• Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    Cubans in Florida pushing for Trump was not on my bingo card, for sure.

    I also remember seeing “general chat lobby” spammers switching from the boilerplate racism tropes to Portuguese and learning about Brazilian troll farms.

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      9 months ago

      A lot of Miami-based Cubans are VERY anti anything socialist/communist. All you’ve really got to do is say you’re fighting “those socialists trying to take over” and it’s a tragically easy way to win that vote.

      Source: My own family/life experience growing up in Miami

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        9 months ago

        the biggest flaw in communist theory is the “temporary dictatorship” part…
        it turns out, temporary dictators never willingly stop being dictators…

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          9 months ago

          The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is just a stupid name for the transitional period. It’s not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but unfortunately Marx was a little drama queen from time to time…

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        9 months ago

        They fled from a country that’s been communist for over 60 years and they’re not big fans of communism you say? Weird.

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          9 months ago

          I witnessed the dangers of authoritarism, so I’m going to vote for… the most authoritarian douche that I can find"

          Honestly I think it’s time to stop pretending they are poor refugees and treat them as the fascist assholes they really are.

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      9 months ago

      They fled Cuba after Bastilles fall and Cubas oppression from the communists so it makes some, unfortunate, sense that they support the orange man.