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On this day in 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion took place when a force of 1400 Cuban exiles, funded and led by the U.S., landed on the southwest coast of Cuba in a failed attempt at overthrowing the revolutionary Cuban government.

Covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, the operation took place at the height of the Cold War and its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

The coup attempt came after the Cuban government expropriated property from American capitalists. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower allocated $13.1 million to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in March 1960 for use against Castro's government. With the aid of Cuban counter-revolutionaries, the CIA proceeded to organize an invasion.

On April 14th, 1961, a squadron of U.S. B-26 bombers camouflaged with Cuban insignias begin a two-day bombing campaign of Cuban airports, destroying a large portion of the Cuban air force.

On the night of April 17th, an invasion force of approximately 1400 Cuban exiles and CIA officers landed on the beach at Playa Girón in the Bay of Pigs. After a few days, the insurgents became overwhelmed by the Cuban army. President Kennedy refused to provide air support for the operation.

The invasion's defeat solidified Castro's role as a national hero and strengthened Cuba-Soviet relations. Several Cuban exiles and two Americans were executed upon capture. Over 1,000 prisoners were exchanged for humanitarian aid from the U.S. government.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

If chicken eggs in the US are so expensive, why don't they use bunny eggs for easter?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

im still surprised the yo mama joke guy is actually cool and not a chud, he is now going to the washington dc protests

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Kind of fucked up how the three volume Selected Works of Lenin from the USSR Foreign Press costs so much money, they should stop that

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Learns one spell

I'M THE MASTER OF THE ARCANE

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

debating whether to spend 3 hours downloading and configuring something to make discord no longer look like steaming dog shit or just accept the fact that it looks like shit now and i shouldn't bother

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

My first 3 weeks as an app servant (Walmart Spark gig work) has gone pretty great. I made $1300 last week after expenses. Even factoring in self employment tax, it's way more than I would have made working a full time job. I was getting rejections from shit tier jobs that paid $600(pre-tax) a week.

Even if I end up making less and need to take some time off, I should be able to make this work until I find solid employment.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh, you're making a dark western fantasy rpg game? And your main character is an Inquisitor? And one of your NPC allies is a witch? :daring-today-aren't-we:

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Looking like a snack, but no one wants a bitekiryu-dame-da-ne

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

late night feels posting despairIt's easier sometimes to just drop a funny meme in the group chat than to open up about your sense of hopelessness and despair about your future, don't mention how you didn't plan to be around this long and now you're winging it.

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Ok but like the sheer amount of microplastics a vampire would have would be godly, we're already on top of the ~~food~~ plastic chain as is so just going around slurping up blood from us and having no means to get rid of it would kill the most powerful vampires after 5 years max I bet

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

gee whyesseff, how come whyesseff lets you have two smug beatrices? beatrice-cackle ahaha

~~the latter is more tailored for general usage but I need the former for the time honored tradition of using emotes like barbie dolls~~
battler-point beatrice-wtf battler-cry beatrice-cackle

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

So….

Who else thinks the whole H3 crashout is fueled by hasbara?

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

This'll ruffle soem feathers.TRAINS > planes sorry it's free speech hon 🤷🎤❤️

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Finding out that the Zizians are named after a Kaiju from a web novel that I read years ago is kind of killing me.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I walked for 44 kilometers today with no goal or purpose.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

maybe they they should have let hesgeth have little a alcohol, as a treat

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

You know that old Roman saying "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts?"

Turns out we should have been wary of geeks bearing grifts.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I know med school is taking because listening to a podcast the hosts are trying to backseat a stabbing by pointing out where they would stab/wouldn't stab and my first thought was "Those are terrible picks for stabbing".

Also I'm sorry for all the posting but I'm going back to school and it's a cross country trip

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This is either a new low or groundbreaking innovation: I was out of anything to add to coffee so I mashed up some dollar store knock-off oreos in it and it's actually drinkable feral-hog

Edit: terrible idea, the bottom of the cup is a disgusting sludge of weird tasting bitter cookie

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Garbanzo Beanis? Nah gimme that chickpeanis

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Seeing Alex Garland's Civil War content on my Twitter timeline again and I just want to state my position on that movie. One, I think the director claiming the film is "apolitical" is downright cowardly. The movie ends with a black woman soldier shooting the President, who is clearly supposed to be Donald Trump, in the head. "Oh, the movie is actually condemning both sides for this imaginary violence" I don't think it is. Portions of the movie are condemning explicitly white supremacist violence. But it seemed to me to fetishize the violence of the liberal alliance armed forces (which I remember was a union of Texas and California). The movie revels is the long drawn out sequence of the lib forces taking the White House, delights in the moment the woman shoots the President in the head. It pretends to condemn it "oh, he was an unarmed prisoner of war. He should've stood trial before the nation," but you can tell the movie doesn't really mean it.

Two, I've always felt the movie was a shallow Twitter-brained view of US politics/the lines US society would divide down in the event of a Second American Civil War. And the movie frames itself as this critique of adrenaline junkie jaded War Journalists, but I felt even this was ultimately insincere.

All that said, a pretty good watch. I mean, a shallow movie, but the tension and pacing, the dread and fear throughout the film is really great. And I remember liking the score and stuff too.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I found the missing d12 from my best dice set under my bed. Its as beautiful as the day I lost it

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Hypnagogic Hallucinations shows me my brain can be creative when it wants to be, it's like a funny show I look forward to every night with so many wacky skits sleepi

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

dracula-flow beanis

Zaza got me moving like Mr. Beanis, I ain't sayin' shit

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Chicken nugget should be a term for a balled up chicken the same way loaf is used about cats.

Or we should start eating cats.

im-vegan

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Or we should start eating cats.

[sex joke here]

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Fuck Uber. Fuck Doordash. I hope Dara Khosrowshahi and Tony Xu cross paths with a hooded Italian man in a dark alley.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I respect the people who take the wrong side of an issue more than people who try to take no side. At least they understand that there are important things going on outside of what they see right in front of them or perhaps they see the connection of one struggle with their own struggle that is not immediately obvious. They are just misinformed and that's why they are wrong.

The people who don't take any sides are cowardly bitches. Literally the only reason this genocide can take place is because enough people are passive about it and will not take any effort to learn more or act. To do nothing is to be complicit.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I shouldn't be surprised that the authors of "To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space" have zero understanding of dialectical materialism and are incapable of saying anything useful, but I am disappointed that such a good title was wasted by liberals.

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