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Refutations:

[JihadiMouse @quiveringpudle]

Never let the Epstein Left separate the US military from the IDF

[GlumBird @GlumBird]

Not a single tweet on the actual content of this in the quotes, no link from OP, nothing even remotely on what has actually been passed.

If you take Cuban socialism seriously, you won't jump to hard conclusions, but study, analyse and deliberate the content.

[Nikolai Rostov @austrosillyism]

The notion of reform is not new to Cuba. In the mid 1990s, when Cuba was reeling from the loss of the USSR and Comecon, Castro decided to become a pragmatist and allowed citizens to hold bank accounts, open small businesses, and (de facto) employ others, before allowing farmers to sell their surplus at market prices (like Deng), hold private farmland and give more land-use rights. He then allowed people to sell—individually sell—handicrafts, light manufacturing and consumer goods in public markets; and even allowed foreign direct investment.

Companies like Sheritt International of Canada committed billions of dollars for oil exploration, sugarcane, nickel mining, tourism, etc. This was despite the Helms-Burton Act which was designed to keep other foreign companies from investing in Cuba. The overall effects of the reforms were highly positive, with a growth in output, a fall in the price of the dollar, and greater abundance of foodstuffs and electricity. However…

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I have never heard of a country invading a neighbor and then calling it unfair that their soldiers died in that invasion. I don’t think any other country ever even thought to make that complaint.

On top of that, Israel now wants to retaliate for its soldiers being killed while invading their neighbor.

This is pure madness. Just leave Lebanon.

[Naz @nazbowling102]

Jewish scammer fails upwards thanks to Jewish nepotism, spends decades preying upon gentiles with a combination of aggressive sales tactics and deceit, when he finally gets busted he's given lenient sentencing and a Hollywood movie aggrandizing his crimes.

China would have just killed this guy.

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

It's easy to hate the Soviet Union for making mistakes, that's all the west ever talked about. But for revolutionaries it's one of the greatest treasure troves of socialist experimentation that should be studied and evaluated carefully, and we have barely even begun that work.

[after history 👤 @After__History]

The way Israel frames itself as the innocent victims of the people they are actively genociding and ethnically cleansing is near identical to how the Nazis employed victimhood narratives. In both cases, military defeat only makes this whining even more hysterical

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

FYI: while 1984 is purportedly an allegory of the Soviet Union, George Orwell never even set foot in the Soviet Union himself. For the book's depiction of censorship and the rewriting of history, he drew instead upon his personal experiences working as a propagandist for the BBC.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Russia Today head Margarita Simonyan to Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei:

"China never had illusions about the West. Russia did. By the time we understood, it was already too late."

Now her kids learn Chinese: "Because when we grow up, China will rule the world."

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

When colonial troops were massacring civilians, the West still claimed to represent civilization and portrayed its rivals as barbarians.

[Jeebait 🎣 @SuspendedRobot]

These people are so dumb they think they can just swap subjects in a meme and it would work

[hag @hag_anonymous]

“by Netanyahu and his right wing govt" of course lol

[Michelle @D162Michele]

Interesting how Chinese blockbusters are always propaganda, while Hollywood films featuring military hardware, military advisors, and military-approved scripts are somehow just ‘entertainment’.

[MAD CRAB 🦀🇭🇷🇵🇸 @bigmadcrab]

Liberals: “we wouldn’t have gotten into war with Iran if we voted for Kamala”

Biden admin: “yeah we were gonna do the same exact thing actually”

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

I disagree that we are in a "New Cold War".

Rather, we are in a continuation of what we might call the Long Cold War, or the Great Anti-Sovereignty War, which has been waged by the imperial core against liberation movements and sovereign-seeking states in the periphery that have sought to break from their subordination and exploitation within the imperialist world-system.

The Long Cold War encompasses Western attacks against the Russian revolution and the Chinese revolution, through the long series of invasions and regime-change operations that targeted Korea, Guatemala, the DRC, Brazil, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, Chile, Burkina Faso, etc, continuing well beyond the fall of the USSR with the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc., all the way to the strangulation of Cuba and the invasions of Venezuela and Iran in 2026.

As I see it, the usual claim that the Cold War runs from 1945-1991 doesn't work, the periodisation is wrong. The core states sought to destroy the USSR as soon as it was founded, long before 1945, and in any case their violence was never only just against the USSR, or just against USSR-aligned states, nor even just against socialism; it was fought against any sovereign-seeking state in the periphery - including non-aligned states - that threatened to escape the imperial arrangement.

The Long Cold War is, in other words, an imperialist backlash against the long struggle for liberation in the periphery. This aggression didn't end in 1991, it continues today, and it will continue well into the 21st century until it is defeated. And defeated it will be.

[trans judeo-bolshevik @transjewtalian]

there’s a p good book that came out a few years ago “nazi billionaires” by david de jong that detailed how the leading nazis & their families stole & maintained their fortunes, it ends with the author discovering that the goebbels family was a major donor to an israeli art museum

[Guglielmo Mano di Ferro @Devotio52]

Oggi molti storici lamentano la mancanza di fonti dirette dei grandi imperi africani come quello di Kanem, Mali (ricchissimo e avanzatissimo, quando le città europee, eccetto l'Italia, erano fogne aperte*) e Jolof (Senegal), oppure del regno dello Zimbabwe
Perché il neocolonialismo fece terra bruciata e, per "civilizzare" queste terre, testi e reperti vari furono distrutti perché ritenuti blasfemi o diavolerie superstiziose. O, nel migliore dei casi, depredati e portati in case private in Europa (ancora oggi fanno mostra del latrocinium compiuto). Colpevoli, in alcuni casi, di essere musulmani

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

No mention of the 168 children that were killed when they bombed an elementary school on the first day of the war. Liberals keep dismissing the lives of Iranian children just like they’ve spent years dismissing the lives of Palestinian children.

[Nougat Hand Bank @WireRacing]

The hasbarists hate this guy so much because he has no ability to lie about what they all believe