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and trying to find out like what was going on with this festival, like how involved the government was in this, in this, in the tours, in the press conferences.
And I couldn't really, I couldn't really find a lot.
He said he was forced by the U S government to stay in a five-star hotel.
That apparently is not the rule.
The rule is only, I think, that U.S.
citizens are not allowed to stay in hotels there that are owned by the government, that pay the government in some way.
So he had a lot of options.
People were pulling up a ton of Airbnbs owned by Cubans where he could have stayed.
But he chose the five-star hotel probably because it was really nice and really cheap.
And he knew there would be power.
But he can't say that because of his audience.
Or and because of people like us who are critical of him because of the pedestal he's put himself on.
It would make sense.
Like, oh, of course, Hassan is staying in this hotel because it has reliable Internet and he's a streamer.
But because of the way he has positioned himself as a as a socialist, communist propagandist.