Re:The Genius Bar in a country where iPhones can’t legally b...
by yieldcrv on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @02:00PM
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I don’t disagree
But hoping American public and private sector economic pressures have anything to do with anything are the thing I find naive, and oozing with indoctrinated hubris that’s reinforced by people from that country that vehemently agree. Its a skewed perspective is my only point.
The “axis of ick” reinforces how little pressure there is on that government system in reality.
Those ills are not different from any other poor Caribbean island. There’s not that much accountability on any island nation regardless of the governance system.
Beautiful country, amazing people. But it's kind of bleak, and not getting any better. I'm fairly radically left wing, and when I was younger I was more ambiguous about that regime -- critical but also fairly naive about it -- but I've seen enough now to just be totally critical.
Cuba is corrupt and authoritarian and I don't feel good about spending my money there.
They throw people with opinions like mine in jail, they make ordinary people's lives brutally hard, and it's basically run by a mafia with the name "Communist Party" stamped on it.
They've also become explicitly Putin-allied and part of that sphere of ick that pretends to be "anti-colonial" but is really are just vicious thugs.
The US needs to drop the embargo, but that gov't needs to end. Somehow.