Of course, everybody is and should be in support of reestablishing the diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba. The lack of diplomatic relations has not achieved anything, and enough already with that horrible old thing. Especially since it will bug Putin royally if Cuba defects to the American side in the new Cold War.
However, in the midst of all this let’s not forget that the Revolution was 100% horrible for Cuba. The Cubans chose (and are still choosing every day) to exist in a system that has degraded, demolished and dehumanized them completely.
There is absolutely nothing redeeming whatsoever in the horrible Castro regime. Cuba was “the brothel of the hemisphere” before the Revolution. It still is just that. Pedophiles from all over the world flock to the island because there is no other place where parents so joyfully and cheaply sell their children of all ages to sated tourists. Cuba is a place where prostitution is everybody’s pastime of choice, where the formerly great Cuban culture has been wiped out, racism is absolutely shocking, sexism is vile and disgusting, medical care is non-existent, education is absent, and the standards of hygiene are abysmal.
Cubans are choosing to live this way, and I believe we should respect their choice. I mean, we are respecting the Saudis’ choice to treat women as cattle and murder gays. Why should we stand between Cubans and their choice to whore themselves out while sitting in the midst of a mud puddle they’d rather die than clean? (This is something I personally observed, so it will not make any sense to argue with me about it.)
I’m seeing too many people who have never been to Cuba (or have been as tourists and were offered contact only with the people who are specially trained to bamboozle idiot foreigners, which is the same thing) get all soppy about the changes in the US-Cuban relations. And there is absolutely nothing to become all sentimental about. Cuba is hell, and a decision to tolerate the existence of hell because you are impotent to change it is nothing to celebrate.
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Right on, ma’am. I am a Cuban American myself and it pisses me off to hear asswipes say Cuba is a paradise after all the shit Castro did. Both sides of my family fled that motherfucker and mi abuela has visited relatives there and says the place is a shithole. Sorry about the profanity, but Cuba is a sensitive issue in my family
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Profanity is more than welcome on this subject. I’ve been to Cuba several times, and every single time I was just horrified of what was being done to the people and how hopeless everything was. The great Cuban culture is nowhere to be found in Cuba any longer. 😦
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That’s why many Cubans would have such a hard time if they came to the U.S. and it would take a long time for them to acclimate to live in a democracy. Maybe Castro should have gotten a contract to play professional baseball when he was younger, he would’ve done something useful. Supposedly he was being scouted by U.S. baseball teams as a young man
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How are the Cubans as opposed to some Cubans in power choosing their current situation? I mean there are no legal ways to press for actual change by the masses on the island. People who advocate change are often punished, sometimes by very long prison sentences and in the not too distant past sometimes by execution. There currently is just no way for ordinary Cubans in Cuba to legally express any type of choice politically outside the strict confines established by the current regime. Maybe if there was the ability to make real political choices the vast majority would support a continuation of the exact same economic and social policies. But, until they do have that choice I don’t think we can say they actually chose their current system.
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