I have low hopes for Generation-Me

[furtech]

I wish there was an "ignorance" ap that prevented me from seeing posts from nitwits. I think it could be popular.

What people know/don't-know continues to boggle me. This is from a post on the fursuit-LJ community:

"... seeing as the US has a trade embargo against Cuba."

"Wow, seriously?"

Someone wanted to know how to ship a costume to Cuba . The scary thing is that the replier above is -not- the shipper who asked the question, but someone else who didn't know about the Cuban-US situation. A third (not)helpful person describes in detail how they ship to Germany and knows this will work shipping to Cuba because they've shipped to Germany twice.

This reminds me of a BBS conversation where a poster stated that the Arab-Israeli conflict was stoopid and they should just sit down and agree not to fight. When it was pointed out that this had been going on for some time, they replied in amazement, "What, like 50 years?!?" Oy.

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[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

The "oy!" made me snicker.


Subverting the embargo is really easy, if expensive. A lot of Cuban cigars are wrapped with tobacco from Connecticut... which is exported to an intermediary, then shipped to Cuba. Cuba then ships back to intermediary and they sell through there and restamp them as product of X and send them to the States. The channels for that are really well set up. All it does at this point is line pockets of intermediaries.

It's probably one of the most poorly enforced embargoes out there. I would be so happy if we just stopped kidding ourselves that its working.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

True-- and it would be SO easy! All Castro's brother has to do is make -some- friendly gesture or say something nice and we'd be ALL over ourselves to make nice. That's a huge market that American companies are drooling over and the tourist industry is chomping at the bit for.

Still, I smile in my head when I think of wrapping a fursuit up in American tobacco leaves to get it through to Cuba...


PS-- and IMO Cuban cigars are nasty-strong things.