Cubans want freedom, Biden admin thinks they want vaccines

[TexasRules]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...cuba-protests/

Cubans take to the streets for the biggest anti-government protests in decades

Communist Cuba erupted in its largest-scale demonstrations in decades on Sunday as thousands of people chanting “freedom” and “yes, we can” took to the streets from Havana to Santiago de Cuba in a major new challenge to an authoritarian government struggling to cope with increasingly severe blackouts, food shortages and a spiking coronavirus outbreak.

The protests, from Havana’s famous Malecon to small towns and the island nation’s eastern cities, spoke to the power of social media, as well as discontent that has bubbled to the surface in the worsening pandemic, during which Cuba has already witnessed growing political protests led by artists and musicians. The protests on Sunday apparently started in the city of San Antonio de los Baños and spread rapidly as demonstrators shared their protests on Facebook Live. The demonstrations were so large that President Miguel Díaz-Canel, who succeeded Raúl Castro this year as first secretary of the Communist Party, called on Cuba’s “revolutionary” citizens to take to the streets.

The biden administration in response stated:

Peaceful protests are growing in #Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages. We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.

— Julie Chung (@WHAAsstSecty) July 11, 2021

https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/sta...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

How can you state this after watching videos of people chanting freedom and waving American flags? How can you not say anything about military police attacking citizens for assembling?

https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/st...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
This video doesn't sound like they are chanting for vaccines,

[postman1782]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...cuba-protests/

Cubans take to the streets for the biggest anti-government protests in decades



The biden administration in response stated:


https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/sta...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

How can you state this after watching videos of people chanting freedom and waving American flags? How can you not say anything about military police attacking citizens for assembling?

https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/st...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
This video doesn't sound like they are chanting for vaccines,

Are you thinking you did something here? Obama began opening relations with Cuba, Trump removed those relations. BLAME TRUMP, not Biden or Obama.

[bladeXcrasher]

Yes they do, lol.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...ba-2021-07-11/

[Milchshake]

I hear that mods like to change thread titles?

Cuban Protests Demand Freedom, Food, Covid-19 Vaccines
Thousands march in Havana and other cities amid a hard-currency shortage and rising coronavirus infections


They were also protesting police violence earlier in the year.

[s_bushido]

How can you not say anything about military police attacking citizens for assembling?

Sorry, buddy. Trump's cock-gobblers, who spent the last year demonizing people who were being routinely attacked by militarized US police while demonstrating, don't get to whine about this now.

[Gestopft]

How can you not say anything about military police attacking citizens for assembling?

Oh, the irony.

[Elegiac]

I see the conservative grift machine already has the target for America's next silly forever war in sight now that Afghanistan has been milked for all it's worth.

[Azadina]

Trump would have figured them wanting freedom = bombs falling.

[Kaleredar]

Oh, the irony.

I know the OP usually abandons his threads or posts immediately after flinging them haphazardly into existence, but I do have to wonder if it's ever dawned on him how laughably hypocritical pretty much everything he posts is.

Maybe that's why he never bothers responding.

[Elegiac]

You know you're fucked when you have to depend or wait on the government to fix the issue for you... (because they won't).

Dunno about that since I'm sitting pretty on two Moderna shots that were administered at no cost to myself, so.

You're literally paraphrasing Ronald Reagan, by the way.

[Draco-Onis]

You know you're fucked when you have to depend or wait on the government to fix the issue for you... (because they won't).

I can only assume the that you turned down the stimulus checks, your parents are not using any Medicare, medicaid and social security.

[Bodakane]

You know you're fucked when you have to depend or wait on the government to fix the issue for you... (because they won't).

When driving on a road, that tickle in the back of your skull, is your Hypocritecampus firing as fast as it can.

It also occurs when you call police or fire department. It also lights up when reading things or doing math, since you likely went to public school.

[JohnBrown1917]

Always funny how most media just ignored the bigger counter-protests.


Not to mention most of Cuba's problems are due to the US blockade, which why the media pushing this so much as a huge thing makes sense, gotta justify that shitty blockade, right?

[Cthulhu 2020]

Texasrules is bitching about the Biden administration with lots of misinformation to make it seem way worse than it actually is?

Oh man, I knew I read these forums for hot and engaging content.

/s

[shimerra]

Neoliberal media pushing the neoliberal agenda again and almost everyone else gobbling it up while thinking themselves informed.

The arch chair insurrectionist says as he parrots right wing media talking points.

[Milchshake]

The arch chair insurrectionist says as he parrots right wing media talking points.

Sorry, but it's going to be waay worse. I present to you patient zero for bad tankie/Assadist talking points...



How Ryan Grim is still a journalist, let alone the bureau chief for any outlet tells you a lot about meritocracy in media.

The way online tankies naturally assumes South American countries simply don't have any real domestic disputes is beyond paternalist. Sorry, but I just don't believe that constant blackouts and food shortages are enough to cause protests. /s

[Zan15]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...cuba-protests/

Cubans take to the streets for the biggest anti-government protests in decades

The biden administration in response stated:

https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/sta...rc=twsrc%5Etfw

How can you state this after watching videos of people chanting freedom and waving American flags? How can you not say anything about military police attacking citizens for assembling?

https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/st...rc=twsrc%5Etfw
This video doesn't sound like they are chanting for vaccines,

Umm did you miss the entire other part of the things he said about cuba on purpose?

"We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba's authoritarian regime," Biden said in a statement.

"The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves."


Oh right after 4 years of that man child you think the official word comes from a limited twitter character posting.....

[downnola]

Sorry, but it's going to be waay worse. I present to you patient zero for bad tankie/Assadist talking points...



How Ryan Grim is still a journalist, let alone the bureau chief for any outlet tells you a lot about meritocracy in media.

The way online tankies naturally assumes South American countries simply don't have any real domestic disputes is beyond paternalist. Sorry, but I just don't believe that constant blackouts and food shortages are enough to cause protests. /s

Why make an effort to investigate events happening in countries you've never stepped foot in yourself when you can just filter that information through Ben Norton or Max Blumenthal? Twitter is such a fucking dump, I hate it.

[JohnBrown1917]

The arch chair insurrectionist says as he parrots right wing media talking points.

Im pretty sure its exactly the right-wing media that keeps manufacturing consent on anything related to Cuba.


No idea why some people who actually understand the problems in Cuba would somehow trust the far right media on anything else is beyond me.

[shimerra]

Im pretty sure its exactly the right-wing media that keeps manufacturing consent on anything related to Cuba.


No idea why some people who actually understand the problems in Cuba would somehow trust the far right media on anything else is beyond me.

Yeah don't really care to get into that bullshit America's version of right vs left wing vs the world scale of right vs left. At this point even you have to know that's just a distraction/idiotic semantics argument that doesn't help your own arguments and irrelevant to your or my opinion on the subject.


I was simply pigging backing on the person correctly pointing out our local Arm-chair insurrectionist was parroting a common Right-wing talking point(or far right if you'd rather we call it that), correctly credited to Regan, and they regularly claim to be "left wing" while vomiting whatever the relevant talking point's from the "Far right" commentators in US media. They're also quite fond of calling for others to enact violence while being too chicken shit themselves to go out the house and made that painfully clear with their full throated support of the far-right, even by US standards, insurrectionists on Jan 6th.