• dogbert@lemmy.zip
    137·
    2 days ago

    Your family is hungry because of the US embargo, not because slaves were freed…

    If freeing those slaves really starved your family then too bad. Boo hoo.

    • Gonzako@lemmy.world
      65·
      2 days ago

      Whichever is the reason I have to send packages of food and utilities to my family members I do not care, the fact that I have to send those matters. You have to be there to understand it.

      • JGrffn@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Listen, man, I’m from Honduras. Cuba and Venezuela get touted as the literal demonic results of communism over here, as if communists declared war on the Cuban and Venezuelan peoples. Communism was never going to get rid of corruption because corruption is part of any system of power. Communism guards against specific flaws in capitalism, but it’s still not a perfect system. This doesn’t clear the governments of either country of their sins, but we HAVE to weigh that against the actions of the literal colossus that decides whether any and every country in the Americas is prosperous or carpet bombed/cut off from the rest of the world, and they decide that purely on what interests and benefits them. Socialist and communist policies are both the only way forward for the continent, and literally impossible to pull off while the US controls all of us. The alternative is to just become slaves with ever lower wages, ever higher costs of living, and a bunch of bootlicking politicians telling you not to listen through your ears or see through your eyes, but to listen to them and to the empire because they know better, all the while also being told “at least you’re not as bad off as those stinking communists, and you need to fight to prevent that from happening to you”, as if the problem wasn’t the United fucking States assfucking anyone who dares to try and make things better.

        By all means, hate and rage against the corrupt, but also do try to understand who the real culprits of this clusterfuck are.