Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "FRANCE 24 English" channel.

  1.  @rogerzimet  Puerto Rico says HI!
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  2. Nah. Cuba never recovered from the loss of Soviet and Venezuelan aid that kept the economy afloat.
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  3.  Andrea Puri  Women actually have rights in China.
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  4.  @davet9708  While becoming a basket-case in the process through mismanagement and oppressing its own people. LOL
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  5. Not really. Much of Venezuela's suffering was of its own making.
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  6. Revolution as in end up like every other socialist regime. Cuba, Russia, Cambodia, China, Nicaragua, etc. Take your pick.
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  7.  @mikenogozones  And as a matter of fact, Chavez was busy destroying whatever diversified economy Venezuela had.
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  8. So did China, Romania, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and North Korea.
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  9.  @anonymousfella372  No. Blame the government for promoting the country as a tourist spot just so it can attract "foreign investment."
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  10. Because the oil price collapsed and Maduro was no longer able to keep up the facade.
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  11. Actually, if it wasn't for a man knocking that woman up, his butt wouldn't be here.
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  12. Cuba is a grifter that doesn't pay for services rendered.
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  13. Spain was the OG colonizer.
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  14.  @myztroogeegibson3568  The sanctions came 3 years after Venezuela collapsed. It's not the US's problem that Venezuela decimated whatever local economy it had with price controls, high taxes and nationalizations en route to being oil-dependent. And then when the prices hit rock-bottom, it had nothing to fall back on.
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  15.  @freepalestine7687  I'd call it mismanagement.
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  16.  @davidanalyst671  But that doesn't mean the area is suitable for farming.
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  17. Of course not. It's staying in France where the trial is taking place.
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  18. Literally on the backs of women.
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  19.  Andrea Puri  You're the one that's deluding yourself. Women got it way better in China in spite of living under a communist regime which is light years ahead of any Islamic theocracy when it comes to tyranny and oppression.
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  20. The consequences of bureaucracy and rent control bearing fruit.
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  21. Cuba has been de-industrializing since the Revolution.
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  22.  @AztecSamurai01  Exactly.
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  23. Not just that. They don't have the ability or desire to build anything.
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  24. But even their neighbor countries don't want them.
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  25. Maybe when women stop being all too eager to supply it.
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  26. When European politicians grow a spine.
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  27.  @adrianostarks-chaves9256  Exactly.
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  28. And Zimbabwe. And Cambodia, And North Korea.
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  29.  @MissShaypril  <It’s called capitalism aka greed.> Better than socialism a.k.a. envy, covetousness and entitlement.
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  30.  @desmondburnett9286  No. Reinstate the private sector and watch Venezuela grow.. <remove the embargo and watch Venezuela grow.> Like it did in 2014-16?
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  31. As long as the people keep voting for leftists.
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  32.  @alexdavis1541  Because even socialism/communism has rich and poor.
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  33.  @TuAmigoElMorrocoy  That's because Venezuelans happily voted away their gun rights to Chavez.
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  34. In other words, racism.
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  35. It figures.
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  36. The former. And Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas under Batista.
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  37. Yet with no work for anyone except those with ties to the state.
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  38.  @aseriesoftriangleswecalltr6065  He's just the typical Western leftist.
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  39. Gratitude from getting them out of Apartheid.
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  40. Is that an admission that African's cannot rule themselves?
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  41. <but it's Spanish landlords that are doing this for a profit.> And rightfully so. They're about business.
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  42.  @freedomofpress5605  It is pathetic as Venezuela collapsed well before any sanction was imposed.
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  43. They voted for it.
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  44.  @usdepartmentofthetreasury489  Cuba is kept alive with US remittances and food aid.
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  45. Case in point: Cuban, Dominican and Thai women.
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  46.  @uneVacheQuiRit  <shut up! They are not a communist country.... it's a military dictatorship with capitalist values (masses are exploited for the enrichment of the elites)> Yes they are. Like every other socialist/communist regime. <also cuba has implemented communist theories and they have one of the best healthcare system and the highest literacy rate in the world.> That's not saying much as Cuba has no job market and many have to work a 2nd job as taxi-drivers, prostitutes, etc. to help supplement their meager state wages. And also, Cuba is dependent on tourism, outsourcing doctors to other countries in which the government gets 90% of their earnings and remittances from Cubans living abroad to keep the economy afloat.
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  47.  @fillthefeeder  Like Trinidad & Tobago of all places.
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  48. Just look at the Black community.
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  49. The Uyghurs, Hong Kongers and Tibetans would like a word with you on that.
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  50. Says a poster with the flag of a country that colonized Central Asia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
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  51. Better question: why should the unvaccinated continue to pay into a system they're no longer allowed to benefit from in their time of need?
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  52. That's why Cuba does everything to make sure the military is kept fed.
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  53. With money stolen from the state treasury courtesy of his father?
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  54.  @markc5025  Nigeria is not quite in the same boat.
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  55.  @progressiveguy9959  And neither do you, typical overprivileged Westerner.
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  56. Exacerbated by Chavez and Maduro's wholesale decimation of local production which made the country reliant on imports and high oil prices to pay for them.
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  57. Largely due to how the elderly pissed away the young people's futures and the country's solvency for immediate comfort during their younger years forcing future generations to pay for it.
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  58. Racism. Progressive style. By "benign" neglect and paying lip service to the Black-majority population of the territory.
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  59. The DR owes Haiti nothing.
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  60.  @desmondburnett9286  <are you forgetting about the embargo and the billions seized by the US and England.> They're of little consequence. Plus, Chavez and Maduro would would have lined their own pockets with it if not piss it all away like they did with the oil revenues.
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  61. Why should the US help them? The US owes them nothing and Cuba is self-reliant.
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  62.  @pedrolopes3542  Capitalism also exists and thrives in socialist/communist countries via the black market.
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  63.  @memphisstef3808  He's right. Look at how socialism set back French Guiana's neighbors, Suriname and Guyana.
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  64. Not really as they happily voted for it.
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  65.  @andrewmichaels5725  NYC being expensive is understandable. It's the world's #1 financial center with plenty of opportunities to make money and earn a living.
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  66.  @mrsupremegascon  No. It's because they're dependent on France for just about everything.
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  67.  @Xavier-kq9hp  Due to local mismanagement and corruption.
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  68. Without oil and foreign labor, the Gulf would be little better off than Afghanistan.
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  69.  @MrRezillo  Namely due to Xi wanting to take China back to the Mao era.
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  70. But NYC is the world's #1 financial center. NYC is understandable.
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  71. They love the empty promises and free stuff.
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  72. Let's just not talk about the Cuban government's economic repression or the lack of Venezuelan oil to keep them afloat.
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  73. Exactly.
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  74. Or Cuba from Spain. Or the US from Britain.
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  75. Let's also remember that the Greeks for decades happily voted for left-wing governments that promised them endless welfare and leisure.
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  76. Because apparently dying or being enslaved in a prosperous foreign country beats living and being free in your floundering home country.
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  77.  @aaronhill212  And her husband is also half-caste. His Black Congolese father was one of the beneficiaries of the old Mobutu regime and his mother is a White Dane.
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  78. One of the many consequences of socialist/left-wing economics.
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  79. Okay. Then make private healthcare fully legal.
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  80. First reinstate private enterprise.
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  81. Another victim of socialist folly.
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  82. But it's a necessary evil as blight and decay cannot go on forever.
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  83.  @obsidianjane4413  Which are?
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  84. Socialism eventually eats its own.
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  85.  @ratulxy  He is wrong as this situation was caused by Chavez and Maduro.
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  86. And also chasing out all the skilled and experienced personnel.
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  87. Which is why an Atheist cannot be trusted with power anymore than a Christian.
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  88. Because this is what your people voted for. No one is doing anything about it except letting them enjoy it in peace.
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  89. LOL. The real nutcases are the Argentinian people themselves who voted for endless welfare for the past 70 years.
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  90. You mean South Sudan.
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  91. Socialism and dictatorship goes hand in hand.
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  92. Because the US government owes Venezuela nothing and is certainly not responsible for the policies that Venezuela chose for itself which happens to be total government control of everything.
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  93. @LUCK BERLUS Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong. Barbados and the Bahamas to a lesser extent.
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  94.  @eliza5960  Cuba = just a politically stable Haiti.
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  95.  @theotherohlourdespadua1131  Namely Fidel Castro.
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  96. Don't you just love the fallout of communism?
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  97.  @γδδγ  Serves you right for lying your way into the EU as you needed Germany to support your welfare state.
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  98. That's because the party that Mugabe founded still runs Zimbabwe.
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  99. <it doesn't matter if they had crime or dictators atleast people were not dieing because of hunger.> But they were in 2015 when shortages were rampant. A solid 2 years before any sanction took place.
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  100.  @MrAlen6e  Suriname and Guyana were governed by far-left Marxists as soon as they got their independence and effectively ran them into the ground.
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  101. While in Venezuela, people are eating cats, dogs, rabbits and zoo animals. And in North Korea, people are eating grass, tree bark, rats and their own feces.
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  102. No. Inhuman socialism caused Venezuela's misery.
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  103. Actually, it's 76.6%.
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  104.  @Patriot11111  Due to welfare.
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  105. 0:12 Global citizenship education? Promoting the NWO?
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  106. It's all for cheap votes to further expand the left's power base and their America-destroying agenda.
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  107. Just like how the Olympics were held in China twice.
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  108. But it's not the White man's fault that Mobutu was a power-mongering opportunist.
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  109. ECHR = enabler, aider and abettor.
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  110. Enabled by local governments.
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  111. Litigation doesn't exist in the Gulf. Suing is an American thing.
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  112.  @CAA_AB8  Pretty much.
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  113.  @PG-fy2ck  Just like Equatorial Guinea.
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  114. Not really. It's because Africa doesn't have the healthcare means to do mass-testing.
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  115. Welcome to Latin America's caste system.
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  116. Exactly.
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  117. Because it's of little consequence? It's not the sanctions' fault that Maduro voluntarily decided to seize and shut down all the profitable farms and factories.
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  118. Because physically and athletically, women are hardly even competition to teenage boys let alone men. And women's football generates less revenue and fanfare, hence, the lower pay.
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  119.  @samusaran7317  Pretty much.
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  120. How about simply reinstating private enterprise and local production?
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  121.  @palefeathervaldez3563  Exactly.
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  122.  @The1JBanks  Toronto has little on Vancouver.
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  123. And a Soviet-backed one at that.
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  124.  @alreaud  And then Cuba regressed after said Revolucion.
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  125. But New York City has a high average salary.
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  126.  @ElitePhysiqquesAndForm15  And the people themselves. After all, the government and leadership is but a mere reflection of the populace that elected them.
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  127. The sanctions are the least of Venezuela's problems. Chavez and Maduro crippled whatever ability the country had in feeding and supporting itself.
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  128. <Dictators like Mao, Stalin, Fidel actually worked towards the well being of their countries however brutal the tactics may have been> LOL. China was a hellhole under Mao and didn't start prospering until he died and Deng took over. Ditto for the USSR under Stalin as Khrushchev give that country its best years.
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  129. In Cuba's case, the Soviet aid. The free Venezuelan oil. The Canadian and European tourism. And the US remittances.
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  130.  @igorbrille8222  Or the British decided to let Guyana go its own way.
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  131. No. Chavez and Maduro long seized them and shut them down.
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  132.  @nyaradzo-  Selfless governments do not exist.
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  133. What western nations? It was Soviet Russia that backed the Derg.
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  134.  @erindewan6758  Exactly.
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  135.  @wahtusy3519  And it no longer has the infrastructural means to put it to use.
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  136. But it doesn't last.
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  137.  Doffy Rob  Not really as Equatorial Guinea has one of the highest GDP's per capita in Africa yet 75% of the population live in poverty.
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  138.  @kamanashiskar9203  1966.
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  139. <If you don't bow down to America this is the result.> No. This is the result of adopting socialism and doing business/siding with Russia They had oil when Venezuela supplied them.
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  140. @Yo yo Brutaka But Hawaii and Alaska are actual US states.
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  141. Only for those who insist on living in the Northeast or West Coast.
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  142. And being the father of the richest woman in Africa.
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  143. Only after successfully fighting off the Russians.
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  144.  @AOTP_TV  Actually, it's over-regulation that enabled the existence of short-term renting.
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  145. Ditto for much of the rest of the the Balkans and Eastern Europe.
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  146. Only because of the free money.
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  147.  @Furiousmiget  Trinidad & Tobago is far from poor and has a higher GDP per capita than Martinique.
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  148. Rest in peace.
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  149. But China is ruled by billionaire party elites including the current President Xi himself.
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  150. Not to mention destroyed Black wealth and presided over the most police attacks on Black people of any President.
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  151.  @jetaddicted  <We have neighbors east and west who did that and we’re better off.> Only because of French subsidies.
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  152. Not in North Korea. Or Cuba.
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  153. Yes it is as he and Chavez did away with self-sufficiency in favor of handouts.
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  154. Hardly. <They work together and live in harmony> Due to in-breeding if anything. <This is what we used to be as human beings.> And then we evolved and wised up when it was no longer practical or beneficial to long-term survival. <We have lost our real humanity.> No. We can't lose what we never had in the first place. <These beautiful people are the true face of humanity in every way. I hope they are truly protected. Modern man is a menace.> LOL. No. Just the naive do-gooder with a savior complex more driven by delusions of grandeur than any actually compassion or love.
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  155. No. Narcotics destroy people and societies. And China can tell you plenty about it from experience which is why I don't blame them for executing convicted drug-traffickers.
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  156.  @KeithHinch  But Chile prospered from it going on to be one of the wealthiest countries in South America. No. This is what socialism does. And as usual blame others usually the US for the results of its own incompetence.
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  157.  @Christmas-dg5xc  Namely elites and tourists like himself while ordinary Cubans are left with a healthcare system lacking basic supplies.
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  158.  @oscarrodriguez2439  Why don't you stop watching TeleSur propaganda?
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  159.  @theyeening  What embargo? Cuba gets most of its food from the US.
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  160.  @Mazgic  <U cud try and make a go for it on your own but there is a high chance of living on the streets for a few years, so you hope that your horrible parents find love and make a change for good.> Maybe so, but that's the price of freedom and independence. Having to find a way to support yourself. And for some, being homeless beats being continually at the mercy of their abusive parents any day of the week despite the guaranteed roof over their heads.
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  161.  @davewilliamson3723  In socialism, there are only 2 entities that eat well. The government and the military.
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  162. @ Mama2agn This is democratic socialism in practice. Dictatorship of the proletariat as Karl Marx intended.
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  163.  @melaningoddess5180  This is about Africa, not America.
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  164.  @samanthaw4955  No. Cuban communism causes the people to suffer.
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  165. Apparently it is. Socialism doesn't allow self-sufficiency.
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  166. Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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  167.  @juice8431  Only because France pays its bills. And the GDP per capita is inflated by the French mainlanders who moved over there to work at the space station.
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  168. Equatorial Guinea is an ex-Spanish colony.
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  169. And what is their own language? Whatever language they spoke before French died out a long time ago.
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  170. Help out what? The Kardashians owe no one anything.
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  171.  @aguila503  No. More like the next Venezuela, the next Greece, the next Zimbabwe.
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  172.  Kafala  Including the ones supposedly for the African people.
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  173.  @tmsupreme7763  Pretty much.
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  174.  @joaovidente  In Europe.
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  175. You misspelled socialism.
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  176. Vietnam liberated its economy. If anything, it's Cuba that needs to get with the times. That central planning communist model just isn't going to cut it in 2024.
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  177.  @GarretKrampe  I think you mean the Venezuelan government as food and medicine are exempt from sanctions. They are seized at the border denied entry by Maduro vid the military.
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  178.  @jacobnapkins1155  Not really as France controls West Africa's economy.
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  179. Gynocentrism is slowly killing the US and the West.
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  180.  @Ws2237  Most African countries have restricted economies.
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  181. But San Francisco has a solid financial industry and Silicon Valley to justify its high rents.
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  182. The CIA coup turned out to be blessings in disguise for Ghana and Chile.
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  183. @ marco colarco And where in the Bible does it state that it's the government's job to take care of the poor?
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  184.  @RatIceCream  Yet interestingly, women make up the majority of NK defectors.
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  185. Democratic socialism, literally.
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  186.  @Tziumannu87  But they get the honor of being trophy whores for their male superiors.
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  187. State Islam vs. State Atheism
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  188.  G Joeye  Actually, the Chinese are the richest minority in the USA.
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  189.  @gringologie9302  <Our politicians done nothing for our people since 30years.> And why should they? They're not your mommy and daddy.
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  190. And Maduro's policies really don't help.
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  191.  @sonofwarsdeathonthefield9893  Yes you can as in the case of South Africa with every other President after Mandela.
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  192.  @cubismo85  <not democratic socialism.> Like the one that bankrupted Greece and Jamaica?
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  193. No. The problem of Venezuela is the Chavismo government and the people that voted for them.
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  194. King Leopold was Belgian.
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  195. And you think Biden is going to be any better?
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  196. The Cuban government destroyed whatever economy it had.
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  197. Because French Guiana is part of France and access to EU citizenship and money. If it was an independent country, many Haitians wouldn't even consider going there. How so? Guyana wasn't a particularly profitable colony for Britain.
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  198. Who just happen to be Nicolas Maduro and the Chavez family.
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  199.  @gaurangkarmakar4046  Mostly stooges of the Chavez/Maduro regime.
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  200.  @Don-qb1vi  Bob was mixed. White father, black mother.
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  201.  @cupidok2768  Because the tourists were barred from leaving their home countries.
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  202. Or having ties with the current government in charge.
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  203. No. Western issue.
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  204.  @silveriorebelo8495  Exactly.
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  205. It was a solution for Chile. And Argentina was destroyed by socialist politicians and policies just like Jamaica under Michael Manley. The IMF and World Bank are just end results of countries brought to their knees by socialists and far-left kooks allowed to be in charge.
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  206. For Thailand? Yeah. But Cambodia? Another socialist casualty.
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  207. They already had such. His name was Hugo Chavez.
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  208. Raul Castro is not in power anymore. It's now Miguel Diaz-Canel.
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  209. Venezuela gets no support from the UN. It's Russia and China propping it up.
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  210. Yet they swear they're self-reliant. LOL
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  211. But those thousands voluntarily chose to go to Dubai to work.
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  212.  @mardigbidanian7119  But the vast majority do by choice.
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  213.  @Clairemont7893  These are the people he was trying to help LOL. While bankrupting the country in the process.
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  214.  @windoak  Is that a joke?
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  215. No. Just reinstate the private sector.
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  216.  @miguelfilo962  Same difference. Communist Cuba or Socialist Venezuela, the results are the same.
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  217. No. Venezuela's problem is on Chavez and Maduro and the people that voted for them.
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  218. That's their social safety net.
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  219. The Chinese are just picking up where the Europeans and Arabs left off.
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  220. Just so that those same Africans squander it like they already do with foreign-aid.
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  221. Exactly.
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  222.  @samanthaw4955  Not at all. The only entity denying Cuba anything is the Cuban government with the central planning and economic repression.
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  223. LOL. Is that a joke?
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  224. No it's not as Syria and Yemen's problem is war.
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  225. Yes she is.
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  226. No. It's the Cuban government punishing its own citizens with constant economic repression.
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  227. How so? The only embargo in effect on Venezuela is that by the Venezuelan government in the form of command-and-control economy.
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  228.  @georgeantonopoulos545  LOL. But at least capitalist countries can feed themselves adequately while communist countries have to rely on foreign aid to cover for their command economy's shortcomings.
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  229. Socialism doesn't work even in places where it was done properly.
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  230. Tell that to Sri Lanka.
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  231. Exactly.
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  232. Poor people are easy to control. It makes sense.
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  233. And Danny Glover. And Oliver North. And the rest of the Hollywood left.
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  234.  @machsimillian14  And a far-left one at that.
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  235. Exactly.
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  236. Too bad Cuba is now a whorehouse for Canadians and (Western) Europeans.
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  237. Yet somehow they can afford their convenient lifestyles.
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  238. Because Africans, including the leadership, are gullible and naive like that. The Chinese are just picking up where the Arabs and Europeans left off in having their way with Africa.
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  239. Just ask the Ukrainians, Chinese, Ethiopians, etc.
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  240. Which only goes to show how far Cuba has fallen since the Revolution.
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  241. LOL.
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  242. They love the free money and citizenship France provides them. That's why they're not interested in independence.
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  243.  @vineshpendurthi313  British Guiana is yet another country that socialism destroyed
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  244. It's her money and she doesn't owe the people of Venezuela a damn thing!
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  245. So do the people who vote for said government.
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  246. Like the one in Venezuela?
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  247. Italy is not the US.
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  248. Or fight for your freedom like Haiti did.
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  249. Why don't they ask Maduro to reinstate private enterprise again and give the economy back to the entrepreneurs?
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  250. LOL @ Angola being a wealthy country. Only if you're part of the ruling elite.
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  251.  @colint7743  But it's even worse in Angola just like Equatorial Guinea where the government owns has all of the wealth the people are struggling.
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  252. LOL.
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  253.  @vaibhav3946  Oh yes it does men he's smart. If Europe's enemies weren't so backwards, they would have been able to defend themselves better as opposed to getting conquered relatively easily. Norway and Finland were never in any position to invade anyone if they wanted to. Speaking of Finland, it was too busy trying not to get conquered by Russia and turned into a Soviet satellite country. India was too weak and divided to be a threat to anyone.
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  254. Because your government and families need that remittance money.
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  255. Socialism has a way of making a capitalist out of someone.
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  256. Apparently even they don't do anything for free.
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  257. Because it's of little consequence as most of the problems were caused by Maduro and his policies?
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  258.  @jaimep3432  LOL.
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  259. Should have never joined the EU.
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  260. Yes it is. <Also almost every single "socialist" country adapted soviet model, which is a parody of socialism. But yeah I get it, it's popular thing to say this Cuban nonsense is real socialism, so who cares if it's true or not.> Socialism is a parody in and of itself. And that Cuban nonsense was not "real" socialism only because didn't prosper living off of Soviet and Venezuelan handouts for most of its post-Revolucion existence.
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  261. You're just stating the obvious.
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  262. In the case of Qatar, built by people who are not legally allowed to live in them as they're just there on a temporary work-visa.
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  263.  @pwp8737  <when the political elites are slaves to Berlin and Brussels diktats> By choice as Greece was no longer able to pay for its welfare state on its own and lied its way into the Eu to get German taxpayers to pay for it.
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  264. By and large.
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  265. No. Just socialism running its natural course.
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  266. Bush hasn't been in power since 2008. And Venezuela's economy collapsed 3 years before the sanctions took place. Socialism was the cause.
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  267. No. This is due to Venezuelan seizure of the economy.
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  268. You have some really low standards.
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  269.  @Geordany7788  Kenya doesn't do business with France.
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  270.  @minimaxmiaandme.4971  Same difference as all communists are socialist.
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  271. But the Cuban government's central planning and loss of foreign aid did the most damage.
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  272.  @JebusHypocristosX  Like the typical Western leftist. And by the way, fascism is a communist idea.
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  273. Cuba = the WEF's wet dream come true.
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  274. @Im an avocado Venezuela has free healthcare.
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  275.  @pointlesslylukesplainingpo1200  Yes it is.
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  276.  @Hugo-gc8jm  <Look at Martinique or Guadeloupe that are doing way better,> Only because of mainland money.
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  277. Just like Flint, Michigan. A Democrat stronghold.
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  278. Feminism and welfare destroyed the West.
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  279. @Maria Liberty Bus-driver. But yeah!
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  280. Exactly.
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  281. Nope. Another country ruined by socialism and socialists.
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  282. Italy was part of the PIIGS.
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  283.  @GA-720  Especially if far-left Marxists are allowed to run the show.
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  284. SMH. And that's why you can't let just any immigrant in the country. Especially one who still supports the same policies and model responsible for why they fled in the first place.
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  285. No. It's just socialism running its natural course.
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  286. Because they're too lazy and spoiled to build it themselves.
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  287. For what? The people that would stand to gain anything from that be the Comoros government as they'll be let off the hook for their poor governance. Comoros and its people need to accept what they voted for and move on.
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  288. <The poor, who are innocent, suffer the greatest impact> Not exactly. They voted for this mess which makes them every bit as guilty as the Chavista regime for the current state of Venezuela.
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  289. The same oil that is unsellable due to the Venezuelan government's mismanagement and neglect of oil refinery infrastructure?
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  290.  @eddieBoxer  North Korea is as every bit a deadbeat as Cuba.
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  291. Entirely thanks to France.
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  292. @P4to D0l4n While not entirely, it's due to local mismanagement, ineptitude and corruption.
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  293. The only embargo on Cuba is that by the Cuban government.
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  294. You mean high taxes to fund their social programs designed to keep people poor through dependency.
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  295. The sanctions are the least of Venezuela's problems. The real problem is with Maduro's desperation to stay in power at all costs.
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  296. <but the population is innocent and suffering we should supply them with food and medicine like NOW! > The population that voted for Maduro are not innocent as they are accomplices.
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  297. It's better to have and not need than to need and not have. Are you saying you prefer (state-imposed) impoverishment over abundance?
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  298.  @ayliahloss2324  Not really as there's this thing about saving for a rainy day.
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  299.  @ayliahloss2324  Whatever, welfare queen!
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  300.  @KuromiDarklord  Social democracy is not sustainable. See Western Europe.
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  301. Greece is not that right-wing.
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  302. No self-righteous SJW's and bleeding heart leftists.
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  303.  @alexandermutune6131  But it still wouldn't be a sustainable way of running a country. The Middle East is dependent on US military protection and foreign migrant labor as the locals are too spoiled to work.
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  304. In the US, it's only a problem in the Northeast and West Coast.
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  305. <I heard that was not paid off until around 2015. > It was paid off in 1947.
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  306. Maybe it's because even you don't believe that yourself as you enjoy the comforts of modern society too much to consider giving it up.
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  307. Where Justin Trudeau is trying to do the same.
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  308. Would that also apply to Kamala Harris? She's an anchor baby.
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  309.  @gringologie9302  Only because France pays their bills.
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  310.  @victorcano1289  Jamaica is another country that got destroyed by socialism courtesy of Michael Manley.
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  311.  @victorcano1289  Jamaica = a country that got destroyed by socialist politicians.
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  312. That's their social safety net.
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  313.  @dondressel4802  They didn't ignore all the other aspects of the economy. They consciously destroyed them en route to making oil their only valuable export with price controls and property seizures.
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  314. Pretty much.
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  315. But Hawaii is much better off.
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  316. Fighting corruption just means getting rid of political enemies, rivals and liabilities.
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  317. Black people are already there.
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  318.  @SK-yb7bx  Well, it is. Better unaffordable than unavailable even if you could afford to pay the higher price.
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  319.  @poncedeoly469  No. Socialism killed the economy. The sanctions are of little consequence.
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  320. And left-wing politicians that promised her "free" stuff.
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  321. By bankrupting the private sector responsible for most of the revenue generated to fund his policies which is buying votes from the poor.
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  322.  @ra2136  After all, don't socialist claim to be self-sufficient?
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  323.  @marmuaythai1512  LOL. If so, then why did you overwhelmingly vote to remain a French territory? <All the gold they have is from French Guiana.> With French money, infrastructure and know-how used to extract said resources. <We could survive by we-self.> Maybe, but you won't come anywhere near France's productivity and efficiency level.
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  324. @ EXEXCEER So they should all be at the government's mercy?
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  325.  @ggonterriquez213  No it's not.
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  326. No. The only terrorist here is the Cuban government. Russia, Venezuela and others stopped doing business with Cuba because they can no longer afford to keep supporting the regime for free.
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  327.  @HC-wo2tz  That's because you happen to be an (illegal) immigrant.
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  328. To corrupt bureaucrats.
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  329. Because that didn't stop Cuba from chugging along thanks to Soviet and Venezuelan aid. Interesting how that loss did far more damage than the sanctions.
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  330. Don't hold your breath.
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  331. Yet few of them are thriving. And Venezuela is functionally socialist.
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  332.  @minimaxmiaandme.4971  Same difference be it communist Cuba or socialist Venezuela.
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  333.  @TheSterlingArcher16  Pretty much.
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  334.  @moiseshuerta3984  But they're dependent on White-majority France for their economic survival.
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  335.  @orangecobraEU  Only Western and Central Africa are majority French. Eastern and Southern Africa is majority English.
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  336. Socialism will not work for French Guiana just like it didn't work for Guyana.
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  337.  @leonardodasilveiradesouza7757  But French Guiana itself isn't much to write home about living conditions-wise despite all the French and EU subsidies.
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  338. Because the lower class don't work in or run the tourism industry? Why should any money reach them?
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  339. BS! <Many more people in Latin America and the world understand that Venezuela wouldn't be in the situation they are now if it wasn't for the U.S blockade.> Um. Venezuela was already in that situation in 2014-15 and there was no US blockade yet.
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  340.  @samc269  LOL
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  341. Oh really? The same African leaders that had no problem selling their own people out for trinkets in the Slave Trade?
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  342.  @machsimillian14  Yes it does.
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  343.  @KeithHinch  No. It's the Venezuelan government whose boot is on the throat of the economy. Get rid of the command economy and watch Venezuela thrive like old times. <Lift the sanctions and the country would boom again.> Like in 2014, 15 and 16?
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  344. Puerto Rico crumbled due to far-left politics.
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  345.  @jarednovel  But Mugabe and Dos Santos didn't need any Western help to rig elections and stay in power.
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  346. That came well after Venezuela's 21 century socialism ran its course and went bankrupt.
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  347.  @Indiansareallpajeets  No. Venezuela made this.
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  348. No. Yugoslavia collapsed after Tito died and there was no one around to keep the ethnic groups in line. By the way, US democracy propped up that regime.
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  349.  @adzappin_2567  Cuba was a spoil of the US's successful war against Spain but along with the Philippines was let go.
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  350. Collective = the ruling class.
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  351. The only embargo going on in Cuba is that of the Cuban government against its own citizens.
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  352. LOL. Fine with what? Incest, ritual rapes and sacrifices, tribal/ethnic warfare, etc. ?
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  353.  @gringologie9302  So?
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  354. Whatever, Chavista!
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  355.  @mayac.1345  Pretty much.
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  356. America will lift the embargo when Venezuela reinstates the private sector.
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  357. And when was this exactly?
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  358. Those are two of the most common excuses all socialist failures make to downplay or outright deny their own central roles in their failures playing the victim. Local central planning did far more to cripple their ability to support itself than any foreign meddling.
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  359. Currently ruled by Castro's biological son.
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  360. Another leftist-run hellhole.
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  361.  @NorceCodine  How many of those 1 million want to switch places with the 100's of thousands who'd much rather be homeless in America than continue living in squalor and tyranny in Cuba?
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  362. That's what Venezuela gets for biting the hand that fed them.
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  363. Interesting indeed.
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  364. Cuba doesn't have this problem.
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  365. Socialism has always been about control and power.
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  366. No. Venezuela has been independent since 1811. This is on Venezuela.
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  367. Yes they do. They got what they voted for.
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  368.  @Gus-op5ff  Fascists are also socialist.
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  369. Because the elderly in Britain sold the young's future out for immediate comfort as the young are left to pay for it.
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  370.  @watchingthehawks355  LOL @ Mugabe. The achievement of Mugabe was turning Zimbabwe from a breadbasket to a basket-case.
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  371. Democratic socialism in practice.
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  372. LOL. Whatever, Chavista! I thought Venezuela didn't need the US for anything.
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  373. The West owe the rest of the world nothing. And it's not the West's fault that rest of the world was backwards and constantly at war with each other.
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  374.  @Freyyyr  LOL So why are they resorting to drug-trafficking?
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  375. <And that was the reason communism came out of Europe. > With the people being little better off as their heroes became the new oligarchs.
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  376. What do you expect? The AU is run by tyrants doing the same thing to their own citizens.
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  377.  @DjWellDressedMan  While you support Russia and terrorists.
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  378.  @DAndyLord  Thanks to socialism destroying whatever industries it had when Castro took over. Only when there's capitalism to leech off of.
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  379. Africa may be rich in resources, but it's poor in leadership, brains and balls.
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  380. Yes. Namely that by the Cuban government, that is.
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  381. You know that corporation is state-owned, right?
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  382.  @lilli9822  It figures.
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  383.  @GreaterAlbania1  While the only people who loved him either worked for or got a handout from him.
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  384.  @nikomylnikov4540  Because the locals don't know how to establish or produce much coupled with inept leadership which is what doomed Haiti even if France and the US didn't cut it off from the rest of the world.
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  385. French Guiana has no economy and French subsidies account for 80% of its GDP.
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  386. Chavez and Maduro.
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  387.  @rudyverbuyst5059  And what would those benefits be?
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  388. How about re-establish private enterprise?
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  389.  @cooledcannon  Not really. They're too immature and irresponsible.
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  390. America didn't tell Maduro to destroy the economy. Maduro did that voluntarily.
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  391.  @bazangelopoulos  No. It was Chavez and Maduro's idea to destroy the private sector and reduce Venezuela to being an oil-dependent country leaving it with no back-up. The American sanctions are of little consequence as Venezuela collapsed well before they came into effect.
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  392.  @bazangelopoulos  No. If Iran can still feed itself in spite of the sanctions, Venezuela can too. And by the way, food and medical aid were given to Venezuela only for the Venezuelan military to seize and black them at the border.
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  393. Post-collapse Russia says HI!
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  394. Their religion advocates enslaving and killing infidels.
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  395. @Tim Turko No.
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  396. LMAO. Yes he was. And the Derg went on to turn Ethiopia into the posterboy for all things wrong with Africa with famine and yet another example of socialist/communist failure.
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  397. Cuba regressed.
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  398. This is not France's fault. Madagascar is yet another country destroyed by Marxism.
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  399.  @rukiaali1573  China always wanted to take over Africa since Mao.
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  400. China and Vietnam liberated their economies. Why can't Cuba do the same?
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  401. Exactly. Don't forget theft. It's not like socialists were known for fiscal responsibility.
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  402.  @saveUyghurs  That was the price they voluntarily chose to pay just to GTFO their home countries.
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  403. It doesn't go where it's intended, because the government controls all money flow in the country and it has to go through the government via the bank and customs before it gets to the people.
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  404. Maybe Venezuela should reinstate the private sector and shrink the size of government.
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  405. Why don't you produce your own oil?
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  406. Mongolia begs to differ.
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  407. Chavez died of cancer.
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  408. Because most are small-business just barely breaking even.
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  409.  heath ongq  Along with an equally corrupted naive populace.
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  410. What market economy? Venezuela did away with it during the Chavez years.
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  411. The government enables and encourages it.
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  412. Who needs tent cities when the country is one oversized skid row?
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  413. Venezuela collapsed well before any sanction was imposed.
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  414. Not really. Venezuela and Cuba did a much better job of that with price controls and nationalizations destroying the private sector and local production.
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  415.  @DCFunBud  Price controls as in merchants were no longer able to turn in a profit to offset operating costs which negatively affected their ability to re-stock shelves and stay in business. <What do you mean they "did a much better job?"> Chavez and Maduro's policies did far more damage. That's what I mean. The sanctions are of little consequence as Venezuela collapsed well before any sanction was imposed.
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  416.  @laurentlaughlin  Which produces only scarcity and (inevitably) high prices for whatever remains.
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  417.  @The80sWolf_  You're not even part of the 99%, limousine liberal.
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  418.  @Lalaland-q2z  UGH!
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  419. Who's the rich?
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  420. But who knew that even socialists don't like deadbeats and Cuba is known for its inability to pay its bills?
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  421. And this is exactly what you're seeing.
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  422. She's part of the problem. Stop giving her a free pass.
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  423.  @Andrei-sg7lu  Namely that of the ruling PCC.
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  424. China and Vietnam liberated their economies.
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  425. No. Lumumba's downfall was his idealistic naivety and would have bankrupted the DRC like Nyerere did Tanzania.
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  426.  @pedrolopes3542  Pretty much.
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  427. Those young men are not victims. They already do and then some. Why don't the bottom 50% pay more than the measly 3% share of the taxes they currently do?
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  428.  @edricdayne3571  All funded and propped by free-market capitalist money and know-how.
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  429. No. That would be mismanagement and negligence as Chavez and Maduro didn't bother with that proceeding to blow the oil revenues on bribing the poor to vote for them.
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  430.  @nadialove2048  In other words, their own self-awareness did them in.
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  431. No. Thank you to typical socialist mismanagement and incompetence.
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  432.  @linesided  And a far-left socialist one at that.
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  433. Only those who didn't vote for Maduro.
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  434. Socialist programs are about controlling people under the guise of helping them further perpetuating poverty.
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  435. All because we are too lazy and cheap to produce the things we consume domestically.
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  436. Wrong! The oil price collapse rendering Venezuela unable to keep up the facade.
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  437. But it wasn't the Europeans' fault that the Native Americans were outgunned and outsmarted.
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  438. So? You make do with what you're given.
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  439. Even Karl Marx himself admitted in the end capitalism is the better system.
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  440. What humanity? The same humanity that produced them? Humanity is every bit as corrupt and primal as they are.
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  441.  @sharefactor  They don't have the skilled population to make much use of it.
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  442. And when are these "right" people going to be in charge? It's been 100 years and counting.
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  443. And neither is the Venezuelan government. They ran the country into the ground in the name of ___ for all.
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  444. Only to piss away the oil wealth on power consolidation via vote-buying, undercutting and bankrupting the local economy setting the country up for failure that Maduro is now responsible for.
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  445. Cuba is not suffering from overpopulation but communism running its natural course.
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  446. The ANC was founded by communists. It figures.
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  447. Because they're dependent on them for their day-to-day survival.
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  448. You mean the Americas. Europe never had foreign slave labor on its shores to build it.
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  449. Nah. It's the story of socialism running its natural course.
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  450. No. And Muslims are not exactly innocent with the way they treat non-Muslims in their home countries.
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  451. North Korea exists only because of Chinese aid.
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  452. Including that of people insistent on living in places and lifestyles their meager wages cannot support.
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  453. Socialism cannot provide anything adequately let alone sustainably.
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  454.  @amberleeannalee1999  Climate change is not real.
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  455.  @nightingaleofficial3604  Vietnam is doing well if only because they toned down the communism a bit and ditched French for English.
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  456. Well, this is the Godless secular humanist world the people asked for.
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  457. Exactly.
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  458. Not really. It's because Chavez and Maduro killed off domestic food production in their all-out war on private enterprise.
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  459. According to who?
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  460. The blockade is not the problem. Plus, Cuba's oil came from Venezuela.
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  461. The blockade is not the reason Venezuela is starving. Chavez and Maduro decimated the local agricultural sector in favor of imports.
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  462. The loss of Soviet and Venezuelan aid did far more damage to the Cuban economy than the US sanctions.
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  463. LA is for celebrities.
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  464. Compassion is overrated and suicidal.
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  465. South Africa is crumbling.
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  466. No.
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  467. <Now there is not enough money for basic social needs.> You mean not enough money to cover the ever-bloating administrators' salaries. Even if the rich paid their fair share whatever that means, the government will just piss it all way on vanity projects and virtue-signaling.
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  468. China toned down the communism and opened up the market. Cuba hasn't.
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  469. Blame Europeans who vote for left-wing politicians that support mass immigration and open borders.
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  470. No Canadians but the federal Liberal Party.
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  471. The same resources that Maduro mismanaged and let go to waste?
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  472. Saudi Arabia doesn't owe them anything.
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  473. The current leader of Zimbabwe is supported by China.
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  474.  @50jakecs  LOL. Nice joke.
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  475.  @RidleyScottOwnsFailedDictators  Because he had an ego to satisfy.
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  476. No it isn't.
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  477. No. And even if Venezuela get back its gold, Maduro will just hoard it all for himself and his comrades.
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  478.  @azizanm2  Economic sanctions is not democratic but a centrally planned economy is?
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  479.  @earth_is_a_prison  Because this is not his problem.
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  480. Italy is barely capitalist.
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  481.  @freedomofpress5605  Right. When liberators become oppressors.
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  482. Overall GDP or GDP per capita? In overall GDP, Nigeria is bigger than Austria.
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  483. Courtesy of the ruling PCC.
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  484. Exactly.
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  485.  @AdamSahr-cj4kf  Not even close.
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  486. Not really. Venezuela's economic collapse started in 2014, 3 years before any sanctions were imposed.
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  487. Because of tyranny, oil and US military aid.
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  488. The upper incomes contribute the most to the economy. The tax cuts are a show of appreciation.
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  489.  @arthurwalker4844  The Chinese are legally considered Colored. Just like the Indians.
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  490. Like who? George Soros? He's one of socialism's biggest cheerleaders. Leftists? Far-minded? LOL
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  491. And why should they? This is a made-in-Venezuela problem.
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  492.  @hrush437  No. Venezuela doesn't need more foreign paternalism which is just assuming that it cannot do anything on its own due to being weak and incompetent. This is the kind of imperialism most people in the world resent.
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  493. With permission from African leaders.
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  494. A power-monger. In Venezuela's case, an America-hating far-left power-monger.
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  495.  @albejaine  Just like Equatorial Guinea. Also oil-rich with the people struggling and the Nguema family living like kings.
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  496.  @albejaine  Indeed.
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  497.  @dominic6055  Socialism is the father of fascism.
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  498. Government is the ultimate land lord.
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  499. Yet people are too prideful to get a roommate or SO.
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  500. LOL. What sanctions? Venezuela hit rock-bottom 3 years before any sanction was imposed.
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  501.  @livefreeordie7598  And how many of them were ordinary citizens as opposed to well-connected lackeys?
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  502.  @DrVictorVasconcelos  If communism is so great, why does it need capitalist nations to trade with? After all, communism claims to be self-reliant.
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  503.  @cinpeace353  Because the government is running out of other people's money to fund it.
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  504. The current Zimbabwean government is Chinese-backed.
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  505. Didn't Africa have communism when the Soviet Empire was still a thing?
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  506. Really? Then how come Africans are risking their lives to live in Europe?
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  507.  @leolego2  But there is something socialist about price control and nationalizing most of the private sector including the oil industry to fund vote-buying, OOPS! I mean social programs for the poor. Treasury be damned!
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  508. What International community? The same IC who wrecked minority cultures in their own countries?
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  509. How about end Venezuela's central planning model first?
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  510. But China liberated its economy while Cuba stubbornly clings onto central planning.
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  511. Exactly.
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  512. How about a better idea? Make Qatar hire and put its own citizens to work?
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  513. Only to those with ties.
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  514. Zimbabwe thanks to Robert Mugabe. Angola thanks to Jose Eduardo Dos Santos and the MPLA. Equatorial Guinea thanks to Francisco and Teodoro Nguema. Ethiopia thanks to Mengistu Haile Mariam. Tanzania thanks to Julius Nyerere.
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  515.  @sheshe7j93  Socialism is the problem.
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  516. As in Chinese colonists.
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  517. With the help of other Africans in cahoots.
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  518.  @goodtimes6643  Because Africa doesn't have the human capital required to put said resources to efficient use.
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  519. I presume you were abused as a child. Is that right?
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  520.  @_lunariawa  There are jobs. It's just that people expect a high salary for low-skilled work.
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  521. They could start being business-friendly.
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  522. <Just not on his/her personal (self oriented) terms. > Unless they're self-employed.
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  523. No. They're free to go ask Russia, China, or Venezuela for help.
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  524. Compassion is not an adequate substitute for common sense.
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  525. She can fend for herself. After all, in socialism, genders are equal.
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  526.  @jimdoe3288  Yet no Floridian is risking death to trade places with a Cuban.
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  527. Socialism sucks even more.
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  528. Sweden is a failure.
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  529. Yes they are as they were the ones who allowed those corporations to set up shop. <Qatar reformed and will punish all corporation whose conducts in these jobs.> Only to save face.
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  530. LOL. Qatar isn't trying anything except to save face.
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  531. No. This is the story of socialism.
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  532.  Dante Mussolini  Exactly.
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  533. Actually, it's the other way around as Africa didn't have the brains to make much use to the resources. It was European brains that gave Africa's resources value. How is it that outsiders know what Africa has better than Africans themselves do?
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  534. But in what?
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  535. Exactly.
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  536. But it worked out well for Vietnam.
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  537.  @jju2444  North Vietnam.
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  538.  @jackprescott9652  Just ask Canada.
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  539. No. They are under attack from Caracas.
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  540.  @Sirjohnwilliamuk  Yes it is. Ever heard of import bans and high tariffs?
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  541.  @NiaEsto  Ditto for Indians.
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  542. Also Japan.
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  543.  @24299  While BRICS stand for despotism and stagnation.
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  544.  @lasseb5612  French Guiana is not all that developed.
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  545. Yet have a low life expectancy. It figures when there's hardly an elderly population and only 400 people left.
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  546. France has to sign off on it.
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  547. Not nearly as much as Venezuelan mismanagement and corruption.
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  548. Unfortunately as they're finding out the hard way, peace is determined by how well they're able to defend it which is not too well so far.
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  549.  @IrfanKhan-uh9yt  They don't have the numbers or the weapons.
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  550.  @philosophyraptor9960  Doesn't matter. They're both one and the same.
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  551. Exactly.
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  552. Cambodia already did communism.
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  553. Actually, it's Mexico who don't the wall as it benefits from sending their migrants off to America in the form of $25B in remittance payments.
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  554. Poverty is a consequence and corruption is a humanity problem. A lot of those helpless people are just a mere reflection of the leadership.
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  555. If farming and doing for self haven't been outlawed already.
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  556. Social welfare programs do not alleviate but exacerbate poverty and dependency.
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  557. <Thousands of homeless and poor but no one uses it to destabilize the usa .> Because that's an entirely domestic issue caused by domestic policy.
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  558. Due to all the Canadian and US pensioners moving in.
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  559. Like they did with Russia? LOL
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  560. Only as long as it's at someone else's expense and not your own. Is that right?
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  561. As in state-imposed servitude for the people and power to the political elite.
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  562. Exactly.
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  563. Well, that's the price French Guiana is willing to pay to stay with France.
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  564. Mobutu was supported by Belgium, not France as the DRC (Zaire) was an ex-Belgian colony.
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  565. The problem is that Cuba doesn't produce much worth trading and has no money to pay for imports.
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  566. Simple. Socialists being socialists.
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  567.  @johnkind5981  Ukraine is an actual independent country. New Caledonia is a French territory.
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  568. Because you would have to pay the rent and bills on your own dime as opposed to having it subsidized by your parents.
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  569. Guyana, the ex-British colony is independent.
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  570. Exactly.
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  571. Exactly.
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  572. Namely that by the Cuban government.
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  573. Germany, China, every other Arab/Muslim-majority country, etc.
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  574. Apparently East Germany still hasn't gotten over the fall of communism and its Soviet sugar daddy.
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  575.  @angelicadossantos7614  Exactly. And 80% of French Guiana's GDP comes from France and the French mainlanders who moved in to work at the space station on subsidized salaries.
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  576. How about definitely not? It's the standard Marxist response when the socialist paradise implodes.
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  577.  Jonas ER  Or fearful.
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  578. The very same poor it claims to help.
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  579. Why are you blaming the West for Madagascar's domestic issues?
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  580.  @angelacahill9460  But it's not the West's job to feed Madagascar.
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  581. Cubans are not legally allowed to grow their own food.
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  582. LOL. Why should rappers care about Madagascar? Not their country, not their problem.
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  583. If you want to see socialism at work in Canada or the US, look no further than the average public housing slum in any major city.
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  584. The US owes Cuba nothing.
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  585. With the richest being the daughter of the guy Maduro replaced.
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  586. Nope. It's Cuban government tyranny and mismanagement still punishing Cuba 60 years on.
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  587. It's not that the promises are false. It's just that whatever promise it does deliver on is often short-lived.
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  588. So? The rest of the world is not responsible for Venezuela's food policy which happened to include stealing land and property from the productive food-producers.
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  589. It's Northeast of Australia.
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  590.  @googleminus1442  LOL
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  591. They want it done at someone else's expense. Namely the working class and conservative's.
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  592. No. The Venezuelan government is responsible for the poverty in Venezuela.
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  593. Exactly. If China and Vietnam can do it, Cuba can too.
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  594.  @jackbateman4886  Yet the average American still has it better than the average Cuban.
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  595. LOL.
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  596. <n Africa we don't have money but our people would never do that to another human beings.> Nigeria just checked in to say HI!
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  597. But Puerto Rico is more developed than that.
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  598. It was when Batista ruled.
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  599. Because Africans are impressionable.
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  600. Cuba is the WEF mandate in practice. You will own nothing and be happy.
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  601. Spain has a socialist government in charge. What's the problem?
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  602.  @gizemlikisi6213  Greece's economy is lacking.
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  603.  @hubreydavid7864  LOL. Like Equatorial Guinea?
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  604. Not those who voted for Maduro. Let them live with what they voted for.
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  605. <f you think deep, at least the Arab countries give millions of poor unskilled and illiterate foreign labour a opportunity to supporting their love one by working there> So does the United States of America. Just ask the Mexicans. <unlike the western countries where only the rich or professional allowed to enter in their countries for job or business,> Like every other country worth something.
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  606. But on the bright side, at least the "workers" own the means of production. LOL
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  607. @Tim Turko LOL. Yes they did when they allowed Chavez and Maduro to seize and bankrupt much of the private sector to prop up the social programs along with nationalizing the oil industry they mismanaged and corrupted to hell.
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  608. You must be one of those disgruntled Hillary-voters, right?
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  609. And then become the rich.
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  610.  @MiguelDLewis  There is a solution. It's just Europe would much rather get bred out of existence then labeled racist and xenophobic.
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  611.  @user-ks2uo3qh7i  <All advanced countries have these items except the USA> Thanks to US military protection. Otherwise many of those advanced countries wouldn't be able to afford their "free" healthcare or generous social programs.
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  612. @Bjarnþór As an apology for their role in the Slave Trade.
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  613. Exactly.
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  614. Also: Haiti Cambodia Laos Vietnam Syria Lebanon (what happened?)
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  615.  @yourfavman  Election-rigging and a voter-base full of poor, illiterate and needy people.
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  616.  Mexico City  But that's not saying much when the average E. Guinean is getting by on barely $1 a day and struggling while Nguema and the gang live like kings thanks to oil. Equatorial Guinea has lowest average IQ of all nations.
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  617. Pakistan Sri Lanka Cambodia Philippines Vietnam Jamaica
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  618. Only for them to go back to starving once it's over.
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  619. It has plenty to do with Communism. Communists were never exactly known for competence especially when it comes to running an economy.
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  620.  @HughJass-313  <Used the Oil money to fight against poverty, homelessness, and illiteracy.> While setting the country up for failure.
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  621. <None of their former colonial states want anything to do with them.> Haiti and Vietnam can attest to that.
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  622. Thank you Maduro and Chavez for killing off private enterprise and whatever prosperity you had.
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  623. @Wexastria That's getting depopulated with all the migrations, suicides and dangerously birthrates.
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  624. Yes blame Maduro.
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  625. BINGO! Wherever men go, society goes with it.
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  626. Look no further than the Black American community.
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  627. Or Michael Moore?
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  628. Like Guyana did. It's only recently that it did away with Burnham's legacy and policies that once made it the 3rd poorest country in the Americas.
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  629. Thanks to Feminism and (cultural) Marxism.
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  630. LMAO
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  631.  @daseapickleofjustice7231  Only to be run into the ground due to mismanagement and corruption.
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  632. Not in North Korea or Cuba.
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  633. Not really. Only 6% of Puerto Ricans want independence. And much of Puerto Rico's problem are internal with far-left politics running the show.
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  634. Chavez died a billionaire.
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  635. Italy been finished and didn't need to adopt America's way of doing things to achieve it.
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  636. Castro's economic repression and the loss of Soviet aid did far more damage to Cuba than any US sanction.
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  637. Or spit a hot 16.
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  638. Because it's their money and they have the right to spend it on whatever they want.
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  639. Exactly.
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  640. Europeans are finding out the hard way that welfare states and open borders do not mix.
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  641. And socialism destroys not just economically, but politically and socially.
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  642.  @yescali9046  But not everyone in Los Angeles works minimum wage.
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  643. Were you thinking the same thing when the Arabs dominated you?
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  644. But the workers voluntarily chose to go to Qatar.
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  645.  @MsKhhan  But who told those workers to go to Qatar in the first place?
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  646. Exactly.
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  647. They don't. It's Maduro holding the country back.
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  648. Exactly.
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  649. That's if you're allowed to live there at all.
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  650. It's yet another case of revolutions eating their own as Robespierre correctly predicted.
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  651. Canada is a White country. And Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are not accurate representations.
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  652. Exactly. While undermining the country's ability to feed and support itself.
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  653.  @georgfriedrichhandel4390  Exactly. The only difference is that Mugabe didn't spend a dime on social programs, opting to run White farmers off the land in favor of political friends and those who were in no position to farm.
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  654.  @freudianslippers6567  It is fair. Ethiopia was never colonized nor was it under any US/Western sanctions when it ran its communist experiment and became the posterboy for everything wrong with Africa in the 1980's. Yugoslavia, Romania and Albania had US/West support. Ditto for Guyana and Cambodia. India was left alone. And yet all those countries struggled under communism/socialism anyway.
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  655.  @Unruly6ixx  And PR is poorer than the poorest mainland state which is Mississippi.
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  656. But Italy is barely even capitalist to begin with being the place of fascism, another brand of socialism.
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  657. But they won't, because they love those French handouts.
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  658. <just because they have theirs own ideas of politics.> That happens to have a 104-plus year record of failure. And it failed even in countries that weren't under Western sanctions.
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  659. <have forgotten there old ways of living> That is not sustainable.
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  660. Socialism doesn't believe in self-reliance. Especially the people in relation to the government.
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  661.  @mikelamatria3610  All of which coming undone by mass 3rd-world immigration, because who knew that socialism and open borders don't mix?
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  662. At least those countries are not poor and have better leadership.
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  663. So what's the Gulf Arab states's excuse? Their economies are propped up by the very same oil.
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  664. Not really. Maybe they killed him, because all the "free" stuff he provided them wasn't worth the repression and abuse they had to endure during his 42 years of rule.
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  665.  @sparklesupreme8170  Not really. Democrats went from enslaving Blacks with whips and chains to enslaving them with welfare and virtue-signalling.
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  666.  @JebusHypocristosX  Sanctions do not prevent anything. The Cuban government's overtaxing and regulating is why it has no real industry. Who wants to produce when 80% of your work will get seized by the state?
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  667. Because they're of little consequence as Maduro did a much better job of starving the country by himself. Why do people like to act as if Venezuela was helpless and couldn't do anything on its own?
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  668.  @beverlyledbetter9302  <And then you see how people waste food in these movies and tv shows. It's criminal!> Hardly. <Those people would kill for that stuff!> Namely in countries where it's their own government starving them to death and outside help is banned by same said government as in the case of Venezuela.
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  669. Not completely as Britain granted them independence anyway, because it was no longer in any financial position tom support them.
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  670.  @machsimillian14  Typical socialist response. I bet you weren't saying that back in 2012 when Chavez was alive and Venezuela prospered from the high oil prices.
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  671.  @machsimillian14  <Poverty had been reduced by extreme metrics.> Only by Chavez throwing money at the problem while decimating whatever diversified economy it had upon making Venezuela oil-dependent. <You cannot have socialist dictators, that takes the power from the people to be able to decide how the government/economy functions. > LOL <That coupled with sanctions by the US, > They weren't imposed until 3 years after the collapse. And also if anything, Venezuela didn't do itself any favors bad-mouthing the very same US that bought its oil and becoming reliant on imports as it no longer had the capacity to produce anything locally.
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  672. They voluntarily voted away their self-determination for social programs.
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  673. Case in point: the Soviet Union and Chernobyl.
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  674. But Mobutu ran his country like a communist regime he denounced as he got his governing ideas from Mao.
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  675. The women got to go too. The come for birth citizenship.
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  676. Ditch the central planning.
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  677. <So other countries are not free to conduct trade and operations with Venezuela > Russia, Iran, China and Cuba don't seem to have any problem doing business with Venezuela.
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  678. But pales in comparison to socialism. No one's risking their lives to flee to Cuba, North Korea or Venezuela.
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  679. No. These are the results of socialism Venezuelan style.
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  680. Apparently no, because the people traded self-sufficiency for government handouts.
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  681. Welfare states and open borders do not mix.
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  682. French Guiana was never independent, but a one-time French penal colony. Basically it was to France what Australia was to Britain. Guyana didn't have to fight for independence as Britain was granting them such anyway being in the business of decolonization.
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  683.  @Hugo-gc8jm  Entirely thanks to mainland French taxpayers.
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  684. Which Peruvian people? Hardly anyone in the cities and coasts voted for him.
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  685. No, because sanctions had little impact on the economy compared to the near-total state control of the economy that seized and/or shut down a lot of the private enterprise it once had.
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  686.  @Jayjayb1  Who exactly are you to decide how much food one needs? Better to have and not need like America than to need and not have like Cuba.
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  687. Because the people don't pay their salaries. The Maduro government does.
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  688.  @manorui100  Very much.
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  689. Like New Caledonia.
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  690.  @its_me_tangi5320  But he's still right. This is what even Arabs thought of Blacks at the time of the Arab Slave Trade.
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  691. Voted for by losers.
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  692. Define ethical.
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  693. When Haiti invaded the DR as part if its debt repayment to France.
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  694. And the socialism that a lot of them adopted as the model to prosperity after independence?
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  695. Madagascar had socialism. And let's just say the results were not much to write home about.
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  696. Stop making excuses for Isabel. African ladies like Grace Mugabe? Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf?
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  697. How exactly? China doesn't allow mass immigration.
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  698. How are the businesses withholding food when the government seized them? The only blockade going on is that of Maduro against the entrepreneurs and investors that made the country prosperous in the first place.
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  699.  @elenamonteagudo9855  While the lack or religion and not enough children is destroying the West.
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  700. But with the poorest human development on Earth.
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  701. Pretty much.
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  702. Ratsiraka didn't the country any favors.
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  703. No. Chavez and Maduro have done a much better job at that with their seizures of private businesses resulting in being no longer able to feed itself.
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  704. @S C It figures why they love socialism so much.
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  705. No. The issue is Western.
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  706. The locals are too lazy and spoiled to work.
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  707. And so are you by default. You were born and raised in America.
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  708. @Tim Turko Not really.
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  709. Thanks to government over-taxation and regulation.
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  710. What are you waiting for?
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  711.  @305floridian  Nothing.
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  712. Hardly. The Venezuelan government killed off the economy in the name of "social justice."
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  713. Cuban government mismanagement and negligence.
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  714. <May be international human rights groups or something need to look into this and take action.> How? They have no jurisdiction in the Gulf.
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  715. Yet they have little problem doing that to live a convenient lifestyle their otherwise meager wages cannot support.
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  716.  @_lunariawa  No it doesn't.
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  717. Libya's GDP was entirely based on oil.
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  718.  @blacknile2816  LOL. Really? So why is it that despite the oil wealth, Angola is still poor with one of the highest child mortality rates in the world?
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  719.  @maten146  French Guiana's GDP per capita is inflated by mainland French engineers and bureaucrats along with France's largesse.
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  720.  @Mazgic  Nothing that is worth having comes easy or for free.
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  721.  @iattacku2773  Pretty much.
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  722.  @DB-ed6si  No. It's the Black community after 55 years of voting Democrat. They voted themselves into permanent underclass status.
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  723. Puerto Rico is the Detroit of the Caribbean.
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  724.  @gringologie9302  <By the way, they are richer than their neighbors.> Thanks to French subsidies.
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  725. No. This all happened because of Chavez and Maduro and a voter-base that cared more about getting some free stuff than anything else.
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  726. Evo Morales ruled Bolivia, not Peru. Don't forget Guyana under Jagan and Burnham (who the US actually backed) and Suriname under Bouterse.
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  727. Italy was the birthplace of fascism. It figures.
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  728.  @buckthorn7084  LMAO.
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  729.  @jms6605  Social safety net =/= socialism. Try central planning, centralized government-run economy, etc.
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  730.  @harshitmadan6449  Exactly.
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  731.  @freespeech8030  BINGO!
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  732.  @freespeech8030  LMAO. Exactly.
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  733.  @ahopefiend1867  Yes it is because of socialism as socialism is the reason why Venezuela no longer has a diversified economy when they decided to depend on oil to pay their bills and social programs.
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  734.  @franzjoseph1837  <via IMF restructuring debt traps s> After the socialist experiment leaves them bankrupt running to the IMF for help.
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  735. Well, because they voted for it.
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  736. NZ is #1 among developed countries in per capita homelessness.
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  737. <its just not affordable.> Only if you insist on living in Toronto or Vancouver.
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  738. Nope. Cuban communism at it again.
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  739. Governments don't create jobs. They create environments that can encourage job-creation.
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  740. Courtesy of the the Cuban government. There's no more foreign aid to prop up an economy they destroyed with price control and nationalization.
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  741.  @timmytrimble4069  You're free to go work elsewhere.
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  742. Air BnB is the end result of government interference in the housing market.
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  743. LOL.
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  744.  @cc_ysd  Blame mismanagement and corruption. And socialism as well.
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  745.  @Jungletraveler00_12  Tourism is sustainable only in countries that are not dependent on it for their survival.
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  746.  @Jungletraveler00_12  Exactly.
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  747.  @Jungletraveler00_12  Because Bhutan actively discourages tourism.
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  748. LOL
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  749. Not really as most of them voted for Maduro.
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  750. Due to bad policies by their government.
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  751. You have only Bill Clinton to thank.
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  752. Which Cubans? The people or the PCC elites?
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  753. As if Qatar was ever in any position to. Interestingly, it's dependent on the very same Western countries for military protection.
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  754. Not even.
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  755. They voted away their self-determination for free stuff from the government.
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  756. You misspelled socialism. Socialism demands dependence and loyalty to the state.
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  757. The people are just as much to blame as the leadership.
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  758. <I wonder if the sanctions were never in place would these conditions still arise?> 2014 through 16 says yes indeed.
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  759. Something you don't do, regurgitating Chavista propaganda.
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  760. But that middle path is coming undone by mass immigration.
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  761. They voted overwhelmingly against independence.
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  762. The Chavista regime is even more unjust.
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  763. You mean China alone, because Africa is just being used as a stepping stone.
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  764. Largely due to bad economic polices by the countries themselves that bankrupted them to the point of having to run to the IMF and the World Bank in the first place.
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  765. LOL @ (D)'s taxing the rich when they themselves are the rich.
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  766. Canada is a capitalist country with a rather social safety net. You want real socialism? Move to Cuba.
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  767.  @vickiev.7016  <Leave the lady alone, > For what? This one is on her and the Dos Santos family.
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  768. Because the government might seize it?
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  769.  @teole6364  Only after the government allowed people to farm for themselves as forced collectivization caused 10's of millions of deaths by starvation.
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  770.  @michihofer587  Poverty is a symptom. Not the cause.
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  771. LMAO
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  772. Especially if they allow far-left Marxists to run the show.
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  773. Italians are just spoiled and entitled. Foreigners don't take anything for granted and are willing to take whatever job they can get.
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  774.  @haatpraat2993  Manley ran Jamaica into the ground. Whether he stole resources for himself or not is irrelevant to the fact that it was his policies that caused Jamaica to run to the IMF and World Bank in the first place.
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  775.  @haatpraat2993  That I can agree on.
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  776.  @diddikiti6328  But Jamaica is richer than most of the rest of Africa.
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  777. LOL. Since when did governments of Muslim nations have compassion for foreign infidels? <Sadly but if the government of these muslim nations see the actual hardship of those working migrants maybe their compassion can prevail hopefully.>
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  778.  @bronceage7265  Just so socialists can be relevant.
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  779.  @floxy20  Especially when socialists love to boast about being self-reliant.
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  780. <Blame the real guilty party.> The Venezuelan government. Chavez and Maduro.
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  781. And Chinese imperialism is about to begin.
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  782. LOL. The Trumps have nothing on the Clintons when it comes to corruption. In America, just look at many places ran by Democrats.
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  783. In other words, it only works in White-majority countries.
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  784. No. Thank the Venezuelan government. This is what happens when bureaucrats, OOPS! I mean workers own the means of production.
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  785. No. Thanks to 21st Century socialism. <They can’t use US$,> Shouldn't have bit the hand that fed them. <they can’t sell their oil,> Because it's of low quality. Plus, they don't have the infrastructure or personnel to refine it locally. <can’t get spare parts medicine and food.> Because Maduro imposed an import ban. <This was a planned crime against the people of Venezuela> Not nearly as much as it is the end result of the socialism they voted for especially when the money runs out.
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  786. Public services =/= socialism. Try state-controlled economy.
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  787. Starving because of Maduro.
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  788.  @SamWilkinsonn  Like modern-day China?
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  789. You mean the Chavistas?
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  790.  @GetToDaChoppa-k5r  Sweden and Norway are capitalist welfare states. They don't do price controls or command economies there.
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  791.  @a.g.rhithwik  It already did that only for the purpose of getting Soviet handouts.
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  792. He may not have actually destroyed the country, but he definitely set it up for failure.
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  793. Then buy your own house. Otherwise rent is just a small price to pay to live in the big city.
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  794. Exactly.
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  795.  @foxival5150  So do communists with Cuba being a prime example.
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  796.  @andrescosetti927  Cambodia is not doing well and is one of the poorest countries in the world. <but the Anglo kind was certainly not better.> Tell that to Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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  797. The Gulf is not all that capitalist.
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  798. US sanctions are not responsible for Venezuelan government's ineptitude and corruption.
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  799.  @leoptn9969  <it's just guyana the problem.> Mayotte says BONJOUR!
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  800. What sanctions? They didn't come until well after Venezuela collapsed and Bush Jr. was long gone from office.
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  801. And the solution is what? What Eastern Europe used to have?
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  802. Hardly. Venezuela's all-out war on private enterprise did most of the real damage.
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  803. Like the Ethiopian immigrants?
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  804.  @KeithHinch  Only to be sent right back to poverty once the oil money dried up with no private sector around because Chavez and Maduro price-controlled and nationalized them to ruin. < Free health care, free education etc. This is the best way to provide for the people.> Not with a barely existent private sector and an economy dependent on a resource prone to steep price-drops. By the way, free health care existed long before Chavez.
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  805.  @georgedelanoy9548  The spelling. The place you're referring to is spelt with an I, not Y as Guyana is an independent country that was once a British colony.
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  806. France's winters are nowhere nearly as brutal as Eastern Europe's.
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  807. Not nearly as much as they're trying to save face and maintain a good image.
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  808.  ThestormyChair  Khrushchev gave the Soviet Union its best years. <You don't even know what communism is, > Actually yes he/she does unlike you. And its 107-year record of tyranny and misery is all that needs to be known.
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  809. They're being killed, because they don't have the numbers or weapons to defend themselves.
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  810.  @timmytrimble4069  No. Cuban government oppression.
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  811.  @roccocalderone6868  Because Chavez didn't bother to re-invest in the oil industry and just used the revenues to buy votes.
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  812. Exactly.
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  813. Not really. Maduro is Cuba and China's puppet.
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  814. Just look at the Black community.
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  815.  @jeffreyrediel  Pretty much.
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  816. Are you trying to say that only rich self-indulgent douchebags are allowed to reproduce?
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  817. Like Greece?
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  818. How so? Spain has too many old people.
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  819. Only after Nyerere had the decency to step aside after bankrupting the country.
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  820.  @DrMattDestruction  And where is this money going to come from to pay people not to work?
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  821. Communism only works for elites.
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  822.  @ionezgb  So what was Soviet imperialism about?
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  823. Rich in resources but poor in human development.
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  824.  @manicdemise  <If people try to trade with Venezuela even much needed goods the US will confiscate them> No. That would be the Venezuelan military and border guards as Maduro imposes tariffs and import bans. Food and medicine are exempt from sanctions.
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  825. Well, this is what they voted for. Free stuff from the government >>>>>>>>>>> self-sufficiency.
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  826. Fat chance!
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  827. Apparently.
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  828. But it sure beats communism like the one North Korea has in which its migrant workers get next to nothing while Kim Jong-Un and company keeps all the money.
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  829. For what?
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  830.  @KeithHinch  US sanctions didn't start until 2017. Venezuela's collapse started in 2014. Venezuela destroyed much of its private enterprise and domestic production during the oil boom and Chavez's last years alive.
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  831.  @KeithHinch  LOL. What advances? All they did was throw money made from the oil boom at the poor while letting infrastructure crumble and decimating all the country's other sources of income en route to making Venezuela oil-dependent. The only people who support Chavez and Maduro either work for the government or live on handouts from the government.
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  832. Women are an extension of men. Put her on a boat too.
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  833.  @BigCC16  Namely Alberta.
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  834. Yes he was. And a former member of a far-left party his replacement currently leads.
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  835. Nope. Just socialism running its natural course.
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  836. The US does not owe Cuba anything. And this situation is due to 60+ years of Cuban communist mismanagement.
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  837. So you can do to them what King Leopold did to the Congo. LOL
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  838. Due to pride. And then they have the nerve to complain about immigrants taking their jobs away.
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  839. Better yet, pay tax for a service you're not allowed to benefit from in your time of need.
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  840. <Staying away from parents is not the definition of freedom and independence.> But at some point, you're going to have support yourself without your parents' help.
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  841. The same useless public-sector jobs that crippled the country's finances.
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  842. That's not saying much. Especially when China was too busy being everybody from England to Japan's *****.
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  843.  @alanharrison573  Unless you support mass immigration and left-wing politicians.
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  844. It is by GDP per capita. But foreign migrants are not counted.
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  845. Only because it's being practiced in the wrong country by the wrong (kind of) people.
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  846. @ Tim Qualls Who'd ever thought that socialist advocates would be racist? LMAO
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  847. But they are subject to import bans just like in Venezuela.
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  848. Ethiopia was not colonized. If anything, Ethiopia is yet another communist casualty.
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  849. No. Let Venezuela deal with the consequences of its own decisions.
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  850. They already did. It's not the West's fault that Africa didn't have aptitude to maintain or improve upon what they left behind.
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  851. <Poverty is the road to crime, > No. Try laziness. Plus, France accounts for 80% of French Guiana's GDP as French Guiana has no viable economy of its own.
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  852. Yet somehow can afford to live a hedonistic, convenient lifestyle.
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