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  1. Which is the result of the government controlling the food.
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  2. Nope. This is what happens when you can no longer afford the overly generous social programs and bloated pubic sector.
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  3. Visiting Cuba as a tourist is not the same thing as living in Cuba as a citizen.
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  4. @ Mack Dog Democratic socialism is a codeword for communism. By the way, Vladimir Lenin coined that term.
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  5. Yesterday's freedom fighter, tomorrow's tyrant. Haiti was no exception.
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  6. Zimbabwe has no economy to support that.
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  7. LOL. In a one-party state like China, anti-corruption = purging political rivals.
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  8.  @hi-gf5yl  But socialism never was efficient to begin with. And there is only so much money and resources to go around to feed vast swathes of non-productive people that socialism inevitably produces. <In capitalism, businesses spend money advertising to make people buy obscene amounts of goods that they don't need, wasting resources that could have been better spent elsewhere or saved for the future.> As if socialism is known for efficient spending or saving or responsible management of resources given its legendary track record of mismanagement, misappropriation, misuse, neglect and waste summed up in two of its main features, chronic shortages and (intentional) famine. And what do you mean "make?" Are you trying to say that people are dumb and don't know what they need?
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  9.  @EM-dw2yv  Because Cuba's credit is poor from all the previous times they defaulted on their payments.
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  10.  @ProjectHyena  No. Cuba operating on a model that doesn't allow any efficient production of anything locally is the real issue.
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  11. It's not the DR's responsibility to rebuild Haiti. Why don't you take it up with the US and the ever-kleptocratic Haitian government?
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  12.  @davidpethick83  The facts are: Cuba had no real economy left after Castro decimated it having to be propped up by USSR and other countries making the sanctions of little consequence, but an excuse for the Cuban government to maintain the economic repression of its own citizens.
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  13.  @bigm7886  How so? The DR is nowhere nearly as dysfunctional as Haiti.
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  14. But in all fairness, what good is having land if you don't know how to make use of it? This is where Mugabe ultimately screwed up. Giving land to political friends and those in no position to farm resulting in food shortages and famine and a country no longer able to feed itself.
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  15.  @IshtarNike  The embargo is nothing compared to what Castro did to local industry and the loss of Soviet aid to make up for it.
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  16.  @petergreenwood7731  Smells like socialism just running its natural course.
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  17. Milei is the President Argentina needs. Time to shut down the gravy train.
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  18. Pretty much.
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  19. Really? It only seems miniscule, because in Cuba, Black people are threatened with jail if they dare complain thus forced to suffer in silence. Dictatorship aside, the racism that Black Cubans suffer is on par with the rest of Latin America.
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  20. No. Remove the command economy model. Period.
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  21. Apparently, Nguema is too cheap to do it himself.
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  22.  @davidowens1424  Mostly pensioners.
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  23. Not quite. Whites still live better than Blacks in Cuba thanks to remittance payments and running the very few private industries allowed to operate.
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  24.  @spiritanimal7516  And it's paying the price for not being male-dominated by its women being easy targets for refugees.
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  25.  @degamispoudegamis  What socialists/communists always say when their beloved model fails largely on its own.
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  26.  @DukenJeanpierre  Haiti from 1822 to 44.
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  27. How? Cuba doesn't produce much worth trading thanks to mismanagement and killing off the successful and productive. Ditch the command economy and really watch Cuba prosper.
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  28.  @plung3r  But none of them are citizens as Qatari citizenship is based in patrilineal lineage.
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  29.  @nelsongutierrez5322  Don't forget that Haiti reinstated slavery after its food production levels plummeted and the population starved just to feed itself.
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  30. The embargo is nothing compared to the Cuban government's total control of the economy that killed off the wealth-producers.
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  31. No. It's real.
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  32.  @josephosei3389  LOL.
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  33. They got it from Pol Pot.
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  34. Why would France need to make African leaders look bad when African leaders do a better job of it all by themselves?
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  35. With social assistance restricted to citizens.
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  36. Yes it did. Sanctions didn't cause Mugabe to give the farmland to political allies and those who don't know how to farm resulting in declining production, food shortages and eventual famine. Why didn't he give the land to the natives who actually knew how to farm due to experience working for Whites?
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  37. Said no one ever.
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  38. Also Laos.
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  39. Like a communist regime.
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  40. She is. A Party stooge.
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  41. You know that White Cubans have no presence outside of Miami, right? And Miami is not even the biggest city in Florida.
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  42. Government intervention is exactly why his country is a mess and he now has to flee.
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  43. Agreed.
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  44. Probably due to local buyers who got priced out of Istanbul.
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  45.  @DKX365  There is no embargo on food or medication except the one by the Cuban government via import bans and high tariffs.
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  46.  @degamispoudegamis  With that reliance on oil due to Chavez destroying all the other industries by nationalization and price controls in the early 2010's rendering it unable to support itself. Plenty to do with socialism. The sanctions are of little consequence as Venezuela collapsed 3 years before any sanction was imposed. Cope.
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  47. While even more delusional people always blame the US for their failures and shortcomings.
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  48. Or Zimbabwe.
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  49. It's the Cuban government and its central planning model.
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  50.  @azulmora9777  OH YES THEY DID as they had no problem voting for governments to rob the most intelligent and productive among them in the name of "social justice."
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  51.  @TrapBoiFuse561  Socialism doesn't work. Even in countries that were not under sanctions like Tanzania, Ethiopia and all of Eastern Europe.
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  52. Namely the Party elites like Diaz-Canel, the Castros, etc.
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  53.  @fauxmanchu8094  It's a by-product of the socialist and state-ownership model many post-colonial leaders adopted after independence.
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  54.  @dorcasnjeri2858  And the father became president after overthrowing his uncle.
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  55. She's a woman and women can do no wrong.
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  56. Nope. Cuban government ineptitude and tyranny is to blame.
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  57.  @grigorig1055  But it isn't, because the Nguemas don't care about economic development but personal enrichment. And it's only because of oil the country is no longer under sanctions.
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  58. It was a thriving society when Batista ran it.
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  59.  @MB2.0  In other words, cult of personality. Also see Yugoslavia after Tito died.
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  60. <Put Europeans on an island, get England.> You mean Australia. <Put Asians on an island, get Japan> How about Taiwan or Singapore? <put Africans on an island, get Haiti.> Agreed.
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  61.  @kimobrien.  In other words, it has to be imposed everywhere even in places the people don't want it. And yet socialists have the nerve to call capitalism imperialist.
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  62. Asians as a whole only make up 7% the US's population. Latinos and Blacks are the largest minority groups there.
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  63. Caribbean countries, minus Haiti, are indeed much better off.
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  64.  @Code_Machine  Exactly.
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  65.  @ProjectHyena  Yet Soviet aid, Canadian tourism, Venezuelan oil and US remittances kept Cuba afloat despite it.
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  66. The Black people in Brazil have long accepted their place in society as a permanent underclass and a non-factor.
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  67. Courtesy of the Cuban government.
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  68.  @fudgerace4356  <In democrazy, majority of the GDP owned by the private sector> That's because the private sector is responsible for most of the revenue generated and people employed resulting in (income, property, etc.) tax revenue for the government.
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  69. LOL. No. It would be world where countries will just attack and invade their neighbors. I guess you must have forgotten that Russia, China and Japan used to be imperialists themselves.
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  70. Most likely suffering from White guilt.
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  71. First end the central planning.
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  72. No. The real question is when will Europe start breeding like rabbits? After all doesn't it have an aging demographic problem?
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  73.  @Gasibellz  LOL.
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  74.  @dg_96_7  And everyone is equal. Under the government jackboot, that is!
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  75. <When it comes to the living conditions of civilians, Cuba is in much better condition than Capitalist Mexico is in.> Yet Cubans much rather live in Mexico than Cuba. LOL <The embargo sanction is what causes Cuba's economic limitations.> No. Its lack of local economy and industry is the cause of Cuba's limitations making it reliant on outside aid thanks to the Cuban government's wholesale decimation of the private sector.
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  76. Exactly.
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  77. <They want Zimbabwe to fail > And Zimbabwe did fail when Mugabe gave the land to political friends and supporters who were in no position to farm resulting in production declines, food shortages and eventual famine.
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  78. And the people are ignorant and complacent.
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  79. And socialism just cannot survive without capitalism propping it up as socialism can not and does not produce any wealth of its own.
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  80. This is Arab supremacy. Arabs had the Arab Slave Trade.
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  81. China grew only because of NAFTA (thanks, Clinton) and Deng's free-market reforms.
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  82. Haiti is the absolute poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. And among the top 20 poorest countries in the world. <Haiti has plenty of natural resources,> But no human resources to do anything with it.
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  83. The Americans did when they won the Spanish-American War which was the final nail in the coffin for the Spanish Empire.
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  84. The same oil Venezuela let rot due to neglect and mismanagement due to chasing out its skilled workforce in favor of political stooges?
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  85. The same science in bed with Big Pharma?
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  86.  @p.1019  Because they're no longer sustainable with a growing number of people "in need" and a dwindling number of workers and producers to tax.
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  87.  @xylonbanda  Beginning with Britain and Russia (USSR).
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  88. <but what was new is that President ZUMA brought his brothers to the big table when it was time to eat and BIG CORP doesn't want what> Namely his political cronies. The average black South African was left to starve.
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  89. So they can be housewives and stay-at-home moms as they don't plan on working until they drop dead like a man.
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  90.  @MyronGanes-jl2ot  But it doesn't change the fact that many of the problems the poor are due to circumstances well within their control. All the resources in the world don't mean anything if you can't put them to good use.
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  91. Get rid of your smartphone.
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  92.  @curtisjones400  LOL. And where exactly was Biden when Obama didn't care about Venezuela either?
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  93. Equal in poverty and repression.
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  94. Pretty much. Not everything is Europe or the White man's fault.
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  95.  @jonye7511  Exactly.
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  96.  @glenncordova4027  LOL. Which allowed Castro to die a multi-millionaire.
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  97. True. But for all of its issues, Argentina is an improvement from Cuba.
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  98. Due to incompetence and malice.
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  99.  @djinghiskhan9199  The consequences left-wing economic mismanagement making such a necessity just to get the country's finances in order.
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  100. Exactly.
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  101. No. Those women went to the Faroe Islands by choice.
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  102.  @pbworld7858  But no jobs or viable economy to put to good use in.
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  103. Close the borders.
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  104.  @criticalthinker8374  <It's a lack of basic humanity. Individual humans mean nothing and their toxic failed ideology means everything.> What more do you expect from a collectivist ideal?
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  105. I'm surprised that she didn't accuse him of misogyny.
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  106. Agreed.
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  107.  @elkamalito9641  The Cuban government is what's holding Cuba back from reaching its potential, not the US sanctions.
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  108. Why don't you ask the Cuban government?
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  109.  @lilcrust3063  Like every other communist. Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Mengistu, etc.
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  110.  @2hotflavored666  Not really. Some people are just too ignorant and foolish to be allowed to vote. Latin America and Africa have been finding out the hard way what happens when such people make up the majority of the population for decades.
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  111. No. Due to Chavez decimating the private sector and replacing the skilled and productive personnel in the oil industry with political friends, Venezuela was set up for failure.
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  112.  @MrBLAQ1000  No. Remove the central planning and see how things change. The sanctions were an non-issue when the USSR and Venezuela used to bankroll Cuba's economy.
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  113. I thought it banned religion.
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  114. Maduro's government is no more or less selfish than the average socialist/communist regime of the past and present.
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  115. No. This is Cuban central planning at its finest. Cuba has no problem getting food aid from the US.
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  116. It's a city-state.
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  117. This has little to do with the embargo and plenty to do with Cuban government mismanagement and tyranny.
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  118. He should not be paying anything if he's not allowed to see the kids.
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  119. So does Equatorial Guinea. Yet the only people benefiting are Nguema and his henchmen.
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  120. How about 4 decades of socialist rule?
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  121.  @charlibravo371  LMAO.
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  122. And China?
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  123.  k.o. ed  Feminism and communism go hand in hand.
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  124. He has a daughter.
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  125. How? Especially in a country where anything you grow might get seized by the state, because in socialism, virtually everything belongs to the government.
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  126.  @tyquake513  Mongolia hasn't had that since Genghis Khan.
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  127. There are 330 million Americans. 200 000 jobs lost is nothing.
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  128. There'll never be a government that cares about its citizens. All governments are self-serving and power-hungry.
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  129. Socialism can never be successful. It wasn't in Tanzania which suffered no outside meddling or inside corruption throughout Nyerere's rule.
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  130.  @carolkhisa1564  Of course it doesn't. Whatever enters the country, the government is the first to see it.
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  131. Maria Gabriela Chavez.
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  132.  Bruno56  Actually, Cuba had nukes pointed at the US.
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  133. What about teaching them not to be easy targets for others?
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  134.  @Wazzup1991  Singapore is a Chinese-majority country. And the Chinese make up 61% of the population.
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  135. Don't hold your breath.
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  136. Kleptocracy personified.
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  137.  @greeng9090  Most Africans in the UK are not rich.
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  138. Wrong! Most of Africa had numerous communist/socialist regimes post-independence. Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Congo-Brazzaville, Benin, Madagascar, Somalia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Seychelles, Equatorial Guinea, etc. All but Seychelles were train-wrecks.
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  139. <More equitable distribution of wealth.> That just plain doesn't exist anywhere that isn't a kleptocracy.
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  140.  @talhatariqyuluqatdis  This is what socialism have consistently produced ever since 1917. A malnourished populace and a well-fed ruling class.
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  141.  @grumpynold  Why can't workers start their own business if they supposedly produce wealth?
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  142. The government needs to abandon the central planning and let the free market thrive.
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  143.  @tierradeluciernagas4500  And a Visa to GTFO the Philippines.
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  144. <government Venezuela was getting better and better> In what? Setting itself up for future failure when Chavez and Maduro destroyed private enterprise and local production in favor of the ever-volatile oil market?
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  145.  @jervey123  Well, they have the money and living standards to back up their thinking they're better anyone else in Asia.
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  146. Pretty much.
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  147. Or at least give the land to the Black farmers who once worked for Whites.
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  148. And a fearful and defeated populace.
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  149. Too bad it costed the country its long-term economic viability.
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  150. Goes to show how far Cuba has fallen since the Revolution.
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  151. Even more sadly, the human race is every bit as evil as the entities in charge of all facets of our lives.
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  152. LOL. Sri Lanka has been bankrupted by socialists.
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  153. And also the mentality of their own people.
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  154. Just like you're repeating state-run media talking points like a mindless indoctrinated robot?
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  155. Nigeria already has Islam. The supposed lack of Islam is the least of its problems.
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  156. So is the PCC Fernandez is a member of.
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  157. Exactly. Mass immigration = gerrymandering left-wing style.
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  158. No it's not. Iran is also under US sanctions and yet it's doing fine. No one told Venezuela to let its oil infrastructure rot. No one told Venezuela to seize and shut down private enterprise and blow the treasury on buying votes from the poor. Venezuela did this on its own volition.
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  159.  @shaokahn9487  Not at all.
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  160.  @joaolp3431  Exactly.
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  161.  @TravellingFreak991  Not all socialist countries were hammered with sanctions yet they still floundered and failed anyway.
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  162. And I presume you're on his payroll.
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  163. Thanks to the US dollar and Chinese aid.
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  164.  @Stupiditas-stupido  But Castillo was a Chavez/Morales/Lula type.
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  165. Same here.
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  166. The Ortegas are a far-left version of the Somozas.
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  167. Courtesy of the PPC.
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  168. <Getting rid of slavery was a good thing but getting rid (killing) the whites was a capital sin, not only because it was morally wrong but because they killed those who could help build the country.> Actually it was morally right as the Whites were their enslavers and built the country only for themselves. Aside from outside interference, Haiti was yet another casualty of the revolution as its liberators became the new oppressors.
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  169. The Cuban government would have to let go of its monopoly of the economy.
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  170. Not everything is Europe's fault.
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  171. LOL. Nice joke!
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  172.  @degamispoudegamis  No. The miracles of socialism. US sanctions are not responsible for Cuban doctors' low salaries. Take it up with the Cuban government, their employers.
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  173.  @longdragon3  Like what? Socialism?
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  174.  @rabiehmoussa9854  Tribe affiliation. If not that then promises of free stuff and easy living.
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  175.  @shakurmohamed8505  After they deport Kamala Harris to Jamaica.
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  176.  @celestialgoddess8055  I thought it was controlled by Russia and China.
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  177.  @pauliewalnuts6734  Fought off US imperialism only to embrace Sino-Soviet imperialism.
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  178.  @Thomas-pt5ug  Tell that to Afghanistan, Eastern Europe and the Baltics.
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  179. She just chose not to.
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  180.  @urbanentertainmentgodz  It is true. Haiti is the blackest, unmixed country outside of Africa. Jamaica is the next blackest.
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  181.  @zico739  How was that impeachment trial?
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  182.  @GiftedonesVS  In the form of the Cuban government.
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  183. Especially after Castro destroyed the local economy and the foreign aid dried up when the USSR collapsed. So much for self-reliance.
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  184.  @ArthurMorgan-ni4ft  LOL. Stop being naive. Venezuelans are leaving the Venezuela that they freely voted for and if allowed to be citizens will vote for the same kind of leaders and policies that will tank the host country.
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  185.  @nessarow9293  Haiti even more so as it's easily the worst off of the two. What they both have in common is: they're both former slave revolt states. And they're both the Blackest ethno-states not situated in Africa.
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  186. And remember back in 2012 when they hailed Venezuela as a socialist success?
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  187. The same USAID that has been blocked from entering by Maduro?
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  188. And leftist politics in general.
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  189. Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
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  190.  @glenncordova4027  Because Castro decimated the local economy to the point it could not support itself without some outside aid.
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  191.  @kimobrien.  Just like he's not interested in tankies.
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  192. Oh really? How come Iran under similar sanctions is faring better?
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  193. Who went by the name of Fidel Castro.
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  194. Mismanagement, corruption, negligence on the part of the Venezuelan government who owns the power company.
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  195.  @iriya3227  <wealth is taxed> And society ends up poor in the long run. No country ever got prosperous from taxes.
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  196. And replace it with another imperialist.
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  197. Ego and hubris.
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  198. Don't you just love how revolutionaries/freedom-fighters/liberators/etc. become the very oligarchs/oppressors/1%-ers they rail against?
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  199.  @fate8007  In your dreams, tankie!
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  200. It's not Qatar's responsibility to help Nigeria.
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  201. A tax haven for foreign tyrants.
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  202. Which includes a lot of ordinary people themselves.
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  203. Well, they got to eat and they don't work for free.
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  204. First end the cowardly blockade and embargo by the Cuban government against its own people.
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  205. While the government is Chinese-backed and installed.
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  206.  @trevourchaitezvi4278  Exactly.
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  207. By favoring foreign oil over your own as in the case of Quebec?
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  208.  @karlhinrikjonsson8924  <They have the biggest oil reservs in the world and are rich in minerals and have huge deposits of urainium.> But don't have the infrastructural or financial means to do much with it due to years of mismanagement, neglect and corruption. <Try fixing Porta Rico befor you start fixing the world.> Puerto Rico's problem is largely internal with far-left politics and corruption leading the way.
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  209. Cuba, end the command economy.
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  210. Exactly.
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  211.  @MusicLover-ui9sm  There will never be enough good-paying jobs to go round.
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  212. Except unlike corrupt Chinese leaders, corrupt African leaders are just plain ignorant.
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  213.  @imjustalilbit  When it isn't sports or entertainment.
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  214. You mean socialism is working. This is just standard socialist fare.
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  215.  @MrCrashDavi  North Korea is not doing fine even with all the Chinese support.
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  216.  @jackrosario9990  They don't.
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  217.  @fotoz2363  Or making makeshift boats off the Miami port risking getting eaten by sharks to live in Havana. Ditto for Los Angeles to live in Pyongyang.
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  218.  @anekadrazek2383  Before Rafael Trujillo, the DR was in the same boat as Haiti. Impoverished and unstable.
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  219. Guyana is not a Black-majority country.
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  220.  @yellowblanka6058  There's nothing innately human about compassion. It was socialized into humanity by millenia upon millenia of religion since humans are naturally savages when left to their own devices in the absence of morality, discipline and higher authority to keep them in line.
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  221. Because it came about in 2017 while Venezuela's collapse started in 2014?
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  222. Biden's not responsible for Greece. That would be the ruling leftist PASOK party.
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  223. Exactly.
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  224. That's a non-issue. The real issue is Maduro running Venezuela into the ground on his own.
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  225.  @CalebGUSHypocrisy  You mean "long live the command economy of the Cuban government running its course."
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  226. LMAO. No. How come Iran, also under US sanctions, is not suffering nearly as badly?
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  227. For what?
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  228. Not really. The government is just a reflection of the people who elected them. Short-sighted, frivolous and proud.
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  229. But Angola is ran by Marxist communists.
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  230. They're not legally allowed to.
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  231.  @sadbrit4906  No. Venezuela is responsible for Venezuela's current state of affairs as it's running its natural socialist course.
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  232. Exactly. And so far, only Ghana and Benin apologized for their roles as collaborators in the Slave Trade.
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  233. <Just because Maduro (and Chavez) wanted to give benefits to the poor coming from the oil revenues they are vilified and hated.> By having and keeping them dependent on handouts with money stolen from the intelligent and productive that Chavez and Maduro vilified and hated and chased out of the country. And unsurprisingly once that money ran out, the poor went right back to square one. No more vicious than Chavista propaganda.
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  234. Margaret Thatcher was right. Communism = power to the government at the expense of the people.
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  235.  @bubbercakes528  Free will. God granted humanity free will including that to establish a world independent of Him as what you're seeing right now. Humanity's own pride is the reason why we have chaos.
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  236.  Patrick Dolan  Exactly. Greece brought this upon itself.
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  237.  @robinc4605  Exactly.
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  238.  @azulmora9777  Not really. Democrats are just socialism's useful idiot cheerleaders.
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  239.  @TheBlazersfan22  Not really.
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  240. That is the Venezuelan people who ignorantly voted for Chavez and Maduro.
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  241. Kleptocracy.
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  242.  @chrisv1251  No. America's millionaires and billionaires are rich than most politicians.
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  243. No. Try Venezuela's nationalization and subsequent mismanagement.
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  244. What about Bill and Hillary Clinton?
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  245.  @keiththurman1045  Whit men having the most to lose from it.
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  246. What about the taxes?
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  247. It's the legacy that Pol Pot left behind.
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  248.  @elkamalito9641  No. It's the Venezuelan government violating human rights and causing shortages. Iran is under the very same sanctions and yet Iran is not nearly as badly off? Why is that? Venezuela destroyed its own industries and capacity to support itself when Chavez and Maduro killed private enterprise on their own. They chased out the intelligent and productive in favor of political stooges and bottom-feeders like just about every other socialist have done throughout history.
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  249. The government already does that. To the detriment of its economy.
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  250. Exactly.
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  251.  @davereiland9921  But the problem is that the Faroe Islands is remote and has limited opportunities and the Philippines is a straight up 3rd-world dump sustained by remittances.
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  252. Enabled by the bleeding hearts and leftists among Whites.
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  253. They traded self-sufficiency for government handouts.
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  254.  @Freetheworkers  Case(s) in point: Venezuela and South Africa.
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  255. And China. And every other Arab/Muslim-majority country. And Norway.
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  256. And (consistent) electricity.
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  257.  @Maurazio  The only people enjoying a healthy nutrition in Cuba are Raul Castro and the ruling elite.
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  258. The Cuban government has not done itself any favors with its glaringly inefficient command economy model. It's only so long they and you can keep blaming the US for their woes.
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  259. Also let this sink in. China always wanted to conquer Africa since Mao.
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  260. It's amusing how socialists support unions in capitalist countries, but won't hesitate to crack down on such within their own jurisdictions.
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  261. And the people themselves.
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  262. Except that Nicaragua is ran by an antifa type.
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  263.  @samtheharvester6188  Only to end up right back at square one due humans being humans.
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  264. Only to become an even bigger elite than the "elite" ever were serving as yet another example of why most revolutions are failures.
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  265.  @zaza_268  Yes it is the minute you decide to use drugs.
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  266. Only for tourists and political elites.
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  267.  @sassysince90  No. That was just the vast majority of those who lived in the capital Kabul.
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  268. Courtesy of the Cuban government.
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  269.  @angulaaagula5926  Out of ignorance and stupidity. You believe in doing good for everyone except your own people.
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  270.  @djinghiskhan9199  If communism is such a success, why did every other country just to stay afloat all but completely abandon it? Yugoslavia and Tanzania don't have the excuse of US meddling as they were either left alone or outright supported by the very same US.
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  271. And interestingly that done far more damage than the US sanctions bringing about that Special Period.
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  272. @ Robogren Canada's hardly socialist.
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  273. Why is it the US's job to help? Isn't Cuba self-reliant?
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  274. America is not responsible for Venezuelan mismanagement.
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  275. Its leader was once Pol Pot's henchman.
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  276. Nigeria already did that.
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  277. Due to transportation costs since the place in question can only be reached by plane.
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  278. The embargo is just a convenient excuse to ignore the failures caused by Cuban government policy regarding economic development.
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  279. Africans themselves. Both the leadership and the citizenry alike. This coming from a Black man.
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  280. But the ruling ANC is socialist as F. If anything, they're just reverting back to their Marxist Soviet-founded and backed roots.
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  281.  @jackred2362  Venezuela destroyed whatever diverse economy it had with price controls and wholesale nationalization of major industries.
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  282. How about the loss of foreign aid and lack of local industry due to Cuban government repression?
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  283. Only if you're part of the ruling party.
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  284.  @christopherramos5690  That's because Venezuela nationalized the rest of the economy in the process of depending on oil.
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  285.  @shukriiii  Exactly.
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  286.  @swingingsteel  Because even they know that socialism cannot survive without capitalism to give it the illusion of viability.
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  287. No. Cuban socialism running its natural course.
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  288. The only bullying going on in Cuba is that of the Cuban government against its own people.
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  289. But an unsustainably low birth-rate defeats the purpose of cultural preservation.
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  290. But they're not legally allowed to farm.
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  291.  @marshallbeggs  Exactly.
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  292. And divorced fathers who got bankrupted by family court.
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  293.  @luisfelipedossantoslopes-9516  <but countries like Zímbabue, Angola, Zambia and Mozambique barely exploit this absurd potential.> Notice that all those countries are run by Marxists?
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  294. The same Joe Biden that brought about mass incarceration under the Clinton administration.
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  295.  @gregorymunn484  The only embargo going on is that by the Cuban government.
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  296. Isabel Dos Santos is not Black. She's mixed. She was given birth to by her father's White Russian mistress.
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  297. <They danced for Capitalism and now here are the results. Corruption will never end since its the mandate of so called Capitalism. > LOL. Capitalism is the reason South Africa hasn't collapsed yet as much as the ANC is trying to turn South Africa into the next Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
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  298.  @Michael-ig8ih  <Doctors in Cuba make enough for a comfortable living.> No they don't as they only get 10% of their actual earnings while 90% goes to the government. There's a reason why they have side-jobs like taxi-driving. That and their monthly rations are inadequate. Not to mention some became doctors, because it's their best chance at getting a travel Visa and TFO of Cuba altogether. <If you’re becoming a doctor for pat and prestige, you shouldn’t be a doctor. If your sole motivation to be a doctor is not helping your community, you don’t deserve the privilege of going to medical school for free > Says who?
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  299. Not really. Venezuela is behind the destruction of Venezuela. This is just socialism running its natural course.
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  300.  @backto-il9ne  Pretty much.
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  301. No. Try human pride. Greed is just one of its manifestations.
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  302. Ditto for Venezuela.
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  303. Because Venezuela destroyed its own production base with its government seizures of private enterprise.
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  304. That's nothing compared to Cuba's blind addiction to socialism. Claiming self-reliant yet dependent on outside aid to keep its pathetic excuse of an economy afloat as Castro killed off the private sector and local industry.
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  305. Plus a hopelessly gullible public who continue to vote for said political class as they love their social programs and free stuff. Economic consequences be damned!
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  306. <We have universal free health care.> But a woefully inefficient and mediocre one at that. <Communism can work well in a country with lots in natrual resources> Like Ethiopia?
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  307.  @chileshemulenga8790  <look and dubai it was not built overnight> But it was built with foreign migrant labor.
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  308. And one of her employees was Charles Taylor's wife.
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  309.  @LautaroTessi  Exactly.
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  310. @Spectre You have only the Cuban government to thank for that.
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  311. Meh. The Sandinistas were backed by the USSR.
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  312. I thought South Africa was the worst considering it's the #1 rape capital on Earth.
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  313. Better question: what would happen if Cuba allowed private enterprise to operate and people to pursue their own path to wealth?
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  314. Communism didn't work even in countries that weren't under sanctions such as Eastern Europe.
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  315. But it won't, because it might spell the end of the regime like what happened in the Soviet Union, its one-time sugar daddy.
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  316. They've done more to set Cuba back than even the harshest of US sanctions.
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  317.  @KabulMM  And Mengistu Haile Mariam singlehandedly made Ethiopia the ultimate poster boy for everything wrong with post-colonial Africa which included famine.
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  318. Exactly.
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  319. LOL. I didn't know that mom-and-pop business-owners have that much clout.
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  320.  @Mystuff4141  And he just got convicted.
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  321. LOL. Her success was through nepotism. Being an offspring of a despot.
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  322.  @ritagreenleaf3669  And their citizenship is tied to their parents' status at the time they got in.
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  323.  @watchingthehawks355  Starting with Robert Mugabe.
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  324.  @hamidhamidi3134  Should not have accepted that Marshal Plan money.
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  325. Agreed.
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  326.  @zeebee8527  LOL.
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  327. Not really. His legacy lives on through his right-hand man.
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  328. Austerity is the result of unsustainable economic policies which includes vote-buying.
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  329.  @degamispoudegamis  No. The Cuban government is the problem as it has done more to set the country back than any US sanction ever did.
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  330. That actually create jobs and contribute to the national treasury. It's not Dangote's fault most of his people don't have the qualifications required get hired and put to work.
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  331.  @jdjuft4301  Yes you can and Kim Jong-Un is not much different from his grandfather. But hey! At least he didn't kill millions of his own citizens like his father or grandfather if that's an accomplishment
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  332. Easy to achieve that in a totalitarian regime. Japan, Switzerland, etc. has all of that and then some and didn't have to deprive their people of freedom to achieve that.
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  333. The government seized and now control the food and the production. This is the standard socialist tactic of using food as a weapon to feed its supporters and starve its opponents.
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  334. Freedom is far more valuable then free stuff.
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  335. Finland is far from socialist.
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  336. The same military industry industrial complex used to protect the likes of the UAE, Sweden, South Korea and others from their regional enemies Iran, Russia, North Korea, etc.
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  337.  @aranalan4199  In other words, they just want something for nothing.
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  338. Spoken like a communist. Time to ban all religions except your own which would be state Atheism.
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  339. But it practices it. Even its founder practiced it.
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  340.  @marutanray  AHHH! The typical socialist response.
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  341.  @marutanray  Exactly.
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  342. Poverty is a symptom and consequence. Not the enemy of anything.
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  343. You know that nearly all of them are ran by leftists, right?
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  344.  @Jorghee316  Because Singapore is a city-state and has no arable land to work with.
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  345. But it sure beats the equality of socialism, though. The equality of poverty and misery for all except ruling class, well-connected and privileged.
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  346. That's because the rich contribute more to the treasury. Why wouldn't they give more to the rich?
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  347.  @mariamendez4459  Unless you have ties to the White-majority Cuban government.
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  348.  @Bozewani  But they don't, because the Nguemas rather keep the resources for themselves.
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  349.  @felixyusupov7299  Very much.
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  350. Social programs =/= socialism. Canada is not a one-party state with a state-run economy.
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  351.  @unoriginal1086  That's only because Amazon's shipping is subsidized by Canada Post, a government-owned enterprise.
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  352.  @MA-mk9rl  The same working class that don't have the sense, discipline or the acumen to start their own business and have the nerve to complain about the bosses that do ultimately choosing to work for them?
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  353. Maduro and socialism has got to go.
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  354.  8alot4t  How exactly is Trump a criminal when Hillary had way more blood on her hands and a longer track record of misdeeds?
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  355. And they execute drug-dealers too.
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  356. Russia and China is keeping Venezuela afloat.
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  357.  @TheMandarin1984  Name one empire that wasn't built off of other people's backs.
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  358.  @ADHchuD  Only because he was an old man no longer having the vitality to continue on.
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  359. Agreed. The West is becoming more and more degenerate.
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  360.  @Tumbadoraable  None of those countries are socialist. They're capitalist welfare states. And 3 of them don't even have a minimum wage.
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  361.  @manjelos  It was. So much so that even black Jamaicans moved in.
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  362.  @JB-op4ty  <Catering to losers is the road to ruin.> Case in point: USSR, North Korea, China (under Mao), Cambodia, etc.
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  363.  @JB-op4ty  Also Zimbabwe, Cuba, etc.
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  364. LMAO
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  365.  @foodforthought204  Exactly.
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  366. It's the only Christian country in Asia.
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  367. @ Dawn Madrid Maybe not, but they would end up being spineless wimps in the process.
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  368. Too bad that pales in comparison to the 10's of millions the Soviet Union and China killed in their heydays.
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  369.  @rifqiaji5031  Blame the ideology. Because it's stupid even in theory.
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  370.  @jeffmoore9487  LOL. Try Cuba in comparison to Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and even the Dominican Republic. Cuba is light years behind all of those countries. Being the better in comparison to Honduras and Guatemala is nothing to brag about. I'm surprised you didn't mention Cuba's fellow socialist in arms, Nicaragua.
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  371.  @jeffmoore9487  And neither have they adopted Marxism, pick fights with America and ran their countries to the ground in the process. By the way, Haiti has way more claim to being oppressed by America and the West than Cuba and Haiti literally had no friends after independence whereas Cuba had the Soviet Union.
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  372.  @noolaiphx8189  They don't trust the other party as they're seen as wanting to bring back Apartheid.
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  373. No. Keep blaming socialism. <and the rest of the people have food and housing> Until the housing deteriorate and crumble and the food run out as with every other attempt at real socialism.
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  374.  @kiDkiDkiD12  Yet none of those 3 countries are starving or struggling nearly as badly as countries ran by left-wing socialist dictators like Venezuela, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.
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  375. Whatever, greedy communist!
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  376. Singapore has no resources.
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  377.  8alot4t  So how did Ethiopia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Cambodia. Romania, etc. collapse? None of them were under any capitalist nations' sanctions. As a matter of fact, Romania and Yugoslavia were supported by capitalist nations.
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  378.  @kofibadu1442  Yes it does.
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  379.  @fetusimao7018  This is socialism. The government bureaucrats, OOPS! I mean the workers control the means of production as Marx called for.
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  380. Make more babies!
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  381.  @surendramumgai631  They're just reciprocating the hostility the Venezuelan government have shown them. Most of Venezuela's problems are self-inflicted. It destroyed private enterprise, fired all the skilled and competent personnel in favor of political friends who went on to run the oil industry into the ground. Not to mention Chavez blew the oil revenues on buying votes from the poor as opposed to infrastructure upgrading and maintenance.
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  382. Very much.
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  383.  @Sovereign_Citizen_LEO  And are dependent on US military protection.
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  384. <and a real Socialism can begin afresh, without covert attempts at subversion of an otherwise quite functional State by a maniac bunch of greedy, not to mention venal, foo's (and there overseas compatriots).> Like what Romania under Ceausescu had? <So this is what happens when a very limited number of people try to privatise access to the oil reserves of a country, as has been the case with Venezuala for the last decade and more.> Namely Chavez and Maduro.
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  385. Canada never used to have more socialism as the free market flourished back then just like it does now.
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  386. What's China's excuse? It's Atheist.
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  387.  @scottm8579  <But Maduro doesn't have any idea how to do it. He's a socialist/communist. > Nor is he interested in knowing how. <Venezuela has farms to produce crops as well.> You mean had until Chavez seized all the farms and let them go infertile.
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  388. No. Castro was like every other revolutionary turned dictator. He used the poor to empower and enrich himself and his henchmen.
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  389. Al-Jazeera is not Western.
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  390. The same leaders that the citizens themselves voted for?
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  391. Ghettoes? Try shanty-towns.
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  392.  @mungrafm  Not really. See Nicaragua.
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  393. This is socialism. Workers do control the means of production there. They just happen to be government bureaucrats.
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  394. I thought it was North Korean men.
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  395.  @Jeffmbeha  Nepotism.
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  396. It has plenty to do with socialism. Price control is socialism. Destroying private enterprise to prop up the state-run oil industry they mismanaged is socialism.
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  397. The same natural resources that Africans hardly knew they had let alone know how to use due to their general lack of human capital?
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  398. That's because their forefathers built the society for the sole benefit of White people. Not anyone else. Our forefathers dropped the ball somewhere.
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  399. With no capitalist tax money to fund it.
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  400. And give them all free helicopter rides.
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  401.  Russell Scott  They got what they voted for.
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  402. The Cuban military.
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  403. Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Europe and North America.
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  404. <get rich or die trying> (c) 50 Cent
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  405.  ScarletDespair  With the help of the US's Marshal Plan.
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  406.  Steing Groburf  Exactly.
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  407.  @dothedeed  <The difference is that people who live in US projects are poor / unemployed> Also most likely Black or Latino.
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  408.  @wilcoxwilcox3272  And how many of those 90% of privately-owned businesses are still operational after Chavez's price controls? Venezuela is a functionally SOCIALIST country as there are barely any privately owned businesses still around let alone thriving.
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  409.  @mrkjsmooth16  Exactly.
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  410. Isn't this the God and religion-free secular humanist Atheist society you asked for?
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  411.  Bruno56  Because they threw the family under the bus for a career and personal ambitions ceding all their family responsibilities to the government hence the state-run daycare centers and nursing homes.
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  412. That World's Most Unequal Society goes to South Africa.
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  413.  Jac Athif  Socialism is the reason. The government seizing the means of production and being no longer able to produce goods at all let alone efficiently relying on imports is standard socialist fare.
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  414. Miserably.
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  415. LMAO.
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  416. Like endless political coups?
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  417. LOL. Sanctions or no sanctions, the US has no obligation to do business with and provide for hostile regimes. And who told Cuba to kill off their farmers and other (wealth)-producers rendering the country unable to feed itself?
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  418. LOL. Nah. Cuba is more Freddie Gray.
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  419.  @ini2785  socialism = corruption
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  420.  @Momo-cx1ij  Still confusing public services with government-run economy, I see!
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  421.  @wyodragon4325  Not lately with its food and debt crisis.
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  422. No. This is the result of Mugabe kicking out the successful and productive who just happen to be White in favor of political stooges and people not up for the task of picking up where the Whites left off in productivity and efficiency resulting in shortages, famine and economic ruin. Standard socialist fare.
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  423. And Obama.
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  424. Yes it did.
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  425.  @infinitesoul8941  Free house but no utilities or maintenance. Free education but no jobs and an economy dependent on "charity" from other countries. Free healthcare but no supplies or even doctors as they're rented out abroad like a temp agency with the government keeping 90% of their earnings.
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  426. No. Than Chavismo for that.
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  427. And apparently neither does Maduro.
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  428. Just like the ruling PCC will never let go of their stranglehold on the economy and people's lives. Apparently it's better that the people suffer than admit failure and responsibility for why the country hasn't progressed in the past 6 decades, letting go of the power.
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  429. No. Thanks to Maduro.
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  430. <Americans aren't stupid.> <But orange whiner wants to make us live under these horrible govts> But who needs him when you can have his haters do that instead? They all run the major cities that have housing projects and serious crime problems.
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  431. All the tough laws in the world don't mean anything if there's no one to enforce them.
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  432.  @cnnnpc4351  SA is ran by Marxists. The "democratic socialist" model you so advocate is already in effect.
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  433. That's more like it!
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  434.  @grumpynold  And yet they don't because they don't want the legal and financial responsibilities of owning the business that their bosses went out their own way to take on.
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  435.  @SmartRobot-wc2fb  And yet they absolutely didn't because they were content with just taking orders.
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  436. Pol Pot-styled communism really ran that country to the ground.
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  437. No.
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  438. What about Beijing?
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  439.  @blessingchild9754  LOL. No.
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  440. But isn't the mayor a Marxist?
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  441. The ANC is a far-left party. It figures.
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  442. No. Shame on the Cuban government.
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  443. Pretty much.
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  444.  @MrSlanderer  Alternative news = far-left pro-Marxist propaganda.
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  445. On top of killing off whatever diversified economy it had with price controls and nationalizations resulting in capital flight and brain drain.
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  446. @Theactualclips <He saw many socialist state collapse or end up badly. But failed to account for the fact that, the USA, the “officially” wealthiest and “officially” most powerful country in the world was always after them> The US wasn't after Tanzania. Or Madagascar. Or Mongolia. Or much of Eastern Europe. Or Burma. Or even Sweden when it had its own socialist experiment until the 70's. The US is not a valid excuse for tyranny and mismanagement. <The reality is, we’ve never had a socialist state that was allowed to thrive. Or even exist.> Yes you did. It's not the West's fault that many socialist states couldn't survive without foreign aid to feed themselves after the governments killed off the producers and mismanaged the economy into ruin. <I just think it’s common logic here.> Among tankies and west-haters, that is.
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  447.  @Ehigator.  Socialism is not a producer but a consumer. It figures when many countries that adopted socialism often go from being net food-exporters of to net food-importers as a result of government nationalizing and decimating domestic industry having to rely on imports and/or foreign aid just to feed themselves.
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  448.  @fakename8856  Socialism isn't sustainable because it's dependent on infinite growth like capitalism is often accused of along with infinite resources and cash flow that even the wealthiest of capitalist countries don't have.
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  449. Guyana already did socialism under Jagan and Burnham in the 80's.
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  450.  @jimstan1795  But Cuba was a top 5 country in the Americas under Batista. Segregation is still practiced in Cuba. And White Cubans still live better than the Black and Brown Cubans thanks to remittances.
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  451.  Don Corleone  Actually, it's easy to believe. Canada has way more trade barriers between provinces than it does with a foreign country.
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  452.  @Ioannikios174  Wives, obey your husbands.
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  453. Exactly.
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  454. <humans do not have a heart anymore.> Where is yours? Waiting on others to do what you won't take the initiative to do yourself at your own expense.
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  455. Except Iran is not nearly as badly off.
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  456. The only embargo going on in Cuba and Venezuela is that of the Cuban and Venezuelan government against their own citizens.
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  457. KUDOS!
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  458. Cuba's problem is largely self-inflicted.
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  459. Many natural resources but don't have an educated and skilled populace to put them to good use, because in Venezuela's case, the government ran them out.
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  460. End the communism.
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  461. Unless you're Botswana or Rwanda.
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  462. Not at all.
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  463. No. It's because Cubans are not legally allowed to even if they wanted to.
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  464. Only for people to shame Western nation if it did interfere. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
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  465. No. Chavez and Maduro did that.
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  466.  @aruhe6650  Neither is a dictatorship.
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  467.  @franzjoseph1837  The USSR's prosperity didn't last once commodity prices dropped and its model got exposed by the US's military spending. <ol bro look up the definition of communism. It's worker ownership of the means of production.> But in practice, the workers who owned the means of production were not ordinary people but party elites and affiliates.
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  468.  @epluribusunum9236  You have only Lyndon Baines Johnson to thank for that.
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  469.  @SatishKumar-rc4pl  And his mentor Hugo Chavez.
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  470. Yet no food, no jobs, a worthless local currency, shoddy housing, no basic utilities. <CUBA is far BETTER than them or any country in Latin America> And yet hundreds of thousands of Cubans much rather live in those other Latin American countries and the US.
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  471. <All countries allied to russia are bankrupt.> Or resigned themselves to being kleptocracies. North Korea Mongolia Moldova Cuba Nicaragua Ethiopia Somalia Angola
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  472.  @belka8618  AH YES! Finland. A capitalist welfare state. I see you're too much of a wimp to handle real socialism like the one in Cuba.
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  473. He's the face of it. But it was Nkrumah who got the ball rolling.
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  474. Most people are snobs. Midwestern, Southern and Western cities = not worth their time.
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  475. Another communist success story.
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  476. By throwing money and other free stuff at the poor?
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  477. Badly.
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  478. Castillo was anything but right wing. He was a far-left communist. And so is his replacement.
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  479. It is a choice.
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  480. It's only a triumph for those part of the regime.
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  481. Simple. It's just like Equatorial Guinea and the Nguemas. Personal enrichment and empowerment above all else.
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  482. Embargo does not apply to food aid or remittances.
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  483. <White men freed the Africans from the brutal Arab slavery.> Only to subject them to European slavery.
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  484. Only in Democratic-run cities and states.
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  485. Actually, it was Vladimir Lenin who coined that term.
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  486. They are for the growth of their bank accounts and egos.
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  487. Does Saudi Arabia even have a private sector?
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  488.  @abdulazizclare9545  But Cuba is a nation-wide skid row.
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  489.  @abdulazizclare9545  It's an island of beggars, hustlers and prostitutes.
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  490. <What Socialism?? Cuba is less socialist then the US for crying! A few elites at the top reaping 99.9999% of the economy, to then redistribute 0.01% of it to the people... before pocketing 50% of it for personal investments (such as building touristic resorts), and spending the rest on bulking up the army and police they use to keep everyone in check??? That is NOT even remotely close to being socialism.> Socialism in practice. The government and well-connected = 1%. Everyone else = 99%.
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  491.  @reality8315  Richest continent in terms of resources but poorest continent in terms of leadership, innovation, ingenuity, etc.
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  492. Those "citizens" are free to to move back to Russia. Besides, they 're there for political reasons.
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  493. Communism cannot work. Tanzania under Nyerere didn't suffer from any US sanction or internal corruption yet its experiment failed all the same.
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  494. Communism is even more inhumane.
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  495. Pretty much.
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  496. Exactly. They got what they voted for.
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  497. <Cubans work less and enjoy more time with their families than most people in developed countries.> Easy to do that when there are literally no jobs much less anything resembling a thriving economy. <Cuba’s medical system is decades ahead of the US’. > Lay off the PCC propaganda. And by the way, the US still outranks Cuba in overall healthcare.
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  498.  @Michael-ig8ih  <Capitalism has rotted your brain if you think working at Walmart is more meaningful than spending time with the people you love.> Not nearly as much as socialism rotted yours as if you can't spend time with the people you love in capitalism.
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  499. Socialism.
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  500. Says a poster who's probably on the PCC's payroll.
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  501. LOL. The revolutionary women is a Castro regime bootlicker.
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  502. And made himself the bourgeoisie.
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  503. Yes he did. And Castro was every bit a White as those he exiled to Miami.
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  504. The whole Arab Gulf region would like a word with you on that one.
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  505. You mean used to be.
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  506. Better than that Mad Max socialism it had under Barre.
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  507. Price the people out to Australia.
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  508. LOL.
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  509.  @rrvillareal2011  Only because it was a totalitarian regime and people were to behave at gun-point.
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  510. What indigenous? Venezuela is full of half-gringos.
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  511. That was the price to pay for accepting the US's Marshal Plan.
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  512. And neither does Cuba with its import bans and high tariffs.
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  513. And her late husband was also mixed-race (Black Congolese Mobutu stooge father/White Danish mother).
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  514.  @siam5956  They can take tips from fellow communist North Korea on how to thrive as a self-reliant nation.
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  515.  @user-FUCKYOU18  But apparently to most migrants, better homeless in America than housed in their home countries that have no future.
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  516. No. Cuba needs to get rid of the command economy and reinstate the private sector.
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  517. Translation: solidarity for the Cuban government repressing the people of Cuba while erroneously blaming the US.
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  518. Exactly.
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  519. But too prideful to admit that their own way just does not work.
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  520. BS! Like Michael Manley in Jamaica?
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  521. Have you seen what happened to the farmers there once Chavez and Maduro tooker over? They got shut down.
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  522. How about voting for a government that doesn't pander to outsiders?
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  523.  @pradeepsureshv716  India was stagnant until the 90's with its welfare socialist policies financed by foreign aid.
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  524. Not really. This is a product of greed, corruption, incompetence and socialists being socialist.
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  525. But business-owners and government officials do.
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  526.  @Mike-mc3sh  Yes it does.
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  527. Anti-Western propaganda from TeleSur.
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  528. Castillo is a communist. Since when did Trump support communism?
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  529.  @texasgun2731  Exactly.
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  530. Yet interestingly, most teen pregnancies take place in locales ran by left wing pigs. Namely the city ghettos.
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  531. Nice rhyme!
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  532. Pretty much.
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  533. They so listen to the majority of the people. It's just that the majority of the people they listen to don't live in the capitol.
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  534. Like where? The average Cuban cannot easily get a visa to those other places.
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  535. They just speak for the regime they're card-carrying members of.
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  536. LOL. How about a better idea: remove the command economy and the Kim government?
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  537.  @ChristianJG  Hardly.
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  538. No.
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  539. How exactly?
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  540. @Christopher Jacobs All the intelligent and productive people.
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  541. It worked when Papa and Baby Doc ruled.
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  542. Like North Korea?
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  543. If the US wanted to take over Cuba, they shouldn't have let it go after winning the Spanish-American War.
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  544. But first, they need to get their finances and crime under control.
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  545. That depends on if Chavez and Maduro didn't run the farmers out yet.
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  546. No it won't as it will jack up the costs for whoever's around to make up the lost revenue.
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  547.  @jackred2362  Agreed. But in Venezuela's case. they did away with whatever diversified economy they had through Chavez's price controls and wholesale nationalizations.
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  548. Miguel Diaz-Canel and the PCC are the oligarchy in Cuba.
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  549. Which is the Venezuelan government. They're the ones who seized all of the farmland, warehouses and food production.
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  550. Communism doesn't work, because it's an oxymoron often being everything capitalism is accused of and then some.
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  551. BS!
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  552. Exactly.
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  553.  Ganda Gandara  None of those are socialist. And since when did public infrastructure and services = socialism?
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  554. Gaddafi's model is not a model to emulate. Venezuela's management became inefficient under Chavez as production declined and he fired all the skilled personnel in favor of political friends.
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  555. LOL. <Pedro Castillo was trying to fight this the best he could!!!> So he can reap the benefits for himself like the typical kleptocrat.
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  556.  @fenton3137  All humanity. Under the jackboot of ruling class.
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  557. While in communist Cuba, its housing crisis is not due to rising rents but deteriorating infrastructure with buildings no longer suitable for housing.
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  558. The sanctions are nothing compared to the loss of foreign aid and economic repression by the Cuban government.
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  559. First end the planned economy.
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  560.  @rasineosimosim5379  Where foreigners get to have their way with the locals just like colonial times.
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  561. You allowed leftists, globalists and bleeding hearts to hijack your world.
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  562. LOL. The same Juan Peron that wrecked Argentina for the next 7 decades?
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  563. Too liberal for their own good.
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  564. And yet no kid in Iran has died thus far from US sanctions.
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  565.  @simtrate3959  Which happens to be influenced by religion.
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  566. Exactly.
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  567. She is bi-racial. Black African father who was a co-founder and one-time leader of the current ruling party and White Russian mother.
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  568. Um. No. Ethiopia, Eastern Europe, etc. were largely free of US meddling in their socialist years yet they failed anyway.
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  569. How is Cuba going to conduct international trade when they hardly have the ability to produce anything worth trading due to Castro decimating local industry?
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  570.  @sinabagherisarvestani8924  Most are not heritage homes.
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  571. Equality does not exist.
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  572. Cuban government = power at all costs.
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  573. And Guyana Blacks are not?
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  574. Yeah! Viva la Revolucion indeed! While the people starve and suffer just so the PCC can stay in power and spite the US.
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  575.  @ckthegreat100  Cuba is still facing the same PCC central planning.
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  576.  @ckthegreat100  <China has a centrally planned economy too, but their economy grew faster than any other in history. C> Only after it toned down the central planning and ramped up the free market. Cuba is poor because of socialism.
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  577.  @ckthegreat100  <No free market economy has ever grown as fast China’s communist one.> Easy to do that when starting from rock bottom having nowhere to go but up. <Clearly, it’s success is due to factors other than a free market, > Such as Deng liberalizing the economy and doing away with many of Mao's policies.
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  578.  @ckthegreat100  <Cuba has a better healthcare system than USA, with Cubans living longer healthier lives than Americans on average> No it doesn't as the US still outranks it. And Cubans living longer on average has nothing to do with the healthcare system but the vast amounts of working-age people that fled leaving mostly the elderly around.
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  579. They moved out to be party girls and career women.
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  580. Didn't he used to be one of Pol Pot's henchmen?
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  581. To their own peril.
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  582.  @Breakn28  To their own demographic peril.
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  583. What about African society?
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  584. Only for tourists and Party elites.
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  585.  @krnpowr  LOL. Germany is barely capitalist.
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  586. Abstinence does work. You just lack self-control.
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  587. US sanctions didn't force Maduro to impose price controls forcing businesses to sell their goods at rock-bottom prices when he wasn't seizing private businesses and chasing out the entrepreneurs setting the country up for shortages.
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  588. The end result of communism = kleptocracy.
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  589. It is because of bad leadership. And the only people that benefited from Venezuela's natural resources were the Chavez family, PSUV elites and the Cuban government.
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  590.  @jelbinmalungu9250  Which Venezuelans? Ordinary people or those on the PSUV payroll? Just like you're peddling Chavista talking points.
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  591. Kenya doesn't need socialism. Look how it wrecked its neighbors Somalia, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
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  592. These are just some of the fruits socialism/communism consistently bear. Shortages and infrastructure falling into disrepair.
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  593. No. Thank Ottawa for that.
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  594. Workers do own the means of production in socialism and Cuba. They just happen to be government bureaucrats.
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  595.  @guidototh6091  AKA the average socialist country.
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  596.  @juliomachate6490  A state monopoly, that is.
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  597. Laos is a Chinese vassal state just like North Korea.
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  598.  @JerryX1775  But in Cuba, people are not legally allowed to farm let alone produce their own food.
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  599. With no vaseline.
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  600. No. The Cuban government screwed Cuba.
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  601.  @silviagonzalez2264  LMAO
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  602. Look no further than the Black community in any major city run by Democrats.
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  603. LOL. The poverty rate for the US is 12%. So how does the poor make up 99% of the US population?
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  604.  @japanesus_  40 million out of some 330 million. There are far more Americans not in poverty than those who are.
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  605. For what?
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  606. Picking up where the Arabs and Europeans left off.
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  607. <They use to be the bread basket of the Caribbean.> When was that?
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  608. They got exactly what they voted for. They should have the decency to live with the consequences for better or worse.
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  609. Arab Conquest 2.0.
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  610.  @kodvavi150  Stop victim-playing.
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  611.  @Tumbadoraable  And apparently neither do you citing Western Europe as socialist. Since when were capitalist welfare states socialist?
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  612. Cuba is not a Black-majority country. And the leadership is every bit as White as the people who fled for Miami.
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  613.  @shaughn2011  It figures.
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  614. And not for as long as they continue to sit on their butts with their hands out.
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  615. Agreed.
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  616. Like North Korea?
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  617. The government is the problem.
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  618. Privatization and austerity are consequences of left-wing economic mismanagement, inflation and debt-financing to pay for the entitlements and benefits that have gotten too expensive to maintain with an economy stifled by government intervention.
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  619. The UAE.
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  620. No. Far-left populism. Enough said.
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  621.  @lanefair2950  None of them are socialist as they all have free markets and private property. Venezuela hasn't had either since maybe 2009.
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  622.  @iAlexSpritesify  It started with Chavez.
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  623. Exactly. Atheism is just modern-day paganism.
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  624. Established by Pol Pot.
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  625.  @thestsconsulting8968  You only beat the French.
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  626. Like the Chavez family, the most wealthiest people in the country?
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  627. Because Africans are bribable.
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  628. Yes they do. They just claim social democracy and democratic socialism to hide their true desire for total state control as it's not a popular thing to say anything good about socialism due to its rather unflattering track record. And it wasn't that long ago that venezuela was hailed as a socialist success when Chavez was alive and ran the show.
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  629.  @kimberly6211  Or they're probably dead or in jail.
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  630. Who knew that social democracy (a communist idea by the way) was unsustainable in the face of mass immigration and stagnant economy?
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  631. <Workers never had any genuine control over the econom> Which is a good thing as they don't have the expertise, wisdom or acumen for that.
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  632. The IMF is the consequence of having people who couldn't run a hot dog stand to save their lives in charge of the country's economy.
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  633.  Don Corleone  Exactly. Guyana, Madagascar, Romania, etc. didn't need any outside help in destroying themselves.
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  634. Indeed.
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  635.  @judykinsman3258  The rich already do unlike the bottom 50%.
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  636.  @irvingsanchez2279  China under Mao. Mongolia under Choibalsan. Ethiopia under Mengistu. Romania under Ceausescu. Guyana under Burnham.
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  637. Where citizens are coddled by the government at the expense of foreign migrants who happen to make up the majority?
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  638. And the people themselves are too illiterate and ignorant to be in charge.
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  639. Why don't you put your money where your mouth is? Let the rich people blow 25K on a purse in peace.
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  640. <Communism Wins again.> If you like redundancy and inefficiency. <n my US town, Capitalists closed the shoe factories, and hundreds of people with similar skills were cast to the wind without the opportunities> They had opportunities. Sure it might have required them to get retrained or relocate, but still. Capitalists are not obligated to keep around a business that is no longer solvent let alone profitable due to insufficient revenues to meet basic operating costs.
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  641. The UN is a Western-built and financed entity.
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  642. Like it was pre-Revolution when Batista ran it.
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  643.  @Zhicano  The inequality is between those with access to foreign currency and the black market and those who don't.
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  644. As if Soviet Russia is innocent. Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, etc.
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  645. Rent controls = shortages and new renters/buyers getting locked out of the market.
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  646. Yet a lot of Cubans would much rather trade places and put up with that than have their needs met by a repressive regime that treats them as little more than house pets.
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  647. <That is if the men are actually good human beings who treat their wives with respect and not just treat them as personal maids and sexual slaves.> And likewise that is if the women are actually good human beings who treat their husbands with respect and not just as walking ATM's and sperm donors.
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  648. Hun Sen once worked for Pol Pot.
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  649. In what exactly?
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  650.  @Frenchkisssss  You mean to tell me that Venezuela don't have any factories or skilled personnel to make the materials to fix the infrastructure itself? Serves it right for seizing all the profitable private enterprises and chasing out its most productive among them.
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  651. No. Far-left populist politics did Argentina in. Most of Argentina's problems are of its own making.
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  652. Socialism and dictatorship goes hand in hand.
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  653. Look no further than the housing projects in any major city.
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  654. In countries that haven't gotten completely feminized.
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  655. LOL
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  656.  @TrapBoiFuse561  America didn't have and still doesn't have every other country practicing socialism under sanctions.
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  657.  @WetPokey  Exactly.
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  658. In the form of central planning and economic repression courtesy of the Cuban government.
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  659.  Hoàng Nguyên  Only because the Vietnamese government adopted capitalism.
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  660. Maybe Germany should have rebuilt itself on its own dime instead of accepting the US Marshal Plan.
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  661. That's not Argentina's problem. Argentina's problem is its addiction to promises of free stull from populists, treasury and economy be damned!
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  662.  @ruts17  This is exactly what Marx wanted and advocated. Venezuela already abolished private property.
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  663.  @newaccount5891  Haiti = the OG Somalia.
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  664. Exactly.
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  665. Sanctions are nothing. The Cuban government undermined the country's ability to produce something worth exporting that could generate enough revenue to buy something. Never mind the currency they devalued and made worthless.
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  666.  @cherylblandin3513  <Do not know if it that they get kick back from imports or fear of making mis takes> High tariffs. There's no fear of making mistakes. There's just fear of losing power and social control.
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  667. Easy to say that when you don't have the technology, organization or the manpower to carry it out even if you wanted to.
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  668. He used the poor to enrich and empower himself and his comrades.
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  669. Naive socialists backstabbed by opportunistic socialists.
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  670. So do the citizens.
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  671.  @donovan4105  After Chavez and Maduro seized and ran most of the private sector into the ground destroying its tax base and ability to feed itself.
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  672.  @rawpotatofella9654  Don't forget Ukraine and Central Asia.
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  673. This is a problem with communism. Plus, the loss of Soviet aid did far more dame to Cuba than the US sanctions.
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  674. Another corrupt far-left type biting the dust.
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  675. Portugal is Western Europe's basket-case.
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  676. No. What you're really advocating for a global version of the Soviet Union to take place.
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  677.  @johnyohann6946  Social democracy is a communist idea and little more than way to whitewash communism/socialism's brutal track record.
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  678.  @Waitaminute2015  Michael Manley's democratic socialism tanked Jamaica.
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  679.  @mubiltelefunskytelefon  But they work for the government because it's the government that employs them and signs their paycheques.
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  680. Merkel = descendant of GDR elites and beneficiaries.
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  681. Isn't this "the world without religion" Atheists advocate?
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  682. Hug-a-thug.
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  683. What developers?
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  684. It makes sense actually. They just care about living comfortably for the moment while condemning future generations to poverty and subjugation.
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  685. Thanks to capitalist reforms undertaken by Deng in the 80's along with Western manufacturing jobs being outsourced in the 90's. Interesting how socialism only works when it's toned down.
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  686.  @renajforbesceoofmobay9814  No. Cuban government's fault.
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  687.  @Thewestisthevirus  Yes it has. And the sanctions are nothing compared to the mismanagement that did the most damage.
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  688. And what do you have against homogeneous societies?
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  689. For what? Make it easier for governments to spy on you?
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  690.  @phoque121  As in kill their future. Promoting genocide much?
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  691. Switzerland has the 8th lowest crime rate in the world. Venezuela has the highest crime rate in the world. Poor comparison!
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  692. And that's the Democratic Party. They already did it with Black people.
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  693. No. This is the Satanic nature of communism and how it always built on false promises. Never mind the liberators exploiting the people for power.
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  694. How's that Arab socialism working out?
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  695. None of those countries, China aside, are socialist. And China adopted capitalism in the early 1980's to avoid becoming what Venezuela is now.
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  696. High taxes, high cost of living among other things.
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  697. In Cuba's case, it was the USSR's money it ran out of.
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  698.  @gordonallen9095  None of those countries are socialist but capitalist welfare states. <What doomed Venezuela is internal political and economic corruption.> Characterized by the decimation of the private sector with price controls and chasing out the skilled, productive and successful from the oil industry in favor of political friends and supporters who simply didn't have what it took to run it properly upon nationalizing it. Standard socialist fare.
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  699.  @wardog0327  <They didn't reinvest their oil revenues into another economic commodity.> On top of killing off all their other industries with price controls and nationalization.
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  700. I blame Pol Pot.
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  701. @ hagmapama Exactly! And then you wonder why most revolutions fail.
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  702. That's only because it embraced capitalism.
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  703. Not really. Cuba just simply ran out foreign aid to keep the facade going.
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  704. Well at least she's willing to take responsibility for what she voted for.
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  705. You mean Argentina and Brazil.
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  706.  @adriel1478  America doesn't have empty shelves. Try harder, tankie!
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  707. No. Brought to you by SOCIALISM. Leaving countries bankrupt and backwards since 1917.
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  708. Afro-Guyanese only make up 29% of the population. Nowhere near half.
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  709.  @squiggleworks9  Forbes Burnham, David Granger.
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  710. Pretty much.
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  711. Who are also Marxists.
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  712. Or much of an economy.
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  713. The US has no obligation to do anything for Cuba. And Cuba destroyed its own means self-sufficiency when Castro took over. China is just picking up where the West left off in exploiting Africa. By the way, how's Sri Lanka doing with those Chinese loans?
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  714. The state is the reason why it went under water in the first place.
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  715. In real-life practice.
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  716. Fascism is a communist idea.
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  717. Namely George W Bush and George Clooney.
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  718. They already did in 1971.
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  719.  @nash984954  Blame Chavez. He set the country up for failure.
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  720. A lot of them are mixed. No bleaching, just good old-fashioned swirling.
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  721. No. All is happening because of Venezuela playing stupid socialist games and winning stupid socialist prizes.
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  722. So does Canada. Remember Bombardier?
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  723.  @hernandayolearyallda  <China was poorer than Africa until USA and UK lifted its sanctions in the 70s and 80s. > And also China adopted capitalist reforms to its economy.
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  724. Exactly. Don't forget Canadian tourism and Cuba legalizing prostitution in the 90's. Also they depend on US remittances and food shipments.
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  725. No. It is inside forces that ruined the country like USSR, Venezuela, Romania, Yugoslavia, etc.
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  726. For the worse that is as they become the new oligarchs and oppressors they overthrew.
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  727. Let's just hope that the government doesn't try to seize his food.
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  728. Because she's one of the privileged.
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  729.  @SeeLasSee  For former, active and aspiring communists.
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  730.  @jamesmorton5017  The core of the problem is Cuba's socialist/communist model. The rest of the Caribbean is every bit as limited in resources and aside from Haiti, isn't nearly as badly off as Cuba.
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  731.  @krmfgamingnation1482  But Russia and Iran have a strong enough economy to withstand the embargo. Cuba doesn't as Castro destroyed whatever economy it had resigning it to handouts from other countries.
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  732. That is not sustainable. Plus in Venezuela they run the risk of getting their crops seized.
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  733. Are you willing to work for better?
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  734. Hardly. The Cuban government is what's keeping Cuba poor. Why is it okay for government officials to make a fortune, but not ordinary citizens?
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  735. 95%.
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  736. Greece insisted on being part of the EU as it lied its way in.
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  737. Actually because of the decision of majority.
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  738. Cuba hasn't been prosperous since Batista.
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  739. A lot of the post-colonial 3rd world is living proof of it.
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  740. Oh really? So how did socialist Somalia and communist Yugoslavia manage to get US support back in the day? Maybe the US imposed sanctions on Cuba not merely because it adopted socialism but because Castro seized all of the US-built and funded private enterprises at the time he got into power? Never mind it allying with the USSR and threatening to nuke the US on Moscow's orders.
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  741. A guy whose parents fled the very same socialism/communism he supports.
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  742. Atheism is a religion unto itself.
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  743. Or Russia, Cuba's one-time sugar daddy.
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  744. Pretty much.
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  745. Fascism is from the same socialist family tree as communism.
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  746. <One leader, one parliament, no wars... sad> That's the last thing the world needs. A one-world dictatorship with yet another megalomaniac in charge.
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  747. But the Cuban government hardly allows the people to do anything with it.
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  748.  @TIENxSHINHAN  Courtesy of the White Portuguese that bought them out from their African collaborators and brought them over.
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  749. Yet somehow it didn't suffer much when the USSR, Venezuela and Canadian tourism bankrolled it.
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  750.  @CTN999  Not nearly as crippling as the Cuban government's economic repression against its own citizens responsible for why it had to depend on Venezuela, Canada, USSR and even the US to stay afloat. The real elephant in the room is Cuba's command model. It doesn't produce much worth exporting and doesn't generate enough revenue to sustain itself and buy anything it needs.
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  751.  @pishionelar  No. He's right. Angola has no ties to France. Its ties are with China and Portugal.
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  752.  @patrickdayton2080  Only after China and Vietnam adopted some capitalist reforms they started prospering.
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  753.  @patrickdayton2080  I guess you never heard of Soviet imperialism. <sanctioning others nation and people because of hatredness of policy against land grape and cooperation establishment in their respective countries> Really? So how did Yugoslavia, Guyana and Somalia managed to get US support during their socialist days? And how did Tanzania, Madagascar, Benin, Cambodia, Eastern Europe, etc. manage to fail without the excuse of Western interference?
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  754.  @UsernamerAlreadyTakn  Raul is still alive.
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  755. Of course you do. You're on the PSUV's payroll.
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  756.  @Ms.MD7  Too much government in the economy. If anything, the US is becoming the average Latin American country with all the bug government bureaucracy.
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  757. It isn't just the leaders. It's the people themselves as well.
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  758.  Craig Schultz  They already did it with Black people.
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  759. Pretty much.
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  760.  @cindyweir9645  But capitalism bounced back from that Great Depression. Has socialism bounced back from the Soviet collapse?
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  761. Communism is the issue. <Don't forget the blackouts every day due to lack of diesel to run their generating plants.> Due to Venezuela collapsing, so there went all the free oil Cuba used to get.
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  762. How about tell the Venezuelan government to let the food and medical through the border?
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  763. Kerala is successful, only because it's propped up by the rest of India.
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  764. Not everything is the West's fault.
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  765. Thanks to Deng's capitalist reforms in the 1980's and Clinton shipping off all of America's manufacturing jobs there in the 1990's. Too bad many of those 700 000 000 people that China lifted out of poverty have been Party lackeys and their relatives.
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  766. Along with the Chavez family.
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  767. LOL. That's a nice joke.
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  768. Venezuela is not war-torn, but far-left politics-torn.
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  769. LOL. So happy in life that they'll risk jail or death to get out of that poverty.
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  770. Cuba is anything but overpopulated.
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  771. Too much land and not enough people.
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  772. Equality does not exist.
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  773. Exactly.
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  774. The Cuban government controls all the food production.
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  775. The only consequential sanctions in effect is that of the Cuban government on citizens.
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  776. What good is stability without progress? North Korea and Equatorial Guinea have stability, but there hasn't been a whole lot of progress and the people are languishing.
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  777. But in order to do that, you would have to be allowed to enter the country.
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  778. No. Try communism running its natural course.
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  779.  @redacted3740  The US outranks Cuba in healthcare. And Cuba's higher life expectancy is due to all the working-age people that fled the country leaving the elderly behind.
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  780.  @redacted3740  Nope. Overall.
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  781. Afro-Guyanese only make up 29% of the population while Indo-Guyanese make up 40%.
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  782. BS! They do have a choice. It's just that they much rather take their chances with a Faroese man than their own men.
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  783.  @Jagueyes1  No. Try Cuban command economy.
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  784.  @jazmar0822  Yet Jamaica has more people living outside of it than inside. Jamaica is middle-income only in comparison to Haiti, but compared to most of the rest of the Caribbean, Jamaica is poor. I didn't know that everyone in Jamaica works in the sports and entertainment industry. LOL @ Jamaicans being rich.
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  785. Cuba was one of the last countries to abolish slavery.
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  786. Better question: why is no one talking about the Cuban government's policies that stifled virtually all economic growth and development having to depend on outside aid just to stay afloat? And the real reason it can't buy or sell anything is because it doesn't produce anything worth selling and it hardly has any thriving local industries that generate the revenues needed to buy something.
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  787. And rightfully so. Black people are (still) dependent on White people for their survival.
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  788. Too liberal for its own good.
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  789. Propped up by oil.
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  790. Nope. Be it communist Cuba or socialist Venezuela and Nicaragua.
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  791. Like Mauritius?
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  792.  @62Cristoforo  Yet the US is not among the top 50 highest crime rates in the world. Interestingly, Sweden has more crime than the US.
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  793.  @thebridge5483  All the resources we have, yet no brains or foresight to do anything constructive with them.
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  794.  @MrGreghome  But in the end, you're just going to have to do what you have to do for your own survival. Either move out or deal with the consequences of staying.
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  795. Exactly.
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  796. Mismanagement and corruption.
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  797.  @speakup18  No. That's just you. Lay off the CNN, TeleSUR and other assorted Marxist propaganda.
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  798. North Korea was founded as a Soviet outpost, though.
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  799.  @Queenie163  No it won't. LOL. Are you that naive?
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  800. Greece voluntarily lied its way into the EU to get German taxpayers to pay for its bloated public sector and easy life it promised citizens.
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  801. Drop the command economy, Cuba.
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  802. <The USA needs to give the Cuban People back their lively hoods, > You mean the Cuban government. The US is not the reason Cuban citizens cannot legally earn an honest living in Cuba.
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  803.  @MusehanaH  And are we just going to ignore the fact that Venezuela has to have the oil shipped out abroad for refinement because it's too expensive to do it locally?
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  804. Maybe so, but the average Singaporean still live better than the average Syrian. Besides, Syria right now = Afghanistan 2.0.
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  805. The same same sanctions that only started in 2017?
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  806. Play stupid green games, win stupid green prizes.
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  807. @ TrollBuster One problem, though. Not all socialists are communists as in the case of Maduro, but all communists are socialists.
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  808.  @hectorvega621  No. And not even close. Communism is the reason why they're suffering from malnutrition as communism is synonymous with famine.
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  809.  @hectorvega621  No. They're suffering from malnutrition thanks to Cuban government restrictions on food production. Never mind the high tariffs and import bans.
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  810.  @hectorvega621  Nope. It's the Cuban government against its own people that has lasted 6 decades. Cope, comrade! Interesting how Cuba didn't start suffering until the USSR and Venezuela stopped doing business with them.
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  811.  Charles Martell  No. Greece voluntarily lied its way into the Eurozone.
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  812. Yeah! The debt trap and COVID-19.
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  813. To America into Pol Pot-era Cambodia.
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  814.  @galabaga  The same China that was spared another famine and collapse by capitalist reforms?
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  815.  @jonc6157  State capitalism is a by-product of socialism.
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  816.  @djinghiskhan9199  Like Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Eastern Europe?
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  817. The PCC.
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  818.  @kylesmith4572  And mismanagement.
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  819.  @sosaruhinda2615  No they're not. For all their corruption, they didn't bankrupt their countries and condemned their citizens to poverty.
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  820. Only to replace him with a willing Russian stooge.
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  821. By underpaying the doctors and teachers.
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  822. Yet left-wing billionaires like George Soros and Bill Gates benefited mightily from it.
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  823. Just like there's no mention from you about the wholesale nationalization by Chavez and Maduro gutting the private sector and turning Venezuela into a one-trick pony economy. Venezuela has the most oil reserves in the world, but mismanagement and neglect rendered it useless.
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  824. @UCepuStH7LDXDpeVrX_b9vgw Interestingly, Chavez became the 1% he so fought against dying a billionaire. No it doesn't. That oil was founded with private money.
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  825.  @dublinbay2362  Which is? No more than you are, typical Chavista. 2.5 million homes built for the poor, yet still hardly any better off due to having no economy after Chavez seized and shut down all the private enterprises turning the country into a one-trick pony economy. He was just fortunate enough to die before the oil prices collapsed and the one-trick pony economy came crashing to a halt.
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  826. Under the leadership of a one-time Soviet-founded and backed terrorist group.
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  827.  @muhannadals3349  Then go start your own business if you don't like following orders. What's stopping you? And under socialism, it's the same thing with the difference being your bosses are government bureaucrats in which you'll be lucky not to get thrown in jail for complaining about how following orders uncritically limits your creativity to what profits the Supreme Leader and his comrades as you don't have the option of starting your own business or switching bosses, because private enterprise is either heavily restricted or banned altogether.
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  828. Nope!
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  829. America is not responsible for Venezuela's food policies.
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  830. Socialism and far-left populism destroyed Argentina.
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  831. Just like its neighbor, Zambia.
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  832. AH YES! Benito Mussolini, a die-hard Marxist turned nationalist.
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  833.  Beverley Hohn Chang  Only to buy them out like Sri Lanka.
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  834. But they work for the government all the same.
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  835. Especially Black men.
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  836. Cuba destroyed its own economy opting for Soviet aid.
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  837. Yes it is as the government controls most of the economy.
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  838. But what has empowering women done for Europe except shrink the European population while voting for leftists, bleeding hearts and globalist sellout leaders who all too happily opened the borders for those misogynist MF'ers?
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  839. True.
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  840. Namely the White one. Black men get no love from Korean women.
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  841. Greece = another country destroyed by socialists.
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  842.  @davet9708  With a socialist government in charge.
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  843.  EMAN67 (Movies,politics,commentary)  Namely through Soviet handouts, Canadian tourist money, US remittances, and doctors outsourced abroad with the government taking 90% of their salary.
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  844. Because you' can't please everyone.
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  845.  @jeanamope3194  <They only claim to be called the greatest country on earth but never bother to make the world work better for everyone.> Because there's always going to be dissatisfied and disappointed people regardless.
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  846. @North Korea Is Best Korea Especially the Cuban government.
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  847. So does China.
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  848. Who knew that social democracy and open borders don't mix?
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  849. Too bad the current SA government share the same Marxist views as the Zim government.
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  850.  @spaghettimon3851  Of the 2 million in prison, how many for disagreeing with the government?
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  851.  @spaghettimon3851  They don't live in the US.
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  852. How exactly? Sanctions didn't make Maduro seize and shut down many of the private businesses and have them sell their products at rock-bottom prices. Maduro did that all by himself.
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  853. Thanks to their own government that refuses to move on from the communist model.
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  854. And end up like: USSR East Germany Hungary Romania Yugoslavia Venezuela Nicaragua Guyana Cuba Cambodia China Vietnam Myanmar India Ethiopia Somalia Zimbabwe Angola Madagascar Benin Ghana South Africa Equatorial Guinea Guinea All bankrupt and stagnant.
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  855. It was French expertise, infrastructure and money that that made those nickel resources something of value.
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  856. How come Chile, South Korea and Ghana didn't get destroyed?
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  857.  @andreanacalhoun9454  Despite being propped up by China just like how Cuba was once propped up by the USSR.
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  858.  @Lol-ok9kl  But it's definitely supported by China if only to keep capitalism and the US via South Korea at bay.
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  859. Not in North Korea. Or Cuba. Or most 3rd-world countries as the poor just simply live in makeshift shacks and shantytowns.
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  860. Since when did the left have any morals?
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  861. And once the rich are taxed to oblivion, it's on to the middle and working classes.
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  862. But socialism has a consistent track record of running out of money as it doesn't produce money on its own always needing capitalism to prop it up.
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  863.  @cornbisque  Scandinavia is a capitalist welfare state. And Sweden once had socialism only to abandon it for capitalism as it went all but completely bankrupt in the 70's.
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  864. Fascism is a branch of socialism.
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  865. And eastward.
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  866. No. Cuba belongs to whoever's willing to give them a handout.
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  867. All Democratic-run paradises.
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  868.  @rsmosramos6464  Don't be ungrateful for what? Leaders like Jammeh go to show that not everything is the West's fault.
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  869. Easy to do that when the only people Cuba counts are government employees.
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  870. But no economy to put it to good use in rendering that free education worthless.
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  871. If so, then how come Ethiopia, India, Eastern Europe, Mongolia, etc. were able to have socialism/communism without much outside meddling yet struggled and failed anyway?
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  872.  @bolchevique  And replace them with what? Communist authorities?
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  873.  @imoldgreggboosh3467  In short.... Gregg Boosh = Castro bootlicker
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  874. They approved of it.
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  875. Like in Ukraine?
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  876. No. Pride is. Greed is just one of its manifestations.
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  877. But Finland has one of the highest suicide rates among developed countries.
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  878. I thought Elon Musk is.
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  879.  @jackvonewegen7656  Florida is a US state. Puerto Rico is a US territory.
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  880. Exactly.
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  881. No. That would be the Cuban government and its command economy destroying Cuba. None of the rest of the Caribbean is even under sanctions anyway.
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  882.  @richie3802  Yes it does. Central planning and one-party rule is the norm.
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  883.  @mikec4845  Only for the government to become the rich and everyone else gets some crumbs anyway at the end of it all. All socialism does is replace one control with another. Namely its own in the form of the almighty government.
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  884.  @SmellMyKKPP  And neither does socialism despite its claims of taking any humanity into consideration. There's a reason why the terms limousine liberal, champagne socialist, caviar gauche, virtue-signaller, ect. exist.
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  885.  @SmellMyKKPP  But socialism far exceeds what even the worst of capitalism can do.
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  886.  @claudelebel49  Yet capitalism's downsides are leagues above socialism's downsides.
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  887.  @Crashed131963  Canada doesn't have socialism. It still has a thriving private sector.
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  888. No. Cuba starved itself with the wholesale decimating of local industry.
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  889. With China leading the way.
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  890. What about the aforementioned food and medical supplies being seized and destroyed at the border by the Venezuelan army?
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  891. Its leader used to be one of Pol Pot's henchmen.
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  892.  @amazingamx1255  Via the USSR.
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  893.  @jaquino451  Puerto Rico = destroyed by far-left politics.
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  894.  @DeathDespairDestruction  Doesn't matter. The results are more or less the same.
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  895. Which is minor at best. Cuba's problem is that even its own allies barely want to do business with it anymore as Cuba doesn't pay its tab or produce much worth trading.
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  896.  @Sharon-cb6zt  <Let me control everything about your life and keep you in poverty and disable you from having trade, etc.> That's the Cuban government in a nutshell.
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  897.  @Sharon-cb6zt  <sad- are not Cuban and have not been there BUT you are a Yankee....> And apparently neither have you, yet you shill for the regime like the typical Western leftist.
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  898. And short-sighted.
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  899.  @logbia7k608  And socialism/communism discourages if not outright punishes self-sufficiency.
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  900. LOL.
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  901. But a law don't mean anything if it's not enforced.
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  902. LMAO. The same Mosuo women that only exist because of the Chinese government ran by men?
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  903. No. This is the result of decades of communism ruling the roost. Cuba hasn't been the same since the old USSR cut off the aid and collapsed. COVID shutting down its tourism industry and the loss of free Venezuelan oil when Venezuela started struggling didn't help matters.
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  904. Yes it is. Who told Maduro to impose price controls? Who told Maduro to chase out the executives and skilled workforce of the oil industry and replace them with political stooges? Who told Maduro to seize and shut down private enterprise? Who told Maduro to bar food and medical aid from entering through the border?
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  905. How Iran is not suffering?
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  906. How come no/little mention of Venezuela's war on private enterprise killing off its own revenue stream and ability to feed itself reducing itself to an oil-dependent country that it somehow found a way to mismanage? ** socialism and anyone who believe in it.
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  907.  @redwater4778  Apparently you haven't except for the spots the Cuban government allow tourists to see.
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  908. No. The Chavez and Maduro deserve 100% of the blame. After all it was Chavez's idea to seize and shut down all of the profitable private businesses in favor of the newly-nationalized oil industry, killing off a reliable source of income should anything happen to the oil industry.
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  909. LOL. Fat chance! Oil will only benefit the government and those involved in the industry.
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  910. Socialism is not a viable alternative. It had more than 100 years to prove it. Plus, socialism was never anything without capitalism to give it the illusion of viability. <Almost all of Cubas problems are caused by the u.s. and their embargo> The US is not responsible for Castro going out of his own way to decimate local industry becoming dependent on imports and foreign aid just to support Cuba.
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  911.  @30yoboomer  Somalia = post-communist anarchy.
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  912. Yes indeed.
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  913.  Don Corleone  Actually it's 102.5 years. But yeah!
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  914.  @James--Parker  This is socialism. Purging everyone who had a clue how to run a business is par for the socialist course as mandated by Marx.
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  915.  @jonathanhadley2555  First, sack the Cuban government.
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  916. No.
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  917.  @Ccoleworld3  Are you familiar with Castro seizing all the private American-owned businesses that led to the sanctions in the first place?
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  918.  @Timo8.2.  Because generally speaking, women can't fend for themselves.
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  919. There is a God. But due to pride, humanity is getting exactly what it asked for. A world free of God.
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  920. LOL. No. It goes to show how socialism destroyed Cuba and this supposed adoption of capitalism is just a last-ditch effort of the Cuban government to remain in power as the PCC is well past its expiry date.
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  921.  Rue U  Nope. LMAO
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  922.  @candieland4276  But they got money.
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  923. <while Latin America, dominated by Spain and Portugal, is still a mess> Including Spain and Portugal themselves.
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  924. And so is society itself.
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  925. LOL. Are you trying to say that Black officials can't think or act for themselves?
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  926. @ Andres "The reforms and policies that will combat corruption" in a socialist country is often used as a weapon by the ruling party to silence any opposition to its power. One-party rule is the norm.
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  927. Or better yet, she should have kept her legs closed.
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  928. LOL
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  929. And a far-left one at that.
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  930. It actually was better off under Batista.
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  931. In other words, only men marry for love.
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  932. Well Milei is needed due to all the years Argentina voted for far-left loons who taxed and spent the country into one economic crisis after another. Argentina cannot afford its big government welfare state.
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  933. Like who? Isaias Afwerki?
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  934. No it's not. It's just an excuse for elites to strip people of their freedoms and livelihoods.
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  935. Namely Castro and Trudeau Sr.
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  936. <Women are objects.> Property of men be it their fathers or husbands.
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  937.  @johnyohann6946  No it doesn't. Socialism is about state control as private enterprise is heavily restricted if not banned altogether.
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  938.  @lindataylor6831  True. But all the major cities are ran by Democrats.
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  939. No. It's just Maduro's fault.
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  940. Only by the Cuban government against its own people.
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  941. Is there such thing as freedom of association and assembly there?
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  942. A glorious future of state-imposed poverty, gulags, forced labor, etc.?
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  943. I thought it was Japanese men.
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  944.  @efxnews4776  Dilma was a die-hard Marxist and Chavista-sympathizer. It figures.
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  945. This is the remnants of state Atheism and its Khmer Rouge days.
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  946.  @Valmiki168  He came from wealth and privilege.
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  947. Kind of like the Nguemas of Equatorial Guinea.
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  948.  @sihlegumedze7388  Tolerant only because they're afraid of getting jailed or killed if they dare speak out.
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  949.  @adriel1478  It was Castro's doing. So self-reliant yet subsisted on Soviet and Venezuelan aid.
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  950. LOL. Society is way too corrupt and immature for that.
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  951. How do you know it's illegal?
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  952.  @dancahill9585  Incompetent and malicious.
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  953.  @mikenogozones  And the handful of Cubans who do have access to foreign currency.
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  954.  @elpepinazo6628  The oligarchy in the form of Miguel Diaz-Canel and the PCC.
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  955.  @Crashed131963  Canada is not socialist.
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  956. Pol Pot slaughtered it out of them.
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  957. Yaeh! When the revolutionaries and liberators become the new oligarchs and oppressors. History repeats itself, indeed!
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  958. No. The DR want nothing to do with Haiti.
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  959.  @adyingbottleofjuice3090  That's nothing as during most of those 60 years Cuba relied on Soviet and Venezuelan aid.
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  960. Um. No. This is all brought you by Nicolas Maduro and his mentor, Hugo Chavez.
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  961.  @marcplante8760  Oh yes they are. Who told them to kick out the skilled personnel in the oil industry and replace them with government stooges? Who told them to squander all the oil revenues on vote-buying letting the infrastructure rot and crumble? Who told them to seize and shut down all the profitable private businesses? Who told them to force merchants to sell their goods at rock-bottom prices? And all this was going on before 2017 when the sanctions came in effect.Venezuela was only doing well and fine until the oil prices dropped and it was no longer able to keep up the facade.
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  962. No he didn't. He just threw money at the problem.
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  963. <They should get rid of these men and put women in power.> So they can run it into the ground like Cristina Fernandez- Kirchner did Argentina?
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  964. Exactly. And in spite of being under the very same sanctions, Iran isn't starving.
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  965. First remove the central planning.
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  966.  @asmait1088  No. They are struggling because Russia and Venezuela cut off the aid and they have nothing to make up for lack of local industry due to the Cuban government's decimation of private enterprise.
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  967.  @oneperson5760  They were struggling to support themselves.
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  968.  @tempejkl  What are YOU on about? This is about Cuba's lack of private enterprise due to Castro's price controls and expropriations being the reason why it had to rely on outside aid to support itself.
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  969.  @PeterSedesse  Like just about every other socialist West-hating regime.
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  970. No more messed up than what Brazil has with Lula Da Silva.
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  971. Socialism running its course.
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  972. They're not legally allowed to.
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  973. Like its neighbor, Botswana.
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  974. Really? How come that didn't affect the other Arab Gulf states much or even fellow socialist Republic of Congo?
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  975. No. Thanks to greedy governments with their punitive regulations and bureaucracy.
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  976. It is. Only because it's a dictatorship.
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  977. Due to the too many people dependent on government to provide for them with the government being no longer able to.
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  978. Pretty much.
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  979. What capitalism? Sri Lanka is barely even capitalist.
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  980. No jobs.
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  981. But no basic supplies.
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  982.  @lifestyleandbodybalanced4463  Actually, Suriname is the 4th poorest country in South America. The 3 countries that are poorer are Guyana, Bolivia and Venezuela (Venezuela really fell off).
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  983.  @AbeJacoby  East of Guyana.
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  984. In Venezuela, they run the risk of having their land and crops seized. Under socialism, doing for self is discouraged if not forbidden.
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  985. Like in Somalia?
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  986. Elected by an ignorant and gullible populace.
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  987. And do what? Turn it into one giant 3rd-world country? LOL.
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  988. The number of people in need is increasing while the number of people who work/produce for a living are decreasing.
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  989. Ditto for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Notice how most of socialism's biggest advocates came from money and privilege.
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  990. Because that's nothing compared to inhumane and tyrannical Cuban government control of all daily life as ordinary Cubans are barely even allowed to make an honest living much less have any say over what they want to do with their lives without government meddling.
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  991. No. Cuba's central planning is the problem.
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  992.  @theyeening  The only embargo in effect is that by the Cuban government against its own citizens. Plus, Cuba gets most of its food from the US.
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  993.  @jasonfordyce1556  China ditched the one-child policy back in 2017 because it's now messing up the demographics with too many elderly people to take care of.
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  994.  @tempejkl  By choice. After all, isn't Cuba self-reliant?
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  995. You mean to tell me that socialists don't support workers' rights in their own countries?
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  996. Which only increases the rent by 60% to cover the tax imposed on said renter. Never mind the other costs.
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  997. <Cuba is under American blockage last 65 years> Yet that was a non-issue when the USSR and Venezuela bankrolled its economy.
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  998. To the ground? There's a reason why there has never been a successful matriarchy in history.
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  999. The Gulf monarchies are dependent on the US military for protection.
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  1000. @Rockshy Interestingly throughout the Bible God hated the world and made it clear that anyone who is a friend of the world is his enemy.
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  1001.  @jarnol2264  The same 1% responsible for some 70-80% of all income taxes paid?
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  1002. No it wouldn't. Africa is a prime example of how resources are nothing without the smarts to make good use of them. Africa needs to learn how to help itself.
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  1003. Not really. Venezuela is more the next Zimbabwe.
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  1004. That's what happens you elect Marxists to run a country.
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  1005. But they don't because even they're tired of not being paid and having their goods and services stolen.
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  1006.  @mao4634  Capitalists control the CCP. Isn't Winnie The Pooh a billionaire?
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  1007. Just like Monaco.
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  1008.  @AntiDegenerate1971  The Natives should have done a better job of defending themselves and land.
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  1009.  @strongmuslim4004  <in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, USA?> By White European migrants to be exact.
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  1010. Just so you can invade Europe as your own country doesn't have much going for it.
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  1011. While being propped up by their former colonies.
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  1012. LOL. Not in Canada.
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  1013.  @donhines2151  No. But at least the average American doctor or engineer doesn't have to resort to taxi-driving or prostitution as a 2nd job to make ends meet.
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  1014. Venezuela's oil is unsellable due to the lack of infrastructure to refine it.
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  1015. Pol Pot would have been proud of you.
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  1016. <There is no industries in Cuba because of the sanctions> By the Cuban government as farmers and producers have to hand over 80% of what they produce to the state.
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  1017. Yes it is. Socialism is the father of communism and fascism.
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  1018. Thanks to bleeding hearts and leftist politicians.
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  1019. Because they think the government will always be there to bail them out.
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  1020.  @RamMohammadJosephKaur  India is yet another socialist failure that has spent the last 29 years trying to catch up.
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  1021. No. This is Venezuela's and Venezuela's problem alone. The only people who must pay is the Venezuelan government.
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  1022. Sanctions courtesy of the Cuban government. God forbid the average Cuban making an honest living, equality be damned!
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  1023. @Edilio A Jamaica = another country destroyed by socialism courtesy of Michael Manley's policies.
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  1024. <Unfortunately, they prefer letting their own people starve and do without essentials> No. That's the Cuban government.
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  1025. But education also produces people like Pol Pot and the current PM of Cambodia.
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  1026. The only Cubans who don't want capitalism are the Cuban government and those with ties.
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  1027. As the masses are just simply not up to the task of matching the rich's production levels to sustain the resources they think they're entitled to.
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  1028.  @Robak161  But the poor have little problem buying bread in capitalism.
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  1029.  @LongDefiant  That will eventually fail due to mismanagement like the ones Yugoslavia had post-Tito.
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  1030. Exactly.
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  1031.  @pomponi0  No one is starving the Cuban people except the Cuban government. <but if there was no price control, tourists would drive food prices up.> Because Cuba doesn't produce its own food at a sufficient amount to offset that.
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  1032. And they're right judging by how degenerate the West has become in the last 60 years.
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  1033. Nigeria has no ties with France.
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  1034. It's hard to do that when the government seized the farmland.
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  1035. Lyndon Baines Johnson. Great Society, War On Poverty and no-man-in-the-house welfare. All they really did was make a permanent underclass out of the Black community to eventually be carried out on everyone else.
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  1036.  erick meyer  And to top it off, Africa already did communism.
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  1037. People calling her out on her BS = jealousy?
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  1038. In practice.
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  1039. Neither do the people themselves.
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  1040. And employ foreign migrants to build and maintain infrastructure?
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  1041.  @jaafar6185  Without Western know-how and expertise, you wouldn't be able to make much use of said resources.
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  1042. So, why can't BW do something?
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  1043. Only in places run by Democrats.
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  1044.  @bandido7994  Except the average Trump-supporter is nowhere nearly as poor.
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  1045. And how many people work for minimum wage in Australia exactly?
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  1046. In Venezuela's case, not much. And the sanctions only started in 2017.
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  1047. Qatar is a one-party state.
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  1048. And Chavismo propaganda is journalism?
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  1049. No. He got his ideas from Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales.
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  1050. Why should the rich share their wealth and resources? The poor are owned nothing. <Only the rich can become richer while the poor become poorer.> Maybe because they were smart enough to save and invest in things that will generate money long-term while much of the poor blow their money on drugs, alcohol, luxury goods, etc?
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  1051. No. The Cuban government is the one at fault for having Cuba like this. After all, aren't they supposed to be self-reliant?
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  1052.  @Nine-Signs  Food is not a right regardless of what the UN says.
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  1053. Leftists practice it now.
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  1054. Socialism created this. State expropriation of land/wealth/resources is par for the socialist course.
    1
  1055. Like Teodoro Nguema?
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  1056. Actually yes they have. Yugoslavia under Tito. Somalia under Barre. And Guyana under Burnham.
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  1057.  @pizaclatonddd3081  LOL.
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  1058.  @cliffa2901  Not really. Socialism did them in.
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  1059.  @sinabagherisarvestani8924  Yet the 400 000 Cubans fleeing to the US much rather put up with homelessness than the state-imposed squalid living conditions.
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  1060. They already have it.
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  1061. Actually, most of the slaves came from Angola.
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  1062. Yes. The state controls virtually everything.
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  1063. Your comment is propaganda. Cuba is suffering now, because there's no Russia or Venezuela to live off of to maintain the facade it put up for the last 60 years.
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  1064.  @redacted3740  Debunked by who? Western tankies?
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  1065.  @audreycotterell9835  On paper, it is. But the reality is it's the ruling elite and well-connected that enjoy all the wealth. Just like Equatorial Guinea.
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  1066. Meh. Much of Zurich and Geneva's money came from the Nazis.
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  1067.  @MrTaxiRob  Mostly non-jobs.
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  1068.  @Becky_Cal  Yet millions still risk their lives to enter the US in spite of its issues.
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  1069. Namely that by the Cuban regime.
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  1070. Especially the biggest socialist cheerleaders.
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  1071. Not even Haitians.
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  1072. <The real way to help most of these people is foreign aid- to give people the help to make it in their own country, having so many of the young working age people leave a country means it can never move forward.> Foreign aid has not helped Africa or Haiti at all. Instead, it further enriched the elites while disincentivizing economic development.
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  1073.  @alfredthegreat9543  <Finally, if you look at any large scale survey you will find that the less religious a society is the higher the standard of living, better freedoms, better educated, longer lives, etc as a general rule.> But throughout history, those less religious societies fall apart due to complacency. And complacency often leads to stagnation and regression once it becomes too prosperous and secular for their own good.
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  1074. The last thing Haiti needs is another dictatorship as it had that for most of its post-independence history.
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  1075.  Don Corleone  Even in countries that the US left alone or outright supported lik Ethiopia, India, Cambodia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Benin, Romania, Guyana, etc.
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  1076. The typical excuses made when socialists and other leftist types run their societies into the ground largely without much opposition.
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  1077. While Russia's implementing "revolution" once again.
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  1078. How about the Cuban government remove the evil embargo on its own people first?
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  1079.  @Cat_Guevara  No they don't. And certainly not with the frequent blackouts, crumbling buildings, general lack of food and state-suppressed wages.
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  1080.  @redacted3740  Sure they do, bot!
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  1081.  @redacted3740  LOL. You mean can't stand to see people enslaved by the Cuban government instead. You tankies are pathetic as F!
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  1082.  Susan Kerr  Spoken like a Jezebel.
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  1083. Only 17% of Africa's trade is within Africa.
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  1084.  @DynamicUnreal  But Chavez subsidized food imports while putting local farmers and producers out of business.
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  1085.  @alexsousa3228  Yet ended up being a Banana republic anyway.
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  1086. It would be even more helpful if Cuba ditched socialism and got rid of the PCC.
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  1087. Before the US, there was hardly any peace in the world.
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  1088. Since when did socialism care about the middle class?
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  1089. LOL. WRONG! It was Chavez and Maduro who caused this crisis in Venezuela.
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  1090. The only coup-plotter here was Castillo himself.
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  1091. Like prostitutes?
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  1092. So? The fact of the matter is no one wants Haitians around. Not even the Anglo-Caribbean countries.
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  1093. Respected Cuba? For what? The state-imposed poverty on the people?
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  1094.  @freemanol  Yet neither the average American or European are starving like the average North Korean.
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  1095. They voted for said bad leadership. Let them live with the consequences.
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  1096. No. This is what socialism does to the people. Shortages galore.
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  1097. @Unique SP Atheism is the worst of the bunch. At least the Philippines isn't Cambodia where godless communism courtesy of Pol Pot really did a number there.
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  1098. @Unique SP Oh yes they have. Every other communist regime that ever existed with Stalin and Mao leading the way.
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  1099. If that was true, how come none of the other oil-rich countries collapsed like Venezuela did?
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  1100. Not really. Try 98% corruption and incompetence and 2% US sanctions.
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  1101. No. Cuba made its bed. Let it lie in it.
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  1102. OUCH!
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  1103. What capitalism? Greece was destroyed by socialists.
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  1104.  @caitgrigsby4287  LMAO
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  1105. That's because the homeless are banished to the countryside left to rot and die. Out of sight and out of mind.
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  1106. Are you that weak-minded and easy to manipulate?
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  1107. Like Romania did?
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  1108. In other words, only rich people are allowed to have kids. Is that right, elitist?
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  1109. Egypt is not a capitalist country.
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  1110. Were the uncomfortable remarks about your race or your gender?
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  1111. But to a lot of illegal immigrants, being poor in America >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> living in state-imposed abject poverty in Cuba.
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  1112. For themselves and their well-connected friends.
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  1113. Not necessarily. This is what happens you let Marxists (as in the case of the ANC) and kleptocrats lead a country.
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  1114. So what's the Gulf countries' excuse?
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  1115. LOL.
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  1116.  @mrwest2986  And Haiti was founded as a Black supremacist nation.
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  1117.  @pumpkin03  But the resources were mismanaged. And in Haiti's case, it had to reinstate slavery just to feed itself again.
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  1118.  @thebridge5483  Interestingly thanks to the Portuguese enslavers.
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  1119.  Dragoslav Vega, Brazilian-American Nationalists  Actually, it's South Africa that has the highest crime rate in the world.
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  1120. <And the example is China, > That scrapped the one-child policy in 2017 as it's now suffering a demographic collapse.
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  1121. No they're not as those who produce and provide have the right to deny anyone they want for any reason.
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  1122.  @adityachauhan9240  ROFL
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  1123. It was socialism. <Additionally, not diversifying the rest of their economy when they had the chance.> That's because Chavez destroyed the rest of the economy upon reducing Venezuela to an one-industry country with price controls and wholesale nationalization of the private sector.
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  1124. With their model resembling Russia and the former Soviet bloc.
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  1125. Exactly
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  1126. <Equatorial Guinea is the richest country in Africa per capita income.> But 75% of the population are poor.
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  1127. Namely Venezuela preventing goods from entering.
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  1128. Yes it did. Price controls, state seizure of private businesses, capital flight, etc.
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  1129.  @Baggaification  It was. 5th wealthiest country in the Americas at the time. Now why don't YOU stop lying?
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  1130. To side with evil Russia and China. Yet no country ever prospered for long doing business with either of those countries.
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  1131. Nope.
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  1132. No. The core problem is Venezuela running its natural socialist course.
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  1133.  @kanderson4417  A far-left Marxist black-supremacist government in charge.
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  1134. At least the average US citizen has adequate access to basic needs.
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  1135.  @vilimor8227  But it won't last once the money runs out and then it's right back to square 1 as the most of the needed will squander it.
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  1136.  @MsNooneinparticular  Venezuela already has that. It's just that the other people's money that propped it up ran out. Government handouts are not a viable or sustainable long-term solution as Venezuela just proved with the system you just happen to advocate.
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  1137. And also, the big farms kept the country fed.
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  1138.  Hoàng Nguyên  Chile actually prospered under Pinochet. Ditto for Ghana under Rawlings after Nkrumah got overthrown. True, but it doesn't change the fact that countries that sided with the US fared better overall than countries that sided with Russia/China.
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  1139. And also Equatorial Guinea.
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  1140. < Haiti is not raping any body for minerals dimonds oil or anything for that matter.> Neither is the DR. And?
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  1141. Didn't Mitterand once admitted that without foreign (African) resources, France wouldn't be able to afford its welfare state?
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  1142. Due to their own economic mismanagement. They're in a "toxic" marriage with the IMF, because they would much rather be in debt than face unrest and upheaval.
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  1143. Only because they toned down the communism.
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  1144. Actually there are barely 1/2 a million homeless people in the US.
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  1145. Just ask Zimbabwe.
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  1146. But's not a sustainable way of running a country as people are finicky and can't think past their immediate situations. and therefore an unreliable source for what the country truly needs long-term.
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  1147.  @machevilchannel7002  <Capitalism during Batista's time hasn't provide a good standard of living,> Actually yes it did. And Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas under Batista, something that even pro-Castro Afro-Cuban historians acknowledge.
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  1148. Apparently he can no longer put up with what he voted for.
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  1149. Venezuela has been independent since 1811. Until the early 2000's, Venezuela wasn't even on the US's radar.
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  1150.  @Quarida6002  LOL. Since when were authoritarian leaders good and caring aside from PR reasons?
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  1151. Nah. Chavez was always an opportunistic POS.
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  1152. Hands are already off Venezuela. This one is on Maduro.
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  1153. Cambodia is not Muslim.
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  1154.  @erismara9099  Not really. Afwerki isn't anywhere nearly as genocidal. If anything, he's more Enver Hoxha. Teodoro Nguema's uncle, Francisco Macias was definitely comparable to Pol Pot as he killed anyone who wore glasses and was reasonably educated.
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  1155. <And he is popular, contrary to what the outlets say.> Only among bootlicks and the public sector.
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  1156.  @degamispoudegamis  Ditto for Teodoro Nguema, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Daniel Ortega, King Mswati III.
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  1157. Socialism is the problem. They sure love to depend on foreign aid and US trade for a country that is self-reliant.
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  1158. This is the legacy they left behind.
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  1159. Yet interestingly, hundreds of thousands of Cubans much rather be homeless and/or dead abroad than live in squalor and tyranny at home. . Goes to show that free stuff is not an adequate substitute for freedom.
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  1160. The current President is Miguel Diaz-Canel. Raul resigned years ago.
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  1161.  @RamMohammadJosephKaur  Because Castro seized all the US-built and funded businesses without compensation and played host to Soviet nukes?
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  1162.  @Liberalcali  Hubris.
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  1163.  @enterchannelname5953  LOL. Cuba never produced anything worth that much during the supposed embargo.
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  1164.  @userconnoly2729  Yes it did.
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  1165. Exactly.
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  1166. Namely whites.
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  1167. So?
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  1168. But not nearly as badly as Venezuela. Even in oil-rich countries ran by Marxists like Angola and the Congo.
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  1169. Her mother is Russian and Isabel grew up in the UK.
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  1170. Because either more money has to be printed or borrowed or taxes have to be raised on the population to cover them.
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  1171. Socialism running its natural course.
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  1172. Or China.
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  1173. And replace it with what? Chinese Imperialism?
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  1174. Egypt doesn't have oil.
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  1175. But Saudi Arabia is nowhere near the basket case Afghanistan is.
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  1176. But MAGA was not responsible for Libya. Take that up with Obama and Hillary. And Biden has just got back to bombing Syria again.
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  1177. Exactly.
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  1178. And an illiterate population.
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  1179. Namely one imposed by the Cuban government. They effectively killed off local industry. Russia and Venezuela stopped supporting them. Canadian and European tourists were kept home by COVID restrictions.
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  1180.  Memcha Laishram  That's because the dictator controls all the money flow coming in and out of the country.
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  1181.  @ionly6805  Detroit, New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc.
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  1182. No. You can thank Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro for this. Even the people in the video said it themselves. Venezuela = Latin America's Zimbabwe.
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  1183.  @67Lucky67  Sure they are! Typical socialist excuse.
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  1184.  @acutechicken5798  Um. Workers do own the means of production in Venezuela. They just happen to be government bureaucrats and other Maduro supporters. Venezuela is a functionally socialist country as the government controls the economy and private enterprise has been all but completely destroyed.
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  1185. And the West wouldn't have needed to impose a blockade had Castro not seized and destroyed all the US-built and funded businesses responsible for the prosperity Cuba once enjoyed pre-Revolution.
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  1186. No it isn't. And equality does not exist.
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  1187. Don't be naive. So did Castro and Nyerere. At least Nyerere had enough decency to resign and allow free-market reforms to take place getting Tanzania out of the gutter he put it in.
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  1188.  @redwater4778  As if Cubans have resources worth selling to capitalist pigs to begin with.
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  1189.  @Nigerianreaction  But what good is education if there are no jobs?
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  1190.  @kingabstract2695  Botswana says otherwise.
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  1191. Maybe, but Canada is not dependent on oil to pay its bills.
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  1192. UGH! I live in the most unionized province in Canada that is Quebec.
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  1193. What did you expect from an organization founded and run by despots and tyrants?
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  1194.  @romeo2241  It was founded and funded by the West.
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  1195.  @SmartKelz  Because if they were to support and grant Biafra independence, they would have had to do the same for every other tribal region demanding the same dividing Africa even more than Europe did.
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  1196. You mean legacy.
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  1197. I wouldn't be too surprised as socialism/communism was never known for allowing people to do something for themselves independent of the state.
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  1198.  @144kelectedsaints9  In Cuba's case, the government is the rich hugging the resources.
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  1199. Cuba is far from helpless. The Cuban government made it such.
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  1200. You mean Western Europe. Sweden had nothing to do with colonialism.
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  1201.  @renee3356  Because they're not going to sell it at a loss. Especially when they had to pay a fortune for the house in the first place due to the insurance costs, material and labor costs and property taxes.
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  1202.  Westin Taylor  LMAO
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  1203. <go wrong in every country that they impose their system it will colapse, because it does not work and will never work> Especially without tyranny or foreign aid to keep it afloat in Cuba's or North Korea's cases.
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  1204. Pretty much.
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  1205. And if they did get rich, it didn't last. See the USSR.
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  1206.  @mikegeee3319  Unless it's to their relatives.
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  1207. End the communism.
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  1208.  @AngelSanchez-zp7uj  But now is a whorehouse for Canadian and Western European tourists while living off of remittances from the Cubans that fled to the US.
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  1209.  @MarioRodriguez-pd6lp  True. But China is still very much a one-party state.
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  1210.  @MarioRodriguez-pd6lp  Thanks to Deng Xiaoping.
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  1211.  @tharris7313  Not even close. She's more Chavez's daughter, Maria Gabriela.
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  1212. Oh no it can't. Women can't really fend for themselves. And you just said it yourself, women can't impregnate themselves. They need men to do it. There's a reason why matriarchies don't exist let alone last.
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  1213. The housing crisis is due to government intervention and price control resulting in no new housing being built if it's even legally allowed.
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  1214. None of those countries are socialist to begin with.
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  1215.  @dchase9083  Largely due to mass immigration. Besides, since when did socialist countries, not like the countries he mentioned were socialist to begin with, have open borders?
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  1216. They're just looking for people to make slaves out of.
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  1217.  @RendererEP  Most of them cannot feed or defend themselves on their own.
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  1218. Mostly in Democrat-run cities and states.
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  1219. And then turn and each other.
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  1220.  @ngashjr  No there isn't.
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  1221.  @taku5178  No. It's called Marxism, Zimbabwean style.
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  1222. The latter.
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  1223. It is inevitably as the government cannot subsidize forever.
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  1224. The current PCC was never democratically elected. The got into power by coup.
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  1225. But you better be able to maintain and defend it. Otherwise, your peace will always be determined by your enemies.
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  1226. Case in point: the African-American community courtesy of the Democratic Party
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  1227. The Philippines has to be that bad.
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  1228. Rich with natural resources, but poor in skills.
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  1229.  @Vitez-sd2kc  Ortega? Good? LMAO.
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  1230. Yes it is . Sanctions are not responsible for Cuba's lack of local economy.
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  1231.  @jerrynelson5289  Easy to achieve that in a dictatorship. Even Haiti had a stable society under the Duvaliers.
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  1232. Largely far-left terrorism.
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  1233.  @TheWaleedKhalid  USA also supported socialist/communists like Josip Broz Tito and Siad Barre.
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  1234. @I'M NOT CALIGULA'S HORSE. The embargoes and sanctions have nothing to do with this as Maduro ran Venezuela into the ground well before then. Venezuela will be free when Maduro and the PSUV are wiped off the face of Earth for good.
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  1235.  @RK-ve4xp  Mostly internal.
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  1236. Cuba doesn't have oil. It's imported from Venezuela.
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  1237. And this is why the US's Founding Fathers did not want a democracy.
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  1238. Pretty much.
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  1239. They have been reduced to poverty and misery by their own people.
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  1240. Maybe, but it's not a right.
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  1241. Ukraine would like a word with you on that.
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  1242. But what good is that when Cubans have inadequate access to food?
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  1243.  @gerryburntwood9617  Cuba gets most of its food from the US as the Cuban government long decimated its own agriculture industry.
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  1244. The strong still rule the weak.
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  1245. Actually Venezuelan crude oil.
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  1246. No it's not. It has roughly the same population as Cuba and the DR.
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  1247. Labor costs are the biggest expense.
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  1248. Exactly.
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  1249.  @natureboy9339  LOL. Taiwan, India and Vietnam would like a word with you on that.
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  1250. Islam = founded by a slave-owning pedo.
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  1251. <what does it even mean "this resource curse"> Read up on how the Spanish Empire fell. Or the USSR after 1973 when oil was its primary source of income. Or even Venezuela. And the sanctions have little to do with it.
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  1252.  @tempejkl  Castro spent years making it illegal for citizens to produce their own food. Cuba not having any cows that could produce milk was one of the results along with farmers having to hand over some 80% of whatever they produce to the government.
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  1253. No. That would be the Cuban-styled communism doing that running its natural course.
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  1254. Cuba doesn't believe in free trade and is self-reliant. WTF they 're crying about sanctions for?
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  1255.  @mallek1989  While socialism cannot work without the free market to give it the illusion of viability even by Marx's own admission.
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  1256. No they're not. And Australia is a capitalist welfare state. And no self-respecting tax-paying man want anything to do with either socialism or communism.
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  1257.  @revolutionarydrew5312  Cuba can liberalize the economy and ditch the central planning.
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  1258. Free Cuba from the PCC.
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  1259. Humans who voted for it. Let them lie in the bed they made for themselves.
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  1260. No they don't.
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  1261. And Chile already had it under Allende.
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  1262. But in exchange, the people are to obey the government. No questions asked.
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  1263. <Her dad is Worst than Putin 'cos Russia was longer ago developed nation with all d sanctions from d West.> Internal mismanagement, corruption and communism running its natural course did Russia fka USSR in.
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  1264. LMAO. Apparently.
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  1265.  @guardianoffire8814  As part of its debt repayment to France.
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  1266. With the help of foreign aid.
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  1267. China doesn't owe any country any help.
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  1268.  @isaiahwilliams9500  They're not politicians nor have they condemned millions of their own citizens to poverty and deprivation with their greed. False equivalence.
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  1269. Nope. Just socialism running its natural course.
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  1270. Only 6% of Puerto Ricans want independence.
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  1271. India was stagnated by socialism for most of its post-independence history.
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  1272. <You can not call it socialism unless everything is shared equally> Hard to do that when there's not much to share let alone equally on top of some being bound to squander what they have bound to be a burden and threat to those who managed what they have wisely. Yes you can call it socialism, despite that idea being unsustainable.
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  1273.  @Mike-mc3sh  Aside from rigged elections and a decidedly lower body count in the former, not at all. Socialist Nicaragua and Communist Cuba are both basket cases.
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  1274. Which would be an improvement over the tyranny, poverty and hopelessness that currently sums up life in Cuba.
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  1275.  @abdulazizclare9545  An ex-pat whom Cuba's economic repression didn't affect.
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  1276.  @abdulazizclare9545  And you're a total waste of air.
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  1277. Only the Nguema regime is rich.
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  1278.  @redpill2206  Nicaragua is worse than bad. And also Costa Rica is supported by the US .
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  1279. The homeless are banished to the outskirts in communist countries.
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  1280. Yes it is. And the only people Zimbabwe protected were the ZANU-PF elites and patrons. Not the average Zimbabwean.
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  1281. Only to be replaced by the dominance and hegemony of Russia and China?
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  1282.  @eddiecheang1513  It's easy for Russia and China to be "friendly" when: up until recently, China was poor and struggling to feed itself until Deng Xiaoping came along and reformed its economy. And Russia was cut off by its own climate and geography. It was only a threat to its Eastern European and Afghan neighbors.
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  1283. So does Jamaica. And?
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  1284. Better than standing with Hamas and Russia.
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  1285.  @wamnicho  Because Justin Trudeau wants Canadian citizens displaced.
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  1286. <we remain the most peace loving and welcoming people on this earth.> Too bad that doesn't apply to other black Africans.
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  1287. Nearly all of which are governed by Democrats and other leftists.
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  1288. Because the US sanctions had minimal impact and they just started in 2017, 3 years after Venezuela went into a freefall. How come none of the other oil-rich countries suffered as badly as Venezuela?
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  1289. End communism first.
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  1290.  @josemanuelalvarezbilbatua7869  And the Cuba system produces very little, because it's inefficient, ineffective and outdated.
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  1291. The real problem is Cuba has no functional economy thanks to the Castro-led government, dependent on interestingly the very same US for food and remittances.
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  1292. @drc ula No it isn't. Atheism is the central tenet behind what communism ultimately stands for. Plus, all communist regimes had state Atheism.
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  1293.  hatter00  Lenin had militant atheism.
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  1294. @Bryce Clark No. This is the legacy that communism and Pol Pot left behind. All else is irrelevant.
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  1295. If not that then they are living off remittance payments from relatives that fled for the US a long time ago.
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  1296. Mongolia is yet another communist casualty. It never was much of a capitalist country.
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  1297. LOL. No. This is the fault of Cuban communism and the political 1%.
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  1298.  @nomorewar4189  No. Start by removing the PSUV from power and the command ecomony.
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  1299. Philippines don't have the land size for that.
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  1300.  @tempejkl  < it’s when workers own the means of production and are compensated fairly for their labour.> Like the so-called Kulaks in Lenin's USSR? Or the shopkeepers in Mao's China? Or anyone who looked the slightest bit intelligent in Pol Pot's Cambodia?
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  1301. Nah. It's just leftists being leftists.
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  1302. Exactly.
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  1303. Good question.
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  1304. You prefer infinite stagnation and regression?
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  1305.  geraldmantel4955  Yes Cuba has. And these are the results.
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  1306.  geraldmantel4955  Cuba has no one but itself to blame for its dismal state.
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  1307. Government-imposed poverty.
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  1308. Maybe, but the government can't afford to keep subsidizing bread forever.
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  1309.  @marleneMS  By and large, the poster is telling the truth. Poor people play a rather prominent role in their own poverty.
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  1310.  @yash30095  Nope. That's socialism in a nutshell.
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  1311. LOL. For what?
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  1312.  @fate8007  Thanks to market-liberalization. In other words, they toned down the communism.
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  1313.  @Megasigggg  Exactly.
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  1314. Calm down!
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  1315. How is it not? The wrong kind of people?
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  1316.  Don Corleone  I was referring to Venezuela and his claim that Venezuela wasn't socialist.
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  1317. That's the result of Maduro seizing all the food and medical aid at the border.
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  1318.  @George-iv1hi  Isn't that what some people said when the Soviet Union was a major player in the world?
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  1319.  @SultanKhan-hq2qq  South Sudan is not Muslim. It's Christian.
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  1320. Only for that same intelligent machine to turn corrupt and make everybody its victims.
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  1321. And a robust private job market. It's hard to have one in a centrally planned economy which the government controls everything.
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  1322. But who's going to pay it as hardly anyone in Zimbabwe have any money?
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  1323. They're too busy reaping the benefits to care.
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  1324.  @donaldlyons17  That's nothing Mugabe ruled for 37 years.
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  1325.  @mellejobs7412  Namely with Venezuelan oil, US remittances and Canadian tourism.
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  1326. China liberated its economy. Cuba still insists on maintaining total state control.
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  1327. Enabled by government restrictions on housing production and supply and high demand ensuring high prices.
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  1328. Like it was for Zimbabwe.
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  1329.  @collinsjean2422  Embargoes are of little consequence as Cuba killed off private enterprise and domestic economic productivity a long time ago resigning itself to living off of Soviet, Chinese and US (via remittances) handouts.
    1
  1330. Without eventually either turning to capitalism or foreign aid.
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  1331. But Eritrea is both a dictatorship and a failed state.
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  1332. In response to Soviet Russia.
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  1333. No. Haiti's mismanagement is on the Haitian government. And it's not like Haiti ever had much resembling decent governance since independence.
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  1334. That's Hong Kong.
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  1335. What capitalism? Bulgaria is run by descendants, beneficiaries and ex-members of the old communist guard.
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  1336.  @andethidialbubabibub3261  Socialism in itself is trash even in smaller setting like the Pilgrims and Jonestown.
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  1337. LOL. 91% of the Cuban government is white. And black people are barred from participating and benefiting from one of the few thriving industries Cuba has which is tourism. White Cubans live better than black Cubans thanks to remittances as most of the people who fled from the Castro (who by the way was white) regime were white.
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  1338.  @blardymunggas6884  LOL. <Looks like communism is a better system serves the people better.> Namely the people related to or affiliated with the communist top brass. Not the average person. And Africa had its fair share of that post-colonialism.
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  1339.  @agboemmanuel8551  What about Eastern ones?
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  1340. @Lucy's Essence Exactly.
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  1341.  @lifeisneverthesame910  And there you have it.
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  1342. Isn't Cuba self-reliant? If so, then WTF they're complaining about the US for?
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  1343. The Cuban government is the ultimate problem. Their egos and pride just cannot accept that their model doesn't work and need to step aside as they have done far more to hold Cuba back than any "illegal" embargo ever did.
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  1344.  @OmarOsman98  Just like Egypt currently relies on US financial aid.
    1
  1345.  @martymcfly5423  Exactly.
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  1346. And that the government has done nothing except hold the country back.
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  1347. Drop the central planning.
    1
  1348. The planet isn't going anywhere.
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  1349. They're not legally allowed to work for themselves.
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  1350. It's easy to be super safe in an uber-totalitarian regime.
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  1351. Like Equatorial Guinea, Norway, or the whole Arab Gulf?
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  1352. Too bad before that, they engaged in ritual rapes, child/human sacrifices, killing and enslaving each other wholesale.
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  1353.  @biodiversityfanatic2454  Why don't you get a job and pay for it yourself?
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  1354.  @biodiversityfanatic2454  I have a job and just enjoying life as is.
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  1355. Yes it was. To the point of being the wealthiest country in South America.
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  1356. Neither does democracy. Just ask South Africa.
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  1357. Spoken like the typical socialist loser.
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  1358.  @braydenfarrell1177  Liberalism = communism's useful idiot.
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  1359.  @braydenfarrell1177  Social democracy is a communist idea. Liberalism = communism's useful idiot (c) Vladimir Lenin regarding Western leftists who support communism.
    1
  1360. No. FRELIMO is Russian-backed.
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  1361. So are the people who elected them. In Argentina's case, this is what happens when the ignorant and foolish are allowed to vote.
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  1362.  @vinm300  It figures when the African Union itself was founded by despots.
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  1363. Umm. No. Haiti has had more than enough of dictatorship.
    1
  1364. Exactly.
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  1365.  @garyintx6703  And couldn't be bothered to give the land to the Black farmers who actually knew how to farm due to experience from working for the White farmers. Instead, Mugabe gave the land to his political stooges.
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  1366. The free stuff.
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  1367.  Hoàng Nguyên  Namely due to capitalist reforms in the 1980's to avoid sharing the same fate as its neighbor Cambodia.
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  1368. Not really. Resources don't mean anything if you don't know how to put them to good use.
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  1369. Apparently, no. NGO's are too busy being in on the take. Just ask Haitian women and children.
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  1370. A property-transfer from the woman's father to her husband.
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  1371. Kind of like Haiti after independence, outside interference aside.
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  1372. And tried to annex the DR as part of its debt repayment.
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  1373. Fidel was certainly not among the good guys. That's for sure.
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  1374. <because policymakers don’t like the form of government in Cuba.> So how did Yugoslavia under Tito manage to get US support?
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  1375. They got what they voted for.
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  1376. Trump has nothing to do with this. Take it up with Biden.
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  1377.  @mohammadsabah8619  No it hasn't.
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  1378. They need to get back to making babies.
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  1379. Agreed. But in the US, Republicans need the cheap labor and Democrats need the cheap votes.
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  1380.  @dougiesherwin9591  LOL. Venezuela destroyed itself. Every other oil-rich country suffered from the same price collapse, yet none of them hit rock-bottom as badly as Venezuela.
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  1381.  @dougiesherwin9591  But Chavez replacing experienced personnel with political stooges allowing the oil industry to get mismanaged and neglected to ruin was well within Venezuela's control.
    1
  1382. Not really.
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  1383. Cuba.
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  1384. Venezuela already did that.
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  1385. Florida or really just Miami-Dade County?
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  1386. No. And neither will your idea save Zimbabwe as not everyone can farm and not everyone needs to.
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  1387. In other words, a liberator turned oppressor.
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  1388. Due to Fidel seizing all the US-funded and built infrastructure he didn't pay for alongside playing host to Soviet nukes.
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  1389. Socialism already did the job in Africa. As for its countries not having oil.... Angola ROC Libya South Sudan Algeria Equatorial Guinea Nigeria
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  1390. But God put men in charge for a reason.
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  1391. Sri Lankas's debt-trap is curtesy of China, not the IMF.
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  1392. But most of them also voted for this mess. Therefore they're every bit as criminal as the government they elected.
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  1393. With Atheism being the biggest killer of them all.
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  1394. Qatar owes Venezuelan migrants nothing.
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  1395. AAnd all you have to do is give up your FREEDOM!
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  1396. @ The Citizen So you're saying that slavery is only wrong when White people do it, but perfectly fine when everyone else does?
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  1397. LOL. There will still be starvation as many will squander the wealth on BS.
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  1398.  @grahamt5924  So did China and some 40 million starved to death.
    1
  1399. And the fearful and ignorant populace who elect them.
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  1400. Thanks for admitting that socialism cannot work without capitalism to prop it up.
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  1401. Her husband died.
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  1402. No. It is due to socialism. US sanctions and blockades are not responsible for Castro seizing and destroying private enterprise and domestic production with price controls, wholesale nationalizations and replacing the competent and productive with government stooges.
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  1403. That so-called President of Cambodia is one of Pol Pot's ex-comrades.
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  1404.  @Tribuneoftheplebs  Especially Ontario and Quebec.
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  1405.  @VNn2023  But Switzerland doesn't operate on a command economy that restricts people's ability to make something out of themselves and can actually produce some of its own basic necessities. Rhodesia (before it became Zimbabwe) had an embargo imposed on it at the tail end of Ian Smith's rule yet the economy didn't hit rock-bottom.
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  1406.  @davidpethick83  It would have been better. As a matter of fact, it was better for all of Batista's faults.
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  1407. Especially for the left.
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  1408. No. This is all because of the Cuban government.
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  1409. No. It was the richest country in South America.
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  1410. Fernandez doesn't love his country. He just loves the regime he works for that has done plenty to destroy the country.
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  1411.  @robertk617  Cuba survives on: Canadian tourism Venezuelan (free) oil US remittances Chinese and Russian aid loaning its doctors abroad keeping 90% of their salaries
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  1412. Have you seen US sanctions on South Africa, a country currently ran by a government that shares Maduro's views and policies?
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  1413.  @the4eyedowl341  Only after the rest of the Maghreb wanted nothing to do with him.
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  1414. Thank Pol Pot and communism.
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  1415. <Homelessness is a worldwide problem.> No. It's just a Western problem.
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  1416. But government restrictions made food scarce.
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  1417. The US was founded as a white country for the sole benefit of white people.
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  1418. Housing is not social services' job.
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  1419. It wasn't the Cuban government that stopped tourism. It was the governments of the countries the tourists came from that did with travel restrictions and bans as the tourists weren't allowed to leave.
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  1420.  @lilcrust3063  Not always.
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  1421. And then eat each other.
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  1422. Yet no one in Saudi Arabia is starving.
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  1423. <tax the rich> Would that rich include Nancy Pelosi, the Clintons, Hollywood, etc.?
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  1424. How about a decentralized economy that allows the private sector to flourish? Education is nothing if there are no places to put it to use in.
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  1425. Government handouts did away with whatever self-sufficiency they had.
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  1426.  @KingKong-ws6zx  Where were you in 2014 when Venezuela was already hitting rock-bottom? The snactions didn't come until 3 years after the fact.
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  1427.  elitechrstn  And what evidence would that be? From pro-Chavista sources?
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  1428. Marx used to live off of Engels and his uncle.
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  1429. Thanks to socialists in charge.
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  1430.  @translucent-black  No. Sanctions don't cause countries to regress like that.
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  1431. Don't let the government have too much control over the food supply.
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  1432. Only to revert right back to a state, class and money society once humans want nothing to do with the collective and form their own factions like post-Barre Somalia.
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  1433. So does Haiti and North Korea.
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  1434. To Koreans, Southeast Asia = Africa.
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  1435. Not really. Honk Kong has no more land to build new housing on.
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  1436. Pol Pot's ex-comrades run the show.
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  1437. And where exactly were you in 2014 when Venezuela went in a freefal?
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  1438.  @blueskies133  Exactly.
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  1439. So does Equatorial Guinea with the Nguemas running the show.
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  1440. No. The island suffered from the hands of its revolutionary heroes in charge.
    1
  1441. <Can anyone understand men who would want to take away basic human rights from THEIR mothers, grandmothers, daughters, granddaughters and sisters?> They got it from their fathers and grandfathers.
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  1442. It is not that hard to find. Albania, Romania, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Guyana, Madagascar, Benin, Mongolia, etc.
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  1443.  @lamarazmoe6438  And you're wrong on all counts. In Cambodia's case, its socialist experiment came to an end at the hands of fellow socialist Vietnam.
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  1444. When it decides to apologize to God and admit that its own way has failed.
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  1445.  @jpjp280  Venezuela is learning the hard way after giving up their guns to Chavez.
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  1446. Exactly. Ditto for Russia/USSR.
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  1447.  @isisbeck2374  That's the truth. All dictatorships and regimes, including socialist/communist ones spend most of the treasury on security to buy loyalty from the only entity in any position to oust the government. The military and police.
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  1448. The only women wanting to leave are all city folks.
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  1449. LOL. Russia hasn't done such a thing since 1990.
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  1450. Just like Castro imposed illegal criminal mafia gang unilateral expropriations of UN-built and financed businesses which brought about the sanctions.
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  1451. No. Maduro has barred foreign medicine and food from entering Venezuela.
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  1452.  @yash30095  Which interestingly turned out to be a good thing as Chile is now one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas.
    1
  1453. Exactly.
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  1454. What about removing the command economy of Cuba and Venezuela? Venezuela and Cuba have something in common indeed. They love to blame the US when their socialist/communist experiments run their natural courses leaving tyranny, poverty, brain drain, misery, etc. in their wakes.
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  1455. No. The Soviet Union destroyed the Soviet Union.
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  1456. Argentina got bankrupted by socialism, not capitalism.
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  1457. Chile due to US intervention. Who knew that ousting Allende in favor of Pinochet would turn out to be a good thing in the long run?
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  1458. But Australia's COL is higher than America's.
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  1459.  @woodsman9922  Better question: what has the Cuban government done for Cuba besides setting it back decades with their central planning?
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  1460.  @woodsman9922  The sanctions are not nearly as crippling as the Cuban government's stranglehold on the local economy which cannot adequately and efficiently produce anything of its own worth exporting much less support itself with. <look at what has happened with China another Communist country.> Thanks to Deng's capitalist reforms in the 80's and Clinton's outsourcing of US manufacturing jobs in the 90's. <there was no way that the Communist system would have survived as it has> Thanks to Soviet aid, Venezuelan oil, Canadian tourism and US remittances and the government renting out doctors abroad.
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  1461.  @woodsman9922  The Cuban government will happily sacrifice the people if it means they get to stay in power another day. Social control at all costs or end up like the USSR or Romania.
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  1462.  @jayparfaye2340  It isn't as it certainly didn't affect them much when the USSR was around the give them aid. You complain about embargoes yet the only times Cuba ran into financial problems was when the aid stopped flowing and they had to find another way to compensate for their borderline non-existent economy due to the Cuban government's gutting of the private sector and local industry.
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  1463.  @иванпиётп  Actually, there's also Zimbabwe.
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  1464. What religion? Pol Pot cleansed it out of them.
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  1465.  @alexjeffrey3981  They as in the Cuban government. The same government that made it illegal for citizens to grow their own food.
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  1466.  @oneperson5760  Just ask a North Korean.
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  1467. Ditch the communism. What is the Cuban government afraid of?
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  1468. First remove the command economy and the PCC regime.
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  1469. Yet most of those 14 million Brits living in poverty have much better access to food than the average Cuban.
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  1470. Greedy leaders enabled and elected by greedy people.
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  1471. His/her own government.
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  1472. The Cuban government has failed Cuba.
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  1473. It's only fitting since Cuba was once a Soviet client/puppet state.
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  1474. How come no one in Iran is suffering?
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  1475.  @sadbrit4906  Just like their baby-boomer parents that raised them.
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  1476. Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar are destroyed?
    1
  1477.  @RoshanZ  Palestine is not a country. And for every Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, etc. there's Equatorial Guinea, the Republic of Congo, Trinidad & Tobago, Norway, etc. that the the US didn't destroy.
    1
  1478. His sister.
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  1479. No. Try personal greed as everyone want to live in the big city but not everyone has the means to hack it.
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  1480. Haiti paid off its debt to France in 1947.
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  1481.  @the_truth_seeker334  Exactly.
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  1482. No thanks to foreign migrants and US military protection.
    1
  1483. And you have only Pol Pot to thank for that.
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  1484. Don't forget socialism. The current ruling ANC was once Soviet-backed.
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  1485.  @laurafair-schulz5550  So was all of the Western Hemisphere.
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  1486. Except this is about Venezuela. And it's the Venezuelan government doing the stealing from the Venezuelan people.
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  1487.  @analyticalhabitrails9857  Pride. Local elites don't want to lose the power they have over their little locales.
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  1488.  @OmmerSyssel  Cuba doesn't necessarily need democracy as much as it needs a free-market economy that allows people to make an honest living and something out of themselves, equality be damned! See Singapore.
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  1489. So much that he had party members who had ties with neo-Marxist terrorist groups that terrorized said people.
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  1490.  @krnpowr  Pretty much.
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  1491. Norway has a thriving private sector. Venezuela doesn't and hasn't since 1998.
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  1492. Yes it is. And when it isn't foreign meddling undermining its progress, it's local despotism and instability as Haiti at no point in time had decent governance.
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  1493. Socialists don't do open borders.
    1
  1494. And have him rule like many African countries have been ruled since independence?
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  1495.  @xijinping370  Blacks and Amerindians.
    1
  1496. Greed, envy, sloth (laziness), pride, etc.
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  1497. Not really.
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  1498. We already did socialism. You're going to come up with something else.
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  1499. Not really as Vietnam liberalized its economy and and moved on from its otherwise justified hatred for the US due to the Vietnam War. Cuba is a staunch communist holdout that much rather antagonize the US than develop a half-decent economy and allow its citizens to earn an honest living.
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  1500. The only sanctions that exist in Venezuela is that by the Venezuelan government on its own people.
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  1501. Good. Some groups need to be separated.
    1
  1502. The DR is not that poor.
    1
  1503.  Joselene Lu  Exactly.
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  1504. That's because a woman's worth to a man largely revolves around being attractive and fertile whereas a man's worth to a woman largely revolves around being productive and protective. Being good-looking is of minor importance.
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  1505. So is Equatorial Guinea. Yet the 1% in control are the Nguema family.
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  1506.  @davidatkinson5858  In retaliation to the French who did the same.
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  1507. LOL. Is that a joke?
    1
  1508. Not it isn't.
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  1509.  @joseph3036  Exactly.
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  1510. Islam.
    1
  1511. Not like Argentina as Argentina cannot afford the "free" stuff citizens have grown accustomed to.
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  1512. Japan is one of best off concerning Covid-19. Ditto for Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan who also operate on a decidedly Western economic model.
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  1513.  @MrBLAQ1000  <The previous government was a dictatorship that was supported by the USA, he was overthrown,> In favor of the current dictatorship that was once supported by Russia/USSR until 1991.
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  1514. How so? America offers Cuba food aid. It's the Cuban government that has starved the people with its economic repression and central planning.
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  1515. So are Haitians. And Haiti was founded as a black supremacist nation.
    1
  1516. Such as? Every country in the Caribbean is richer than Haiti. Even Cuba.
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  1517.  @DAndyLord  Until the money runs out as in Venezuela's case when Chavez died and oil prices hit rock bottom.
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  1518. But the Middle East has far better leadership, though.
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  1519.  @FREEMAYKELOSORBO  And its high life expectancy is more due to having an aging population than great healthcare as much of the younger population want out.
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  1520. Perpetual victims, because as observed by Arabs, Europeans, etc. Africans are just not that bright.
    1
  1521. Far-left populist politics tanked Argentina.
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  1522. These same poor people who happily voted for Chavez and Maduro who went on to bankrupt their country?
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  1523. Because they built and established it?
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  1524.  @ga8986  LOL Unadulterated, unmolested socialism doesn't work. It didn't work for the Pilgrims. It didn't work for Jonestown. It didn't work for Eastern Europe who was largely free of Western meddling. It didn't work for Mongolia. It didn't work for India. Socialism did even more to set Africa back than colonialism.
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  1525.  @tempejkl  Yet Cuba has no problem receiving US remittances.
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  1526. In being China's *****.
    1
  1527. Exactly.
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  1528.  @34口2fds蛋トマgs  <Psychotic communist haters have no soul and only care about shoving western ideology down the throat of others.> And neither do psychotic communist-lovers shoving communist ideology down people's throats from the comfort and privilege of the very same Western capitalist countries they denounce.
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  1529. And screw themselves in the long run.
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  1530. Cubans are not legally allowed to grow their own food.
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  1531. < cos u want control of your own country > While starving and impoverishing the people in the process like the typical dictatorship.
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  1532. Like Russia and China?
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  1533. Because it's Brown women being victimized by Brown men in a Brown-majority country.
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  1534. No. It's Pol Pot's fault.
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  1535. <Currency is nothing but trading for what you don't have with something you do have.> And what's wrong with that exactly? <This world would do just fine if everyone produced what they loved and wantes or needed what another had.> LOL. No it won't. Most people can't produce let what alone what they love for a living. Bartering stopped being a thing due to the often lopsided values between the goods being bartered.
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  1536. The IMF has nothing to do with this. The Nigerian government is really that corrupt and incompetent.
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  1537. Biden does not owe starving African people anything.
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  1538.  @tropicalco2339  Rich in resources but poor in brains and leadership.
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  1539. You can do that yourself. Leave everyone else out of this.
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  1540. Namely the PDVSA.
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  1541. That they themselves let deteriorate, because they ran out the executives and skilled workforce in favor of political stooges.
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  1542. Socialism is bad. The government would have gotten greedy anyway even if there was no oil like in Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.
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  1543. Simple. Where is the money going to come from?
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  1544.  @sauln8451  <limiting of private property was the killer.> Which IS socialism as was practiced in the USSR, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, China, Cuba, etc.
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  1545. Yet has nothing on either South Africa or Sweden when it comes to r**e rates.
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  1546.  @holgermessner851  The only embargo in effect on Cuba is by the Cuban government. That's what's preventing Cubans from having a better life.
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  1547.  @holgermessner851  Yes I do. It's not the sanctions' fault the Cuban government decimated its own agricultural sector and in turn has to import food, much of it from the very same US.
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  1548. A lot of Hispanics are half-European.
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  1549. This is about Venezuela, not your society, and the problem with your idea is that government seized all of the farmland. So how exactly do you expect people to develop agriculture?
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  1550.  @Abbadon380  ASAP!
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  1551. LMAO. Chavez exploited the poor to lift up himself and was willing to bankrupt the country to achieve such.
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  1552. The US is not the reason why Cubans cannot legally make an honest living in their own country much less produce their own food.
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  1553. Not really. The American system doesn't have 40% of the population or more condemned to poverty lacking access to basic needs like many African countries.
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  1554. Yes they are. Socialists have always been wolves in sheep's clothing.
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  1555. Egypt's own poor fiscal policy was what led it to have to seek IMF help.
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  1556. With the world's most expensive government.
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  1557. But communism is even more evil. So much for power to the workers.
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  1558. But the loss of USSR aid, Canadian tourism and Venezuelan oil did a much better job of crushing Cuban society as apparently they hardly had a self-sustaining economy to begin with.
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  1559. Exactly. And these are the same socialists who complain about exploitation.
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  1560. Is it because it's illegal or is it because women have nothing to gain from it?
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  1561.  @criticalthinker8374  Because the government controls what they earn.
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  1562. Exactly.
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  1563. Usually your freedom.
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  1564. Or the "Eternal Father" like in North Korea.
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  1565. Along with degeneracy.
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  1566. But men built and established the world. So it's a wash.
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  1567. They're not overpopulated nearly as much as they're mismanaged.
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  1568.  Ganda Gandara  Not exactly as China is much further along.
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  1569. Only after adopting some capitalist reforms to open up the economy in the 80's.
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  1570.  @endrepepella2399  Like it was in the early 80's and had to fight off fellow communist China to maintain its independence.
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  1571. Gorbachev didn't betray anything. The USSR was no longer in any financial position to support anyone at that point. Plus, he wasn't even in office when the USSR conceded defeat and pulled out.
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  1572. No it's not. If it was so, you wouldn't be breathing.
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  1573. No. And the US for all of its faults don't have the majority of the population starving while the political elites live it up.
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  1574. They already did that with Black people.
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  1575. Actually it's 75%.
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  1576.  @grigorig1055  <How on earth a country with this kind of oil not have her small population all taken care of like the Gulf countries ?> Kleptocracy. That's just the best way to describe Equatorial Guinea.
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  1577. They already do that. Hence their inability to make much-needed reforms as they fear unrest and ouster although they know they don't have the money to sustain the welfare state.
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  1578. LOL. What common good? The people are every bit as corrupt as the leadership they vote for.
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  1579.  Maria Kelly  Get a job!
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  1580. Only to bitter socialists.
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  1581.  @briodiz4772  Don't you just love nostalgia?
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  1582. The sanctions are nowhere nearly as crippling as the lack of local industry because the system destroyed it in favor of outside aid that all but completely dried up which is the only reason why they're struggling. It ran out of other people's money to compensate for what they cannot adequately and efficiently produce themselves.
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  1583. While socialism, making everyone except the socialist overseers equal in poverty and misery since 1917.
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  1584. The rich being the Egyptian government.
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  1585. South Africa used to have nukes. And then scrapped them.
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  1586. LOL. Canada has more immigrants per capita than the US.
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  1587. So much for everyone being equal and all in this together.
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  1588. The public is gullible and corrupt.
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  1589. End the central planning. What are you afraid of, Havana?
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  1590.  @henrymorfin6768  Have you no shame, Havana? End the command economy. By the way, I don't live in Miami.
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  1591. Still blaming the US for all your failures and shortcomings, huh? I see!
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  1592.  @MelissaThompson432  <We (the US) probably need to start learning how to do economic socialism> And end up like India post-independence? Perpetually regressing and dependent on outside aid?
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  1593.  @robertrobski1013  And laid.
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  1594. <We have (in the USA) 60,000 homeless, > Which is a drop in the bucket as the US has 330 million people. <no universal free healthcare for all citizens (unlike virtually every other nation)> LOL. There is no such thing as free healthcare as that's negated by high taxes. Plus, most other nations do not have "free" healthcare. <too-high college costs that ruin many a young person's life, more of our own citizens behind bars than any other nation> Most of them being actual criminals as opposed to North Korea being those who dared disagree with the government. <Castro's original dream, of an egalitarian society with equal distribution of resources, is still rock-solid and---at least in theory---perfectly doable. > Only in uber-kleptocracies where the state and well-connected = rich and everyone else = poor. Cuba being just one example.
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  1595. Jammeh has done a better job of stealing from and destroying the country than the West. The West hardly had to do anything to The Gambia. And if Jammeh is what constitutes a good leader, then the people really have some low standards.
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  1596. South Africa is well ahead of the curve.
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  1597. It'd be even nicer if Cuba abandon the command economy.
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  1598. For what? They voted for this mess that they're now fleeing from.
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  1599. So mom and pop shop-owners are business criminals?
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  1600.  @tropicalco2339  No. Venezuela running its natural socialist course caused this.
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  1601. Unless you work in the oil industry.
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  1602.  @myrstika  LMAO
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  1603. Yet it prospered and was the 5th wealthiest country in the Americas in its heyday
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  1604. Wrong! The US sanctions started in 2017. Venezuela's fall from grace started in 2014.
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  1605. Exactly.
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  1606. Mozambique is yet another post-colonial socialist/communist failure.
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  1607.  @jeffsmooth6739  Haiti's perennially poor leadership didn't help matters either.
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  1608. Just like Cuba had no right to meddle in Angola and Ethiopia's affairs.
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  1609. Did you just call women "baby-making machines?" LMAO
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  1610. Apparently.
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  1611. Cuba was already a vassal state of the US once after the US won the Spanish-American War.
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  1612. Also Guyana.
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  1613.  @politicalchannel66  Plus (s)outh Africa is slowly going the way of Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
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  1614.  @coopsnz1  Exactly.
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  1615. Not in Australia's case. This is due to high taxes and government over-regulation. Hallmarks of socialism.
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  1616.  Susan Kerr  How is God sexist?
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  1617. Pol Pot beat it out of them.
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  1618. No. The last thing Africa needs is another unstable country to take care of.
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  1619. Cuba Angola Mozambique Mongolia North Korea India Ethiopia (East) Germany Somalia
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  1620.  @Maria-ue2qd  But Puerto Rico is a far-left hellhole.
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  1621. Cuba was the 2nd to last country in the Americas to abolish slavery.
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  1622. Only to become the greedo and tycoon himself as he amassed a good fortune before he died. And now the Chavez family are the wealthiest people in the country.
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  1623. Boom and bust is a fact of life.
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  1624. Iceland doesn't doesn't have either of those, yet the people are not being subjected to the level of poverty and repression by their own government there like Cubans are.
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  1625.  @mohameda1165  In other words, yes!
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  1626. Yes it is.
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  1627. Nope. Imposed by the Cuban government. Those innocent people are not legally allowed to fish or grow their own food.
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  1628.  @devincampbell5007  LOL. Like in North Korea?
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  1629. Argentina = bankrupted by socialists and other leftists.
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  1630. Hardly.
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  1631. Or Venezuela.
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  1632. No more than the Spaniards did to the Aztecs, Mayans, Tainos, etc.
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  1633. Florida is better off under Republican leadership than California currently is under Democrat leadership.
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  1634. Kuwait benefits from US military protection.
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  1635. Actually, atheist socialism via fascism and communism killed more people and ran whole societies to the ground than all religions combined. Many 3rd-world countries still haven't recovered from it post-independence.
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  1636.  @DreamilyReal  Or even executed as in the case of drug-dealers and users.
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  1637.  @pesteanvstefan5491  World Economic Forum.
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  1638. Why should the US feed a nation that ran out its own farmers and producers and in turn killed its own ability to feed itself?
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  1639. Or any of the Gulf countries.
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  1640.  @smellyturk  Socialism didn't work even nationally, though.
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  1641. Like it saved the Soviet Union and Albania?
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  1642.  @fe1ip3  <Oil price decreasing> Coupled with a decimated private sector. <USA sanctions> 3 years after Venezuela hit rock-bottom.
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  1643. No. This is the goal of Klaus Schwab's far-left WEF. You will own nothing (like a Cuban) and be happy.
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  1644. Biden was the man responsible for the Crime Bill that put a lot of black men in jail.
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  1645.  @sakulasakic2391  And what 3rd-world countries did Singapore, Chile, Costa Rica, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan exploit?
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  1646. <free health care > But of lackluster quality.
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  1647. Namely leftists, feminists, union bosses and Argentinians.
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  1648. Yes it was land reform which is just another way of saying nationalization, abolishing private property, redistribution of wealth/resources, etc. Standard Marxist fare.
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  1649. The corrupt leaders are a reflection of the corrupt populace that elected them.
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  1650. Here in Canada, they're Liberals and NDPers.
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  1651.  @DarlyaFaroeste  Exactly. And then we wonder why no one takes us seriously as a race. I'm black by the way.
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  1652. In Maduro's case, pride.
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  1653.  freaky Friday  You know that China doesn't do one-child anymore, right?
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  1654.  @knowledgeisablessing8767  Corruption existed long before colonialism.
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  1655.  @acbc3811  Yet Cuba has more prostitution now than it did under Batista. Never mid Castro legalizing it during the 1990's to compensate for the loss of Soviet aid that left the country bankrupt.
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  1656. Pretty much.
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  1657. The poor despotic leadership also didn't do Haiti any favors. And one of them even re-instated slavery, because food production hit rock-bottom and the idea of giving everyone a plot of land proved disastrous. No. That would be the Cuban government doing that as it destroyed anything resembling a thriving local economy. Cuba is in a crisis now, because other people's money in the form of foreign aid, Canadian tourism, etc. dried up.
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  1658. The only sanctions being imposed on Venezuela is that of the Venezuelan government on its own people as it effectively killed off the private sector and domestic production of goods.
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  1659. What Cuban people? You mean the power-mongering Cuban government. And that "different way of living" hasn't worked out for any other country that adopted it either collapsing or resorting to capitalism just to have any claim of being functional.
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  1660.  @fauxmanchu8094  Roughly half of which are Black people.
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  1661. Whatever! And Yugoslavia was all but completely done for by the time 90's rolled in.
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  1662.  @dom_diggity.1488  <It’s about not letting a small group of people to own everything.> Yes it is. Socialism = letting government officials own everything. It lends itself very well to kleptocracy.
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  1663.  @winesap2  <Fortunately, he has never been anything like Somoza, > As in he ran Nicaragua into the ground worse than Somoza and making it currently the 2nd poorest country in the Americas.
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  1664.  @IvanPlayStation4LiFe  Haiti is already among the poorest of the poor.
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  1665. End the command economy and PCC rule.
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  1666. Socialism and open borders don't mix.
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  1667. It is. Falkland Island does not count as it's not an independent country but a UK territory.
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  1668. It's just the end result of socialist/communist revolutions.
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  1669. Mostly situated in places run by leftists.
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  1670. It's not all that complicated. It's just socialism running its natural course reaffirming what Margaret Thatcher said about it.
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  1671.  @sumayahzahid9243  Not completely.
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  1672. Exactly.
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  1673. <Land is for the people of Zimbabwe let's distribute it equally> That don't know how to farm and in turn feed themselves which is why the government has let white farmers come back.
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  1674.  @DemocracyAboveAll  The people there are barely even allowed to work let alone earn an honest living.
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  1675. The "oligarchy" being Nicolas Maduro himself and the PSUV gang.
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  1676. Nigeria is not even in the same league as any of the Persian Gulf countries let alone Norway.
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  1677. A country that had socialism and its own Chavez/Maduro in the 1980's in the form of Forbes Burnham.
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  1678.  N S  Indian men have nothing on South African men.
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  1679. No. It's really Filipina women desperate for money and citizenship in the Faroe Islands.
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  1680. The current Cuban government deserves no support.
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  1681. What's the ROC's (Republic of Congo) excuse? It's also oil-rich and ran by socialists yet it's nowhere nearly in the same predicament.
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  1682. How so? Stop blaming the US for Venezuela's incompetence.
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  1683. Real ugly!
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  1684. Argentina cares about the people to the point of bankrupting itself to provide all that welfare.
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  1685. Too bad the free health care and education are of poor quality.
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  1686. It's an entirely domestic issue due to mismanagement and corruption.
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  1687.  @Bra-a-ains  Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge slaughtering 20% of Cambodia with Year Zero and the Killing Fields.
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  1688.  @stellab3828  Pretty much.
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  1689. Ask the Chavez family. I don't know.
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  1690. Cuban communism is even more evil.
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  1691. LOL. Not Iran.
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  1692.  @chaitanyacg1250  Hardly. Can you name any country in the EU where the government controls the economy and in turn everyday life there?
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  1693.  @Huia87  No. Just communist delusions passed off as such.
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  1694. Because they traded self-sufficiency for free stuff from Chavez and Maduro.
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  1695.  @gregb6469  Pretty much.
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  1696. Easy to achieve that in a dictatorship.
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  1697. You mean Cuban government. USA has nothing to do with Cuba's indoctrination OOOPS! I mean education system.
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  1698. But it's not richer countries' fault that poorer countries are run by uber-kleptocrats who only care about personal enrichment than the viability of the nation.
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  1699. In the absence of accountability and consequences, indeed.
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  1700. Exactly.
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  1701.  @enterchannelname5953  Yet Cuba has no freedom to food because the government and military controls all of the supply barely allowing the citizens to eat but insist it's the US's fault. LOL
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  1702. Like what? Africa can barely do anything for itself.
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  1703. No one's fleecing Venezuela but Maduro himself.
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  1704. Hun Sen = a one-time Khmer Rouge lackey.
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  1705.  @genxx2724  Only to allow Cuba to be a hedonistic playground for everyone except Americans once the 90's rolled and its sugar-daddy USSR collapsed.
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  1706.  @1804Child  LOL. Haiti barely has any natural resources.
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  1707. Exactly.
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  1708. Respect is earned, not given. And Johnson-Sirleaf didn't do much worthy of respect.
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  1709. Why is it up to other countries to try and help?
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  1710.  @Gasibellz  2008 was nothing compared to 1991.
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  1711. Yes blame it on the revolution.
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  1712.  @lapinchechismosa  As a citizen or an ex-pat?
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  1713. They were justified in killing the Frenchmen. With that said, Haiti is yet another example of why most revolutions fail resulting in liberators becoming the new oppressors.
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  1714.  @UsernamerAlreadyTakn  Only because of capitalism courtesy of Deng Xiaoping.
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  1715. Africa already nationalized its resources. It didn't do much except enable kleptocracy.
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  1716.  @blackluc9875  But no consistent electricity.
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  1717. End the Cuban central planning now!
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  1718. It's long overdue. The fat needs to be cut.
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  1719. Kamala is half-Jamaican.
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  1720. Meh. They got what they voted for. Endless welfare is just not sustainable.
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  1721. LOL. And how exactly did that work out for even its neighbor, Benin?
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  1722. Cambodia already did that under Pol Pot. Too bad all that really meant was women could get slaughtered like men, though.
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  1723. Atheists = self-aggrandizers.
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  1724. Originally, it was used as a weapon to drown out the Quebec separatist vote by the very same LPC under Justin's daddy.
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  1725. Still blaming Trump?
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  1726.  @tempejkl  And for all the talk of inequality. Cuba has such between those who have access to foreign currency and the black market and those who don't.
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  1727.  @Michael-ig8ih  Yes it is true. Who'd have thought that socialists be the biggest capitalist exploiters around?
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  1728. Because their state wages are pathetically low and their monthly food rations barely last a week.
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  1729.  @kimobrien.  Wrong country! You mean Canada. One of only 3 countries that doesn't have private healthcare and a serious family doctor issue.
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  1730. <Socialism by definition is when the workers own the means of production.> The workers do own the means of production in real-life socialism. It's just that workers happen to be government bureaucrats if not family and friends of said bureaucrats.
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  1731.  @kimobrien.  By putting it in the hands of the government or some other central committee who become exploiters by default.
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  1732. I thought socialism was against living off of others. LOL. Also, no Canadian tourist money as Canadian travelers are on COVID lockdown at home.
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  1733. And corruption is a symptom of greed.
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  1734. Hardly. Socialism is bad. And what was Guyana's excuse when socialism destroyed it in the 80's? Capitalists didn't need to make it look bad. Forbes Burnham did the job by himself.
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  1735.  @thevictoriakent  I thought making money was not allowed in Cuba.
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  1736. It's not the IMF's fault that countries mismanaged their economies to ruin and end up seeking it for help.
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  1737. We're every bit as corrupt as the government, tribe, country, etc. you want destroyed. And the revolution will just end like every other revolution have ended. With the revolutionaries becoming the very corrupt oppressors they overthrew x10.
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  1738. One of which is she isn't even Angolan.
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  1739.  @nicfor1  None of those countries are socialist. Left-wingers stay ignorant.
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  1740. Soviet aid, Canadian tourism, US remittances, Venezuelan oil and trafficking doctors abroad.
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  1741.  @joshseguin2043  It's not the US or Israel's job to better the lives of Cubans. This is on the Cuban government.
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  1742. Just like you are blind to greater effects of wholesale economic nationalization as was done by the Venezuelan government. The sanctions are of little consequence.
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  1743. Not really. Chavez was a virtue-signalling power-monger like most revolutionaries and freedom-fighters in history.
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  1744. <I'm an atheist I don't believe in God> Neither does Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-Un.
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  1745.  @crispinswainstonharrison9042  Exactly.
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  1746.  @sinabagherisarvestani8924  But most live in squalor. It does say a lot when hundreds of thousands of Cubans much rather risk death and homelessness abroad.
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  1747.  @sinabagherisarvestani8924  LOL. What development? Cuba hasn't really developed since the Batista era.
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  1748.  @sinabagherisarvestani8924  <Well it has developed> Into what? Haiti without the instability?
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  1749. They as in public-sector workers, activists and welfare-recipients mad because Milei is shutting down their gravy train.
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  1750. LOL @ Equatorial Guinea being democratic. It hasn't had democratic elections since independence when the President's uncle ran the show.
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  1751. Namely China.
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  1752. Try kleptocracy.
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  1753. And what's wrong with that? You prefer North Korea's model?
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  1754. Cuba doesn't have a middle class as it doesn't have a private sector at all.
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  1755.  @jonathanhadley2555  But barely as Cuba is still a command economy.
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  1756.  @ОскарЛР  New Zealand is hardly socialist. You mean they come FROM socialist countries where they're used to waiting on government to give them something.
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  1757. Actually it's perpetuated by Havana. Self-reliant yet hardly produces anything of its own because the Cuban government doesn't allow entrepreneurship or people to work for themselves.
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  1758. But decimated by price controls.
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  1759. Maybe if the PCC resign and ditch the central planning.
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  1760. Africa is barely capitalist. There is nothing capitalist about nationalizing whole industries and having most of the population dependent on government for survival.
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  1761.  @dennisweidner288  Exactly.
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  1762.  8alot4t  Many of whom are die-hard Democrats.
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  1763. Namely Blacks and Latinos.
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  1764. Not really. Capitalism made Singapore wealthy. What? You prefer it be Cambodia under socialism?
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  1765.  @jeremiahjohnson6082  You mean capitalist welfare states that the left love to pass off as proof of socialism being a success. By the way, Venezuela is literally democratic socialist and it sure isn't working out too well.
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  1766. LOL
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  1767. If not servicing tourists from decidedly capitalist countries like Canada, etc.
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  1768. Exactly.
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  1769. And for Mid 70's Chile.
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  1770. No. Hitler modeled the concentration camps after the Soviet gulags. Hitler was a leftist.
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  1771. Just like Equatorial Guinea.
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  1772. How exactly? If anything, other races more pity us then envy us.
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  1773. This is not an overpopulation problem.
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  1774. That's not saying much.
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  1775. No. Socialism will be.
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  1776.  @pablosel3857  Plus, the citizens happily gave up their guns to Chavez.
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  1777. And?
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  1778.  @shadowlesswalls  It looks like no one bothered to to correct you on its inaccuracy. Chavez, Maduro and company are the wealthiest people in the country.
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  1779. It's not shocking as the ruling ANC share more or less the same socialist/communist views as the ruling PCC and ZANU-PF in charge of Cuba and Zimbabwe respectively.
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  1780. It's not the 1%'s job to house everyone. <and high prices> Due to government policy.
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  1781. And that IMF loan is the result of Michael Manley's economy-crippling policies.
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  1782. So do Indian people.
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  1783.  @intihumala9087  AH! Portugal! A one-time colonial power turned poorest country in Western Europe.
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  1784. Including the greed of average people.
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  1785. No. If they could afford the price of a plane ticket and getting educated abroad, they could definitely afford the high COL. They should not get any subsidy. Beside, they're not citizens.
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  1786. Like the Soviet Union was?
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  1787. How so? Comoros wanted independence and got it by vote.
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  1788. Cuba has no economy. All that free education yet al that's good for is servicing foreigners at best.
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  1789. 0:04 And there you have it.
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  1790. I presume it's because it didn't come from TeleSur, right?
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  1791.  @Henry-ve3ye  And entitled as F.
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  1792.  @tempejkl  <Communism is when the workers own the means of productions. > As in government bureaucrats.
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  1793. Into the bank accounts of PCC elites.
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  1794. <took to socialism which he believed was best for the country.> Only for Cuba to degenerate into Haiti without the instability.
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  1795. Cuba should reinstate private enterprise and let the people make an honest living.
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  1796.  @richardp444  Exactly.
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  1797. LOL @ Chavez being intelligent. If Chavez was intelligent, the private sector would have still been thriving and the oil price collapse wouldn't have tanked the country as badly as it did. Besides, how come none of the other oil-rich countries collapsed like Venezuela?
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  1798. Not really. This is the price Scotland chose to pay for trading its independence for England's protection a long time ago.
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  1799.  @winesap2  Most of them sharing more or less the same political views as Ortega.
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  1800. WRONG, tankie! It's just communism running its natural course. And Cuba is struggling, because there's no Russian aid or Venezuelan oil to bail them out.
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  1801. LOL. Obama was far from a good man.
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  1802. And it figures why. The poor are easier to control.
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  1803. New Zealand just entered the chat.
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  1804. Says a Chavista stooge.
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  1805. Which the ousted president used to be a member of.
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  1806. Chile, Japan, South Korea.
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  1807.  @pizaclatonddd3081  But is the average Cuba allowed to vote?
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  1808. Very much.
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  1809. No. It is the Cuban government's central planning.
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  1810. But Whites in Cuba still live better than Blacks in Cuba thanks to remittances and running the one thriving industry the country has which is tourism. <Flugencio Bastista> Who was interestingly multi-racial 25% Black while Castro was as White as any Cuban-American.
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  1811.  @Harthorn  Carter, Clinton, Obama and now Biden.
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  1812. LOL. No thanks. The world doesn't need any more p*ssification.
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  1813. No. This is a consequence of having populists who promise the people free stuff and endless welfare run the country. It's not the IMF's fault Argentina keeps practicing bad policies leading to bankruptcy just so politicians can buy votes from the ignorant and hedonistic populace.
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  1814.  @claudelebel49  Namely the black market community as they have access to foreign currency unlike the average Cuban.
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  1815. No. That's just setting a country up to get invaded.
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  1816. Well, they are. Just ask Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Vietnam, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Finland.
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  1817. And women need to stop allowing themselves to get exploited by men.
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  1818. After destroying whatever diverse economy it had by the most socialist means possible. Price controls, nationalization, replacing skilled and productive personnel with political stooges, etc.
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  1819. Cuban government-imposed poverty, that is.
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  1820. That has only been going on since 2017?
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  1821. No. 60 years of Cuban government economic repression created this disaster. It just simply simply ran out of other people's money to live off of be it Soviet aid, Canadian tourism, US remittances or Venezuelan oil.
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  1822.  @greattune4894  Not really. Cuba's currency is worthless and it doesn't produce anything worth trading to generate the revenue necessary to buy food.
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  1823. And it wasn't that long ago when leftists around the world were praising Venezuela as a socialist success story.
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  1824. Pretty much. Well at least the government works for the people.
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  1825. In its literal form.
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  1826. Good luck with that in a dictatorship.
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  1827. <They will never allow any alternative economic approach to succeed. > Socialism never succeeded even under the best of circumstances. There's a reason why China had to adopt some capitalist reforms in the 80's.
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  1828. The story of socialism/communism.
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  1829.  @maheshkurana5809  Having theocrats and communists in charge.
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  1830. @Edilio A Also: DRC Kenya Equatorial Guinea Brazil Ecuador Romania Angola The Gambia Jamaica
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  1831. This is not America's problem.
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  1832. Isn't the Chavez family part of the rich elite?
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  1833. Africans already did socialism to similarly poor results. Angola, Benin, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Congo, etc.
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  1834.  @spellerlittlewing  But Cuba as a whole is poor.
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  1835. <But allowing the minority whites to own 80% of the wealth and land is not acceptable.> You have only Nelson Mandela to thank for that. And minority Whites are responsible for 80% of the wealth and food produced in South Africa and why South Africa hasn't collapsed yet.
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  1836.  @hobgoblin4614  Those are not elements of socialism, but basic public services and infrastructure. What about near-absolute state control of the economy and in turn the people as socialist economies are generally closed-off and restricted?
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  1837.  @hobgoblin4614  But humans are also corrupt and destructive as well.
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  1838. And replace it with what? Most Kenyans are every bit as corrupt.
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  1839. It was a British colony just like Malaysia.
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  1840. No. That is Russia.
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  1841. But Cuba is a politically repressive dump. If Cuba is so great, why are100's of 1000's risking homelessness and death abroad?
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  1842. With no economy to support it. LOL
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  1843. So, what was Cambodia's and Eastern Europe's excuse? Both were surrounded by like-minded socialists and still failed.
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  1844. What was Guyana's excuse? It wasn't under any US sanctions when Forbes Burnham ran the show and its socialism failed.
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  1845. No. Economic repression by the Cuban government have done so much harm to Cuba. <Cuba, and it's Citizens, shouldn't be punished like it has been just because it a Socialist Country...> The Cuban government is the one doing the punishing as the people are barely even legally allowed to buy and sell. and make an honest living.
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  1846. For what? To live like the average Russian did during the Soviet era?
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  1847. Nationalization = mismanagement, corruption, lack of accountability in regards to state monopoly, economic stagnation and ruin.
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  1848.  @ZereayM  Nationalization bankrupted Guyana.
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  1849.  Jeannie Seibert  Plus, Sweden hasn't done socialism since the 1970's.
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  1850.  @halfdome4158  Mayotte isn't thriving, but it sure is much better off than Comoros.
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  1851.  @anomalianomali5080  I thought that was the Philippines.
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  1852.  @UsEr-ek9wg  <the majority of people really need the help, so you can't label everyone with the same brush.> Like able-bodied co-dependents?
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  1853. Apologize to God and admit that we need his guidance. Our own way has failed us miserably.
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  1854. And tried in vain to invade the DR as part of their debt repayment.
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  1855.  @jacquelinem2873  <because they were not given massive amounts of foreign aid for decades…> But Rwanda was every bit as unstable as Haiti was post-independence. <their neighbors and surrounding countries were not much better off.> While Haiti's neighbors were still colonies.
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  1856. Socialism doesn't generate wealth, especially new wealth which is why it either lives off of aid from well-off countries or adopt capitalism to prop it up.
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  1857. Cuba isolated itself and sided with the USSR.
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  1858.  @crimsonking8942  Capitalist welfare states don't count.
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  1859. Continue blaming Maduro. He's exactly what's holding Venezuela back.
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  1860. No. These are the results of socialism.
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  1861. And communism eating its own as he got replaced with another communist.
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  1862. LOL. Castro actually legalized prostitution during the Special Period.
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  1863. Stole from Africa for centuries with the help of other Africans.
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  1864.  @curtisjones400  The problem with Venezuela is socialism which happens to enable the crooked government run by Maduro.
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  1865.  Taylor Reeves  <Even a dictatorship could be good if the dictator was intelligent and caring.> If he values economic development and allowing the people to prosper, equality of outcome be damned, like Singapore or South Korea under Park Lee-cheung.
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  1866. Fear of getting their crops seized by the government?
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  1867. Iran is decent. Venezuela, though, is a mess.
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  1868. <Now there is a large poor population caused by lack of industry,> And due to that produces very little worth exporting which can be traced all the way back to the Cuban government and its central planning model.
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  1869.  @levismith7444  <now Zambia exports food to Zimbabwe.> Thanks to Mugabe killing off local food production with his land seizures.
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  1870.  @rasalghul3963  The problem is the Cuban government.
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  1871. Not really.
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  1872. LOL.
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  1873. Because NGO's, charities and other poverty pimps are dependent on it to justify their existence and their livelihoods. And governments need the poor for easy votes.
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  1874. All that free stuff made them lazy.
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  1875. And replace it with what? Some old stupid whatever the Soviet Union had under Lenin and Stalin?
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  1876.  @spaideman7850  That would be you.
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  1877.  @spaideman7850  I didn't delete anything. Communism alleviated nothing.
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  1878.  @kyogofurahashi  True.
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  1879. Even their hero, Stephen Hawkings, couldn't disprove God's existence.
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  1880.  @sadbrit4906  Namely to enrich himself, his henchmen and the Chavez family.
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  1881. Saudi Arabia for all its tyranny is nowhere near the basket case Equatorial Guinea is.
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  1882. <A decade long embargo you can't blame communism for that. > Yes you can. When Russia and Venezuela used to bankroll the economy, the embargo hardly affected Cuba much.
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  1883.  @geekuyl6942  Communism is the reason Cuba had to rely on foreign aid as Castro destroyed whatever local industry it had.
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  1884. And strict social hierarchy.
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  1885. Like China?
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  1886. No it wasn't. And no one in Afghanistan except the Soviet-backed regime in charge wanted it.
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  1887.  @friendlypup5650  You wouldn't be saying that if he was a Republican.
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  1888.  Scott Davis  Universal suffrage?
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  1889. Why Biden? T&T signed away its sovereignty just so it can play humanitarian.
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  1890. But poor in brains, work-ethic and skills to do anything with said natural resources.
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  1891. Or greedy local governments that allow said rich foreigners to buy up real estate?
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  1892. Yet the only people benefiting from their "noble" sacrifices are regime elites and affiliates.
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  1893. The sanctions are nothing. Cuba's problem is that it lost the foreign aid.
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  1894.  @PS-hv7on  Marx actually admitted that communism needed capitalism to prop it up.
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  1895.  @redrumpill  But they're not that reliable let alone sustainable.
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  1896.  @johnyohann6946  Same difference.
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  1897.  @ambramarino5387  Fine with what? Raping and enslaving each other? Getting conquered by the Arabs?
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  1898.  @ambramarino5387  I'm not White.
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  1899. White Frenchmen had it coming for how they treated the Haitians.
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  1900. That only applies to the one-time French colonies.
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  1901.  @JudehEmpire  It's the Chinese.
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  1902.  @kimobrien.  <The US promised to process 20,000 visas but refuses to do so preferring a migration crisis at its border.> Most Democrat politicians.
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  1903. Not really. Africa is largely run by kleptocrats and sellouts.
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  1904. They're not legally allowed to grow their own food.
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  1905. Enabled and supported by greedy women like Imelda Marcos and Mao's wife.
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  1906.  @rap3208  But not the people who run it which is why they want out.
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  1907.  @zionen01  Namely the poor and illiterate as they're easy to manipulate and control.
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  1908.  @tonttu7979  5th wealthiest country in the Americas pre-Revolution = a lot worse?
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  1909.  @tonttu7979  90% of Cubans under Batista didn't starve and Cuba attracted a decent amount of Jamaican migrants.
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  1910.  @MBB563  Interestingly, socialism is a Western idea that Blacks and Latinos embrace wholesale. By the way, many Latinos are half-Europeans.
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  1911. In the end.
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  1912. That's probably because in their society, an unmarried woman past a certain age gets no respect.
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  1913. Ortega is still around, though.
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  1914.  @mikenogozones  Exactly. It seems that Cuba is yet another case of a country that ran out of other people's money. If anything, it exposes the fact that Cuba doesn't have a viable local economy to support itself with because the Cuban government heavily suppresses it.
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  1915. Exactly.
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  1916.  @voiceforanimals8457  No. The world needs God. Not more corrupt and compromised humans to teach us anything.
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  1917. Ditto for the Bahamas.
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  1918.  @llllllll5756  Here's a case where small =/= efficient.
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  1919. Often after seizing the means of production killing off and robbing the owners and producers in favor of political friends and the workers who are just not up to the task.
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  1920. Unless you're part of the government.
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  1921. Because Africa doesn't have welfare to spoil people with.
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  1922. No. FRELIMO is together with Russia and China.
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  1923. Yet Cubans much rather be poor anywhere except Cuba. Free stuff is not an adequate substitute for freedom apparently. Cuba has no jobs either. No real economy so to speak as it depends on outsiders including the very same US it has issues with to stay afloat.
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  1924.  @angelicamimosa  Singapore doesn't have a US-hating communist running the show with a command model to boot.
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  1925.  @bjornsmith9431  Michael Manley was the reason why Jamaica had to run to the IMF and World Bank in the first place after his policies crippled the economy for the next 50 years.
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  1926.  @HarrySingh-xk2qj  Cuba has no gas. It's imported from Venezuela.
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  1927.  @jakebryant9723  Only to squander it and then cry poverty. The people are partly the reason why Argentina can't get any leaders who can implement any meaningful reforms to get its finances in order without fear of unrest or ouster.
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  1928. They have no human capital.
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  1929. Ditto for Vladimir Lenin.
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  1930.  @Joshua-eo5hr  <instead of how it used to be> When tribes killed and enslaved each other.
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  1931. Jim Jones himself was a communist.
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  1932. <but are there sanctions against the US?> No, because most of the rest of the world are dependent on the US and don't have the economic/political/military leverage to do such if they wanted to.
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  1933. The Nguemas with Equatorial Guinea. The Kims with North Korea. The Duvaliers did it with Haiti. The Castros did it with Cuba.
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  1934. The only economic war going on is that of the Cuban government against Cuban citizens.
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  1935. Don't hold your breath. Angola is a one-party state and stopping corruption only means silencing political rivals and dissidents.
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  1936. And let's not forget the price-controls, the wholesale nationalization of private enterprise, by both Chavez and Maduro, the mismanagement and corruption of the oil industry, etc.
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  1937.  @anonimus648  And most likely are either trust-fund babies or public-sector workers whose salaries come from the very same working class they claim to have so much solidarity with.
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