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47 points

Cubans in Florida pushing for Trump was not on my bingo card, for sure.

I also remember seeing “general chat lobby” spammers switching from the boilerplate racism tropes to Portuguese and learning about Brazilian troll farms.

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75 points

A lot of Miami-based Cubans are VERY anti anything socialist/communist. All you’ve really got to do is say you’re fighting “those socialists trying to take over” and it’s a tragically easy way to win that vote.

Source: My own family/life experience growing up in Miami

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12 points

the biggest flaw in communist theory is the “temporary dictatorship” part…
it turns out, temporary dictators never willingly stop being dictators…

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18 points

I agree. Any transition away from capitalism should not involve a dictator.

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6 points

The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is just a stupid name for the transitional period. It’s not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but unfortunately Marx was a little drama queen from time to time…

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3 points

They fled from a country that’s been communist for over 60 years and they’re not big fans of communism you say? Weird.

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8 points

Actually it’s because they’re stupid and watch Fox News and haven’t read enough theory

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6 points

A lot of the established Cuban community in Miami are the children of wealthy Cubans who fled during the revolution. So yeah they fled communism but maybe not for the reason you meant.

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2 points

I witnessed the dangers of authoritarism, so I’m going to vote for… the most authoritarian douche that I can find"

Honestly I think it’s time to stop pretending they are poor refugees and treat them as the fascist assholes they really are.

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8 points

They fled Cuba after Bastilles fall and Cubas oppression from the communists so it makes some, unfortunate, sense that they support the orange man.

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16 points

It was Batista, not Bastille, which is the famous French prison.

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11 points

You mean they were fired out of Cuba on Ballistas?

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0 points

Eh, close enough

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