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🇨🇺 Let Cuba Live 🇨🇺

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this is your daily reminder that it's been over 65 years since cuba overthrew batista's US-backed fascist dictatorship and the US is STILL keeping cuba in extreme poverty using an "embargo."

back in the 1950s, using US funds and US-trained soldiers, batista (not castro) removed most of cubans' rights, including the right to strike, censored all media, and used secret police to torture and publicly excute anyone who protested his dictatorship. In a document released by the CIA in 2005, it stated as many as 20,000 people were killed. In return, batista gave control of most of the arable land to the US. during the revolution, this land was reclaimed and redistributed, which means that USAmericans can now sue anyone who "traffics" in this "confiscated" property.

Despite US sanctions being an "embargo," the US also fines foreign companies for doing business in Cuba, meaning it's effectively a blockade. Despite Obama lightening some of these restrictions, Biden has done little to undo the tightened policies from Trump's administration.

In November, the UN called for the 31st time (!!!) for the US blockade to end, supported by 187 countries and opposed only by the US and its bestest buddy (I'll let you guess who).

Cuba has been in economic crisis for years. Monthly income in Cuba is $30-60. There is very little food and it is hard to purchase anything like toiletries, clothes, and over-the-counter medicines. Domestic production is down because they don't have the resources to sustain them. The US has been intentionally impoverishing and starving Cuba for decades, and they continue to make it clear that it is not going to stop.

So, yeah. US democracy is a joke, end the US blockade on Cuba, and fuck genocide joe.

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eerna

The amount of discourse Cait is generating in the Arcane tag is so JUICY man. I love it when women are evil and make people mad. It feels like we're back to the good old Catra days...........

I've missed this <3

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I know!! I can't help but be a little proud that a show did something so bold that there is now a bunch of people online fighting over politics while talking about it. Caitlyn was, by all means, primed to be "one of the good ones". She was a rookie Enforcer who has been kept away from the action, idealistic, disliked her family's power and influence, and preached about breaking the cycle of violence. And then the MOMENT those beliefs were put to the test, when she personally felt the consequences of the cycle of violence, it all broke down and she became a regular oppressor. Instead of a savior, she is a cautionary tale. I know some people will be upset about it, but what a discussion generating plot twist!!!!! Bro!!!!!!!!!

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Hmm isn’t it so funny how a lot of the “both sides suck!!!” leftists will make and share posts listing suicide hotlines and resources for survival under a Republican presidency, but these posts never appear when Democrats win? Wow it’s almost like everyone knows Republicans are infinitely more dangerous and your “both sides” game is full of shit.

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i am also a teacher and thinking about how I'm going a bunch of marginalized 4th and 5th graders and tell them everything will be okay when **I** don't feel like everything will be okay

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It was really hard.

I teach 5th grade, and even though I'm in NYC I had some kids coming in excited. I had others coming in saying they're scared they're going to be forced to leave the country.

At my school we were told not talk about it.

I felt like I could start crying at any moment.

It was a hard day.

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Oh wow. My school said that as a school they must be nonpartisan but they also have a commitment to pursuing DEI, and therefore have to acknowledge that this election cycle has platformed "racist, misogynistic, and hateful rhetoric". my coworker's aunt's house has already been vandalized with anti-Black slurs. they've been generally staying out of teacher's business when it comes to supporting students post-election.

but I'll say that my charter district has always given us a lot of freedom to discuss things within reason. For example, my Palestinian friend who teaches middle school has had a palestinian flag up on her wall since she started teaching there and there has never been an issue. (the general public school district is a different story and recently fired a high school teacher for supporting students expressing anti-genocide beliefs in a school project)

I did have a couple of students who were happy about the election results, but they read the room pretty well and kept it quiet (I also feel like I understand my students better now knowing whose families support trump). Few of my students need to worry about themselves or their families being deported, but there have been other concerns as it's a community that is predominantly Black and Muslim. I also have a 5th grader who has been questioning their gender identity, and their whole class had questions about trans rights. There's just a lot of uncertainty right now, which I recognize is a lot different from my friends who have students who are undocumented or have family members who are undocumented. Many of their students' entire sense of safety has been stripped from them overnight.

I'm so sorry that your school is refusing to acknowledge these students' needs and experiences

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boy-gender

To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.

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one time my roommate and her sibling were talking about abortion, specifically abortion because of detected disability. they both thought this was just awful. i wanted to know why it was any of their business.

they basically said that they fully support the legal right to choose but that they wouldn't want someone who would do something like that to be in their lives.

...if I could go back to say "oh, I thought we were friends but guess not"

especially if they would have said something like "well what if you found out that your child was disabled later"

different story, that's a child.

but then these self-identified "leftists" would have to admit that they were imposing their own spiritual beliefs about what a fetus is on others' morality.

there's no point to this post, I'm just stoned and it's bugging me.

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hey what the fuck

this is not true. i dont know why people think this. the nazi soldiers wholeheartedly believed what they were doing was the right thing and that mechanizing genocide just made it easier. they did not think it was bad at all. they also destroyed hundreds of villages on the eastern front and tortured and murdered countless civilians to boost morale.

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You are going to be trapped in a classroom or daycare room full of children for one school day and you will have to interact with them (assume there are other adults like a teacher or daycare employee present, so you don’t have to handle lessons/rules/emergencies, but you still have to interact with the kids via play, conversation, care, etc.)

*I’m aware this is an exaggeration of the term newborn, which is being used to simplify the options.

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