re: Thousands protest in Cuba, calling for the end of communist dictatorship

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Peaceful protests are growing in #Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages. We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.

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Absolute claptrap there. Everyone with a brain knows they're protesting climate change.

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shouting freedom and other anti-government sayings

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Tell me you're an authoritarian mouthpiece without telling me

FWIW, here are 4 times that Bernie Sanders has talked about how awesome Cuba's Communist Government was.

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Like in 1986, when he waxed poetic about how tingly Castro's revolution made him feel.

Video: @BernieSanders, University of Vermont, 1986, recalls his excitement watching Castro's revolution “rising up against the ugly rich people." & his sick feeling watching JFK speak out against communism in Cuba.

Also bashes the @nytimes for lying about communism.
— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 21, 2019
I remember, for some reason or another, being very excited when [former Cuban dictator] Fidel Castro made the revolution in Cuba. I was a kid ... and it just seemed right and appropriate that poor people were rising up against rather ugly rich people.

In February 2020, during his failed presidential campaign, Berne Sanders had this to say about Castro.
Bernie Sanders defends his 1980s comments about Fidel Castro in an interview on 60 Minutes. LINK pic.twitter.com/lTwuXWp9sA
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 24, 2020

We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?
It's an irrelevant thing when Castro also starved, tortured, and murdered his people. But, you know, details.

The next day, the media tried to give him an out during a CNN town hall. "Bernie, you don't realllllly like Castro, do you?"


Truth is truth, alright?


The NEXT DAY, after a presidential debate, the media AGAIN tried to give Bernie and out. "But Bernie, you don't realllllly realllllly like Castro, do you?"

Astounding. Sanders will not stop equivocating and whitewashing the horrors of socialist regimes like the Castros in Cuba.

"Even under a dictatorship you can teach people to read and to write." pic.twitter.com/7Qmkst881z
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) February 26, 2020
Cuba is a dictatorship. But that does not mean to say, as Obama pointed out, that even under a dictatorship you can teach people to read and to write.

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Remember folks, Bernie Sanders unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in 2016 and 2020, finishing in second place in both campaigns. And before his election to Congress, he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

in short, a leader of the Democratic Party in the USA.

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I'm a skeptic about outlandish politicized claims made by anonymous strangers on the internet. I don't believe your friends told you "the greatest thing to ever happen to Cuba was not instituting racist US policies." Sorry.

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And you just proved my point. You try and divert attention away from it by calling it "outlandish" when in reality, it is 100% mainstream progressive dogma at this point.

If it brings attention to the insanity of progressives, it's labeled as "fringe" or "outlandish". Or like you already have tried to push, just made up out of thin air. Same playbook every time.

Michael Moore made a fricking movie about how awesome Cuba's healthcare system is and in that movie pointed out how racist the US healthcare system is. That was a W in the Cuba column for him. But it's outlandish to say that a couple of people that I know and converse with regularly would hold those same views.

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Peaceful protests are growing in #Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages. We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.

—Julie Chung (@WHAAsstSecty

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I don’t think this is a right they have in Cuba

The national spin on this ought to tell you all you need to know about the current state of the U.S.

When I think of all the jobs, money, and opportunities for that country and their people over the many years since Castro took over it is truly one of the biggest wastes of all time. Try and imagine the revenue that could have come from making Cuba a vacation hot spot destination, as well as a key area of expansion for manufacturing and production, shipping, trade, etc. What a waste of opportunity and time, and for what? Failure? It was the inevitability from the very start.

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and for what? because Castro got his feelings hurt because he thought he was disrespected by Ike?

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Exactly. 60 some odd years of the most prosperous time in American history and all that came with that for places that could have been Cuba down the drain.

Impossible.

I have learned on the social media’s that communism is the way to go