Someone should tell Trump that Cuba is older than 16.
Cuban expats are a popular target for human trafficking. Come down to Houston or Miami and you’ll find Cuban migrants all over the strip club scene.
How can you tell?
Live where they rent is cheap and find out.
Boom! Roasted!
Trump is an evil evil man, anybody who can’t see that is a sociopath or worse.
Willful.
If a person is a willful sociopath, that person is a sociopath.
anybody who can’t see that is a sociopath or worse.
really, really stupid?
No, to detect obviously sociopathic behavior is a trait normal people have. Because our morals are partially either inherited or learned because we are social beings. So we instinctively have a sense of importance in protecting each other, especially wife children and the society we are part of.
This is NOT tied to high IQ, but normal social intelligence, if you are NOT a sociopath or something similar, and that trait also exist among apes.
So to not detect an obvious sociopath exhibiting sociopathic behavior routinely, a person literally has to be a sociopath or worse, because it requires to not have empathy, and to not have any moral standards, or general regard for the community or society we live in.In USA however, people are strongly indoctrinated to disregard moral standards, so maybe I should have written you either need to be a sociopath or American.
Because in USA freedom is indoctrinated to be the highest value of all, and sociopathy is an expression of ultimate freedom. Sociopaths don’t care about norms or rules or to hurt other people. In fact they are sadistic, because sadism give them a feeling of power. But because it’s an expression of freedom, sociopathy is seen as a virtue among many Americans. Lack of moral standards and limitations, also enable a person to make money at great cost to other people, for instance workers earning a non livable wage. And money is seen as the highest achievement possible in USA, and since a lot of rich people are sociopaths or worse, that is seen as positive trait, that will allow you to achieve the most important goal in USA, which is to be rich.
Failing to see that in Trump, can only happen because a person doesn’t comprehend the problems of his behavior emotionally despite maybe understanding them intellectually.
If you are a stupid sociopath, you will of course not comprehend the problems intellectually either.So I meant my post quite literally, but with the possibility that it may be that Americans are brainwashed, to ignore the problem of antisocial behavior caused by what is technically called Dyssocial personality disorder, which I call sociopathy here, because it’s close enough, and people know what it means.
Psychopath, Sociopath, or worst of all malignant narcissist which Trump is are all forms of dyssocial personality disorder.
People are brainwashed to trust authorities no matter what and to pick a side. The former president of USA was also an evil man yet many even here on lemmy couldn’t see it.
False equivalence. Biden was not a sociopath. Big difference.
Not sure what the definition of a sociopath is but if you endorse and support a genocide you are evil evil.
Yes, that should b pretty simple one would think.
Rapist language.
I would have thought Cuba is too old for Trump
I learned about Cuba in school so this statement is accurate.
He’s talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.
a guy getting his ass kicked
The Americans and Israelis have massacred an extraordinarily large number of people, demolished billions in critical infrastructure, and plunged the country into a bleak future of warlordism, poverty, and famine.
It cannot be adequately expressed how nightmarish life will become in Iran in the next few months, without a globally organized relief campaign.
What they’ve accomplished militarily is impressive, but it hasn’t come anywhere close to breaking the genocidal grip of the imperialist powers around their collective throats.
Military force kills people and breaks things. The US military is incredibly good at this. Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes is the job of politicians, and the Executive Branch happens to be incredibly bad at this.
Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes
Is this even possible?
Probably, but only in retrospect.
WW2
Business Collaboration with Nazi Germany
I would also refer you to the Lord Halifax, Documents And Materials Relating To The Eve Of The Second World War Vol. 1
The Nazi War machine only existed thanks to the Trans-Atlantic military industrial complex.
The only bombing that actually led to results was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And only because if was so devastating, on a scale of cruelty never seen before.
Japan was already ready to surrender actually. The fire bombings had done the job.
True. Then I can’t think of any examples where it might have worked in history.
So the war itself, absent the bombings had no power of destruction, killed no one?
Is that a positive outcome?
So the bombing of tanks, factories, trains, and bridges did nothing?
I’d argue that it did less than what Russia did in WWII: invade with overwhelming superiority in men
Yes, they could destroy the oligarchs and kleptocrats draining this planet of its life.
That’s Tankie Talk.
Talking awfully big for a man threatening a country with arguably one of the best infiltrations of the US intelligence network since the USSR. I’m unsure how true it is since the Cold War, but time was when you couldn’t go take a shit in the Pentagon without Castro knowing about it.
Only a couple a years ago the US ambassador to Bolivia was arrested for being a Cuban spy. I’m sure they’re still punching above their intelligence agency still punches above their weight. I’d be curious to know how they can actually leverage that strength if Trump really decides to go after Cuba.
… ass kicked huh?
Yep, and literally begging our allies to save him.
Its great you believe that narrative
Yours is a very helpful comment. Thank you for replying and have a great day.
This man is a Tyrant. The comparisons to the Third Reich aren’t just satire anymore; this is exactly what it is.
I deeply appreciate the small detailed Cuban flag on the Astronaut suit. Well done.
That’s Ohio! It has always been Ohio! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQs7d8NgG9c
Always has been!
They were never satire. This is exactly who Trump told us he would be. It’s who he tried to be during his first term but some of the checks and balances were still intact.
“You can’t have any Cuba if you have not finished your Iran.”
Can’t*
How can you have any Cuba if you don’t eat yer Iran?!
It’s crazy how often he accidentally admits he’s a sexual-assault enthusiast, like here.
How is this surprising from President Grab-Em-By-The-Pussy?
Trump seems to be speed-running the “overextend yourself militarily” part of the late stage in the collapse of empires.
The investment in Agent Krasnov is paying dividends
That a sleazy criminal crook like Trump got elected and that he gets away with doing what he does is 100% the fault of the American system, the American elites and the American people.
No amount of foreign interference would be able to even wobble this building if it wasn’t already rotten from the inside down to its foundations.
Trump is a symptom, not a cause, and if it wasn’t him, it would sooner or later be somebody else like him.
So please stop parroting the Neoliberal version of the “blame the foreigners” self-excusing nationalist propaganda that deflects from the 100% local people who are most to blame for what’s happenning, the deserved punishment for their actions at the hands of the common citizens - this shit would never have happenned without decades of pillaging by insiders, subversion of the guardians of Democracy like Courts and the Press, widespread ridiculous amounts of Nationalism switching of people’s critical thinking about their country and the purposeful stupidification of the populace.
Next to the sleazy greedy assholes and a culture normalizing and even applauding sleaze and greed in America, the impact of even the most influencial of foreign states - Israel - is tiny.
You’re right, Trump is the symptom of decades of corruption, the natural result, and a perfect example of the USA. He is what we deserve.
He’s not even smart. This is just getting started, we live in interesting times
The local people are to blame, but they’ve been influenced by decades of foreign-backed media/ propaganda and ideologues. Yes, some of it is due to the selfishness and greed of American culture - at every level - but the collapse is due to a confluence of multiple factors. And a non-trivial factor has been the influence of foreign propaganda and henchmen (it’s not just Donald Trump that is beholden to Russia/ Israel).
Go check who owns most of the Press in America - it ain’t foreigners.
Go check who owns most of the Social Media in America - it ain’t foreigners.
The rot not only predates Social Media, but the very Social Media that accelerated it is American-owned.
I’m sorry but you’re just being a useful idiot when you parrot the very deflection propaganda of the local power elites that I mentioned in my last post.
Agree that the problems predate social media. Also agree with your assessment of the courts and insider palm greasing. To the dumbing down of the populace: there has always been an undercurrent of conservative white people trying to maintain the county’s wealth and power for themselves.
But this:
widespread ridiculous amounts of Nationalism >switching of people’s critical thinking about their >country and the purposeful stupidification of the >populace
Was made infinitely worse by the media environment post-9/11. Since at least 2005, it has been apparent that there was an intentional effort to sell conflicting versions of events to the people so that they could not discern what was true. Yes, all of the American media at the time contributed to the garbage decision to go into Iraq. Initially though, the worst of the confusion of facts was largely driven by Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News. All of the Internet has greatly exacerbated this since then, and it has been asymptotic post-2020.
Yes, American culture has (always?) been narcissistic and obnoxiously self-aggrandizing. But America had been a gigantic population of wealthy consumers for decades. So it draws all the avaristic psychopaths from around the world like moths to a flame. Are the local people to blame for the machinations of Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk? Saudi Arabian and Russian wealth underwrote Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, even if you count him as one of “the local people”. To the headless beast that is social media now, you have Russia contributing millions of dollars via Tenet Media in the 2024 campaign.
Obviously there are plenty of American bad actors in this stew of billionaire-owned manipulative media, but most of them act with an agenda that does not involve ripping the country apart.
What I’m talking about here is the massive social, political and economic trends of the life-cycle of an Empire.
So keep on Zooming Back your perspective.
Here is an historic graphic of Social Mobility in the US.
Here is the Gini Coeficient that measures inequality (the higher the more unequal), which actually understates the reality because it’s not that great at reflecting internal inequality in the top quintile (i.e. things like how the top 1% are now way much richer than the top 10% than before).
So all the way back in the 1970s, America started changing from the “Land Of Opportunity” were “everybody has a chance” as shown by it’s massive social mobility back then to the equivalent of a feudal system - a zero-merit environment where the rich are rich because their parents were rich and those born into poverty are unable to rise up from poverty - AND on top of that the richer were getting richer and the rest were getting poorer.
For most of the population that meant more povert and less opportunity hence less hope. From that you get more discontent.
So, how do the elites pillaging a society deal with such increase in discontent due to the activities of said elites?
Deceive the masses (for example: more and more lying in Politics, Press capture and subversion into a Propaganda machine and in present day psychological manipulation via Social Media), increase oppression (for example: ever more murderous policing, criminalization of “no victim” activities and harsher punishements) and in the case of a Democracy subvert the systems by which the citizens chose who will manage the nation (for example: political corruption, Gerrymandering, taking the vote away from felons - which typically hail from the poor - and, specifically in the barelly-Democratic US system, internal capture of the two parties in the duopoly of power that rules the country as illustrated by how the DNC gave the nomination to Hillary Clinton some years ago).
So the entire system was pillaged by local elites and then when the discontent caused by that pillaging grew, it was corrupted by those very same elites to redirect or suppress the consequences for those elites.
Foreign interference in present day America, is like maggots in a zombie - they’re not what made it a zombie and there would be no maggots in it if had not already been turned into a zombie.
Here is an historic graphic of Social Mobility in the US.
Here is the Gini Coeficient that measures inequality (the higher the more unequal), which actually understates the reality because it’s not that great at reflecting internal inequality in the top quintile (i.e. things like how the top 1% are now way much richer than the top 10% than before).
A problem with these graphs & your inferences is it’s objectively unclear what to expect. What do they look like for other countries? What part of this is explained by other factors like unique historical advantages (eg, an industrial base untouched by war during the postwar boom) dissipating as other countries rebuild & catch up? Can we decouple these time-dependent factors to get an expected baseline performance apart from them?
With that social mobility graph, should we expect nearly all children to earn more than their parents every subsequent generation indefinitely? The remarkably similar graph provided by the source cited by yours shows birthyear of the child starting in 1940. Couldn’t their parents earning substantially less, perhaps by living through the Great Depression, and the postwar boom significantly explain the high proportion earning more than their parents? And as GDP per capita growth rate declines, wouldn’t we likewise expect a declining proportion of children to earn more than their parents? A base of reference would really help here.
As for the Gini coefficient, we see a 7% range from 35% to 42%. While this is an increase, it doesn’t seem staggering & needs evidence to distinctly support your conclusion.
Some problems you mentioned were always present or worse when that Gini coefficient was lower: gerrymandering, obstructions to vote (felon disenfranchisement, intimidation, poll taxes & tests), discriminatory incarceration, 2-party system due to plurality voting, etc. They’re not new developments systematically leading in the direction you claim.
It looks like you started with your conclusion & worked backwards to confirm it with evidence that is not as conclusive as you claim. An open-minded skeptic wouldn’t be convinced.
Agreed! Russia can’t even afford to sit at the table with the real players, they are “second string” at best.
Russia’s economy is smaller than California’s. Can they afford to influence a rep? Yes, as always. But our reps will take money from absolutely anyone, get in line Russia, you’re right after Amazon and McDonald’s and Walmart and Tesla and Blackstone and Blackrock and so on
“The honor of taking Cuba” sounds like an old man talking about a young girl he’s about to rape.
Well he does have experience
Grabbing countries by the pussy.
The USA is a terrorist country.
filled with a terrorist population
yeah, sure, a third of them aren’t terrorists
but the other third? either openly approve or don’t care enough to even vote against it lol. the bare minimum
The US has had centuries of the conservative white majority consistently trying to suppress the vote of minorities and the youth. Hundreds of thousands of voters were purged from the voter rolls shortly before the 2024 elections, with a majority of those purged being minorities. Sauce: https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
Many conservative states put fewer polling locations in poor communities. They block measures to make voting easier like same day registration and vote by mail.
Stop demonizing people that have been systematically disempowered. The Republicans in the Senate are about to shut down all other business in an attempt to strip married women of the right to vote.
Fuck off
Only Donald Trump can outdo Donald Trump at being a piece of shit.
He is reaching levels of shit nobody thought possible!
Mar A Lago is drone & missle range from Cuba. He should not be poking that bear.
Oh, pretty fucking please blow it up when he’s there!
We need to uncover the corpses buried there first.
They’ll rest in peace if there’s retribution
Cuba, if you’re listening…
🙏
Does Cuba even have the missiles and drones to do this? The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces are equipped with mostly outdated and cobbled together technology.
I couldn’t find any long range strike capability in this [list of equipment](Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces). That doesn’t mean they don’t have any. A couple of containers filled with Shahed long range drones could be hiding in a warehouse. Serious ballistic missiles are less likely to exist. I couldn’t find any info on the Air Force owning cruise missiles for their jets.
Cuba could run a fierce defense and Guerilla war against an full invasion. They have the culture, experience, equipment, and organization for it. That is, if the will to fight is strong enough
didn’t the military just blow up a leader of another country? i imagine it can’t be to difficult with the right intelligence and military tech these days
And in doing so, showed that if you’re capable and make up a reason, there is nothing wrong with it.
If USA can murder leaders around the world, so can Cuba.
Yeah, I agree, that’s kind of what I was attempting to say
In the meantime, lets watch
When I was a kid I always dreamed of visiting the USA.
Now, I will only visit it once. To piss on Trump’s grave when he dies.
I think there will be a large tourist line for that. Even Americans will want to partake. Haha
Put it behind a 10 dollar ticket and some good could be done with the billions of dollars.
you probably won’t be able to afford the ticket… if there is one thing i know about america’s capitalist pigs, is that you will 100% be charged money at the gate to go and piss on his grave, and it will cost more than fifa tickets.
although, ironically… i only ever had to pay to use the pissers in europe lol, this will be america’s first pay toilet lol! …and that is still a better legacy than her deserves
It’s funny because I’ve had the exact same thoughts!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I can piss on it for you so you don’t have to visit this shit. Besides my piss is extra acrid and dank.
Cuban CIA, could do the funniest thing and nobody would know because it would just look like he died of burger.
Nah, go traditional. Get him an exploding cigar.
I don’t think he smokes. Split the difference, exploding burger.
