• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 years ago

    You can spin it however you like, but the reality is that a quarter of people in US don’t have enough food to eat. There are tent cities all across the country due to rampant homelessness. Healthcare in inaccessible and regularly bankrupts people. Cuba has none of these problems. In fact, Cuba ranks as world’s most sustainable developed country.

    Communism works while capitalism creates failed states like the US. That’s the reality of the world.

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        2 years ago

        You have to specify for whom US or Cuba is a better place to live. Millions of people in US have far worse lives than people in Cuba despite the fact that US has an incomparable amount of wealth. Given the resources that Cuba has available to it, there is no question that Cuba does a much better job than US ensuring that they’re used to improve the lives of the majority.

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        2 years ago

        Not for me or anyone I know. USA is pretty sweet especially in rural areas.

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      In contrast to international trends, people in America who live in the most poverty-dense counties are those most prone to obesity

      obesity-associated chronic disease accounts for 70% of U.S. health costs

      Halting U.S. diabesity epidemic and curtailing its health cost may necessitate addressing poverty.

      https://diabetesjournals.org/diabetes/article/60/11/2667/33452/Poverty-and-Obesity-in-the-U-S

      Homelessness

      Cuba has an innovative housing plan. Evict people and bulldoze their houses to the ground.

      Sustainable development

      The anthills in my backyard are sustainably developed too. Cuba’s crumbling infrastructure is on par with the most retrograde, backwaters of the first and second world. A power infrastructure with rolling blackouts and 60,000 cars for 11 million people. Nothing is more sustainable than living, more or less, in the past. It’s also no surprise because eco-tourism is the only moneymaker except for, maybe, cigars.

      I’m not going to convince you that Cuba is defunct, repressive kleptocracy and you’re not going to convince me that Cuba’s ideals somehow transcend the record numbers of people trying to gtfo

      Cuba isnt the same as truly tragic country like Haiti but it’s pretty bad. The people are educated but they are destitute and have no opportunities. Repealing sanctions would help but it won’t fix the cause of their woes. I hope for the best. They are our neighbors.

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        You keep on doing the coping there. You’re a real champ at it. At least we can agree that what US has done to Cuba and Haiti is indeed tragic. If only these countries were allowed to develop without the oppression of the empire. Good thing US is headed for the collapse, so the rest of the world can finally breathe.

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          Not sure which part of what I said is ‘cope’ but okay.

          Re: American collapse I expect it will be less of a collapse and more of a controlled descent ala a hang glider.

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              Lmao. Don’t worry about my expectations. You’re the one who’s going to be really fucking bummed when you find out a post-American hegemony world is more of the same old shit.

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                  2 years ago

                  Copium not needed. Everything is good on my end. Feel free to have my share though I think you’ll need it.

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                    Nah, I don’t think I will. We’re headed for a whole different world where the parasitic leech that’s been sucking lifeblood from the planet is about to shrivel and die finally. Liberalism and capitalism are about to be the thing of the past.