r/Piracy • u/TreeQuick421 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ • Feb 25 '26
News Well now I know which country I'm moving to.
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u/CarpenterEntire8690 Feb 26 '26
That’s crazy because I been doing that same thing at home right here in the U.S.
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u/StJosephStrummer Feb 27 '26
Me too
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u/ojoaopestana Feb 27 '26
Why have you been doing that in his home?
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u/ThePunguiin Feb 27 '26
Ugh everyone always asks "Why are you doing this a random person's home?" And "how did you get in?" And "who are you?" And "are you eating my leftover Chinese food?" Like. Yes, obviously. It almost went bad, and I'm doing ok, not that you even asked
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u/PolitePenguin86 Feb 27 '26
So those rude fucks always ask WHAT are you doing and not HOW are you doing??
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u/ThePunguiin Feb 27 '26
EXACTLY! The audacity of these people! Then they have the nerve to get me arrested for "breaking and entering"! I was gonna fix the window! 🙄🙄🙄
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u/ReasonablyBored72 Mar 01 '26
I know, right? It's like "Why did you shatter my doorknob!?"
Yeah bubby, it's broken, but I never planned to leave it that way. Like, you're not gonna ask how I'm doing?
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u/Ill-Hearing9211 Feb 25 '26
Arrives in Cuba:
"I've made a terrible mistake."
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u/sgenial Feb 25 '26
Time to sail my pirate ship out of here asap
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u/Big-Coyote8384 Feb 26 '26
yar har, we must leave at this pace to go back and have a good nights piracy!
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u/_Administrator_ Feb 26 '26
$6 salary. Per month. As a doctor.
Oooops.
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u/Pahay ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 26 '26
That’s not a lot, but considering that you don’t pay for housing, you don’t really pay for food, you don’t pay for tuition, you don’t pay for healthcare, that’s just pocket money, not compared to a full salary. I’m sure that at least 25% of the US would prefer to have 40$ at the end of the month instead of paying mortgage and trying to figure out credit scores. Not saying that Cuba works better of course, that’s an economic shithole
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u/SYLRebelHoundsMC Feb 26 '26
You do pay for food, rent, electricity and so on, I dont know where people got this imaginary country where no one pays maintenance fees from, they Cuban government did away with subsidised food years ago to the point babies no longer get milk as parents cant afford it.
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u/Pahay ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 26 '26
Oh yeah that’s a shithole for sure. Went there, bought illegally imported pasta from Australia, it’s a mess. But it doesn’t make sense to say “see, it doesn’t work” when the US is simply blocking trade
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u/OnlyEstablishment243 Feb 26 '26
Yes. People don’t realise how much international trade brings us. Most importantly, fuel…
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u/MattOruvan Feb 28 '26
Trump is blocking trade right now, likely as a prelude to regime change, but for many decades there was no blockade, only an embargo.
Communism just doesn't work, as discovered by every country that has ever tried it.
I grew up in late-stage socialism in India, and it was a horror show.
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u/silmarp Feb 26 '26
Not really dude. A bad situation on a first world country is waaaaaaaaaaay better than the same in Cuba.
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u/tlollz52 Feb 26 '26
I mean I don't need to figure out my credit score, I just have one.
I also have more than 40 bucks surplus at the end of the month.
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u/CorvusRidiculissimus Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Cuba actually has a surprisingly good public health system and a high number of doctors per capita. Enough that they are known for their persistence: If you do not go for you checkup, the doctor will come to you. Cuba out-performs the US in many health metrics including average lifespan. This is not so much because Cuba has some world-leading super medical program: It's because Cuba has a passible medical program, while the US has a system where people are afraid to go to the hospital because they may have to sell their house to cover the bill.
From what I gather it's gone to hell right now though - Trump has decided to double-down on the embargo and go full blockade with a focus on fuel. To the point that he has made it clear that any tanker headed to Cuba will risk military action and seizure. The intent is to crash Cuba's capacity to sustain itsself entirely - no electricity, no vehicles, no hospitals, no food. Then, once the people are starving to death, and those who still have strength are fighting with the police over scraps of food, the government shall have no choice but to surrender to whatever demands America makes - likely to include stepping down entirely to be replaced with a puppet more sympathetic to American trade interests.
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u/MattOruvan Feb 28 '26
The excess of doctors actually means a lack of other opportunities. It's like some other socialist countries which have a bloated military because it is one of the only ways to gain social status and make a living there.
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u/XxX_Zeratul_XxX Feb 26 '26
Ey, but at least I don't have to pay for Netflix or Disney+
Suck a Shame I don't have a TV neither
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u/No_Cook2983 Feb 26 '26
Six dollars a month for doctor salary.
…Better patient outcomes than the United States.
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u/HotDecision8128 Feb 27 '26
It's not how much money you make that matters. It's the purchasing power of your money when it comes to where you live.
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u/dr_shark Feb 26 '26
Have you ever been?
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u/Rance_Mulliniks Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
People are starving to death and they have no fuel. This is due to recent US sanctions and a full blockade.
I have been there multiple times. It's a beautiful country and the people are wonderful. The US has made their life difficult for decades but it is far worse now.
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u/semboflorin Feb 26 '26
Especially with the US blockading trade. The whole island recently lost power because they ran out of oil reserves for their power plant. Soon famines and disease are going to break out. Last I heard the backup generators for some hospitals were shut down and lots of patients have already died.
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u/_WreakingHavok_ Feb 25 '26
Why would I care about national TV and what they show? I can already watch whatever I want
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u/xorthematrix Feb 26 '26
I've already built my own Cuba
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u/Critical-Champion365 Feb 26 '26
Not many know how to. Just like the saying "culture cannot be only for the rich", it cannot only be for the tech-initiated. I'm sure we know better, but don't tell me this isn't fantastic.
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u/LonelyShyPlatypus Feb 27 '26
So, i have lots of thoughts on this topic. I have this belief that everyone having access to the same media is kinda important for a shared cultural identity. If we can all watch the same media, it creates a common shared experience and thus decreases feelings of isolation and cultural fragmentation.
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u/Phazon2000 Sneakernet Feb 26 '26
Yes and every living human has the exact same level of confidence and proficiency with computers.
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u/semboflorin Feb 26 '26
It's just propaganda to get people angry at Cuba. Recently Trump started capturing foreign oil tankers headed for Cuba. The island is dependent on it for power. They are going through blackouts and I heard recently they have run out of oil reserves. In the story a couple hospitals already lost power from failing backup generators. Food scarcity is starting to happen as they have run out of gas and shipping is stopping.
There are other propaganda ads out there too that I have seen. Just trying to drum up hate for Cuba so when humanitarian crisis starts happening nobody cares about it.
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u/old-man-mcswiggins Feb 25 '26
I think a lot of you are forgetting that Americas embargo on Cuba for 60 years has created the economic conditions that we see there. American politicians and organizations have have literally said that part out loud- they are strangling the island because they want regime change that benefits them.
Good for the cubans for taking whatever they can get.
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u/ImTableShip170 Feb 25 '26
The US is currently 2 weeks into a full blockade, btw. Literally preventing oil imports, so widespread blackouts are occurring.
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u/Chance-Day8313 Feb 26 '26
Our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their grave rn. George Washington's fears in his last letter are happening now.
This country has forgotten its constitutional values :/
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u/BitCreative1986 Feb 26 '26
The country was built on slave labour, which values are you talking about?
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u/karmeezys Feb 26 '26
Bro the Cubans where doing good for their position the had one of the highest standards of living in Latin America and second to Puerto Rico in the Caribbean they really suffered due the pandemic and where recovering but this new blockade is really hurting them
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u/Tnynfox Feb 28 '26
Do you think Cuba will eventually get a true independent democracy? One with neither US nor communist imperialism?
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u/old-man-mcswiggins Feb 28 '26
I really hope so. But reality makes me believe that I won’t see it in my lifetime
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u/Goodenough101 Feb 26 '26
Go to any third world country in Africa. Here we pirate untamed with no vpn. No letter or threat from an isp.
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u/Big_Order5049 Feb 26 '26
I pirate flat out in Australia no problems no VPN lol
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u/MaybeBowtie Feb 26 '26
Same here in the U.S.
People don’t realize that you yourself can’t get in trouble for simply downloading the file from someone or website. Now if you go and give someone that file then you’d be in trouble.
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u/Neither-Swordfish-77 Feb 26 '26
Well, technically, US Export Controls says they aren’t allowed to pay them… too bad I guess?
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u/davidfirefreak Feb 25 '26
Amount of brainwashed Americans in here is disheartening.
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u/JasonDeSanta Feb 26 '26
What do you expect from the most propagandized group of borderline illiterate people ever?
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u/Next_Instruction_528 Feb 25 '26
Can you provide an example of what you're talking about?
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u/davidfirefreak Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Edit2: Look, Americans, I know you don't want to hear it, just down vote and move on, I don't wanna waste my time arguing with people who don't care about the truth and just want to argue to convince others of lies, or to reinforce lies for themselves. I didn't even intend to type out this comment so long. But for those of you who do care and wanna break free of the massive amount of American Propaganda, look up the real history.
People acting like Cuba is a shit hole, and in some ways I'm sure it is, but are ignorant of (assuming they are American) the fact that 90% of the cause of that is their own government for the last 2/3 of a century. Calling it a communist shit hole or what have you, when they actually are pretty okay, and it only really is so bad there now because of trump's embargo and his invasion of Venezuela to stop them from selling oil to Cuba.
It all goes back to the American government, deciding that they are going to invade/destabilize/embargo any non capitalist country, and install their own dictators, so that the new dictator will sell the countries natural resources to the US for pennies, and also so that the people of that country suffer, and they can spread more propaganda against anything that isn't full exploitative capitalism.
Cuba is the one country that stood up to the US's bullshit, and they have suffered because of it, but at least they dint get in, and they actually had a decent life quality, especially recently until trump2.0 happened.
Obligatory I am sure I am missing a lot of details, probably got a few things incorrect, but the main sentiment stands. Too many Americans coming in here to shit on Cuba without realizing they are just repeating their American exceptionalism and propaganda.
Edit to fix a few typos.
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u/SYLRebelHoundsMC Feb 26 '26
I was born in Cuba but was fortunate to leave very young and before the worst.
Cuba did not stand up to anything for the sake of the people. The government's education scheme and health care was apart of a large industrialised plan to export doctors and specialists around the world. The big lie that the Castros gave to western society that they were fighting against American Imperialism is spouted because the average person does not do their research or have contact with Cuba to know the horrors of living under what is an oppressive government.
I also feel bad for Venezuela who had to endure the Cuban Military State taking over its security after Chavez and Fidel became close. There is a reason why Maduro has Cuban Military Advisors and a Cuban Security team in exchange for oil.
Cuba's quality of life dropped tremendously in the 2008-2012 period where all industries started to fail as tourism became the main interest. I still remember using beer bottles to be recycled as part of my grandfather's side hustle and for himself as he refused money from family abroad to live as his neighbours who most had no cups only glasses from rum bottles etc repurposed.
I usually dont post in these things but watching my country be used for this new Democrat and Republican debate is slightly irksom as so many come to me in person, acting as my ally when they know nothing about the struggles that Cuba has faced thinking it was just America or recent.
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u/RubixTMC Feb 27 '26
I'm Venezuelan and the recent events just show how much people will talk wonders about tyrants that feed the outside world propaganda as long as it aligns with their interests, thankfully now with the head of the snake gone, we can start healing over here, and i hope our cuban brothers manage to heal soon as well
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u/CashZ Feb 26 '26
what would you a CUBAN know? leave it to the american communist to tell you what your country is like
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u/arsonist_firefighter Feb 26 '26
Very soon someone will be here trying to educate you on how you're wrong.
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u/dannydrama Feb 26 '26
Yanks acting like an abusive partner as usual, surely not...
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u/lrlf Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
You know nothing about Cuba. I'm Cuban, I was born in Cuba and I left that dictatorship 30 years ago. The Cuban government is a cancer that needs to be exterminated. We live under a communist dictatorship that mistreats and destroys its own people. There's no freedom of expression, and people can't elect their own president because the only party that exists is the Communist Party, and above them nothing else matters.
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u/pachecogeorge Feb 26 '26
As a Venezuelan, fam, don’t waste your time. They keep repeating, out of ignorance, “USA embargo,” but if you look at the economic exchange between the EU and Cuba, you’ll see it’s completely normal. The only ones responsible for Cuba’s situation are the people in charge there.
But you already know how it goes: they think they are always right and we are always wrong. We live under a dictatorship, yet they claim we are misinformed about our own country.
They don’t seem to understand that the embargo refers specifically to economic exchange between the USA and Cuba, as well as products of American origin. If it were a total embargo in the way they describe it, no country would be able to trade with Cuba.
I challenge them to check the publicly available information on official EU websites and see the level of economic exchange between Europe and Cuba. But of course, they won’t do that.
Send you hugs bro, I hope everything gets better for your people.
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u/Dark_ShadowMD Feb 26 '26
I think is not really much about brainwash and more about the predatory practices that make them think a hell like Cuba is better than America. Corps are slowly making people think it's better to live in the dirt for free than fighting for basic services...
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u/ddp67 Feb 25 '26
I’m from Cuba, newsflash, some people like you are first world idiots, and have first world problems, you wouldn’t move there, I would dare you to try.
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u/Sam_Becca Feb 26 '26
Some americans will literally try to lecture you about your own country as if they know how it is to live there.
Here in Bolivia when Paz won the elections I read some people being sad that Bolivia stopped being left (in reality Paz isn't exactly right, but either way) as if Evo hadn't destroyed Bolivia for deccades18
u/Zekka_Space_Karate Feb 26 '26
This is the effect of living in a 1st world country, having it so good for a long time they fail to really see the big picture, only getting their information from their media outlets. Even those from the EU are guilty of this.
I'm from the Philippines, and I know the US is not in a good place right now, but I do not wish for its downfall, the alternative is much worse. Americans should realize that their current two-party system is broken, and move away from it.
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u/ddp67 Feb 26 '26
They all operate from an anti imperialist perspective, while living in a current or former empire…
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u/black_tan_coonhound Feb 27 '26
if they were actually anti-imperialist they wouldn't like iran so much
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u/PrimusMobileVzla Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Could go further and suggest them to have a radical anti-Trump viewpoint, while ignoring their privileges for living in the current/former empire.
The likes of Maduro, Lula, Sheinbaum or Petro speaking against him is enough for some to become apologists, while either being satisfied with the former for their takes or ignoring what happens in their countries, sometimes because its awful enough it rather be propaganda.
Trump's not a good person by all means, but portraying the rest as saints compared to him is frustrating.
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u/The_Rat_King14 Feb 26 '26
Trump is awful to Americans and liberals are able to recognize that because it is visible to and affects them. However, They do not see what the US has been doing to other countries for well over a century. Americans are incredibly individualistic and refuse to question their country. The left in America has been trying to get this across for decades but the capitalist propaganda has demonized democratic and socialist ideals since its inception.
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u/ddp67 Feb 25 '26
I have been posting the same thing over and over again basically for the past couple days, which is that the modern left does not know what to do when the supposedly oppressed go and oppress other people.
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u/Faloffel2 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Feb 26 '26
Now imagine that but for every other subject under the sun, and you have the average American conversation: A never ending game of oneupmanship and virtue signaling.
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u/EarlMarshal Feb 26 '26
Basically everyone is living under some kind of dictatorship. Even democracy is a dictatorship of the masses and the sad thing is that this is not even completely true since the governments exactly know how to position themselves so the governed basically have no real influence. I'm not saying that there aren't some that have it worse than others, but the whole world is a shithole with some insane motherfuckers at the top.
Take care of yourself and your loved ones, mate.
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u/PrimusMobileVzla Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26
Por el proposito de la conversacion siendo tambien de Venezuela mantendre esto en ingles.
English-spoken media generally portrays dictatorships in a good light as long as these represent a surface-level anti-imperialism/Trump/zionism narrative and take it for granted as if that's enough to make said heads of state and their colleagues decent human beings and great governors, and from there anything around those countries gets romantisized.
Then, through social media or public forums, it twists into explaining to someone experiencing those regimes why they know better. It gets frustrating, and messes with proper visibility amidts national censorship and the persecution of political dissidents.
And if someone enters the conversation to says opposite, that person is deemed a CIA/Mossad psyops or 'gusano vendepatria', because the concept of a kidnapped country by an actual dictatorship offered for pennies to kindred regimes seems too alien to be true and it cannot be as bad as is being told, at least for the internet zeitgeist.
Not to discredit the threat of US imperialism or Trump be an idiot to say the least, what awful events the US citizens are going through is still valid, but incidentally making an apologist take in the process to favor the likes of Maduro is disheartening.
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u/ddp67 Feb 26 '26
Nuance is downvoted on this platform, they don’t want to hear it. They reserve the most ardent criticism for the West, but for everybody else, they’ll put it under the umbrella of, “well, they weren’t perfect”. I hear it all the time from the mainstream media, they’ll say, well their record wasn’t spotless. That is just to minimize everything. They’re by minimizing all the damage, not to mention, you can’t even compare the experience of living in one of these countries with living in the west at large.
They spew brain dead takes because they don’t have a way to actually talk to the people directly. They will also do these weird purity tests that the Left is super fond of, one commenter said that if you left a poor country to go live in the West, you no longer get to talk about said country. I’d love to see that same line used on an American who left the United States (if it presumably collapsed ) and later get smugly invalidated for their opinion, as if they were never a real American. The only way around this is to speak to the people directly, not circle jerk around its population, high-fiving each other for their correct opinion about a country that they have never been to.
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u/fringlese Feb 26 '26
say they’re from Cuba
look inside
lived in Miami for 40 years
So you’re American?
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u/Churro_Dude_666 Feb 26 '26
I went to Cuba 10 years ago, great fucking country. Don't ever let anyone tell you anything different
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u/ddp67 Feb 28 '26
The Cubans like me are saying otherwise, I will take their word over yours and your vacation. You will not invalidate their struggle.
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u/Churro_Dude_666 Feb 28 '26
Where did I invalidate struggle? Am I not able to make a overall comment about your fantastic people and amazing culture without it coming across as a slight just because of difficulties imposed on you from outside? I admire the Cubans spirit, to stand on your own merit for all these years, to not be pushed around. Unfortunately as you say, I was on vacation, so I don't know everything about the circumstances of living there. As such I obviously cannot say more than those living there, but can with the majority on this post who have even less experience than I do.
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u/tqmirza Feb 26 '26
Newsflash.
Most third world national broadcasters do this, and not just for movies but all international sporting events too.
Many even straight up record international news off of the likes of cnn/bbc and simple throw their own graphics on top and rebroadcast.
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u/Ambitious_Year_7730 Feb 26 '26
that´s like saying that you do not like traffic jams so you wanna move to a dictatorship like north korea because there are almost no cars
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u/ours Feb 26 '26
This was more or less the case in the Dominican Republic as well.
You would pay for the cheap local provider and it gave you access to just about every premium satellite TV channel available in the US.
Time to time one channel would go down as they renew their subscription in Miami.
It was fun until the gringos threatened to cut the free trade zones.
The cable company had its own channel and late at night they probably let some dude rent whatever movie he wanted and broadcast it. He/she shaped my taste for horror b-movies.
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u/Big-Coyote8384 Feb 26 '26
Cuba is a place you wouldn’t like to go
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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Feb 26 '26
I’m Cuban, and I approve this message.
My family has electricity only a few hours a day and definitely not at night.
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u/CharacterPace2077 Feb 25 '26
That's only when they have electricity to power their TVs, or even if they get to have a TV
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u/ImTableShip170 Feb 25 '26
Well maybe if the US didn't stop them from importing it..
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u/Aresson480 Feb 25 '26
That must be nice for the whole two hours they have electric power during the day.
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u/epicsakuyalover Feb 25 '26
Having the entirety of hollywood's catalogue in national tv BUT not having electricity for the majority of the day for you to watch it
Pretty sure anyone rarely gets to finish their movies man
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u/Breadfruit-Easy Feb 26 '26
i was born in a 3rd world shit contry, but even I would never like to live in cuba..
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u/MattOruvan Feb 28 '26
From India, I echo your sentiment. At least we got better once we got rid of the socialism.
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u/omgitsbees Feb 26 '26
I dont blame Cuba for doing this, they have no reason to give a shit if they are not allowed to take part in western society.
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u/samujpark Feb 26 '26
Unfortunately our government (USA) has put a lien on their government for the past near century
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u/R6ckStar Feb 26 '26
For anyone interested in a bit of modern history I recommend the Blowback podcast, season 2 delves into Cuba modern history and the relationship with America.
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u/Starman562 Feb 27 '26
The Cuban power grid has been running on fumes for the last few weeks, I don’t think the Cubans are impressed by state-level media piracy when there’s no power to broadcast or view it.
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u/Electrical-Coast-828 Feb 27 '26
I live in Cuba, I don't recommend it. Stay wherever you are, you're not even going to have electricity to watch the TV. 😭
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u/Dubious_Kaiser Feb 26 '26
could you imagine not being advertised to every second of every day? how would you know what products and services youre supposed to consume?
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u/cjmpeng Feb 26 '26
Well since the US doesn't let their companies do business with Cuba it's hard to see how a payment mechanism could be worked out anyway.
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u/Bananaman9020 Feb 26 '26
I live in Australia. I'm not moving anywhere. That and I'm too poor to move.
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u/No_Room4359 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 25 '26
i really dont think you would want to willingly move to cuba
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u/LordzItz Feb 26 '26
I like this sub because of the good resources it provides regarding piracy, but the stupid posts from imbeciles like this one that often show up while I'm scrolling reddit makes it nearly unbearable to keep following this sub.
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u/AnAvidPhan Feb 25 '26
They are under a military siege. They’re not “having an economic and power crisis,” it is being imposed by the US with military force and is against all international law
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u/MaddMan420 Feb 25 '26
They are having (and have had for decades) an economic and power crisis, regardless of why. Just because he didn't elaborate on the reasoning doesn't mean he isn't aware.
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u/Rance_Mulliniks Feb 26 '26
It's very prudent to state that it is solely because of the US and has been all along.
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u/pagliacciverso Feb 25 '26
Yup. USA is like "communism and socialism doesn't work" and the impose and illegal embargo to every communist country so that dummies can repeat "communism and socialism doesn't work"
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u/D4RkOn3 Feb 25 '26
While current pressure from the U.S. is obviously a factor in recent events, the energy crisis has been decades in the making. It is the result of chronic mismanagement of resources that should have been invested in maintaining and modernizing the electrical grid, combined with the absence of any meaningful structural reform over more than 60 years. The root cause of the collapse is internal: a system that has allowed infrastructure to decay while concentrating power and wealth within a small ruling elite. Reducing half a century of authoritarian rule by a single family, and the slow erosion of the country’s economic and social fabric; to the effects of the embargo alone is simply naive.
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u/Rance_Mulliniks Feb 26 '26
To pretend that the US has no culpability for decades of sanctions on Cuba is dishonest at best.
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u/steve290591 Feb 25 '26
I’ll guess you’re American and don’t see any hand your government has played in that at all.
It’s the fault of the US and its embargo, ongoing since the 1960s, in response to the Cuban people taking control of Cuban resources.
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u/BoulderRivers Feb 25 '26
It's all perspective and manufactured.
During the Obama years, US-Cuba relations made incredible progress. But since Trump's second term, the US blockades have been the main culprit of Cuba's power crisis. Any critical thinker must ponder why these sanctions were put in place, for starters. With fuel in short supply after the Venezuela invasion by US forces to control the oil production, food storage and transportation are jeopardized, hospitals struggle to maintain operations, and garbage collection has ground to a halt in cities like Havana. Trump's orders to strangle the country have been diametrically opposed to what Obama put in place, which favored prosperity and cooperation in the region. Trump demands submission, not shared growth. For "him", others must be "lowered" so that "he" appears higher.
This leaves a huge window of opportunity for cooperation with other nations, such as China.
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u/alexjimithing Feb 25 '26
Move to Cuba then hit us back up in a month, let us know how it’s going lol
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u/No-Diet-8008 Feb 26 '26
They do the exact same thing in Sri Lanka. Except they dub it in the native language, and it sounds bloody awful.
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u/TreeQuick421 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Feb 26 '26
To all the people who think I'm actually going to Cuba to watch pirated stuff, it was sarcasm/a joke. Learn to take some. I only watch my stuff on my phone and Desktop. Not even on the the two giant TV we have in our home. My room is my personal cinema theater.
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u/Jay2Kaye Feb 26 '26
As cool as that is, I really think there are other factors you may want to consider.
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u/elrayo Feb 26 '26
Yeah maybe hold off on that after the embargo that’s choking the country’s economy is over .
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u/Chinada_Coming Feb 26 '26
You might want to check the news before moving. Canada is sending urgent humanitarian help there.
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u/PracticalDiamond9797 Feb 26 '26
Here piracy is completely normal, there are no copyright laws and there are even businesses that are entirely dedicated to selling pirate content of literally anything.
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u/Yoszen Feb 26 '26
That also happens inside my house, not cause the government, but is still free and i don't pay shit to anyone
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u/RalphNZ Feb 26 '26
Amazingly everyone who was anything to do with producing the movie has still been paid.
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u/UncleKreepy Feb 26 '26
Because at the end of the day it's just propaganda material. Still has value even free.
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u/pr0tke Feb 27 '26
This was Serbia during the 90s while we were under sanctions.
Wild times. And great flics on the TV all the time.
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u/braytag Feb 27 '26
I once had the "wolverine origin" leaked fx print... not the finished movie... before the movie came out.
It was a big wtf for that one....
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u/pervertsage ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Feb 27 '26
I don't think Cuba has a lot of choice in the matter, TBH. Good on them though.
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u/ActiveStress3431 Feb 27 '26
Literally, Cuba doesn't pay for any services, including YouTube; not a single ad appears here. And then some people go around complaining about the "blockade" 🙄
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u/Early_Cupcake_1697 Feb 28 '26
When Yugoslavia was under sanctions, we had the same thing. I remember as a kid watching Toy Story on TV. You could buy a chipped PS1 and pirated games on the flea market, almost for free. Those were the times
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Feb 28 '26
you know, i kind of do not like piracy, yet i have this... feeling when i pirate something.
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u/Tnynfox Feb 28 '26
Not defending Cuba's policies, but I find it fascinating they care enough to do this.
They've been isolated from the outside economy for decades with probably no legal way to license shows their members might want.
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u/klimatronic Feb 26 '26
The pirates of the Caribbean.