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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.

Invasion por playa giron

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

🌟 PokeDoku Champion 🌟 By: JoshDAMN!

Score: 9/9 Uniqueness: 44/29 🔥 Streak: 2

✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

Play at: https://pokedoku.com/

did pretty well this time

my pickstyrantrum, clafable, serperior, mega sableye, mega absol, samurott hisui, weedle, bagon and grookey

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

mandatory weekly Dr Who rant, spoilers within

"I'm scared that something bad happened in 2025."

In a desperate attempt to get Belinda back home, the Doctor has cooked up scheme of using some sorta time gizmo to manually drag the TARDIS back to 2025. This will involve him landing at random locations/time periods and turning the thing on.

The first landing place is Miami during segregation, where another one of those old god thingies is causing a mischief in a cinema.

Cue a brief sequence where our intrepid heroes get caught inside film and the worst metacommentary I've seen since Red Dwarf: Back to Earth.

What I liked:

  • Mr Ringading, odd since as a whole I deeply dislike the gods, but this one wasn't so bad. The cartoon character in the real world, while derivative, was well executed, especially close to the end as he grows increasingly creepy looking as he becomes more real. The fact that he's just out there slowly getting bigger does leave the worrying possibility that he will be back though.

What I disliked:

  • the entire scene where the Doctor meets his fans.

  • Mrs Flood, I just don't care much for this character whose entire purpose is to wink at the camera and make shitty jokes.

Overall:

I don't feel particularly strongly about this one, I didn't hate it, I'm just gonna stop thinking about it once I've hit post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

🌟 PokeDoku Champion 🌟 📅 2025-04-19

Score: 9/9 Uniqueness: 184/97 🔥 Streak: 3

✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

Play at: https://pokedoku.com/

oh yea, did well again

my pickseelektross, joltik, magnetric mega, chandelure, larvesta, numel, rhyperior, nincada, whiscash

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I will be sad if CM Punk loses

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The CM in his name actually stands for “Communist Manifesto”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Saw scooby doo batman brave and the bold movie, as another closure movie for a series that got canned I quite liked it. Brave and the bold was one of my favorite batman shows with the campiness and seeing it here again was great. I think the final episode of brave and the bold was pretty good especially with how meta it was but having a more light hearted send of I think does the series better than the bitter sweet one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's Gawrover trump-kaneki

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

KABOOT SLÁN

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Pulled a long shift and mostly just staring at my phone. Time blindness kinda kicked my ass today, but I also had a larger workload so not sure how many things are culprit. I did get distracted a bit by my phone, but I doubt it was more than a half-hour's worth. Got home too late to really strum the banjo anyway and lyrics just aren't coming to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Mother is watching an episode of Agatha Raisin which seems to be saying a water company privatizing a water spring is good and the grubby protesters are hired crisis actors by a rival company. I guess some of this is gunna' get flipped at the end but it's coming off as extremely rightwing.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Might have yaoi baited on that dream just now, even saw two shooting stars I wished on on that 'not' date. Here I thought deep down I had enough self respect not to get up to typical vtuber shenanigans and just been forth right kiryu-slam

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Got a 3 day weekend cause closed for Easter and used my bonus day to snuggle with my cat and rewatch Zeta Gundam. I haven't cut my hair in a bit and noticed if I let my hair grow out a bit more and dye the roots I will look like my profile pic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Dark deity 2 is so much better than dark deity 1 ita insane

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