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  1.  @saikabrice8522  Why should the DR love and respect a country that tried to invade them as part of its debt repayment to France?
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  2. Yet London is a way more desirable place to live than Havana.
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  3. So, no mention of Chavez and Maduro running out the productive and competent that ran the oil industry and replaced them with political comrades?
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  4. Exactly. Hardly any Americans, even the biggest commie-sympathizers, in a hurry to trade places with the average Cuban.
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  5. I say price controls and nationalizations killing off the producers did far more damage to Cuba than the sanctions.
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  6. In retaliation to what the white French did to them.
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  7.  @nalisaed8725  No. Cuban government ineptitude and corruption.
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  8.  @CallMeSkillz_  The French got kicked out and that more or less spelt the beginning of the end for the French Empire. So how exactly did France drop the Haitians?
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  9. For what? It's not the US's fault Cuba operates on a model that cannot sustain itself without outside help because the Cuban government crippled the country's own ability to support itself with taxes and restrictions.
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  10. Like North Korea?
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  11.  @mouldycheesebutlikeinabadw3011  But it doesn't make it any less true in the grand scheme of things as most poor countries have one thing in common. The lack of (economic) freedom due to too much government.
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  12. And yet French Guiana still votes to remain with France.
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  13.  @AlexCab_49  That's not saying much when Cuba is a literal police state and its citizens live in constant fear of getting ratted out to the authorities by their neighbors. Japan and Switzerland never had to oppress its own citizens to achieve the lowest crime rates on Earth.
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  14. They didn't.
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  15.  @mark38699  Cuba was affected far more by the loss of outside aid that popped up its state-repressed economy than the sanctions.
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  16. Fair to who?
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  17. Especially single-family housing.
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  18. @ BrainSoSmoof No wonder why apologists keep insisting that "true" socialism/communism has never been tried. LOL If it ain't White, it ain't right. And apparently, Slavs and the Portuguese don't count as White.
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  19. The Haitian government to get its act together.
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  20. Namely for the socialists themselves. Not the workers they claim to have so much solidarity with.
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  21. Eh. Communism does a better job of making itself look bad. And it has done plenty to earn the hate.
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  22. No. Castro did a much better job of that with price controls, wholesale seizures of private businesses, etc.
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  23. China, Russia and Venezuela have no problem trading with Cuba.
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  24. Where the Glorious Leader and his comrades live like kings and everybody else starves?
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  25. Take it up with the industry they work in. It's not their fault they happen work in an industry that's profitable enough to pay them hundreds or thousands of times more.
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  26. Communism is the problem as it was even in countries that were not under US/Western sanctions and yet still collapsed anyway.
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  27. Exactly.
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  28. No. Haiti has been poor, because of one too many leaders who cared nothing about economic development and plenty about their personal enrichment dating back even its first leader, Touissaint L'Overture alongside the population not being educated nor skilled enough to do anything large-scale.
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  29.  @axios7603  No. End the embargo being imposed on the people by the Cuban government.
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  30. Just like not a single word about the seizing of US-built and funded private enterprises that brought about said embargo.
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  31. For what?
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  32. Actually Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and among the top 20 poorest in the world.
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  33. Exactly. Case in point: Atlanta.
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  34. No. <racial equality,> LOL. Do you honestly think Haitians are interested in that? Haiti at independence was founded as a Black supremacist nation.
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  35. What neighbors? Aside from Haiti, the DR has no neighbors.
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  36. As a French colony. After independence, it regressed.
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  37. Exactly.
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  38. And replace it what? Haiti was founded on Black supremacy.
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  39. Just like how they conveniently avoid talking about the seizure of the foreign-built and funded businesses that caused it.
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  40. Because it doesn't. And it certainly wasn't affected much when the USSR and Venezuela were around to make up for what Castro destroyed with nationalizations and expropriations.
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  41. Which is minimal at best as Cuba's conditions were largely self-made. Who told Castro to destroy local industry and production?
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  42. That's not saying much. And Hawaii is expensive, because it is remote and just about everything has to be shipped in.
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  43.  @_blank-_  You'd have to be a fool not to have this mindset in the age of COVID-19.
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  44.  @reagan_pereira_  You mean forced wealth redistribution.
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  45. Canada is not that socialist.
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  46.  @hansrover3492  But sanctions are not a valid excuse for the poor governance Haiti has been plagued with since independence.
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  47. Maybe Cuba should ditch the socialism, adopt some free-market capitalist reforms and let the economy grow. What's holding Cuba back is Cuban government interference.
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  48. The embargo is nothing compared to the wholesale destruction of the private sector undertaken by Castro rendering Cuba unable to support itself relying on other countries for something as basic as food.
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  49. Not very much. Cuba's lack of goods have plenty to do with the fact that Cuba doesn't have much of a manufacturing and production base because of the government's anti-business economic policies.
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  50. The real cause of Cuba's current woes is that it ran out of other people's money to compensate for what it's unable to produce locally due to the Cuban government's heavy-handed restrictions on economic activity.
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