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12 Jul, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Good luck to the protesters.

The US embargo of Cuba is bad. The communists in power are far worse. Cubans should be free from both.
When there are protests against an anti-American authoritarian regime, you inevitably get tankies claiming the protests are US "ops," paid protesters, etc. It's *just* as annoying that you also get chicken hawks calling for regime change. 1/2
But I'd like to point out that there are always a lot of us normal freedom-loving folks—liberals *and* leftists—who say both 1) Regime X (China, Cuba, etc) is awful and the people deserve democracy, 2) US-led regime change is the *worst* imaginable idea. 2/2
Bonus 3) In many cases, whatever the US has been doing has been making things worse. E.g, the Cuban embargo. (1) and (2) and (3) can all be true at the same time and it's totally normal and cool to say so!

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