EDIT: Correction, I was banned from Lemmy Zip, the confusion stems from my inability to see Lemmy Zip communities in the search anymore leading me to think it was Lemmy ML which has a community of the same name.
You must have told the truth about China.
Or maybe criticised the Generalissimus Stalin?
Cuba displayed the capability to be a threat when the USSR set up Nuclear Weapons there many decades ago, and the same family is leading Cuba now as back then with the same alliances to the eastern bloc. China and Russia expanding borders again shows that they are willing to escalate again, pushing the world closer to war.
The proxy war is in full effect right now with the USA pushing down on Iran and Venezuela as reactions to China pulling strings in those countries to empower Maduro and to funnel weapons from Iran to Gaza, Lebanon, and Egypt.
The best thing for Cubans right now is to turn away from the will of China and Russia, to foster good relations with the USA like the many other nations in the Americas have, so that normal trade relations can happen and their people can prosper.
Honestly, it's fair that they would ban you from their spaces for simping for US imperialism this hard. In the anarchist collectives I frequent we would do the same.
Of those three quotes, only the last is simping for American imperialism unless I'm missing something, or we're accepting criticism of Russia and China or acknowledgement of the attempt of 'superpowers' to use other countries as proxies as simping for American imperialism.
Though the second quote, unrelated to the broader point, seems confused about who Egypt aligns with.
EDIT: Related to the other comment chain, a warm welcome to Ensign_Crab, our local tankie who has paid us a visit to simp for Stalin and the PRC
They're all the same comment, it's Markup that adds breaks between paragraphs when quoting.
The second paragraph implies the US is justified in attacking Iran and Venezuela because China is "pulling strings", which is imperialistic. Even with delivering weapons to Gaza, Egypt, and Lebanon, this exists in the context of the US seeking to cripple the middle east's ability to defend against colonial genocide by Israel because Israel is a forward base of US empire.
"Figthing an empire is imperialist" is quite the take on all of this.
I don't think attacking Iran or Venezuela were justified because the attacks were not sanctioned or planned by US Congress nor were they carried out by USA and Allies combined forces. Instead, both operations were a fucking embarrassment caused by the Orange asshole, as will the Cuban operations if they continue to instigate the stupid animal at the zoo.
“Figthing an empire is imperialist” is quite the take on all of this.
Yeah, remember when the British Empire and French Empire were both non-imperialisticically colonizing Africa because both were fighting the other empire for control over the continent? You can tell because when they were gunning unarmed people down with machine guns they said they were afraid those people would be sympathetic to the other empire, which meant they were fighting the other empire.
When two empires fight using imperial domains as pawns, both are imperialistic, not neither. The US is using Israel as an imperial forward base and Iran is using Hamas as imperial auxiliaries. The US is claiming Cuba and Venezuela as imperial sphere of influence (Monroe Doctrine) and China is supplying them as imperial forward bases.
That is not to say one empire can't be less wrong than the other in a specific conflict. The US is less bad than China in Taiwan and China is less bad than the US in Cuba. Worming your way out from under an empire often means strategically allying with another empire, and for my corner of the world I'm glad US hegemony is collapsing; Maybe the planet won't become uninhabitable after all.
China is less bad than the US in Cuba
There is never, ever, any circumstance where China is less bad than the USA. They're the top of the totem pole for greed and violence, China is an existential threat to humanity. The worst parts of the USA would be Trump and the GOP, which China endorsed and promoted with psyops such as TikTok to empower.
Thank you for being so transparent about this.
Right now, Egypt is full of internal struggles, including groups which are supplied weapons by Iran. The state of Egypt is allied with the west and is actively participating against Iran. Likewise, I don't associate Palestine with the militant Hamas. The closest thing to one of my examples being part of the state would be the politically fractured Lebanon, but the ones receiving direct militant support from the eastern bloc only manage a small part of it.
As for the "simping" allegation, can you come up with another solution with zero bloodshed? Can you think of an outcome with bloodshed that is genuinely better for it? Because I can't. Best bet for Cubans is to weather out the storm that is the Trump admin. Become a part of the scenery.
Right now, Egypt is full of internal struggles, including groups which are supplied weapons by Iran. The state of Egypt is allied with the west and is actively participating against Iran. Likewise, I don’t associate Palestine with the militant Hamas. The closest thing to one of my examples being part of the state would be the politically fractured Lebanon, but the ones receiving direct militant support from the eastern bloc only manage a small part of it.
Most people would say "to [countries]" meaning "to the government of [countries]" rather than "to the region", especially since the context is explicitly the governments of China and Iran supplying others.
Not saying you're incorrect (though Egypt is not particularly filled with armed internal struggles last I checked), but that the wording definitely has implications that are easily read a different way than you meant.
As for the “simping” allegation, can you come up with another solution with zero bloodshed? Can you think of an outcome with bloodshed that is genuinely better for it? Because I can’t. Best bet for Cubans is to weather out the storm that is the Trump admin. Become a part of the scenery.
Weathering the storm is different from working towards good relations with the US. Cuba has extended numerous olive branches, and at some point, we have to accept that it's not Cuba which needs to change course with regards to US-Cuban relations.
The issue of their domestic governance problems is... separate.
No need to obscure it bro, heres a LINK to the full context.
Given the timing, though, much more likely is me derailing their anti-western and pronatalist propaganda in the Science Memes community LINK TO THAT.
EDIT: fixed link
How is this about ML? You got site banned from lemmy.zip: https://lemmy.zip/modlog?actionType=ModBan&userId=27203990
For real? I only looked up one of the communities since Feddit.Online doesn't show the instance in the notifications, Cyberpunk, and it was on Lemmy ML. Is it that I can no longer see the zip community in the list now?
EDIT: Can confirm, the Cyberpunk ZIP community exists but it's removed from the community search results for me.
You said Xi's cock was only 7 inches instead of 9, didn't you?
Wait is Feddit.online ML Tankie?
No, the user is just from Feddit.online so the logo shows up in the corner of their browser
OK. I am just confused by the image and couldn't tell which instance they got banned from.
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