US & Israel oppose entire world in UN vote to end Cuba blockade

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
- Soooo wtf are these Cubans thinking? These embargoes hurt the people in Cuba. So Cubans in Florida are basically Republican women? As in, they'd gladly hurt those like them as long as they can feel superior?

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.
- Why don’t they want it to end?
Silly and grudge are very interesting terms to describe an illegal embargo that brings millions in the brink of starvation and poverty.

Always the same map

looks like impunity

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
Ironic.
Why is Ukraine against?
- Because they have had a nazi gouvernement since the coup in 2014
- The proposal was submitted by the Russian Federation shortly after they attacked Ukraine, back when Russia was still claiming that "de-nazifying" Ukraine was the purpose of the invasion.
  https://press.un.org/en/2022/gashc4365.doc.htm
  Several delegates took to the floor to express concerns over Moscow’s attempt to exploit the pretext of combating neo-Nazism to justify its brutal war against Ukraine, with Ukraine’s delegate asserting that the draft has nothing in common with the genuine fight against Nazism and neo-Nazism. Echoing his concerns, the United Kingdom’s delegate stressed that the resolution is part of Moscow’s attempt to justify its aggression against Ukraine by furthering lies and distorting history.
  The United States’ delegate called the resolution “a cynical attempt” of Moscow to further its geopolitical aims by invoking the Holocaust and Second World War. In the same vein, Australia’s delegate called Moscow’s weaponization of the Holocaust and Nazism unacceptable.
- It's had a nazi government since the 2014 coup
- lol why do you think?

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

What a stupid policy.

Axis of evil.

Embarrassing country to live within, but Hitler talk and our genocidal crusaders state make us the evil of greater proportions now.

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:

https://apnews.com/article/milei-judaism-hezbollah-israel-hamas-war-netanyahu-d8831369a6bc8a96205d4080d2b2045b

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.

The UN is not meant to be a world government. It's meant to be a forum that allows all countries to maintain a bare minimum of diplomatic relations. The overarching goal is to prevent nuclear war and prevent WWIII.
It's predecessor, the League of Nations, was meant to prevent WWII and had some teeth to help enforce their decisions. The result was that it collapsed quickly and did very little to prevent another global conflict.

How the US Was Forced to Remove Sanctions on Zimbabwe

Wtf are those colors, jfc... How bout a hand for us colorblinds.

- So much better, thanks!
- oh that's so much better! thank you!!
Well Israel and US are one colour
Every one else is a different one
- ^^_^ 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
- Make the green a little bluer.

welcome to the rules based world order that yankeestan is peddling

blockade /blŏ-kād′/ noun

        The isolation of a nation, area, city, or harbor by hostile ships or forces in order to prevent the entrance and exit of traffic and commerce.

The forces used to effect this isolation.

The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies.

        "the blockade of the ports of an enemy"

The author needs to learn the difference between a blockade and an embargo. Cuba hasn't been under blockade since the end of the missile crisis.

It's very much a blockade in practice since it prevents the vast majority of companies of any country from trading with Cuba.
There are very few companies that would survive competition by sacrificing trade with the nearby US to trade with Cuba instead the way the "embargo" forces them to.
- That's an embargo.
  A blockade is military stopping traffic. "Effectively a blockade" is an embargo.
An embargo would imply its just America that can't trade with Cuba. In reality, almost nobody can trade with Cuba, because any ship that does cannot enter American ports to trade with America.
It may not be a blockade by the dictionary definition, but it's certainly not just an embargo.

USreal is asshoe

Death to em

What worse can Orange buffoon do to the world. At least with him in the helm the world will understand the truth US doesnt care about anyone or anything but itself.

He can, in fact, make a lot of stuff worse. And I promise you, he will if he gets the chance.
- He could also destroy the US, which would be a dramatic improvement for the rest of the world.
Well for one, he'd make it worse for Americans, specfically women.
America often acts it's own self interests which are going to run counter to the world sometimes. But if I am chosing between voting to benefit my fellow Americans or some other country... it's gonna be America. I expect and witness the same from every other country as well.
- Toppling elected governments, propping up dictators, attacking countries without reason, suppoting terrorists all in the name of self interest.
  Don't feel bad if the world wishes the same to your country.
Comments like this are one of a few things.
Bad faith, and useful idiots intentionally trying to keep people from wanting to go out and vote, which only helps MAGAts.
And dumbass, blind as shit privileged people who think nothing has changed in the last decade because you're simply not part of the target groups yet.
Life is so much worse for so many people because of Trump and to pretend like it wouldn't get worse with a second presidency (you know, the one where they intend to destroy democracy and the voting process and have said as much and have documents detailing how they plan to do it) is simply idiotic.
- But democracy and the voting process brought us Trump! It brought us genocide, it brought us child separation, it brought us the CIA, it brought us children in solitary confinement, it brought us the police force, it brought us Vietnam, it brought us nuking Japanese civilians, it brought us indigenous genocide, it brought us Flint, it brought us the highest rate of incarceration in the world over the last century.
  What does destroying US democracy and US voting actually, materially, change?
- Hell even on the issue of Cuba specifically, during his presidency Trump chose to undo the progress Obama had made. He has already made it worse

hello how do i block a whole instance?

Just go back to reddit if even this is intruding on your echo chamber too much lmao
- nah i’m trying to read less about america and i found if i block all the china/russia/palestinian left wing progressives/hacks/activists the fediverse becomes quite a nice place
Libs when confronted with anything that slightly challenges their worldview
I think some apps allow it, not sure though. You can also move to an instance defederated from .ml if that instance is more aligned with what you'd like to see. You can also just subscribe to communities and not browse "All."