to communities and not browse “All.”

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23 points

Embarrassing country to live within, but Hitler talk and our genocidal crusaders state make us the evil of greater proportions now.

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