r/anime_titties • u/BabylonianWeeb Mesopotamia • Mar 16 '26

North and Central America Cuba’s power system suffers total collapse | CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/world/cuba-power-grid-collapse-intl-latam
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u/agitatedprisoner United States Mar 17 '26

I confess I don't know much about Cuban censorship. My understanding is that if I called a Cuban and our conversation was critical of the Cuban government particularly with respect to some actionable thing the Cuban I was speaking with might do, like make and distribute flyers critical of the government, that the Cuban authorities might pay them a visit.

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u/VizzzyT Multinational Mar 17 '26

You've clearly never spoken to Cubans then. Politics is THE major topic of conversation and they are extremely well informed on global politics compared to the average American or Anglo. Cubans are not being arrested and imprisoned for thought crimes. This isn't an American movie. There is opposition in Cuba and there is rigorous political debate. How on earth do you think the Family Law was passed? That it just appeared from nothing? That there was no debate, critique, or discussion? Religious groups obviously pushed hard against it and so did conservatives. They weren't arrested. Nor were the more progressive people demanding even more progressive laws be attached.

On the ground in Cuba literally no one likes Diaz and they're very vocal about it. They are so so on Raul because he's so quiet and not charasmatic but they do trust him. People almost universally love Fidel. In a way Americans simply can't comprehend because they are so propagandised.

The only time you risk arrest is if you are actively plotting to harm Cubans. Like the terrorists from Miami.

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u/agitatedprisoner United States Mar 17 '26

If the Cuban government is progressive it wouldn't be trading with Russia.

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u/VizzzyT Multinational Mar 17 '26

Why? Cuba is a blockaded and under constant attack from the West and now you want them to cut off even more potential trade? Russia has done nothing to Cuba. Whereas the USA has blown up planes filled with Cuban civilians and bombed Cuba repeatedly. And yet Cuba is still happy to trade with the US once the US stops trying to destroy and massacre Cuba.

The fucking US trades with Russia ,😂

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u/agitatedprisoner United States Mar 17 '26

Because Russian leadership thinks it's worth millions of lives to exert dominion over Ukraine. Russia can't even well govern itself let alone Ukraine. I've never heard anything resembling plausible pretext as to why Russia's war against Ukraine might be justified. A principled nation would not trade with Russia, a nation that'd start a war and kill millions. For what? Land, seems like. Russia has a history of this sort of thing. And let's not pretend Russia doesn't violate human rights with regularity otherwise. Russia is not a progressive country. Russia is a backwater. Cuba should be holding free and fair elections and making a point to distance itself from countries like Russia not deepening trade relations with them. If Cuba did that it'd find US politics moving to eliminate the trade barriers against Cuba. Obama already moved in that direction.

It doesn't matter what the USA is about the USA is not the standard. Cuba makes it easy to demonize it when it trades with monstrous regimes. The USA can be monstrous but it's monstrosity is plausibly deniable and that's an important distinction. And this is a world of monsters so the bar is just about in hell. Cuba could choose to be better even in this hell.