What does that have to do with anything?  China is FAR more of a threat in every sense of the word regardless of geography.

I mean, if you want to do that, Mexico is a lot closer and a lot more interesting. 

But we love dictators will a similarly bad civil rights record, as long as they make deals with us for their oil, to build a base, etc.  The only reason we don’t like Cuba is that they say no to us.

Just visit Canada... and while ‘visiting Canada’, do a little side trip to Cuba.

If you’re going to with the bullshit of the“propping up a communist regime with a shitty human rights record” excuse, you need to apply it uniformly. Vietnam, China, and Laos are communist with the same issues but we don’t do this to them. We’ve punished Cuba for 60 years for the revolution (and related asset…

Evil Empire? No. No one thinks that. It is, however, a rather evil regime. Not North Korea evil, but not exactly clean either.

It’s always amusing talking with Canadians and how they talk about going to Havana like we talk about going to Vegas for the weekend.

benefits the Cuban military, intelligence, and security services

AHAHAHAH, they have those ?

PooJavelin is not entirely wrong in that respect. The obnoxious American tourist is a stereotype for a reason. And that’s speaking as an American myself. I was on a group tour one time in Belize and there were some New Yorkers with my group. They asked how the Chinese food was. In Belize. In Latin America.

Thanks for painting everyone in my country with one idiotic brush. How very, um, Trumpian of you.

It will once again be devoid of Americans, and so become the most desirable vacation spot on the planet!

Im only slightly younger than Pete, but mad was basically dead by the time I was a kid. I remember hearing about it and I saw the picture, but I havent the foggiest idea what the joke with him was or what his deal is. I’d probably also have to Google it to get the joke.

The big difference is that this is about the anti-LGBTQ donations as a company, not the donations from individual leadership. The latter is bad enough, but the former is an all-encompassing statement, I can’t think of another major company in this country who actively focuses on this stuff that doesn’t get protested.