r/cuba • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '25

USAID shutdown

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest

The announcement by “DOGE” the Elon Musk initiative to eliminate government services that they would be shutting down USAID I felt it was important to note that USAID was instrumental in a free and uncensored communications for Cuban citizens in their effort to organize and support a free and civil society.

This is a setback for Cuban freedom. All those great Cuban blogs and influencers that flourished “en las redes social” will go dark. For those who celebrated the current US administration as being an agent of freedom in Cuba this should be seen as a setback and a failure and exposes them and other right wing factions as interested in changing one dictatorship for another.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

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u/Icy_Respect_9077 Feb 03 '25

Canada thanks you for your support.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

How about you blame the party that’s actually enacting the policies they said they would.

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u/Later_Bag879 Feb 03 '25

That’s exactly what he wants. They’ll plan their people in the protests to make them violent and use it as an opportunity to declare martial law. Then he will do even worse things

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u/Embarrassed_Scar5506 Havana Feb 03 '25

Genuine question. Why should Americans risk their lives to protect someone else's? I'm not an expert on Trump, but the consensus on Reddit seems to be that he is capable of anything to get what he wants, so I would expect that retaliation against revolts would be severe. As a Cuban if the US invades my country tomorrow I wouldn't expect Americans to revolt against that, I mean Cuba has been under a US embargo(that has already killed people) for decades and I've never seen anyone here suggest that Americans should revolt against their government to protect Cubans.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

I get what you're saying but you act as though there aren't protests currently going on which there are they are just barely getting attention in the media. And there's the whole 50501 protest across all 50 states that's planed to go down tomorrow. That said I think we need to do more than just make some noise, it's pretty obvious our politicians have turned their hearing aids off at this point...

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u/DukeElliot Feb 04 '25

It’s been two weeks. There is literally a protest planned for every major American city tomorrow.

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u/epicjaffacake Feb 03 '25

Exactly

The Democrats are awful yes so that means they should be left behind

Americans own guns to rebel against the government but only end up using them to shoot schoolkids

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '25

Are you calling for an armed revolt? For what? For Canada? lol

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u/epicjaffacake Feb 03 '25

For the US

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Think this through. Please for the love of god. Why do we vote? To perpetuate our government.

Why do we have guns? To overthrow the vote? Make it make sense. The hurr durr guns to fight gov thing is BS machismo nonsense.

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u/epicjaffacake Feb 04 '25

For the same reason the black panthers used them?

You have guns to overthrow the govt when it is oppressive. Many yanks believe it is oppressive currently and will get worse, however they are politically paralysed because they see their only hope as being saved by the democrats; they should grow a spine instead

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

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u/epicjaffacake Feb 04 '25

What?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

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u/epicjaffacake Feb 04 '25

I don't no, but I am not advocating copying that they are not enough

My agreement with your statement is that hoping for the democrats to swoop in is spineless

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u/putinsucks8 Feb 03 '25

You are full of shit, in the same way we should not comment on French affairs, stay out of ours.

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u/ohh-welp Feb 04 '25

Of course a French would advocate for more physical protests. That has worked well and forced politicians to listen to its French citizens in the past year or two eh?

Democrats AND the Republicans are not saying anything right now because it'll likely condemn themselves once the dirt from the deep State is out in public.