Quote (IchBinDaddy @ Apr 14 2022 05:23pm)
See - you hear something and them make up some random bullshit scene for it, like "The US is PUNISHING and EMBARASSING the civilians of Cuba by SANCTIONING the innocent CIVILIANS by not allowing ANY toilet seats to REMIND THEM about the CONSEQUENCES for not letting the US ABSORB them into their TYRANNICAL EMPIRE!!!!!!1111" After Mcafee says "No one, for example, even fancy places, can obtain toilet seats." When in reality toilets are usually sold without seats (everywhere) and it has just become apart of the culture to not give a shit (pun intended) about toilet seats.
You mold shit (another pun) into whatever fantasy that lives in your head and frame it as such.
The US supplies humanitarian aid to Cuba, regularly:
https://www.state.gov/fact-sheet-provision-of-humanitarian-assistance-to-cuba/ Whether or not the Cuban government distributes it in a smart manner is another story... if at all.
An embargo from the US does not mean Cuba is completely isolated, as you keep eluding:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Cuba/Trade . They deal quite a bit with Canada, btw... Including toilets.
First of all, I don't believe shit you say. John saw this shit with his own eyes while he was in Cuba, refusing to provide a country with something as benign as toilet seats is fucking nothing compared to the many, many things this nation's empire has done over the past century to so many countries in the name of domination and control over resources.
Secondly, all of my points still stand. Millions of people have been starved out, froze to death, or died due to a lack of medicine from US sanctions around the globe.
This form of economic blockade is little more than a tool in the hands of Evil, and it is being used to devastating affect on dozens of nations right now.
It's really sick too, when you realize that the sanctions are intended to try to make things so miserable for people that they rise against their government, thus achieving the US goal of regime change in these countries. But it almost never actually works, which means those people are dying for no reason other than US cynicism and complete lack of respect for human life.