• LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    There’s literally a u.s. government document on a u.s. government website quoting leaders o the u.s. government saying “Castro is too popular so we’re going to make people starve until they blame him and overthrow the Cuban government”

    It’s over 50 years old

    The starvation of the cuban people has been used for decades as proof of the evil of the cuban government

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      There’s literally a u.s. government document on a u.s. government website quoting leaders o the u.s. government saying “Castro is too popular so we’re going to make people starve until they blame him and overthrow the Cuban government”

      There’s also us documents effectively saying that they made up shit about North Korea, China, the ussr, etc. thanks to the freedom of information act; but it clearly doesn’t matter since the majority believe the propaganda anyways.

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        No like for real i posted about this recently but i told a guy i work with about this and it was like man ray trying to return Patrick’s wallet. “We said we’d starve them. We blockaded them. They’re starving.” And the guy ends up going “castro starved his own people” at the end

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      If he weren’t a threat to the status quo they wouldn’t be going after him, please develop some goddamned sense and priorities

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      Why are we punching left here? Seriously I don’t get it

      We have a group of activists and influencers doing a mutual aid trip to an AES state that is being strangled by the US government. They also are doing anti imperialist propaganda and normalizing Cubans as human beings. The oil embargo is literally killing people, hospitals can not function in Cuba right now.

      Now the US government is actively moving to clamp down on and punish these people and the response is to just be like “Lmao what a lib” ???

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        My diagnosis is that almost everybody who is doing IRL organizing (which involves interacting with various types of “libs”: Hasanabi heads, “vote blue no matter who” Brenda, electoralist DSAers getting their people into local office, idpol-first SJWs, people with liberal idealist propaganda about AES states still embedded, people who think Stalin did some things wrong) have been far less active on the site. They are busy with that, and it is just a very negative environment compared to actually achieving something.

        Community culture gone from “voting and elctoralism are not able to solve the root issues of capitalism in a liberal democracy” to “voting doesn’t matter at all, and it’s cringe to acknowledge its existence”. This is weird for an ostensibly political forum.

        Exception to the above: proletarians outside the imperial core can trash on the imperial left as much as they want, I’m not gonna police that.

        What remains seems to be very online venting. I get feeling powerless, but I just don’t see this sort of conversation happening IRL, it’s very uncomradely in tone and makes me want to log off as well.

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            I’m not saying I’m breaking my back with my organizing work, but the people who are doing more than me would be denounced as a “bunch of liberals” by some on this community. Guess what though? They are my friends and comrades nonetheless, and I’m thankful that I sometimes get to spend time with them (for business or social reasons) and influence their knowledge of theory/history/politics with my own!

            If there is a true left-wing movement (to hexbear standards) emerges in our area, these are the same people who will be in and adjacent to it! Development of one’s political praxis is a dialectical process, a revolutionary movement doesn’t just spontaneously exist!

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              Yeah, not gonna lie, phone banking is fairly easy work, so I’m not like I’m giving myself the order-of-lenin or anything.

              I respect the anti-electoralist currents in our comm, but the irony here is that Hasan is getting smoke for real aid and propaganda work for AES.

              We can have critical support for his support of Dems who are half-measures or other blind spots around left politics, but why bring that in here when this is basically the kind of praxis that any good ML should approve of wholeheartedly. We can disagree about some of the things Hasan supports (and I should say, some of his stuff around CA politics in particular is depressing though some of that is also just the left in CA’s fault as well…), but in this case I don’t get why folks are blasting him.

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                Yeah I appreciate the anti electoralist tendency, but keeping the chuds off my city council/county board and doing direct democracy on state measures is not where that applies IMO.

                I also think that we can still do analysis of electoral politics even if the community isn’t going to center getting involved in them in our discussion. I think if we had a healthier attitude, c/electoralism would have a mega going on election night(s). Instead the discussion around it is “Mamdani (or other elected) did something bad, you’re an idiot for expecting different” or “Mamdani (/whoever (/Hasan?)) did something good, but I don’t care cause I’m not a lib btw and I still dont like him”.

                I guess one of the reasons I would like to see it is because it is an opportunity to bring new people into the community and educate them. I don’t think the site will last a whole lot longer in its current form.

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    https://hexbear.net/post/6167887

    Throwback to a post I made 8 months ago, 6 months before the Cuba convoy. 8 months ago, Congress member Anna Paulina Luna asked wrote a letter to the US treasury, asking for the Treasury to freeze the assets of PSL, CodePink, BreakThroughNews, and several other organizations. The letter alleged that these organizations were funded by a guy name Roy Singham.

    The Fox News article alleges “Singham has pumped $278 million into nonprofit groups that have pushed pro-China, pro-Cuba, anti-U.S. narratives”. Roy Singham married Jodie Evans in 2017, one of the cofounders of CodePink, which was founded in 2002. The article also has a picture of Hasan with Jodie Evans.

    This shows that the Feds were motivated to target CodePink months before the Cuba convoy even happened. This also indicates that feds will likely target groups like PSL again in the future.

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      Additionally, Anna Paulina Luna began her political career by working for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. She was a speaker at Charlie Kirk’s funeral.

      In 2025. Luna introduced a bill to congress to add Donald Trump’s face to Mount Rushmore. She promoted a conspiracy theory that the 2025 Brown University shooter was Palestinian. Luna praised Trump for kidnapping Maduro. She’s an avowed anti-communist.

      Anna Paulina Luna has recently focused on declassifying UAP/UFO related materials. This seems like bullshit. She had also been in charge of the JFK assassination file releases.

      Today, Hasan Piker interviewed Ashley St Clair. Ashley St Clair is the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children. Elon had payed her to have the child but was withholding child support last year. Ashley St Clair also worked for Turning Point USA at the same time as Luna, but is now trying to do an anti-Trump pivot. Today St Clair alleged that Luna had a “secret sleepover” with her exboyfriend, right wing twitter influencer ‘DC_Draino’. St Clair also alleged that Luna had been flirting with Elon Musk and accused Luna of repeatedly trying to steal her sexual partners.

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        Holy shit if this is all highschool drama shit about Hassan getting to read Elon’s text messages and mocking him in gonna lose it. Code pink is obviously just caught in the crossfire, but it’s not unbelievable that the Hassan St Clair interview is what got them motivated to act…

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          A few hours before the Ashley St Clair interview, Fox News published a different article asking for the US Treasury to target CodePink, PSL, 145 other groups. It seems like Fox News is trying to make ‘Neville Roy Singham’ into the new ‘George Soros’ figure. Also Anna Paulina Luna has been targeting CodePink for at least 8 months.

          https://archive.is/0kz8Z

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    I don’t think I’ve read a full-length article on Fox News before. This is a hilarious house style.

    The administrative subpoenas mark a serious escalation by the Trump administration against a far-left nonprofit activist network that has spent years defending communist regimes, from Cuba to China, while presenting its work as humanitarian aid, anti-war organizing and “solidarity” with people “oppressed” by the “imperialist” U.S “colonial power.”

    The “crimes” of this “guilty” “land” will never be “purged away” but with “blood.”

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    There was a whole slew of forms and documents they had to fill out to go on the trip. The whole thing was done above board and publicly advertised. In a sane governance you can’t approve someone doing a thing and then prosecute them months later for doing the thing.

    • It’s not a criminal subpoena, it’s some sort of Treasury inquiry thing. They’re going to get their asses handed to them because they’re the people that gave the okay and a good share of the people on the list are well spoken media demons. I hope it’s televised.

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    Pictures like this should be illegal, the guy’s not at a public event or anything, i can only assume they chose this because his dog’s hunched posture as he gives a command plays into the shocked dog narrative, like it’s not just one out of 100000 shots paparazzi losers took where inevitably one looks a given way