Some people will tell you that Communism made Cuba a better place. But I suspect a big part of it was all the worst fuckers on the island moving to Florida.
That’s not why they’re the way they are. I’ve expounded on the topic at length before on Lemmy. My family and people are tainted by The Bay of Pigs. They fled Fidel for the US and lost everything they owned in Cuba. That created the bitterness toward Communism and Socialism.
The Bay of Pigs created their hatred for the Dems. The brainwashing was a result of the freedom fighters having their US support removed last minute, leaving them to be killed or jailed. Congress voted to remove support after Kennedy promised it. The brainwashing was around Kennedy doing it intentionally when in reality it was the Republican led Congress and Senate.
They fled Fidel for the US and lost everything they owned in Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs created their hatred for the Dems.
That’s a story I’ve heard. But Dems continued to win Florida through Obama.
Seems like a lot of the Cuban Exile energy came out of their 80s era gray market role in drugs and arms dealing through the Caribbean. And that put them at the forefront of the crypto ponzi schemes under Obama, Trump, and Biden.
Now they’re just bog standard libertarian fascists.
It’s not entirely inaccurate. My great-grandfather was known as The Sugar King. On the other side of the family, my other great granddad worked for PepsiCo LatAm. They made inside deals.
My family were insanely wealthy back in Cuba until they fled here. I can trace my heritage back to the 1300s and before on that side of the family. My maternal namesake ancestor was the first mayor/alcalde of Habana and received his name “Sotolongo” from King Ferdinand & Isabella. There is a town named after him north of the Portuguese border.
The 70s and 80s produced the Peter Pan and the Mariel boat lifts where Castro released his worst criminals and people from insane asylums to flee here and elsewhere. It was all fucked.
probably doesnt help that most of their first/only experience with the US is florida, southern florida at that. far as scammer culture goes, it probably doesn’t get much worse in the US than florida (maybe equal to boston/NYC/silicon valley?)
100%. I left Florida in 99. Returned briefly in 2004 and left for good in 2009. I happen to be here visiting my parents now. Thankfully they live in the Florida Keys.
Some people will tell you that Communism made Cuba a better place. But I suspect a big part of it was all the worst fuckers on the island moving to Florida.
That’s not why they’re the way they are. I’ve expounded on the topic at length before on Lemmy. My family and people are tainted by The Bay of Pigs. They fled Fidel for the US and lost everything they owned in Cuba. That created the bitterness toward Communism and Socialism.
The Bay of Pigs created their hatred for the Dems. The brainwashing was a result of the freedom fighters having their US support removed last minute, leaving them to be killed or jailed. Congress voted to remove support after Kennedy promised it. The brainwashing was around Kennedy doing it intentionally when in reality it was the Republican led Congress and Senate.
That’s a story I’ve heard. But Dems continued to win Florida through Obama.
Seems like a lot of the Cuban Exile energy came out of their 80s era gray market role in drugs and arms dealing through the Caribbean. And that put them at the forefront of the crypto ponzi schemes under Obama, Trump, and Biden.
Now they’re just bog standard libertarian fascists.
It’s not entirely inaccurate. My great-grandfather was known as The Sugar King. On the other side of the family, my other great granddad worked for PepsiCo LatAm. They made inside deals.
My family were insanely wealthy back in Cuba until they fled here. I can trace my heritage back to the 1300s and before on that side of the family. My maternal namesake ancestor was the first mayor/alcalde of Habana and received his name “Sotolongo” from King Ferdinand & Isabella. There is a town named after him north of the Portuguese border.
The 70s and 80s produced the Peter Pan and the Mariel boat lifts where Castro released his worst criminals and people from insane asylums to flee here and elsewhere. It was all fucked.
probably doesnt help that most of their first/only experience with the US is florida, southern florida at that. far as scammer culture goes, it probably doesn’t get much worse in the US than florida (maybe equal to boston/NYC/silicon valley?)
100%. I left Florida in 99. Returned briefly in 2004 and left for good in 2009. I happen to be here visiting my parents now. Thankfully they live in the Florida Keys.
I hate this state.
Communism was the mean which it happened