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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    https://www.advocate.com/world/2016/11/27/fidel-castro-leaves-legacy-oppression-say-many-lgbt-cubans

    “I would never be happy about anyone’s death – anyone,” Herb Sosa, a Cuban-American who heads the Miami-based LGBT group Unity Coalition, told the Washington Blade. “But the long-awaited passing of one of the Castro monsters that have imposed nearly six decades of oppression, pain and death to so many Cubans does bring a certain closure for many.”

    “No matter how much better life for gay Cubans might have improved from the days of forced labor camps, it’s all occurring within the context of a totalitarian society whose citizens cannot vote, are denied basic freedoms like the right to speak or protest freely, and cannot form organizations independent of the government,” Kirchick wrote.

    Nevertheless, much remains to be done to advance human rights, including LGBT rights, in Cuba, activists say. “Fidel Castro’s death invites us to remain calm and to focus on our activism to achieve change in Cuba, as opposed to rejoice over his death,” Nelson Gandulla Diaz, president of the Cuban Foundation for LGBTI Rights, told the Blade Saturday.

    “Fidel is gone, but Raul remains,” he added. “The fight continues.”

    Sounds great lmao






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    The mask is the “no we totally don’t want to murder people…except these people we decided should be murdered 'cause they’re Kulaks.” The quiet masky part is the “actually murder is good when I dislike someone” bit.

    And forgive me, I was confusing Cuba executing gay people for the USSR, small whoopsie, and I’m sure none of the USSR gay people were worked to death in a gulag during their bid, nooo never.




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    it doubled the life expectancy of those in the USSR

    Does that include political dissidents, homosexual people, and economic criminals? Oh those people were executed in droves? My mistake.

    Don’t waste your time on cowbee, he’s well spoken and slightly more polite than the rest of his ilk but he’s just as murderous as the rest of them, it’s just harder to get him to take his mask off.




  • The report floated the possibility that DOGE may change the rules on what types of guns can be imported

    Good, ITAR sucks balls. Gimme cheap Khyber Pass 1911s.

    and make licensing fees refundable.

    Good, if a refund is needed it should be given.

    The pseudo-agency will also reportedly make changes to the mandated 4473 Form that gun buyers are required to fill out when purchasing a firearm, and sellers are required to keep in their records to help trace guns. The plan is to cut the form from seven pages down to three. How will they do that? By asking fewer questions of the gun buyer. Per the Post, questions that are currently seperate that ask things like whether a person has been committed to a mental institution, has been dishonorably discharged from the military, or has used illegal drugs will all just get smushed together into a single “yes” or “no” question as to whether a person is legally allowed to own a firearm.

    So rather than asking 21 questions that are all a variation of “can you legally own this shit,” they’re going to make it one question that asks “can you legally own this shit?” Oooook, why the hell should anyone even care? “Oh no, nothing changed” ok cool.

    As noted by the other commenter, well regulated in this context doesn’t mean what y’all think it means. Furthermore who do you think will be “regulated” away from their rights if you get your gun control goal, the fascists or already marginalized POC? Hint: not the fascists.