Marco Rubio once claimed his family fled Cuba's Revolution in 1959 after Fulgencio Batista was ousted. When that was debunked with official documentation proving his family fled the U.S.-backed Batista regime, which was killing its opposition in the streets, he responded by saying his story was based on family lore passed down by his parents and grandparents, not official accounts.
And that, my friends, is how many Cuban Americans derive their opinions about Cuba. Hyperbolic “family lore” that when faced with even the slightest scrutiny, doesn't add up or jibe with historical records. That's why they get mad at you and call you names when you meet them with the slightest push back.
And I get it. Challenging decades-old false narratives that they lived their whole lives believing and accepting they were lied to my family is hard.
But it's absolutely necessary.
Listen to my people on the island. Give their stories more weight. They are no one's enemy. They just want to be left alone and to live without penalty.
lost a presidency to one of the worst candidates in american political history to maintain genocide in gaza & then let everyone know she “told us so” at a civil rights activist’s funeral, she really queened out with that one
50 Cent on IG got me CRYING
“Fvck today man the Knicks lost, the pope died, and Kanye told us he sucked his cousin's d*ck for 8 years. I'm going to bed early tomorrow gotta be a better day.”
😂😂😂
Israel’s war crime checklist:
1. We didn’t do it
2. Okay, we did it but they were Hamas
3. Okay, not Hamas but they were suspicious
4. Okay, they were clearly civilians but it was an accident, we’ll investigate
5. Our investigation found no wrongdoing
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‘NO OTHER LAND’ co-director Yuval Abraham reports that co-director Hamdan Ballal was attacked and wounded by Israeli settlers, and then abducted by Israeli soldiers from within the ambulance taking him to the hospital.
His condition and whereabouts are currently unknown.
"There are a few super-intense people who make a big fuss"
Legendary Japanese dev Hideki Kamiya says "normal people" don't care about the Assassin's Creed Shadows controversy
immigration is the ultimate red herring they’ll constantly increase pressure on this issue that isn’t an issue, they’ll revoke birthright citizenship but that will solve nothing, so what’s next - denaturalization. i promise you, it’s coming.
Jane Fonda slams Gavin Newsom, comparing him to Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister known for his policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany, rather than Winston Churchill, who led Britain through World War II with resilience and defiance.
She argues that Newsom won’t learn anything about why Democrats lost by listening to Steve Bannon and insists that the only way to truly understand is by talking to working-class voters.
Interview by @Elex_Michaelson
shai davidai is having public freakouts at me because i said he is responsible for mahmoud’s abduction by ICE. after 1.5 years of harassing me online that started when i was 18 years old i literally could not care less. he must be held accountable for what he did to mahmoud.