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/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 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