Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Why A Dictatorship Could Crumble: "Young Cubans... have not been brainwashed."" video.

They were "deterred" by the US Coast Guard. What you mean to say is blockaded. These are libertarians who don't know how to feed themselves and can't get anyone to do anything without payment. This is why the need to use paid smugglers. Now if you think like the typical libertarian would you the smuggler sell the product once inside Cuba or would you just give it away? You do remember Pharma bro. If protest are evidence of Dictatorship then certainly the US is a dictatorship. US officials have arrested hundreds for a failed insurrection on January 6th.
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Cuban Americans were going to bring supplies in their own boats but were deterred by the US Coast Guard. The correct term would be blockaded.
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@FREEMAYKELOSORBO I've done voluntary labor if that's what you mean. I suppose you only do something because some one pays you too? Don't you want to cry about how the billionaire could take a big loss of millions? You do realize that US paper money in dollars is created by the government printing office and electronic money is numbers in a computer overseen by the US Federal Reserve Bank?
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@uzefulvideos3440 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!
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Ya that water in Flint, MI was real clean. I really enjoyed living in a California homeless shelter. The Cuban revolution was made with all American arms. Keep selling those guns because we know which way to point them.
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@robertlehman9411 Ya like Canada has no controls or taxes on anything. If there is one thing peasant farmers and slaves know it how to do it is to produce food. Maybe as a philanthropist you should concentrate on saving Canadians dying of Drug abuse on the streets of Toronto or maybe helping those Canadian farmers being pushed off the land by capitalist farming. At the time of the revolution Cuba had 3 million people it has about 12 million today that's a factor of 4 Where as the population of Canada went from 18 million to 38 million about double. Canada has much more arable land and is not blockaded by the USA. .
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@FREEMAYKELOSORBO Maybe we should just abolish private property here like what was done in Cuba. What do we need billionaires for?
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You heard her admit the US Coast Guard is enforcing the blockade.
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Yup hire people to do the dirt work of smuggling because you can't find volunteers. When you have to pay people to do the smuggling why won't they just become you ordinary libertarians and sell the medecene for whatever the market demands? She doesn't send in a Container ship because the US Coast Gurad wouldn't permit it. She has sent 800 lbs so far that's not even the dry weight of a single container.
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@chucklindenberg1093 The bosses had their chance to provide a secure retirement by capitalism before the Great Depression. You can't do it no matter how much you and Milton Friedman talk. You want a system where the bosses do nothing but own, inherit and manage. While we do nothing but work for your convenience.
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@brianjones7660 People actually own their homes or pay a percentage of their income in rent in Cuba unlike the US where the bankers and landlords own and can kick you out. No one is kicked out of their home and made homeless like in the US. Neo liberal capitalism with its markets only has homes for those who can pay. A home is something to be used as an investment for the wealth of the property owners. in other words its a commodity to be bought and sold for the benefit of the buyers and sellers making profits in a market.
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@basil7292 The Cuban revolution was made with all American arms. All attempts to overthrow the Cuban government originated in Washington, DC because the contras lack a just cause to defend. This is why they always call for US intervention.
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@lrodriguez6691 You just a supporter of American Imperialism injustice and Bourgeois nationalism. The educated loose their privileges when education is no longer a privilege. This is what people like you fear most.
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@kwannp6141 End the US Blockade of Cuba!!! 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington , April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary?2
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@lisashapiro4714 These libertarians want to create empires of private property.
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@Barskor1 Libertarian nonsense.
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@Barskor1 How about the 100,000,000 who died early deaths due to leaded gasoline? The 20,000 who died to get rid of your capitalist dictator General Batista The number of lives saved by Cuban medical solidarity? Hitler wanted to build a German capitalist Empire like the British. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter armed and supported Pol Pot at the UN. The US/UK gave the Green light to the Indonesian military dictatorships murder of 1 million Communist suspects. All the libertarians want to do is delink capitalism from the capitalist government and its crimes.
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@Barskor1 The libertarians also talk about how capitalism could work instead of how it actual does like Karl Marx in Das Kapital. The sing hymns of romantic praise to he industrialist as the greatest of ever human beings. Their problem is the have no way to their dream world without crushing the industrial trade unions by use of fascist methods. .
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@Barskor1 No capitalism produces what will make a profit. Riles and nuclear weapons in addition to sliced bread and instant pudding and the capitalist government defends their profit system though the democratic dictatorship of capital. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism because capitalism is based in nation states which fight over the world market leading to the first Imperialist world war. The Russian revolution began by the strike action of women textile workers growing into a General strike and the creation of Soviets Russian for councils. The Bolsheviks proposed an armistice with no annexations which 14 Imperialist armies answered by invasion of the new workers Russian Soviet Republic. The class struggle is the road to socialism because the workers have no interest in these Imperialist wars for capitalist foreign investors profits or the making of a tiny ruling class super wealthy. Capitalism dead ends as machines replace labor the rate of profit must decline by which all capitalist measure success. To get around the need to issue wage cuts the capitalist created a central bank and fiat currency from which to use inflation to rob the working class of its wages value. . .
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@Barskor1 Capitalism is a social system where most production takes place in factories that are owned by capitalist. The stock market quickly corrupts any Democratic Republic. Cuban medical solitary is not only for Cubans but other people who live in third world nations who revive medical brigades of Cuban Doctors. 10,000 foreign medical students are studying in Havana at no direct cost to the student. The Cuban medical system is based on healthcare in the neighborhoods and towns where a Doctor is responsible for healthcare delivery to everyone in the neighborhood. Like the free educational system the US seeks to destroy it. The US has been calling Cuba a Dictatorship despite the fact that it has always know that to be untrue. 499. Memorandum From the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Mallory) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Rubottom)1 Washington, April 6, 1960. SUBJECT The Decline and Fall of Castro Salient considerations respecting the life of the present Government of Cuba are: 1. The majority of Cubans support Castro (the lowest estimate I have seen is 50 percent). 2. There is no effective political opposition. 3. Fidel Castro and other members of the Cuban Government espouse or condone communist influence. 4. Communist influence is pervading the Government and the body politic at an amazingly fast rate. 5. Militant opposition to Castro from without Cuba would only serve his and the communist cause. 6. The only foreseeable means of alienating internal support is through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship. If the above are accepted or cannot be successfully countered, it follows that every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba. If such a policy is adopted, it should be the result of a positive decision which would call forth a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government. The principal item in our economic quiver would be flexible authority in the sugar legislation. This needs to be sought urgently. All other avenues should likewise be explored. But first, a decision is [Page 886]necessary as to the line of our conduct. Would you wish to have such a proposal prepared for the Secretary
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