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[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 78 points 1 month ago (21 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?

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

That sounds like a real threat to the interest of the American Oligarchs. So, yeah, they are technically right.

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 47 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The capitalist and political class of the entire western world and it's allied countries were exposed as covering up for and being pedophiles.

This isn't a distraction. People like you and me in the working class gave them permission to stop the charade when we didn't chop off their heads. It's not a distraction. It's a continuation of it.

They are telling you bluntly that there will be no justice without us taking it by force. They are killing innocent children NOW in Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Cuba. They are separating children from their parents and putting them in concentration camps on our own soil. Do you think that's a distraction?

[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month 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 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's the .1 hanging on to?

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That he doesn't really have the brains

[–] OpenHammer6677@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] purplish2323@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

That he drops dead.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

Manufacturing consent

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

No one hates Cubans quite like the Cuban-Americans.

[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

the US is a bunch of absolute pussies, apparently

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everything is a national security threat.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~asshole~~ National Security Threat

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

Every agressor favourite excuse. Israel, the usa and russia

[–] Bristlecone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Same stupid fucking playbook every time....

[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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.

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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month 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".

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

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

Gee, I wonder how it got that way…

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Nation state DARVOing

[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Osama Bin Laden and most of 9/11 perpetrators were Saudis, aren’t they?

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