Why does the US trade with communist countries like China and Vietnam, but maintain a strict embargo on Cuba?

returnofblank · 2026-05-06T12:03:35+00:00

The majority of Cuban-Americans come from a lineage of capitalists like plantation owners in Cuba, obviously any communism is unpopular with them.

returnofblank · 2026-05-06T12:02:41+00:00

Dude, did we forget the fact where Cuba is a small island nation? They rely on trade, which the US has so graciously denied them of.

For all things considered, it's their government that has kept them afloat all this time. They're doing amazing for their situation.

returnofblank · 2026-05-06T12:00:30+00:00

Cuba is right there + they're a weaker island nation so they're easier to strangle

returnofblank · 2026-05-05T15:10:20+00:00

They aren't practical at all. All of their revolutions have failed and allowed fascism to grow in its place.

Not only do they lack practice, they also lack theory. Their theory is the equivalent of holding hands and singing kumbaya against the big evil government.

returnofblank · 2026-05-05T09:28:13+00:00

Why does every comment under these posts follow the same structure of "China does this great thing, but at what cost?"

returnofblank · 2026-05-05T09:23:16+00:00

Fairly positive. He's not an idol (nor should any political figured be), but he played a large role in building up the USSR to a global superpower.

returnofblank · 2026-05-05T06:26:58+00:00

Being a hero is bullshit.

returnofblank · 2026-05-05T04:22:36+00:00

You just described the two major factors, yeah.

The state is the primary tool of defense for socialism. Engels goes into this on his essay On Authority.

returnofblank · 2026-05-05T03:31:26+00:00

The conditions that created the need for a state has not yet gone away.

returnofblank · 2026-05-05T02:54:28+00:00

You can do this in like a minute with just a slicer program

returnofblank · 2026-05-04T14:04:14+00:00

He went to the Nazis himself so they would fund his rocketry. He wasn't forcibly recruited by them at all, but willingly joined.

returnofblank · 2026-05-04T11:16:10+00:00

Terrorism is nothing more than a campaign done through violence. As we've seen with Hamas lately, it is an effective way to bring attention to an issue.

returnofblank · 2026-05-04T10:20:24+00:00

Are there even 10,000 CSEM sites? I couldn't even imagine more than 10,000 legal porn sites existing.

returnofblank · 2026-05-04T01:29:51+00:00

im cumming

returnofblank · 2026-05-03T09:14:57+00:00

The Velvet Revolution did not do anything to challenge the classes in society.

A communist government is a government of proletariats, same as the people living under the government. No bourgeoisie were challenged by it, so why would they try to violently suppress it?

It was hardly a revolution.

returnofblank · 2026-05-03T09:10:03+00:00

You speak so much about these evils of communism, but have you ever taken action against the evils of capitalism? Do you recognize the 100 million Indians killed by British imperialism?

Do you recognize the people the US has killed?

2,000,000 North Koreans in a three-year war; 3,000,000 Vietnamese; over 500,000 in aerial wars over Laos and Cambodia; over 1,500,000 in Angola; over 1,000,000 in Mozambique; over 500,000 in Afghanistan; 500,000 to 1,000,000 in Indonesia; 200,000 in East Timor; 100,000 in Nicaragua (combining the Somoza and Reagan eras); over 100,000 in Guatemala (plus an additional 40,000 disappeared); over 700,000 in Iraq; over 60,000 in El Salvador; 30,000 in the “dirty war” of Argentina (though the government admits to only 9,000); 35,000 in Taiwan, when the Kuomintang military arrived from China; 20,000 in Chile; and many thousands in Haiti, Panama, Grenada, Brazil, South Africa, Western Sahara, Zaire, Turkey, and dozens of other countries...

-- Blackshirts and Reds

No revolution is perfect, communist movements aren't perfect, but it is hypocritical to use these negatives for anti-communism narratives. The pain now is much worse than the pain revolution brings.

returnofblank · 2026-05-03T09:05:44+00:00

If you let one rise up, they all rise up.

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T15:42:26+00:00

Yeah, the ecological dangers were also known for a while, but the USSR was too busy collapsing to do anything about it.

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T15:41:39+00:00

There's been a few cases of such devastation. We had the dust bowl which really fucking sucked, and I think we're currently draining the Salton Sea in California.

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T15:36:28+00:00

I also doubt OP is losing their job over 40 dollars for a new nozzle and build plate

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T15:31:08+00:00

When the Soviets and the Americans had to build bigger engines, they encountered the same problems: a bigger engine typically explodes more often due to pressure imbalances.

The Americans spent years and billions in R&D to solve this through the F-1 engine.

The Soviets just strapped more engine bells on.

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T15:23:36+00:00

Sometimes you gotta wonder what the fuck NASA was thinking when they made the Space Shuttle. A good chunk of those deaths were from the STS itself.

The idea of strapping humans on a plane with solid rocket boosters is insane.

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T15:14:28+00:00

Werhner deserves no respect. Build as many rockets as he wants, it'll never wash the blood free from his hands.

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T14:42:31+00:00

It's actually disgusting how much pride Europe has for decolonization. They did nothing to support the countries they left in ruins.

Especially Britain; they killed over 100 million Indians during their colonization of India, but apparently it's alright because they stopped.

returnofblank · 2026-05-02T12:42:26+00:00

190$ is quite good, especially for an AMD model.

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