Axis of evil.
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The continuing American embargo on Cuba after the Cold War has always been toddler tantrum level of pettiness.
I thought Obama had finally closed that chapter, but I was wrong.
Obama had started. But Trump reversed.
This was so fucked up. I know presidents shouldn't be able to set things in stone, but it shouldn't be so easy for a petty president to just undo the all last ones things just cause they're a thin skinned bitch
I used to believe that the Cuba embargo is due to Cuban refugee vote in Florida.
But that doesn't make sense anymore given that Florida is no longer a swing state. In fact it never really made sense since the demo that is very pro-embargo has always been solidly Republican and therefore unwinnable.
So what really explains the embargo? Quite frankly I think it's banana republic foreign policy and wealthy people in the US not wanting there to be a successful socialist state. For instance, the recent energy crisis in Cuba is driven by the Biden administration sanctioning oil tankers who visit the island. Why on earth would the supposedly pro-Cuba democrats do that? Who asked them to do that? Who had the clout to make them do that? Some losers in Florida who were going to vote for Trump in a red state anyway?
This is correct, the US takes the threat of a good example very seriously, and has meddled in every single attempt at building any state, not only communist ones, that refuse to be controlled by US capitalists.
NGL kinda shocked that the CIA wasn't involved with the Argentine junta.
EDIT: It was! Your map needs more red on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Argentine_coup_d'%C3%A9tat
"Do you know why there has never been a coup in America? Because there is no US Embassy there! "
Old joke from down here
This is the only map I can find where Israel disagrees with the US.
Why is Israel voting against itself
Ah, the cracker index chart
Less so that they disagree and more so that it would damage their propaganda potential too much
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Well, the world certainly understands that the US holds a grudge. But Castro is dead. Feels a bit silly at this point
From everything I've read over time - it's not even the US that holds a grudge, it's been popular on both sides of politics to end the embargo.
But neither will since it means losing the massive voting bloc of Cuban-Americans in Florida, Florida itself often being a decider of US elections. They don't want the embargo to end and anyone who supports ending it losses their vote.
Their reasons seem to vary, from the worst being wealthy land owners who had their lands taken by Castro only wanting relations normalised if they get their land back to the more common escapees who don't want to normalise relations with the 'Castro government' ever, that Cuba needs to ditch the regime first.
Florida hasn't been a swing state in years, and it's not like Cuban Americans are ever going to vote Democrat regardless.
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Silly and grudge are very interesting terms to describe an illegal embargo that brings millions in the brink of starvation and poverty.
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It's also a shame that Argentina, while it voted in favor, actually wanted to vote against.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl4y6w2r33o
Not surprising because:
What a stupid policy.
Just imagine if the UN had teeth for enforcement, at least for overwhelming votes like this. I feel like its one of the biggest oversights of the post WWII order they tried to make.
Big countries, of course, would never allow that, but still.
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Wtf are those colors, jfc... How bout a hand for us colorblinds.
This works?
So much better, thanks!
oh that's so much better! thank you!!
Is there a website that can help me make sure I am covering colorblind? Like my work does green/red for pass/fail, but we are trying to add some alternate colors for user to enable as needed.
Yes! One easy/good one to use is https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ It lets you pick two colors, and you can even use the eyedropper tool in their Color Picker box to select a color right off your screen. Then it'll tell you the Contrast Ratio of the two selected colors. Higher is better. It will give you a pass/fail for WCAG AA and AAA (two levels of web accessibility standards). I just now checked the red and green from the linked map and it had a ratio of 1.3:1 which is a fail for both AA and AAA.
Some websites (like Trello) give accessibility options to skip colors altogether, and use patterns (cross-hatch, polka-dot, etc.). But in general, going for a high enough contrast ratio should be good enough. I'm a web dev as well and we just run everything through one of those WCAG tools (I believe we've been using the WAVE browser plugin) and fix it until it passes. :) But, being the colorblind one on the team, I can often just be like "uhmm, that one ain't gonna work." lol.
btw sorry I got so spicy in my initial comment. I really wanted to see the map. :P
Edit: Another reply to my comment had a link to a more colorblind-friendly version of the map, with red and blue instead of red and green. Much clearer to my eyes. I eyedropped those two colors into that webaim checker, and I was surprised to see it also failed quite badly on the color contrast! For example you wouldn't want red text on a blue background (unless it was a bright red and dark blue, or vice versa). But for map colors, well... I guess that goes to show that for colorblind checking you have to use a little common sense and know what the most common no-no combos are (red/green seems to be the most common). I checked the accessibility docs at my work just now and we sometimes use this site to check what a site looks like under various types of colorblindness: https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter
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Embarrassing country to live within, but Hitler talk and our genocidal crusaders state make us the evil of greater proportions now.
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