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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  • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    13·
    18 days ago

    Can anyone tell me who is content cop, H3, and Idubbz?

    People are acting like some recent YouTube video is a big deal and I feel like I’m too old or something to understand, but still, I like gossip, don’t like being out of the loop, and just want to know the tea.

    • Torenico [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      17 days ago

      H3 is a podcast run by Ethan Klein, a massive liberal turned Zionist (many such cases) that offers “laid back” and “non political” content. He used to be friends with Hasan with whom shared a podcast of their own called LeftOvers, where Hasan was the political guy and Ethan was the goofy character playing along, the “I don’t know much about all this” type of guy, supposedly “”“pro-Palestinian”“” too. However, Ethan is married to his terrorist wife Hila, who is a former IDF member and part of the H3 podcast, a massive disgusting piece of shit, so that “pro-Palestinian” label is up in the air all the time.

      Recently, due to the genocide in Palestine in general and Gaza in particular, Ethan decided to use his platform to attack pro-Palestinian content creators including his own friend Hasan and others like Frogan (part of the Hasan community), calling them antisemites, calling for them to be banned by Twitch and sending lawsuits and overall doing the worst hasbara imaginable. He completely fell off and lost the plot, often becoming erratic in his messages towards his new enemies. Recently, videos of him being extremely sexist and antisemitic resurfaced thanks to the efforts of our Comrade BadEmpanada, who has a personal crusade against this zionist pos and his terrorist wife (who voluntarily joined raids on the West Bank because she was bored of her desk job btw).

      He was also friends with Idubbz, a notorious Youtuber who was once very reactionary and then fixed his life and is now much better, who is also friends with Hasan. Ethan attacked Idubbz for some reason and he responded with one of his old classics “Content Cop”, which is a type of video he used to produce where he targeted a youtuber that did nasty things and spoke about him or her for like an hour or so, like the “Content Nuke” Ethan puts up from time to time. It’s been years since he did one of said videos and only unearthed said format to attack Ethan and his terrorist wife Hila.

      It’s drama? Yes, but they’re also somewhat popular people that are talking about a genocide, especially Ethan and his terrorist wife who are denying it while at the same time promoting it. If it was just classic streamer drama I wouldn’t give a single fuck at all.

      • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        17 days ago

        Thanks! This is a really good summary. So are the content cops summaries from forever ago? Like more than 5 years? People are acting like it’s a video format from their childhood or something lol.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          8·
          17 days ago

          Yes. They were well known online because they had good research, editing, and in general were executed so well that they’d devastate the target’s credibility. That being said, most of the targets were low hanging fruit, e.g. a lot of content creators who got famous based on their appeal to children.

      • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        I feel like just calling her a terrorist sort of takes away from the salient fact that she admitted publicly on air to doing a war crime because she was bored. Oh you said that part I just missed it.