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[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 122 points 1 week ago (18 children)

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Anyone who believes this bullshit is a braindead moron. What are they going to do? Spread knowledge of how to develop a decent healthcare system that doesn’t financially burden patients?

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How many distractions does this regime need from the Epstein files?

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

No no. Iran was a distraction from the Epstein files. Cuba is a distraction from Iran. Greenland will be a distraction from Cuba, and Canada will be a distraction from Greenland.

Probably.

[–] kobra@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

now that you mention it, probably at least one more.

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm like 99.9% sure Donald J Trump is a national security liability and threat?

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's the .1 hanging on to?

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That he doesn't really have the brains

[–] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Eh pretty sure that makes him even more a total liability and threat

[–] purplish2323@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

That he drops dead.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

If you don't have evidence or reason, just claim "National Security".

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago

Manufacturing consent

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 18 points 1 week ago

If Cuba is a threat, Hegseth really must've done an inconceivably bad job.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Self hate right here. His parents were cuban immigrants. 🙄

~If not self hate, then a serious lack of self intestinal fortitude. Either way…~

[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Self hate right here. His parents were cuban immigrants.

Most of the hardline anti-Castro people in the US are, I think, Cuban-American. That's typically the reason that they're in the US.

I don't know if that's a factor for Rubio in particular, but "person with Cuban background living in the US who is very unhappy with the Castro regime" is not an oddity.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

People who got ousted from wealth when the revolution happened harbouring generational grudges against the regime

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

No one hates Cubans quite like the Cuban-Americans.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

His parents left Cuba because they didn’t like Castro. Most Cubans that came to the US were anti-communist. I guess I can understand that, but now Rubio is using the US military and our tax money to intervene in Cuba for what are mostly reasons that are personal to him and his family history.

[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

the US is a bunch of absolute pussies, apparently

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago
[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

The island that is currently living in a pre electric society is a threat?

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Same stupid fucking playbook every time....

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes I bet Cuba is about as much a threat as Greenland is, and Greenland is a NATO ally!

Fuck the Satanist Americans (under the guise of Christianity) for causing human suffering around the globe.
They even do it at home too, and apparently Americans think that's how things should be. 🤡 🤮

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

If Cuba is a threat, then any country, group, or individual can be deemed a threat to their national security. Sounds like a whole lot of INSECURITY.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Everything is a national security threat.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~asshole~~ National Security Threat

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Every agressor favourite excuse. Israel, the usa and russia

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

If anything, the US could learn some things from Cuba. They could certainly stop bullying them for the first time in decades

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

If I was a big country with a mighty military and more money than God, I'd be scared too. /s

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I love the semantic shenanigans that "risk" and "threat" sorts use -- Risk is totally just snake oil.

"They're a threat!", sure... a low risk, insignificant threat. But still technically a threat. You can claim anything is a threat, given that risk assessments are totally subjective silly things. "We've identified flying pigs as a threat in our risk registry, so we gotta invest billions into an anti-flying pig slush fund! Security!!"

The states has been openly boasting about the numerous international war crimes its been committing for the past two years. No other country has challenged them directly on it, and few have even voiced their disagreement, out of fear of economic repercussions. No one is a threat to the US, except the US and its idiotic people / administration. Its partly why their self-destruction in international politics is so tragic.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But still technically a threat.

Yes, but Realistically no, Cuba never did anything that harmed USA in any meaningful way.
USA however has massively harmed Cuba for 70 years now.

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Threat verbiage allows for non-threats to still be called threats, that's the point of what I was highlighting. Flying pigs are not a threat, they don't exist -- dragons are not a threat, they don't exist either. You can still throw them on a Risk Registry/Threat listing, and call them a threat, because there's no definitive, objective, quantifiable process for determining what a threat is.

So yes, you can say Cuba is a threat. Even though for all practical purposes it isn't a "real" threat or a credible threat, you can still put it on a list and declare it 'technically' a threat to US national security. Just like you could put flying pigs on that list, or dragons, even though neither of those things exist, nor would any sane person think theres a real risk of america falling due to flying pig attacks -- if they're on a threat list, they're a threat.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I didn't contradict you, technically yes, realistically no.
Which is also what you write in your response.

I edited my post to make that part more clear.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Nation state DARVOing

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Fucking USA, they are saying that for 60+ years. From their beloved president JFK to the current president, no difference, same shit, "I took what I want".

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Gee, I wonder how it got that way…

[–] originaltnavn@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I guess the previous war didn't last until the elections, so time for another. On the bright side, it seems like most of our politicians here in Europe are done with joining these pointless tragedies.

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

This is new news? Cuba has been Cuba for how many decades?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Well the yanks did just find out they're literally incapable of winning a war so maybe they should be scared.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] underThunder@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 week ago
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