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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

The 63 Years of the US Blockcade, Cuba Still Educates International Doctors For Free

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Garibaldee@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago
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By JR Valrey, The Minister of Information Dr. Samira Addrey is a class of 2020 alumni of The Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), and an organizer with IFCO/Pastors For Peace, who is currently giving out scholarships for ELAM. The ELAM scholarships were created by the Cuban goverment to help develop health and wellness services […]
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  • expatriado@lemmy.world
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    would be nice if Biden uses his lame duck status to revert it. FL isn’t much of a purple state anymore anyway

    • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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      Nothing good ever came from genocide joe

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Tell that to the millions of people who no longer have student loan debt.

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          https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/as-clock-ticks-down-biden-abandons-student-loan-relief-proposals-he-lauded/ar-AA1wfvfi

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Trust me, as someone who’s aid was blocked by the Supreme Court, I am well aware of what’s happening with this.

            That said, why don’t we actually talk about what he was able to forgive before Republicans shut it down?

            https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/biden-harris-administration-approves-additional-428-billion-student-debt-relief-nearly-55000-public-service-workers-0

            brings the total loan forgiveness by the Administration to approximately $180 billion for nearly five million Americans, including $78 billion for 1,062,870 borrowers through PSLF.

            Pretty significant. Want to compare it to the President with the second most student loans forgiven? Good news, you don’t need to. The rest of the list is empty.

            I’m not one of those, “wah, other people got something and I didn’t” people. I’m glad people had their loans forgiven.

    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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      It wouldn’t really mean that much since Trump would reverse that decision immediately.

      Basically just giving Trump a free win with the Latino block in Florida for no discernable benefit.

    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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      Trump got 56.1% vs Harris’s 43% in 2024.

      That means nearly every other person isn’t Republican.

      That’s pretty purple.

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        Yeah she lost FL by over 10 points. That’s pretty solidly red.

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        By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn’t useful anymore.

        Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it’ll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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          Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.

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            It’s almost like every state isn’t a monolithic political entity

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            So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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              What about strange women lying in ponds distributing swords?

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                Maybe slightly worse than the Electoral College.

              • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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                Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

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        33% of voteing age people in Florida didn’t vote. 37% voted for Trump, 30% for Harris.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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          The non voters already took themselves out of the equation.

    • djsaskdja@reddthat.com
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      Biden has never supported any leftist policies. Why would he start now?

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        Is lifting the embargo on Cuba really a “leftist” policy? Didn’t Obama try it?

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          Would certainly be a Leftist victory, arguing whether or not an action is leftist is semantics.

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    So bullshit that this is still going on.

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      The US Empire punishing its former colonies.

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    Such a propaganda title… I wonder who’s paying for these “US Blockade” articles that have been popping up.

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      You go live under a blockade if it’s such a propaganda title

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        LOL what sad shit is that? They don’t live under a blockade so how would me living under one make it NOT a propaganda title? One thing has nothing to do with another. This rhetoric popped up with this bullshit terminology late last year and I don’t know why. Usually it’s some bullshit misinformation campaign trying to rile the kids up. I’m just curious which superpower is financing this codswallop this time.

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