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CONSENT MACHINE GO BRRR CONSENT MACHINE IS MY NEW MORNING ALARM I'll just real quick clarify some stuff for the true believers out therePermalink On twitter.com
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So, yes, technically, on paper, the US economic embargo on Cuba 1. only applies to US companies 2. allows Cuba to have other trade partners 3. has exemptions for food and medicine 4. is not a blockade But none of this is true in practicePermalink On twitter.com
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1. Any company that has any business or subsidiary in the United States is subject to sanctions. So if a German company which makes 99.999% of its revenue in Europe has one store of 3 employees open in Bumfuck, IL, it can't trade with CubaPermalink On twitter.com
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Since the US is the world's largest economy, basically no multinational is willing to never do business with America in exchange for servicing 11 million poor people in CubaPermalink On twitter.com
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2. The language of the law does not prevent Cuba from having trade partners, but all of Cuba's trade partners receive their own set of sanctions for... trading with CubaPermalink On twitter.com
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3. The food and medicine exemptions are vaguely worded and stacked with bureaucracy so that in practice, food and medicine are hardly traded. They were explicitly banned until 2000. Here's a Bad Empanada video on it, and examples youtu.be/dM7_wTqDUCUPermalink On twitter.com
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4. The embargo is literally enforced by the US Navy so... ??? The embargo was also literally in preparation for an invasion of Cuba. It was absolutely an act of war, which would make it a blockadeOn twitter.com
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The US embargo is unpopular in the US, and a good amount of people don't even hate Cuba all that much. So the media has to come out with pieces like these to justify what's happeningPermalink On twitter.com
