Current Events > The Cuban exile community has the worst case of confirmation bias

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Anytime there's a slight protest in Cuba against the regime they think the collapse of it is immenent and that if it does that'll mean that the US embargo has been an effective strategy against it. Because doing the same thing for 60 years is guaranteed to finally succeed eventually, right?

My wife's family is Cuban. They are insufferable about just about everything political

Euripides posted...

My wife's family is Cuban. They are insufferable about just about everything political

If they're the kind of right wing whiny little bitches in Florida, I'm sorry.

And for some reason they think dems are communists

ForsakenHermit posted...

Anytime there's a slight protest in Cuba against the regime they think the collapse of it is immenent and that if it does that'll mean that the US embargo has been an effective strategy against it. Because doing the same thing for 60 years is guaranteed to finally succeed eventually, right?

To be fair the right-wing apparatus in this nation spent 49 years working towards getting Roe v Wade overturned and then it finally was. A lot of people thought it was just talk and/or was never going to happen, and then it did.

Having said that, I don't support the embargo.

ForsakenHermit posted...

If they're the kind of right wing whiny little bitches in Florida, I'm sorry.

Yuuuuuup.

Their views on illegal immigration are so hypocritical (because, you know, THEY coming from Cuba is FINE, but MEXICANS coming in IS NO BUENO)

Cuban Americans are as bad as rural white voters.

Kradek posted...

To be fair the right-wing apparatus in this nation spent 49 years working towards getting Roe v Wade overturned and then it finally was. A lot of people thought it was just talk and/or was never going to happen, and then it did.

Having said that, I don't support the embargo.

Not exactly an apples to apples comparison there. The rights fight in this country was a bit more complex and involved plenty of hard (but evil) work to make that a reality. The embargo has been one concept repeated ad nauseum in hopes that it will eventually work. We did a lot of other stuff too especially in the '60s to bring the regime down but nothing like the patient astroturfing the right did on abortion politics.

They are as right wing as any other Republican. I am going to say less after that.

Both parties need to tell the Cuban exiles to go fuck themselves on the embargo. The Dems aren't getting their vote and the right isn't going to lose them and will only gain more business opportunities from more access to Cuban markets.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Both parties need to tell the Cuban exiles to go fuck themselves on the embargo. The Dems aren't getting their vote and the right isn't going to lose them and will only gain more business opportunities from more access to Cuban markets.

Republicans thrive on ravaging other countries, they'll never support raising the embargo. They threw a fit when Obama opened travel, I think Trump ended that or something.

I mean the billionaire companies would gain a new place to launder money

Euripides posted...

My wife's family is Cuban. They are insufferable about just about everything political

My family is Cuban and...sigh...I agree...