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Have you spoken to any person who escaped Cuba?

I bet you haven't, because they'll all tell you they escaped because the oppressive regime, not because of poverty.

The sanctions are there for the same reasons we have sanctions against North Korea, trading with murderous regimes is condoning their actions.

Listen to the protests and the Cuban people, you may learn something.

Hint: they're chanting "freedom", not "relieve sanctions". They're protesting their government, not ours.

But please tell me more how the Cuban people are uninformed and you understand the conflict better.

That is a lie. We're "mad" about Castro seizing power and nationalizing everything under his oppressive regime.

Human rights violations: https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/cuba

Cuba sanctions: https://www.state.gov/cuba-sanctions/

Are you suggesting JFK had an ulterior motive?

HN frontpage 15 days ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27653868

The propaganda hit MSN, Nature, NYTimes, and many other media outlets and those hit social media (FB, HN, Reddit, etc.)

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/cubas-covid-vaccine-riv...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01126-4

Really easy to see: https://search.brave.com/search?q=Cuba%27s+COVID+vaccine+riv...

edit: I see the top comment was flagged and deleted.

It violated no rules and was simply pointing out the propaganda that hit the media that I listed above.

Sad state of discourse on this site, regardless of who is moderating, dang or the users who abuse flagging.

It is for merchants. Chargebacks are abused and can kill your profitability in certain industries. Stripe and PayPal label these has high risks and will shut your account down if you receive too many chargebacks.

As someone who uses crypto on both ends, I think no reversal is the fairest way. Both sides lie, but the customer lies quite a bit and is usually favored in CC reversals.

Wouldn't that most likely be derivative of a peak mode (either up or down).

Park at top, open doors, wait for traffic down, return up.

Korea Lunch 1 would park at top for people leaving for lunch, 2 would park at bottom for people returning?

No, I personally think the US should manufacture more at home so we can control the process and reduce as many emissions as we can. I believe we are doing an okay job, and the numbers show, but we could be doing even more if politicians tried.

I also think we should invest more in natural gas and nuclear to wean off of coal entirely. While continuing investments in renewables in areas that make sense (wind in Texas, solar in Arizona, geo thermal, hydro, etc.) In addition to continuing researching new materials to replace others that may cause more emissions.

I'd just like to see the largest emissions tackled as well since time is off the essence apparently.

Also not a huge fan of plastic dumping, and anyone who does that should be sanctioned.

I criticize US politicians every damn day, but I can call the CCP out in this thread at the same time. It's not a countries fault, it's the leaders, and the CCP is authoritarian, they could do these things if they wanted to.

As far as US leaders... Democrats need to embrace the nat. gas pipelines, fracking, nuclear, and domestic manufacturing. Republicans need to embrace renewables in areas that make sense. Republicans have warmed up to renewables, Texas runs on 100% wind some days, but we need nat. gas for peak periods. Both parties need to support nuclear and sanctioning polluters.

Don't get me started on Europe...

If and when they decide to deal with the problem I expect they’ll make a lot more progress than we have.

Sure. I will update my stance if or when the CCP decides to do something, especially if they shoot past everyone in reduced emissions.

I won't hold my breath though, unless I'm in Shanghai's smog.

What makes you think the US gives a shit either?

Because we cut our emissions by a lot while increasing energy output & manufacturing, and it's many people's #1 issue.

I don't remember hearing about climate change in the CCP's 100 year anniversary speech, just bloody head bashing rhetoric.

Other countries outsource to China as well, why haven't they been cutting their emissions, there's only 12 countries or so that have.

You can hand-wave China away ignoring the numbers, or how much we send over there, what they are creating, how they are creating it, but you aren't doing the Earth any favor.

All of that doesn't address their new coal factories or plastic dumping either. Let's get a handle on that. Then let's worry about the manufacturing emissions as we don't even have alternative solutions for concrete or steel yet. Fair?

One article at the time said they had an informant that convinced top level criminals to use it and it spread from there.

Will try to find it, but it was awhile back.

edit:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/encrypted-messag...

The operation came into being after the FBI took down a Canadian-based encryption service called Phantom Secure. Phantom Secure was marketing its services to criminal elements, offering secure communications through the encrypted cellphones that the company provided to syndicates. When the company was dismantled in 2018, the FBI sought to fill the void in the black market for secure criminal communications. To make that happen, the agency recruited a former distributor of Phantom Secure as an informant who, in return for reduced jail time, not only helped develop an encrypted communications system called ANOM, but helped market it to insular networks of criminal buyers.

Again, I support moving more manufacturing to the US for sure.

And we can demand our politicians to do that so we can control emissions, as well as try to hold countries accountable through sanctions. (don't buy any slave-made products, don't buy any coal-made products)

We can certainly blame China for building coal factories, dumping plastic in the ocean, and generally just not giving a fuck about human rights or environmental rights.

I don't take anyone serious who advocates green policies without holding the biggest polluters accountable who aren't changing their ways.

The "per capita" and "outsourcing" points are propaganda used to deflect responsibility. Unless you have a stat how much emissions come from that outsourcing you are waiving their responsibility via a talking point.

Also, we're not talking about making emissions zero, we're talking about LOWERING. So even if they didn't cut emissions for the stuff they make for us, cutting domestic emissions should still lower their overall emissions. China isn't getting more factories, factories are moving out, so we should see a decrease.

So without global warming, a location that was 104F would have been 102F. Still a severe heat wave, just slightly less intense.

So he claims global warming is contributing to the heatwave (by increasing it by 2 degrees, not causing it). He got to report the science and keep his grant. Smart!

If you truly believe it's this dire, does it matter?

It's up to that country to cut emissions even if they accept that job on behalf of other countries.

But first, lets start on just not dumping plastic into oceans, building more coal plants, and generally not cutting emissions at all (China)

Then we can worry on the manufacturing like cement and steel (I believe we should make our own steel anyway)

The more stuff we make, the more control we have over the emissions during the process. Because apparently, other countries don't give a shit.

Go look at the countries that have cut emissions. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/climate-change-co2-emissions...

That's the only metric that matters, anything else is propaganda for those who aren't.

Fracking did manage to drop our emissions phasing out coal. But politics gets in the way of natural gas all the time. Politics got in the way of nuclear as well.

Also, if you truly want to cut emissions, stop caring about "per capita" and force your politicians to start holding the biggest polluters accountable and the countries not decreasing their emissions.

And everyone stopped trying to link events through any sort of rationale. Hurricane? Climate change. Wild fire? Not forest management. Climate change. 100 year freeze? It's only happened once in our lifetime, and once in the early 1900s, but climate change! Heat wave. Climate change.

Basically just replace climate change with "God is angry" because science has nothing to do with it, otherwise you'd hear attempts to link the freak weather events with climate patterns.

Pro tip. the more sporadic the weather event, the less likely it has to do with climate.

I know, I was speaking to the fact that they are right leaning.

The point to that sentence was to say there are reasons to not be left leaning (leftist or liberal) that don't involve conspiracies.

I disagree that there's a "surge of religiously motivated" as an insider within the party I see the religious social aspect is less prominent than the economic, foreign policy, and security issues.

You have to know that the right is a far spectrum.

As a libertarian conservative I support abortion, but not late-term abortion or post birth.

That and religion in general is mainly an evangelical right thing and is less popular within the party nowadays.

I believe that Chinese-Americans have a reason to support the right's tough stance on China. Let's ask Eric Swalwell & Fang Fang.

I also believe most are just normal Americans that happen to also be conservative. It's a thing, doesn't have to be a big conspiracy.

I also don't view it as an "unfortunate nexus" as I don't view being on the right a bad thing.

I welcome anyone to be a conservative, including Chinese-Americans.

Terrible bias in this article. Chinese-Americans can't be on the right side of the spectrum without being conspiracy theorists?

Maybe they don't like cozying up to the CCP like Democrats have been seemingly doing.

Many reasons to not be liberal, and being crazy isn't one of them.

"Infiltrate" and "go under cover" all you want, you're the only conspiracy theorist!

Maybe if you mix in Proud Boys, QAnon, and the "ok" sign even more you'll get more clicks.

I don't see any name dropping of Antifa or anyone that's actually killed anyone (CHAZ, BLM riots), strangely...

This article pretends like the virus wasn't most likely a lab leak. Saying "blaming China for the pandemic shifts focus from criticism of the Trump administration's response and plays into the increasingly negative public opinion of China."

Which gov let it out, which gov bought up PPE beforehand, which gov said it wasn't transmissible until late Jan, which gov shut down domestic flights to/from Wuhan but left international flights open? CCP.

Forums are still alive and well for most niches. Discord groups serve a specific purpose as well.

Aggregators are nice too, from all sides of the political spectrum to avoid echo chambers/censorship.

News aggregators:

- lobste.rs

- notabug.io

- patriots.win

Forums:

- ar15.com

- pbnation.com

- many many car forums

What's your definition of peaceful? No dissent of your political beliefs?

Because it doesn't seem to be about murder spikes, riots, or organized thefts.

Silencing your opposition doesn't make them go away or make your views right.

He is, there's plenty of small towns in Texas inspired by what you see in Germany, the author just hasn't visited them. Texas has a massive Irish, Czech and German populations and culture. Dublin, TX is one of many examples (pop. 3,654). Like pretty much all Texas small towns it has a downtown you can walk end to end within 15 minutes. One main street going through it. Local coop and most things you need. What did I miss?

Fredericksburg & New Braunfels have major German culture and German buildings from the 1800s, but they are larger cities now as they have expanded, but the downtown areas reflect what you guys want, but ya' know, connected to the world via roads.

Most of Texas small towns have co-ops, communities of 3000 give or take, and it's all walkable and drivable (usually one road going through them linking towns via backroads)

Usually they are pretty self sufficient because they are isolated, but you still need roads to connect the outer farms and other towns for supplies to reach downtown, and when you want to travel to bigger cities for larger hospitals, cinemas, family, clubs, etc. In West Texas you need it especially because good luck growing anything there.

This author is just ignoring existing culture and trying to apply direct European culture ignoring the fact that immigrants from those cultures have already merged and influenced small towns across Texas.

My advice, take a road trip through the backroads that connect Texas, you'll get a large dose of many cultures, nice people, great food, and massive highschool football games for entertainment on Friday nights.