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  1. Or pretty much any 3rd-world country.
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  2.  @airamseravat  Because the "bad" food have a longer shelf-life. "Good" food only last a week tops.
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  3.  @785Natty  Even harder to economically flourish when the Cuban government won't allow any industry to thrive independent of its control.
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  4. Are you willing to give up your freedom too?
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  5. Why not the women? OH I FORGOT! Nothing is ever the woman's fault.
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  6.  @gracenjuguna7292  Why should they? Poor people have agency like everyone else. <Poverty is created by governments> And maintained by the poor themselves through their bad habits.
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  7. How exactly? They voluntarily chose to go to Italy.
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  8.  @AltaicPride01  Not really as he was more likely to face discrimination than the woman who on the virtue of being born and raised an ethnic German had all the opportunity to make something of herself as the system was set up for her benefit. The African immigrant beat the odds while the native German was just plain lazy.
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  9. While rolling over for communism. LOL
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  10. He's spineless. Spineless fathers are to White families what absent fathers are to Black families.
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  11. Don't you just love gender equality?
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  12. No. The UAE is religious based yet it doesn't have that problem.
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  13. Where they rat each other out for favors from the regime?
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  14. It's easy to have tranquility in a country where the government controls all aspects of life there.
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  15.  @Jonny0nline  While leaving the country bankrupt and unrecognizable in the process.
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  16.  @ShoDe-e5u  The only people who say that usually have no money.
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  17. But New Zealand has more homelessness than both of those countries per capita.
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  18.  @pxkumar  <Assaults are happening more on women all over the world compare to men> But overall at the end of the day, men make up the vast majority of assault victims.
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  19.  @pxkumar  <Law should be strict for both men and women equally.. > But the law is seldom enforced equally with women getting off lightly far too often.
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  20.  @jenshavla4673  The name of the game is to work smarter, not harder. It takes smarts to maintain and expand on what was inherited.
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  21.  @Rnankn  <Homes are not a market, they are a public good.> You're free to move to Cuba with that kind of thinking.
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  22.  @ivon_x  Not really. Especially if the people divorced for frivolous reasons.
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  23. And how's matriarchy working out for Black people in America?
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  24. As in furthering their ego since it's much easier to have your way with a pet than another human who can think for him/herself and won't tolerate abuse.
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  25. North Korea is the modern-day Potemkin village.
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  26. LOL
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  27. Housing never was a human right as no one is obligated to grant you a house. <That is why developers build luxury apartments in areas that desperately need affordable middle class housing. > You have only your mayor and restrictive city zoning by-laws to thank for that.
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  28. And turn it into Venezuela?
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  29. Pretty much.
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  30. Neither does socialism.
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  31. Hardly. Abstinence works. Quit blaming it for your own lack of self-control.
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  32. The Cuban government. The people are not legally allowed to do much for themselves.
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  33. Especially if they no longer have the money to import it.
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  34. No. It's all because of Cuban central planning. The only embargo in effect.
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  35. Because it's too busy being embargoed and restricted by its own government.
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  36.  @stevenobinator2229  How is the West talking all the young men when the young men are voluntarily choosing to go to the West?
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  37.  @eedragonr6293  Or Western men in general?
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  38.  @torbenm2375  Ghana chose a communist for a leader once it got its independence while South Korea had a Pinochet-type for a dictator.
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  39. While socialistic system ensures no one except government bureaucrats will have anything.
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  40. Exactly.
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  41.  @zukodude487987  Exactly. Apparently, the world thinks that "broke boys don't deserve no -----" (c) Cardi B.
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  42. But higher crime and more unstable politics.
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  43. <or to fall into dictactorship, wich will turn against any idea of socialism.> Nah. Dictatorship is just the natural evolution of socialism.
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  44. Yet India adopting socialism after independence did more to set India back.
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  45.  @Arissef  Living in their echo chambers and ivory towers.
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  46. Zimbabwe will recover once it finds a way to get rid of the ZANU-PF party as a whole.
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  47. Just like Cuba.
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  48. Tell the bleeding hearts and leftists among you to stop enabling illegal immigration.
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  49.  @785Natty  Just like you don't understand how heavy-handed the Cuban government's domestic economic policies are.
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  50.  @deborahstone2191  Not really. At least one has its ---- together.
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  51. In Cuba's case, USSR aid and Venezuelan oil.
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  52. No jobs. No amenities. No services or social support. There's a reason why small towns are getting depopulated.
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  53. Socialism/communism is still not a viable alternative.
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  54. But no food or jobs.
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  55. Socialism/communism never seems to have a shortage of excuses.
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  56. <If all these young men band together and channel these energy into a riot, killing a few politicians, making bombs, then we there will be change> But with a leadership even worse than the one they overthrew. Revolutionaries and army generals do not make for competent leaders to run a nation. And Nigeria had more than its fair share of those.
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  57.  @tombirmingham7033  Because those good men are either cowards or in cahoots.
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  58. Bad luck coupled with bad choices. She's not completely wrong.
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  59. < exploding costs of housing> Due to exploding taxes, insurance, repair and maintenance costs, real estate prices, demand, restrictions and fees, etc.
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  60. Why? Because that black "alien" recognized opportunity and capitalized on it while the native Germans whose families have been living there for generations got complacent?
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  61.  @minhtue5274  (East) Germany Czechoslovakia (now Czechia and Slovakia) Poland Russia (f.k.a. USSR) Hungary Romania Bulgaria Yugoslavia (now Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, ect.) Albania
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  62. With plenty of help from the respective African governments.
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  63.  @Isochest  It's the left-wing way of keeping the people in their place.
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  64.  @msp5138  It was.
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  65. Because they're reaping the benefits?
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  66. Pretty much.
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  67.  @Kim_Jong_Un84  <if a socilist countries would be able to trade normaly> Vietnam has no problem trading normally. It's just that it had the sense to liberalize the economy once it realized that central planning was just simply not viable after experiencing declines and chronic shortages.
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  68.  @chinavirus841  Capitalism works. Otherwise, China would have been just another Cambodia and North Korea.
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  69. Should have stayed with her husband. That's what she gets for being ungrateful.
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  70.  @UmQasaann  Yet every other country that adopted socialism has suffered at least 2 of the 3 including Cuba.
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  71. And those with government ties.
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  72. And by choice. No trafficker, smuggler or madam needed.
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  73. It ran out of other people's money.
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  74.  @user-ns7dj1lo3r  No. Mugabe took the land from the White farmers and gave it to ZANU-PF loyalists and random Zimbabweans allowing the lands to go to waste.
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  75. So? Why can't women do the same? It's not men's fault that women prefer security over freedom even if it means getting used and abused in the process.
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  76.  @gardencity3558  Also North Korea.
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  77.  @Zeno7741  Like being an easy target for your enemies?
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  78. LOL. COVID-19 is making billionaires even richer than they ever been. Especially those with ties to big business, Pharma, Tech, etc.
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  79. Germany is barely capitalist to begin with. Who knew that social democracy can be easily undone by mass immigration, high taxes, low productivity, shrinking tax base, excessive borrowing and spending and a burgeoning underclass?
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  80. <Every person should have a Guaranteed Residual Income, aka Universal Basic Income> And render the world lazy, unproductive and dependent.
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  81. Or China won't bring (R)evilution!
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  82. No it isn't.
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  83. East Germany now is still poor compared to West Germany.
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  84.  @commie_remover  <I pointed out how terrible is living in a socialist society where your dreams and freedoms get crushed in favor of "greater good"> With the greater good being the government.
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  85. <It is a testimony on how such a tiny country was able to survive this long under the boot of the US hegemon.> Thanks to ironically US food aid and remittances.
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  86. Socialism doesn't work even in Europe. Remember the Eastern Bloc? Sweden got bankrupted by it in the 70's.
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  87. No. You'd put the pressure on the Cuban government to drop the central planning and liberalize the economy The main culprit behind its decades-long hardship and misery. If Vietnam can do it, Cuba can do it too. It's just that the Cuban government are too prideful and would much rather have the country keep suffering than relinquish control over the economy. <you'd put pressure on the US government to lift the decades long sanctions that have caused the shortages and hardships. >
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  88.  @schatzeeone6230  Zimbabwe and Venezuela killed their agricultural industries by their own Marxist land-reform policies.
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  89. Karl Marx was a trust-fund baby.
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  90.  @ricsta7660  Um. No. People are inherently born corrupt which is why religion, hierarchy, police, etc. exist in the first place.
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  91. Germany hardly as anyone of color.
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  92. Not nearly as crippling as the Cuban government's restrictive economic policies.
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  93. Tankie, please!
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  94. LOL. That was considered overpopulated even by 1820 standards.
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  95. In Canada, it's the Filipinos, Haitians, Jamaicans and Central Americans.
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  96. Or like what China was under Mao.
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  97. US remittances and tourism.
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  98. You have only the city council and NIMBY's to thank. Supply restrictions.
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  99.  @leahflower9924  Yet it was Michael Manley's democratic socialism that bankrupted Jamaica and forced a lot of its most skilled and educated to seek a better future elsewhere.
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  100. Apparently, nothing is ever the woman's fault.
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  101. Sweden aside, the Nordic countries are not overrun with illegal immigrants.
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  102. Germany is OVER-regulated. Left-wing politics at work.
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  103. <Why should an area in Ukraine that have a majority of Russians be ruled by Ukraine?> Because the land belongs to Ukraine and those Russians are free to go back to Russia if they don't like it. They're only there to dilute Ukraine's demographics and weaken its right to independence.
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  104.  @comealongcomealong4480  Namely CCP elites and those with direct ties.
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  105. But a whole lot of whale-slaughtering.
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  106. Hardly. The Mexican woman made more money collecting bottles in NYC in a day than a lot of her countrywomen make at their regular day jobs in Mexico in a month.
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  107. Socialism is an oxymoron as it becomes and practices everything it accuses capitalism of.
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  108. Only to get oppressed by your own habits and tendencies if not by your new masters as every other revolution eats its own.
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  109. And who's going to support the social safety net when there's no new blood to work and pay taxes?
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  110.  @Décio_pintol  Because poor people are easier to control especially when there's no middle class to stand in the way as advocated by Marx, an upper-class guy.
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  111. The consequences of feminism coming full circle.
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  112. Mostly beneficiaries of the old communist guard.
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  113. Jersey City is in close proximity to NYC.
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  114. Fascists are socialist as well.
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  115.  @MyPetrushka  And why should they? Plus, it's not their fault that the Venezuelan people were dumb enough to have neo-Marxists run their country and ultimately into the ground.
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  116.  @aid66546  No. He was the typical revolutionary. His delusions of grandeur got the best of him and he went on to become the oligarch and oppressor he fought against.
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  117. Sanctions are not responsible for Cuba's inability to feed itself. The Cuban government doesn't allow people to self-sufficient.
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  118.  @johnmanole4779  And easy money.
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  119.  @prepperjonpnw6482  Ditto for Vancouver.
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  120.  Vae Victis  Exactly.
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  121. Exactly. Plus, they destroyed the Black family and introduced mass incarceration.
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  122.  @Gnashercide  Exactly.
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  123.  @leahflower9924  Feeling compelled =/= being compelled. The woman that feels compelled to sell her body is guilty, because ultimately she still has free choice. Even the most destitute of women don't resort to prostitution to survive despite supposedly feeling compelled.
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  124. No.
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  125.  @Dneidbdjrj  That's because they happen to be employed in an industry profitable enough to pay them such salaries. A person working 50 years and still struggling to pay bills? Sorry, that's on him/her and his/her poor budgeting.
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  126. The last thing the EU needs is another Greece with Scotland.
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  127. Nope. This is social democracy unraveling.
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  128.  @lordanonimmo7699  But rich people pay more in real numbers. And the amount they pay far exceeds what a poor person earns in a 10-year span.
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  129. Just like most Asians in general.
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  130.  @nmaqsood8980  And rightfully so as pets are a public health hazard and landlords are not going to sacrifice the health of other tenant just for the sake of pet-owners (with the exception of the physically disabled) who feel the need to turn that roof into a glorified zoo.
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  131. Who spent most of his adult life living off of others, namely Engels and his uncle.
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  132. No. Unaccountable governments are.
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  133. <I hope this will soon end and the riches get distributed where they belong.> Sorry to disappoint you, but the riches will not go to the people anyway.
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  134. <How is it possible that top 1% pay less taxes then bottom 90% while owning 80% of wealth. > And pay 80% of the taxes in the country.
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  135. All at the expense of your neighbor.
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  136. If only Castro didn't seize the US-funded and built businesses and sided with the USSR.
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  137. Or even social democracy which by the way is a communist idea.
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  138. The only devastating embargo going on is that of the Cuban government on its own citizens.
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  139. <They should be trying to save them not use them> Is that an admission women have no agency?
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  140. No model of socialism can sustain itself without tyranny or foreign aid.
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  141. <economical embargo struggles > Courtesy of the Cuban government.
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  142. <the system is flawed> So is life itself.
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  143. Due to high taxes and restrictions.
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  144. <that system> Controlled by "greedy" banks, utility companies, insurance companies, construction companies and governments.
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  145. Isn't Germany already a social democracy? How can this be? <Socialism is the answer> That's if you don't mind living in crumbling building with barely any functioning utilities, yeah!
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  146. And even if they were, most people will just simply piss them all away becoming a burden and threat to those who didn't. <Rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer.> Because the rich save and invest while the poor spend.
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  147. Not in North Korea or Cuba.
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  148. <3) How about taxing inheritance, as a percentage, to reflect the unequal opportunities those who are just lucky to have been born to wealthy parents get by inheriting large sums/estates? I'll let everyone think up a silly number and then double it.> How about no? Who gives you the right to someone else's money just because some had the foresight and sense to leave something behind for their offspring while others didn't?
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  149. Exactly.
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  150. LOL. India's national IQ is on par with the Dominican Republic.
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  151. Exactly.
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  152. zoning restrictions, high building costs, etc.
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  153. Politicians are not pawns of the rich and wealthy. They are the rich and wealthy.
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  154.  @JobyJoby-iw2wr  LOL
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  155. Exactly.
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  156. Exactly.
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  157. So who should be forced against their will to provide said basic home?
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  158.  @Watcher8888  And it's run by a child of the old GDR elite.
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  159. Don't forget high taxes.
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  160. Except the government and the well-connected sycophants.
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  161.  @desthomas3020  How so? No one is forced to work there.
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  162. Courtesy of the (bleeding-heart leftist) government.
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  163. Like a pimp.
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  164. No. Most of the rest of the world don't have a social safety net like Germany.
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  165.  @stiofain88  Scotland was a one-time colonizer.
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  166. Gentrification is a thing, because its' only so long that people are going to put up with blight and decay. And no, price control does not work.
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  167. Not in Cuba's case. The Cuban government decimated local industry in favor of foreign aid and imports. Only 6% of Puerto Ricans want independence anyway.
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  168. Namely former French colonies.
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  169.  @slice-o-life  Only to become the bad people you got away from, because like most humans in general, you won't get out of your own way.
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  170. Hardly.
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  171.  @007kingifrit  And Cuba was one of the last American countries to abolish slavery.
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  172.  @aveaguila7679  And North Korea.
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  173.  @souvikrc4499  Pretty much.
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  174. So does socialism.
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  175. LOL. Actually, Cuba did enjoy such. When Batista ran it.
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  176.  @sic_transit_gloria_mundi  LOL. What equality? Thanks to remittances, Euro-Cubans live better than Afro-Cubans. Afro-Cubans are barred from one one of the very few industries Cuba have going for it that is tourism. They also make up a good percentage of all political prisoners.
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  177. Inequality is natural. Even socialism has rich and poor.
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  178. Thanks to left-wing governments who advocate open borders.
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  179. Pretty much.
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  180.  @milesinnz  But the developed world engages in suicidal population decline choosing career over family and now barely have any fresh new blood to work and pay taxes to fund the pensions those who aged out.
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  181.  @msp5138  Try lifting the Cuban command economy.
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  182.  @AjitMD  A lot of them didn't save or invest during their working years and are now paying the price for it. Welfare states tend to discourage long-term planning and personal agency.
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  183. Those men were simps.
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  184. No thanks.
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  185. So? They still voluntarily chose to move to Italy.
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  186. Rich Arab countries don't grant welfare to outsiders.
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  187. Yes you can. It's only so long you can blame outsiders for what is by and large an internal issue. The US is not the reason why the average Cuban can barely make an honest living for him/herself.
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  188. No. Tanzania didn't suffer from any Western sanctions when socialism was adopted there under Nyerere and it failed all the same.
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  189.  @ninalumiere145  Actually yes it does. Especially in a 1st-world country where people have more than enough chances to do something with their lives.
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  190.  @cezarstefanseghjucan  <You shouldn't have to wake up at 4 AM and work until 6 PM to enjoy a decent life or specialize in I don't know whatever niche to become a trailblazer with little to no competition> Entitled much?
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  191. Like it did for Equatorial Guinea and Angola?
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  192. Ignorance and stupidity are even more painful.
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  193. The German government owns most of the housing in Germany.
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  194. Far from it. This is the big government social democracy welfare state socialists asked for. Who knew that it wasn't sustainable in the face of high taxes and over-regulation, low productivity, mass immigration, not enough contributors and too many freeloaders?
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  195. You mean Governor Cuomo.
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  196. Greece should have never been allowed into the EU.
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  197. The problem is the revolution. It decimated whatever thriving local economy it had in favor of Russian and Venezuelan largesse until they ran into hard times.
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  198. Including exploitation of women by women themselves who'll happily put out for the right price if it means they don't have to work for a living like the equals they swear they are.
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  199.  @DaltonFalls  They're not legally allowed to produce their own food.
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  200. They can get jailed with their produce confiscated. In socialism/communism, people are not allowed to earn a living independent of the state.
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  201. That state-imposed simple lifestyle?
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  202. Socialism is even more of a corrupt system. <It sees people as resources and consumes them.> So does socialism.
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  203. Exactly.
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  204. How so? Those Asian women went to the Faroe Islands voluntarily.
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  205.  @paulodasilva7701  Exactly.
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  206.  @f.c.laukhard3623  Exactly. And to top it off, they're every bit as amoral/immoral just without the wealth to show for it. Look at the way they treat their fellow unsuccessful people. With the same callousness, disdain, indifference, etc. they accuse the rich of treating them with while filling up the jails (via common low-level criminals).
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  207. It's not happening in North Korea or Cuba. This is a Western thing.
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  208. Thanks to ditching socialism for capitalism. LOL. By the way, China got its model from Singapore.
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  209. The Scots are far from innocent as they participated in colonialism.
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  210. Spineless father, enabling mother.
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  211. And for good reason. The migrants in the video have fled the fallout of socialism and communism of their home countries.
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  212. All built by private contractors.
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  213. Convenience and shorter commuter times.
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  214. But for a lot of migrants, being homeless in a developed country beats having a home in hopelessness and terror.
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  215. Some of them earned the insults.
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  216. It's a by-product of what they inherited from Spain. Top-down hierarchy.
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  217.  Arya Stark  No. Cuba's whole economic model.
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  218. Joining England was the price Scotland happily paid to clear its debts.
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  219. But Boris isn't exactly wrong as he came from real poverty. A country where it's really work or starve. <This kind of attitude is part of the reason why people like Elke face so much struggle and even battle with depression and suicidal tendencies as a consequence of a vicious circle of poverty.> LOL. But her poverty does not compare as she's privileged enough to live off those who work for a living through high taxes that funds her welfare benefits.
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  220. Maybe so, but they're not people's mommy and daddy.
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  221.  @ronnielola6594  This "nightmare" can end when women stop looking for the easy way out in life when dealing with hardship.
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  222. Being being terrorists themselves.
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  223. <The more I watched these documentaries the more I realized that there are many Euro countries even poorer than my country> Namely Eastern European countries that once practiced communism.
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  224. Not they're not as the vast majority of women facing the same extreme poverty didn't take up prostitution to survive.
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  225. And also will bankrupt places in the long run.
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  226. <The world needs Nordic-style socialism.> No it doesn't. And it doesn't work in the face of mass immigration.
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  227.  @lesmarsden2058  <a reasonable amount of tax is a small price to pay to improve all our lives.> Define reasonable. And not all lives will be improved.
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  228. First, ditch the socialism.
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  229. And ironically, many of the left themselves are wealthy and nothing in common with the 99% they so love to claim solidarity with.
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  230.  @OllieRamone  Not really as the results are all the same.
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  231. All the natural resources but no expertise on how to do anything with them.
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  232. While rich people forfeit their futures for career and lifestyle.
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  233. Germany hardly has any colored people to begin with.
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  234.  @nomahope3182  But many didn't save or plan for their futures.
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  235. The Cuban government as they get to keep the people at their mercy and use the US embargo as justification while enjoying the support of foreign leftists, academia and apologists.
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  236. Apparently.
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  237. Like Venezuela? <Redistribute the money to the poor.> So the poor can squander it on BS and be back out sitting on the corner with their hand out by next week? And what are you going to do when you no longer have any rich to strip of their wealth and redistribute to the poor?
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  238. But no politician wants to risk being called a racist xenophobe.
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  239. Because it's not men's fault that some women will do anything for easy living. Self-respect, dignity and consequences be damned!
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  240. Socialism exploits people for power.
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  241. Not many.
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  242. Because they think it's the government's job to take care of them for life.
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  243. <they don't see their privilege and it's sad.> Why should they?
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  244. LOL. National socialism left Germany in ruins.
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  245. LOL. No. It's because Cuba no longer has Russia or Venezuela to rely on to keep its poor excuse of an economy going especially after Castro decimated whatever domestic industry it had.
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  246.  @davidwalz94  LMAO. Agreed.
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  247. But it was a repressive and stagnant regime.
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  248. They want to live the life of a party girl or career woman.
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  249. The man in the video even admitted he didn't plan for his retirement.
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  250. But there is, partly because some people are paying the price for living beyond their means and taking their futures too lightly. High taxes ironically benefit the rich in the form of stifling attempts by the poor to improve their financial situations.
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  251.  @Travel_With_Me-gr5ur  But 89% of that land mass is Crown (government)-owned and unsuitable for inhabitation or farming.
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  252. Russia cut off the aid just before the Soviet collapse.
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  253. And become the rape capital of the world. And by the way, even the Swedish police admitted that the law is a failure.
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  254. Landlords are nowhere nearly as greedy as the government responsible for jacking up the taxes and regulations that make being a landlord costly and undesirable.
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  255. Yet none of them are starving or lining up long queues for basic necessities.
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  256. Close the borders and impose stricter immigration and citizenship laws.
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  257. <while the richest have the least amount of children?> The richest are hedonistic and self-indulgent. That's why they have the least amount of children. Career and lifestyle >>>>>>>>>>>>> family and future.
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  258. Because the government is part of the super rich as is the case of every other 2nd and 3rd world country.
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  259. Iran isn't suffering.
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  260.  @mattlamb1566  But in practice, communism has always been literally the 1% vs. the 99%.
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  261. No. This is more every other US city under Democrat leadership.
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  262. Ignorance is even more so.
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  263. If anything, feminism and sexual liberation is really about women no longer wanting to marry or put out for lesser men in their desire for either alphas, rich men or death.
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  264. Not really. That didn't stop Venezuela from doing business with Cuba before its own collapse. The Cuban government is the main culprit behind why the average Cuban cannot make an honest living if he's even legally allowed to at all.
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  265. Now how exactly do you do that in a country where the people are not legally allowed to own anything let alone be self-sufficient?
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  266. For keeping Cuba afloat with food aid and remittances.
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  267. Socialism/communism = a riches to rags story.
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  268. Same here. Even most women who are homeless don't resort to prostitution to eat as they have self-respect and dignity. That's why I don't buy that "poverty is the root cause" BS.
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  269. Not really as New Zealand has the most homelessness per capita in the world.
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  270. Mostly in die-hard Blue States like New York and California.
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  271. If that's so, then why couldn't they start their own businesses as opposed to begging someone else for a job?
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  272. And when they do go to Cuba, it's only to stay at the resorts and other areas the locals are barred from.
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  273.  @cubamatisse  Exactly.
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  274. The rich as in who exactly?
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  275. When the Cuban government pays for the US built and funded businesses they seized.
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  276. The Slave Trade wouldn't have been possible without the collaborators among our own.
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  277. The American old-money elites are most likely descendants of robber baron capitalists and slave-owners.
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  278. Because poverty is humanity's default state.
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  279. Nope. The reality of 60 years of Cuban central planning.
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  280. They didn't have any.
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  281. Bring Giuliani back.
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  282. LOL. The government is part of the rich getting richer.
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  283. LOL
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  284. And where's the money going to to come from for them to pay the people they gave jobs to?
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  285. Why? They're the ones who voted for Maduro.
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  286.  JimboParadox  No. Maduro's policies ruined Venezuela.
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  287.  @msp5138  Hardly.
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  288. Shelter. Pet-owners are narcissistic weirdoes.
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  289. No. It's caused by money and power-hungry governments.
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  290. And how exactly did that work out for France when they taxed at 75%? Apparently not very well as it didn't generate much revenue, the best and brightest fled en masse and they eventually scrapped it.
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  291. Or revert back to the good ol' days of the GDR.
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  292. Especially North Korea. Women make up the majority of defectors.
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  293. Namely Western Europe. The UK France Italy Belgium The Netherlands Spain Portugal Germany (to a lesser extent)
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  294. Easy to achieve that in a dictatorship. Switzerland doesn't have drug-addicts or killing sprees, but it doesn't need to strip everyone of their freedom to achieve that which makes whatever Cuba is doing all the less impressive.
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  295. $7.25 does not apply anywhere except states that don't have a minimum wage.
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  296. Socialism cannot efficiently or adequately provide for its people. No embargo needed. Anti-Western regimes are just that incompetent and malicious.
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  297. The same Scandinavian model that has turned Sweden into a rape capital?
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  298. Wrong country! Take that issue up with England and France.
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  299. They don't contribute to the German treasury yet a lot of money is spent on them. The same 1%-er responsible for 40% of all taxes paid in America? And also spend on protecting countries too puny to defend themselves against their regional enemies.
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  300. It failed in Venezuela. It failed in Zimbabwe. It failed in Cuba.
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  301. Not really. Should have kept your borders closed and never established welfare.
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  302. <Slum lords don't want to spend the money to maintain apartment building or if they do they raise the rent.> Especially if they're not legally allowed to raise the rent accordingly to cover repair/maintenance/renovation expenses or evict problematic tenants who are bringing about said expenses. <Rent controlled apartments and government built housing is the only way to help these people.> Only to devolve into a ghetto slum over time. The US has plenty of those.
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  303.  @Kayja-bc7br  <Maybe, if the owner took pride in his development and provided good service the building would not turn into a ghetto slum.> That would be the city government.
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  304.  @alexcarter8807  Who enjoyed the spoils and benefits of capitalism.
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  305. <Building low cost units,> How is that possible in the face of increasing costs of materials required to build said units, alongside labor, land value and property taxes?
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  306. Namely to himself and his henchmen.
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  307. Are they legally allowed to?
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  308. The problem is that Cubans are not legally allowed to grow their own food risking jail and confiscation.
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  309. <by neglecting people who can't pay,> An effective way of filtering out the riff-raff.
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  310. Not necessarily. The US is a great place. The problem is most people won't consider living in any state that isn't named New York or California.
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  311.  @varsam  Free stuff is socialism as it's predicated on the fallacy that the government or some other centralized authority is the answer to what ails the people by stealing from the productive and intelligent and giving to the lazy and ignorant (not to mention envious) under the guise of social justice and equality.
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  312.  @yokepinglee  Nope. The present government is more interested in helping its people stay dependent for their survival along with staying in power.
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  313.  @saskagopher7319  Only after adopting capitalist reforms to save itself from yet another mass starvation and collapse in the late 1970's.
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  314.  @abdonrodriguez3586  Karl Marx was a virtue-signalling hypocrite from the upper class.
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  315.  @Abdullah_the_Palestinian  American sanctions are nothing compared to the economic repression and mismanagement by the Cuban government.
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  316. And Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple, etc.
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  317. This is about Luxembourg, not Zimbabwe.
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  318.  @sic_transit_gloria_mundi  Yet none of them are there because they said something the government didn't like.
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  319.  Dark of the knight  Sure it the least evil.
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  320. Like Guyana and much of the Caribbean did.
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  321. America is still a major step-up from their home countries.
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  322. Germany has more per capita homelessness the America among developed countries.
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  323. No it doesn't. Knowledge is nothing if you don't know how to put it to good use.
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  324. Not really. The real issue is government meddling that housing scarce and costly pricing out average people from the market in favor of so-called greedy investors.
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  325. Better than socialism which is an oxymoron as even that has rich and poor. Namely that of governments and everyone else.
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  326. And make the government the pimp.
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  327. And?
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  328.  @madhavyu  Because their economies are restricted if not outright centrally planned.
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  329. They may have worked all their lives, but they didn't have the foresight to save and invest for that day they're no longer physically able to work as pension payouts are woefully meager.
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  330. What was Romania's excuse? And it had Atheism under Ceausescu.
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  331.  @msp5138  No. What Cuba needs is to do is ditch the communism and allow the people to earn a living for themselves. Inequality be damned! Plus, the US embargo is nothing compared to the loss of Soviet aid that truly crippled the economy as Castro decimated local industry.
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  332. And outside aid.
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  333. Yet Cuba happily surrendered to USSR/Russia and Soviet/Russian imperialists.
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  334.  @tonymontana2493  You must be talking about yourself. And isn't it a coincidence that Cuba went into a "special period" around the same time the USSR stopped supporting them and collapsed?
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  335. That was the price Germany paid to have the US fund their post-WW2 rebuilding. Ditto for Japan.
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  336. Because commies still run the show there. Namely ex-members, beneficiaries and descendants of the old guard.
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  337. Too bad the quality left something to be desired, though.
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  338. Exactly.
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  339.  @sstarklite2181  Spoken like the typical socialist. Threaten jail or death on those who dare disagree with you.
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  340.  @msp5138  Cuba needs to ditch the cammand economy.
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  341. Um. No. We need to elect politicians that will put people to work and allow people to keep most of what they earned.
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  342. No they're not.
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  343.  @kovy689  Both run by communists. The ANC was a Soviet-founded group.
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  344. And then eventually eat each other?
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  345. China is a regime. And when the homeless are not being banished to the outskirts, they're being harvested for organs.
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  346. Tina Turner lives in Switzerland, not Germany.
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  347. This is a product of the prostitutes themselves desiring the easy way out of their (financial) hardships.
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  348. Does that also apply to those to sell sex?
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  349. Like any self-respecting free society.
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  350. Louisiana and Mississippi are 2 of the poorest states in the US.
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  351. Exactly.
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  352. But a lot of poor people do have that mentality and are ultimately the main culprits behind their poverty.
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  353. And the daughter of old GDR elites.
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  354.  @definitlynotbenlente7671  Cuba hardly produces anything worth trading.
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  355. And are not scared to do their own thing.
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  356.  @Flameouslife  Most likely with direct ties to the ruling government like most 3rd-world tycoons.
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  357. Germany is not that capitalistic.
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  358. <Religion has caused more bloodshed, wars, genocides, suicides, hate, racism, torturer, sickness, and every human atrocity known to the human race.> Including Atheism.
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  359. <But the time since shows no-one has deep roots and in time everything becomes transient again without the social foundation you can build with a settled life.> Sounds like the average major city.
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  360. Of course you detest them. Because you're not them. As much as their God-given ability will allow.
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  361.  @Gnashercide  Plus, Karl Marx came from the upper class and lived like a bottom-feeder.
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  362. It is.
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  363. Germany's problem is high taxes and bureaucracy.
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  364. Namely those in the Northeast and West Coast.
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  365. That socialism enables and facilitates.
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  366. Since when did Germany have Black people?
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  367.  @Flower-ck2bs  No. Clients are about business, not charity.
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  368. Very much.
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  369. Home-ownership is discouraged in Germany.
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  370.  @siegfried19888  <The left is for science, education equity freedom of choices and progress> Like in North Korea, Cuba, China or the old USSR?
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  371. Not nearly as much as socialism is.
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  372.  @coopsnz1  Because you'll never have enough people to tax to fund the social programs to feed the poor.
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  373. <And by that I mean the Work that keeps a society alive (construction workers, nurses, teachers, police, etc.) They need to get paid well enough to have a good and wealthy life. It makes no sense to pay people in entrainment millions of euros for nonsense, or to let brokers make money out of human suffering.> That work has been seen as beneath the people for a while as they all want a high-paying white-collar job. Hence, the hiring of 3rd-world migrants for construction work and nursing.
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  374. The same capitalism that made Venezuela the most prosperous country in South America before Chavismo?
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  375.  @trinleywangmo  The poster is right. Even by their own admission, they took their futures for granted and are now paying the price for it.
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  376. All at her working neighbor's expense.
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  377. Same here in Canada.
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  378. Dirty foreign money.
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  379. Largely because of too many people wanting to live in only the most desirable locales. And government restrictions on housing supply isn't helping matters.
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  380. Only to end up hungry and homeless again come next year as most will blow the money on BS.
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  381. But communist countries have squalor and people are threatened with jail if they dare speak out about it.
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  382. Don't you just love hypergamy?
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  383. Whatever, tankie!
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  384. LMAO indeed.
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  385. Why is it up to them to end poverty?
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  386.  @taruntyagi4623  There's nothing wrong with individuality. Collectivist societies are repressive and regressive as F.
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  387. What capitalism? Sorry, amigo, but this is communism at its finest.
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  388. Revolutions do not work as the revolutionaries become the new oligarchs.
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  389. Same here in Canada. That's why a lot of people with talent and ambition move to the US.
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  390. While most of China's billionaires, including Winnie The Pooh, are either CCP elites or have ties with them.
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  391. <because those people want to try the socialist way of living?> But now want out, because that socialist way of living has gotten unbearable. Crumbling buildings, squalid living conditions, no basic utilities, shortages of everything galore, harassment and jailtime if they dare speak out, no jobs or future, etc.
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  392. <Homelessness is a worldwide epidemic with no relief in sight> North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. don't have this issue. So what do you mean worldwide?
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  393.  @1225johnlui  His bank account.
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  394. < if the wealthy say theyll leave them let them as you wont miss the wealth as they are not taxed fairly to begin with> Define fairly.
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  395. But the only women making money off of OnlyFans are strippers and high-profile porn actresses.
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  396. Exactly.
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  397. But it was technologically light years behind which the Arabs exploited to their advantage.
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  398. <and america needs to stop being a bully and lift the embargo. > They'll do that when Cuba decides to drop the central planning. If Vietnam can do it, Cuba can do it too. , <prostitution, > Yet somehow, there's even more prostitution now than when Batista was in charge. You also forgot to mention Castro legalizing prostitution along with tourism to compensate for the loss of Soviet aid during the "Special Period."
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  399.  @WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight  <America lost and came back begging for forgiveness.> LOL. Sure they did, tankie!
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  400.  @WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight  In your dreams, that is. LOL
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  401.  @ACRus19  Actually it is. China is still #2.
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  402.  @jakekaywell5972  Yet your family fled them both. LOL
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  403.  @jakekaywell5972  <Communism is inevitable.> In what? Proving capitalists right once more about its ineptitude?
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  404.  @robsta1980  Actually America has been around longer than Cuba. America since 1776. Cuba since 1898.
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  405. Same for tenants who think they're entitled to a living at someone else's expense.
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  406.  @ht3oldnavy  The tenant is living on someone else's property.
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  407.  @vladtheimpaler5454  Eastern Europe doesn't love them. Nor the Baltics.
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  408.  @angelacahill9460  Incorrect. Just socialism running its natural course.
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  409. Nope.
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  410. No. They have free will. If they ** their way to the top, it's because they value career and status more than dignity and self-respect.
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  411. <like Americans do.> Mainly entertainers, athletes and other nouveau-riche types. They're not wealthy. They're just well-paid.
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  412.  @bigdickmcgee3293  And you think the rich owe you something just because you exist at all.
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  413. Poverty is mostly a symptom of ignorance.
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  414. No. Maduro's incompetence crippled Venezuela. Lay off that Chavista Kool-Aid.
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  415.  @noreenhappel8531  LOL. As if you're going to redistribute the wealth any more equitably. Judging by this international French revolution's 103-plus year track record, you're just going to become the new "those with all the power" doing likewise and worse.
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  416. And Nigeria was in cahoots in the Slave Trade.
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  417. <but are obliged to give some to the rest who are less fortunate.> According to who? The rich don't owe anyone except their families and business partners anything.
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  418. Which men? You mean Black men.
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  419. And then starve later. By the way, how's that working out for Venezuela?
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  420. <The USA has rigged the game against them for near 70 years. > Yet they weren't affected much by it when the USSR was around to provide aid.
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  421.  @user-ns7dj1lo3r  That came well after the UK sanctioned Rhodesia into handing the country over to Mugabe.
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  422.  @nelsona3468  <too many people in Nigeria that still support corrupt politicians> Because they either work for them or get a handout from them.
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  423. But some apartments are owned by politicians and bureaucrats.
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  424. <Not everyone is able to earn large amounts of money through no fault of their own.> But poverty by living beyond their means and poor fiscal management are faults of their own.
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  425. He betrayed nothing and him being a despot is just the standard end result of socialism.
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  426. Ironically, much of the Left are rich themselves.
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  427.  @seafoam6119  Or the Holodomor.
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  428. <I hope the German government can provide a long term solution.> How? the German government is the biggest landlord in the country.
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  429. Spoken like the typical disgruntled Westerner. The UK and the US don't even come close to being as bad as North Korea if not worse.
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  430. LOL. You know that Venezuela is now the poorest country in South America with the world's highest crime rate, right? And once upon a time it was the wealthiest.
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  431.  @titobrozzi7425  Yet Venezuela has the world's highest crime rate. Brazil is #7. <You can’t win arguments by making up stories son> You must be speaking of yourself. <Honduras along has been under capitalist rule for over 500 years , so far one if not the poorest country in the American Continent> Yet Nicaragua is even poorer having socialism for decades and is currently the 2nd poorest country in the Americas. <??? Boi , where did you get that BS ?> Where did you get yours?
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  432. In response to the previous Labour government in the UK, Carter in the US, etc. leaving the countries bankrupt requiring austerity and privatization to get the finances back in order.
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  433. Neither do greedy governments who tax almost half of people's earnings.
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  434.  @Nova-c6x  Yet Cuba had no problem getting oil from Venezuela before Venezuela collapsed.
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  435.  @1966johnnywayne  And how did that work out for Andrew Cuomo?
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  436. Apparently.
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  437. Cuba, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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  438. It's not Luxembourg's job to help illegal immigrants.
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  439.  @bahumi_afrika3086  Nice anecdote.
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  440.  @muaowa  Exactly. Unfortunately, a lot of people are poor because they're foolish with money. And all the money in the world you can throw at them cannot fix stupid.
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  441. Education is the least of Europe's problems. The real problem is that Europe is too liberal for its own good.
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  442.  @MikeHunt-yl1so  No. The left. Look no further than the average housing projects in the cities virtually all of which are run by left-wing mayors to see the US's future.
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  443. And also would have to sell their produce at higher retail prices to cover the higher waged being paid.
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  444. And rents are not keeping with property taxes, mortgage, insurance premiums, interest rates, etc.
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  445. Pretty much.
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  446. The US embargo is not responsible for the average Cuban barely being allowed to earn an honest living in his/her own country. And I say allowed as Cuba is a centrally planned economy.
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  447. With plenty of help from NGO's, bleeding hearts and left-wing elitists in Europe.
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  448. Because Vietnam toned down the socialism and liberalized the economy.
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  449. Or North Korea.
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  450.  @TS-rd7oy  And now that females are so "strong and independent," they can prove how equal they are to men. I don't feel too sorry for females at all.
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  451.  @SvalbardSleeperDistrict  Only to fall apart due to lack of reinvestment and the workers deciding to keep the profits for themselves and personal wants. Post-Tito Yugoslavia had that.
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  452.  @MJMilano7  It manifested in post-Tito Yugoslavia. Needless to say it didn't last.
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  453. While traditional left-wing economics have consistently led countries into massive debt, hyper-inflation, currency devaluation and economic ruin making austerity and privatization inevitable necessities.
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  454. Well, he has a point. How's that redistribution of wealth working out for black South Africans in South Africa now that Apartheid is gone and the ANC run the show?
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  455. That's what happens you have too much free time.
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  456. No. Just you and whoever thinks like you.
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  457. It ran out of Russia and Venezuela's money.
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  458. NFL cheerleaders are a poor example as they voluntarily chose to take up the profession for said wage.
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  459. Look no further than the ghettoes and housing projects in pretty much any major US city.
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  460. A government that is too proud to adopt much-needed economic reforms.
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  461. Exactly.
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  462. No. Venezuela voluntarily seized and shut down its factories.
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  463.  @davet9708  Because that's their social safety net.
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  464. Price controls don't work.
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  465. Hubris.
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  466. Not all women are innocent, though!
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  467. Due to the regime's pride.
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  468.  @coopsnz1  Pretty much.
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  469. Not allowing so, because the government taxes and regulates any attempt by the poor to improve their financial situations under the guise of taxing the wealthy.
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  470. LOL
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  471. <not in poor man’s hand > Which will get squandered anyway if inflation doesn't render that money worthless first.
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  472. The government is the only rich in Cuba.
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  473. That's because they don't live in the cities.
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  474. Because Cuba wasn't affected by it much when the USSR, Venezuela and to a lesser extent Canada propped it up.
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  475. Venezuela = Latin America's Zimbabwe.
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  476. Socialism in practice. Government and the well-connected = rich. Everyone else = poor.
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  477. <As men we need to be better, these are human lives that should be treated with dignity and respect. > So are madams.
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  478. Not really.
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  479. Germany is a lily-White country.
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  480. LOL. We? Or just you?
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  481. And now Sweden is a rape capital.
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  482. Greedy landlords, greedy banks and greedy governments.
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  483. They voted for it thinking that big government is the answer to all their problems.
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  484.  @jenshavla4673  <Also inherited money is even worse, any sane person should be ashamed of inheritance money since that is completely undeserved.> According to who? Why should they be ashamed of what their parents left behind for them just because your own parents didn't have the wealth or sense to do likewise?
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  485. Socialism is still not a viable solution.
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  486. No. This is socialism. This is what happens when you depend on government for everything.
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  487. Wealth tax = tax on any attempt to get wealth.
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  488. No. Just the love of it.
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  489. Poor people are poor for a reason. And it has little to do with rich.
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  490. Not really. German landlords have public health and sanitation protocols to follow and animals are a liability. Unless one is physically disabled requiring an animal, there is no valid reason for anyone to have a pet on rental property.
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  491. Agreed.
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  492. <This has been tried in the United States and has failed.> Especially with African-Americans.
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  493. Not just economically, but socially and politically.
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  494. <it does absolutely nothing to dissuade the governments like Cuba and Russia from practicing socialism or communism.> Because they're hell-bent on maintaining power at all costs. Sacrificing their own citizens is nothing to them.
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  495. LOL. According to who?
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  496. While squalor is a lucrative business in socialism.
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  497. As Margaret Thatcher once said, only when other people's money flowed in. And in Cuba's case, the USSR and Venezuela's money.
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  498. That's because the government are investors themselves. Conflict of interest much?
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  499. Due to vanity and ignorance.
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  500.  @asmirann3636  Capitalism stopped working only because socialism co-opted it.
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  501.  @hx-flixblog4569  LOL The sames Chavistas that can be found living it up in evil capitalist USA? The same Chavistas that allowed Hugo Chavez to die a billionaire? Okay.
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  502. Especially without tyranny, foreign aid or eventually adopting capitalism.
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  503. Because they were too busy with career and lifestyle taking their futures for granted.
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  504. While socialism have consistently produced exactly what you hate capitalism for with the 1% being the government elites and their well-connected comrades and 99% being everyone else including even the useful idiot intellectuals and public sector workers that advocated it.
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  505.  @krantikoganti  I say socialism did far more to put Indians in (extreme) poverty than the British.
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  506. #3. Because that's pretty much the only housing they're legally allowed to build with a decent ROI.
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  507. No it isn't.
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  508. <and every country with capitalism has this problem.> Yeah. And?
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  509. Because governments benefit from it with property sales and taxes. And most government people are property-owners themselves.
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  510. <Wouldn't natural human compassion and logic give out these vacant lands to the homeless, so that they can begin to build a more humane living situation> Like in Southside Chicago, South Bronx, Detroit, Baltimore, etc.?
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  511. <landlords cannot raise the rent beyond some percentage, > And therefore are unable to deal with the increases in: utility costs, repair and maintenance costs, insurance costs, mortgage costs and property taxes forcing them to either "renovict" the existing tenants for new tenants willing to pay higher rents or sell the property to someone able to deal with cost increases.
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  512. Or are just plain lazy and entitled.
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  513. Because at some point, you're going to have to eventually grow up, be an adult and support yourself. In the West's case, better sooner than later.
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  514. Better than socialism that screws over everyone who isn't part of the ruling class.
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  515. Or it could be poor like Greece with far-left governments in charge.
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  516. Wrong! The root of all evil is pride. Greed is just one of its manifestations.
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  517.  @saptarshideb2082  So? It's still prostitution done by choice.
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  518. <Prostitution is not a conscious choice. It's forced slavery> It is a conscious choice by and large even in the face of poverty as not all women are quick to take the easy way out at the first sign of hardship.
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  519.  @saptarshideb2082  It still is a choice. Most of the women in Latin America and Africa despite the poverty are not in prostitution.
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  520. It's not crazy. The CEO owns the company. What risk did the workers take to establish the company aside from a rejected job application?
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  521. Children = social safety net.
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  522.  @XFHU  You mean frozen by the Venezuelan government.
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  523. That didn't stop Cuba from "prospering" when the USSR was around to prop it up.
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  524.  @YouTubeGlobalAdminstrator  Who told you the planet need saving?
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  525. And ignorant citizens.
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  526. Government restrictions.
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  527. <Some of the 'hardest' jobs have the lowest wages.> Like what?
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  528. Nice quote!
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  529. Jamaica was destroyed by socialist leadership in the form of Michael Manley.
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  530. But the money is tight, because either they don't make enough to live off of or they suck at budgeting.
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  531. India = one-time USSR client state.
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  532. Indeed.
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  533.  @nenmaster5218  Communism doesn't work. And Cuba is a prime example of country that ran out of other people's money to sustain them.
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  534. <Never in history have women been more available than now.> You have only feminism and sexual liberation to thank for that. <If men didn't use prostitute's ,this wouldn't be happening !!! > If women honored their responsibilities and duties as wives, this wouldn't be happening.
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  535.  @Nova-c6x  The only embargo in effect is the Cuban government's economic repression..
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  536. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you're still not entitled to what they have as you are owed nothing.
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  537. Also Nazism and Karl Marx.
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  538.  @varunraju5776  Free doesn't exist. That money has to come from somewhere to pay for it.
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  539.  @Looo0007  Why work for wealth when you can ** or marry for it?
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  540. In China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, etc., the government is the wealthy. No need to be bought.
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  541.  @NellieKAdaba  Who told you it was going to be easy? Anything worth having does not come easy.
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  542. So do governments as they love easy votes especially from those they gave away freebies to who'll happily vote for more bigger government, more regulations and higher taxes to keep the gravy train going.
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  543. But most land is not fit for human habitation. And whatever land that is fit for such is hoarded by the government through zoning restrictions.
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  544. Pretty much.
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  545. Many poor people brought their poor situations upon themselves.
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  546.  @MrBemnet1  So it will only benefit the government and local industry elites?
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  547. But who wants to live like a Cuban?
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  548.  @tommywong3147  Socialism doesn't work even in that scenario as the Pilgrims proved.
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  549.  @Seriousbomb54  And they got a pimp, because they don't want the responsibility of protecting themselves. That's the price they chose to pay for security.
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  550.  @anhanh8724  On paper, but not in practice.
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  551. But they're more likely to reject a broke man than most of the others.
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  552. Also the women who allow themselves to get misused and mistreated just because they're too proud to work a day job.
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  553. LOL. Nice Soviet propaganda piece
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  554. Because politicians are reaping the benefits as most are property-owners themselves.
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  555. Not really when it comes to public/co-op housing.
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  556. Marx was an upper-class virtue-signaling grifter.
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  557. Just like the Kings of yesterday.
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  558.  @johnyohann6946  Venezuela is democratic socialism in literal form. Socialism does spread the wealth. Namely crumbs for the people and the whole pie for the socialist elites and their families, friends and comrades. Social democracy is a communist idea coined by Lenin.
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  559. The rich invest while the poor spend.
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  560. China is very much in the colonizing business via debt.
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  561.  @user-fx1tk6ng9b  They used to live "the good life" under Ceausescu.
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  562.  @trinleywangmo  Actually they didn't. The middle class and not-completely poor became "the rich" to tax while exempting themselves and the elite.
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  563. While envy is the rock on which socialism is built.
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  564. While the East get remittances which gives its leaders an excuse for not developing a real economy.
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  565. Most co-ops are government-subsidized. And their waiting list are every bit as long as that of public housing.
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  566. Same thing in Africa.
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  567. Why should God help humanity? The same humanity that demanded independence from God.
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  568. But Canada is not as dependent on natural resources to stay afloat like Russia. If anything, Canada is dependent on US largesse.
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  569. Often harassing, jailing or killing anyone who try to flee. Bet it the USSR or Jonestown. Jim Jones was a radical leftist.
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  570. <Wouldn’t that make them feel better than the transient high of an orgasm?> No. Who in the hell is stupid enough to pay someone for nothing? <Poverty must be abolished.> But all the money in the world can't fix stupid.
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  571. LOL. No. Socialism = poverty, misery and repression for all except the state and the well-connected.
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  572.  @n3493  Exploiting the very people she claims to be helping for money and clout. Like the typical NGO.
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  573. Only for those homes to crumble due to neglect and general lack of maintenance.
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  574. Don't forget Hollywood.
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  575. And most people are not that decent.
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  576. It's part of the left-wing vote-buying scheme.
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  577.  @gurufabbes1  Exactly. And they sure as F outnumber the amount of people who did take up prostitution and drug-trafficking by a wide margin.
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  578.  @mjkittredge  Because most companies don't make enough to pay well. Higher minimum wage = higher operating costs especially to a company that's just barely getting by. Necessities of life are a privilege, not a right as no one is owed anything nor is anyone obligated to provide such.
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  579. North Korea is homogeneous. Myanmar is not.
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  580. You have only your government to thank for that.
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  581. Only to those with some serious personality issues.
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  582. But he got to die a multi-millionaire.
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  583.  @user-pb7uh4tq6g  No one owes her any money.
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  584. Yet many from the Eastern Bloc much rather be homeless in the West if it means not having to live in a country with no future.
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  585.  @alexstar5182  Yes they are. <they either inherited or stolen> Stolen? Proof please. Inherited? Looks like they have done a good job of picking up where their parents left off. <they don't pay their taxes.> Maybe because their tax credits exceed their tax debts.
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  586. But no jobs.
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  587. No. They would just be smuggled through Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt or Algeria.
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  588. That was Soviet-subsidized?
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  589. And the local consumers need cheap prices.
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  590. Better than the post-communist hellhole the migrant in the video fled from.
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  591. The same communism the migrants in the video fled?
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  592. <These gov failed families and communities. > Not really. The people got exactly what they voted for when they ceded family care and welfare to the government throwing community and church under the bus.
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  593. The Middle Ages didn't have homelessness like that.
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  594.  @peter12246  Communism. Even in countries that didn't have sanctions imposed on them if not the US outright supported like Yugoslavia and Somalia.
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  595. Yes it is.
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  596. Narcissism.
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  597. Not really. And a lot of poor people are anything but good, kind or honest. There's a reason why anyone who achieve the slightest modicum of financial success don't live around them. Or even those supposedly compassionate and caring bleeding heart liberal types.
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  598. LOL. And when was the last time communism had no corruption?
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  599. <the government of rich countries should provide those who struggle with housing and basic income, > No they shouldn't. And what has that done except encourage dependency and irresponsibility of those who struggle?
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  600.  @ericpmoss  LOL <The only thing buy local is land and women.>
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  601.  @empok2104  Where housing is undersized and overpriced. Never mind the high taxes to boot.
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  602.  @Gnashercide  Exactly.
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  603. Deserve what? Employees get what they negotiate.
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  604. The socialism she wants has a short life-span anyway.
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  605. Like Amazon, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, etc.
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  606. LOL. Not really as the recent wildfires are putting an end to that.
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  607. <Only socialism can save humanity,> By condemning humanity to state-imposed poverty?
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  608. Inequality is natural as it separates those who can from those who can't.
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  609. Nomadic life is not sustainable.
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  610. But in Germany, the government owns most of the housing.
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  611. Socialism is the father of both communism and fascism.
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  612. Social programs, or just vote-buying programs by wealthy Democrats to keep the poor in line?
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  613. In a socialist country, there is no middle class as the middle class is usually jailed/killed/exiled.
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  614. Germany already did socialism and communism in which the people really lived in constant fear.
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  615. Just like your comment.
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  616. How about cut off the welfare?
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  617. <It's a lack of cash.> Due to a lack of budgeting and planning especially in their working years.
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  618.  @tangystone436  LOL.
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  619. They still haven't gotten over fascism and communism.
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  620. Where exactly?
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  621.  @evangelesong6319  At your own expense, that is. Where in the Bible does it say it's the government's or your neighbors' job to look after them?
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  622.  @evangelesong6319  That's not the government's job either.
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  623. But in places like Venezuela and Zimbabwe, the government is the wealthy. And they certainly didn't need wealthy people's help in policy-making that ran their countries into the ground.
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  624. In all fairness, India only started prospering when they toned down the socialism as it held the country back for decades.
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  625. That didn't stop the USSR or Venezuela from doing business with Cuba.
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  626. And in North Korea's case, it survives with foreign aid.
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  627. So are governments.
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  628. Yes it does. Even in Communist China.
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  629. Pretty much.
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  630.  @benjaminfranklin8412  Because they much rather get bred out of existence than appear racist and xenophobic.
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  631. LMAO
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  632. And those people have no water, electricity, etc. because he couldn't collect enough rent to pay off the utility bills due to those people not paying rent. How is the landlord disgusting? Trying to collect the rent in full and on time?
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  633. LOL. The rich already pay their fair share and then some. A solid 70% of all taxes paid while the bottom 50% pay 3% at best.
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  634. LOL. So, you're saying that women can't think for themselves?
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  635. Who are just a reflection of an equally corrupted citizenry.
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  636. Yeah! And bring on communism which ironically has wealthy and poor all the same.
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  637. <The other issue is we have to regulate housing.> You already did that. And the results? Renovictions, short-term renting and corporate investment as ordinary property-owners are forced to sell, lack of availability and higher prices for whatever is available. <Greed is the ultimate culprit and it is destroying the Middle Class...> Coming from the government in the form of high taxes, inflation.
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  638.  @poemandres  <higher taxes on extreme wealth would take care of this and keep prices low...> No it wouldn't as eventually the poor and middle class end up bearing the brunt the forms of weak purchasing power among other things.
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  639. With a lot of women being willing participants and beneficiaries.
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  640.  @WH-hi5ew  But the 1st world have a social safety net. In the 2nd and 3rd worlds, that's either non-existent or inadequate at best.
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  641. And further enrich the Cuban government via the military?
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  642. Muslims don't believe in being ruled by non-Muslims, bet it Christians or Atheists.
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  643. Sanctions are not responsible for the wholesale decimation of local industry by Cuban socialism.
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  644. No. Madagascar impoverished itself with socialism.
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  645. Capitalism is not responsible for the man in the video's decision to party and BS his working years away and now has nothing to show for it at old age, collecting bottles because he didn't save and invest for his own retirement (he stated he made good money) and the government pensions are too meager to live off of.
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  646.  @kamerlink170  Racist how? Germany is a White nation and has every right to be. They don't owe Black people anything.
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  647. The rich invest while the poor spend all they have frivolously.
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  648.  @thothheartmaat2833  That's not sustainable. And Venezuela already tried that.
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  649.  @thothheartmaat2833  WTF are YOU talking about?
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  650. Islam does this to non-Muslims or should I say infidels.
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  651. What right-wing dictators? Sierra Leone is currently run by a left-wing government.
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  652. Like Oprah Winfrey?
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  653. Eastern Europe will modernize when the people stop relying on the government to solve all of their personal problems and allowing themselves to be governed by descendants, beneficiaries and ex-members of the old communist guard responsible for running their society in to the ground.
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  654. Exactly.
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  655. In the name of the easy life.
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  656. It's right and decent. But I say left-wing governments and bleeding heart "humanitarians" are even more worthy of blame as they're enablers, facilitators and profiteers.
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  657. I thought you were strong and independent. What happened?
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  658. Exactly. ****hole countries are ****hole countries for a reason. The leadership isn't the only one to blame.
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  659. Would that also include not having running water to take a shower?
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  660. Which would be Justin Trudeau and the political class.
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  661.  @solemndivinity3  <These politicans only care for themselves and their future, not ours.> You don't care for your own future, so why should anyone else?
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  662. But also fewer amenities, fewer opportunities, etc.
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  663.  @yanalevina7531  LOL. Until SHTF and women will all too happily revert back to being damsels in distress with men being asked to rescue them.
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  664. The city is where the jobs, amenities and opportunities are.
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  665. Social democracy's kryptonite = mass immigration especially of freeloaders while the number of those who for a living and contribute dwindle.
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  666. Better than socialism that made everyone except the government poor.
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  667. Just like the African kings back in the Slave Trade-era used to do.
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  668. Exactly.
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  669. Yes they do. They account for 70% of all taxes paid while the bottom 50% pay next to nothing.
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  670. And how has that worked out for Sweden?
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  671. It worked for Chile.
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  672. Exactly.
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  673. Pretty much.
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  674. No. The consequences of communism.
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  675. <Until they understand that the way to go is a combination of Socialism with democracy. Free markets equal a few being rich and millions being poor. I hope they realize the west isn't the model.> LOL. Socialism and democracy are not compatible with each other. Democracy put the final nail in the USSR's socialist coffin. Plus socialism = the government and politically well-connected being rich and everyone else being poor.
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  676. After years of decay and blight.
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  677. But split up due to the egos of its leadership.
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  678. Don't forget Marx.
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  679. Exactly.
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  680. <Sierra Leone should be the best country on earth it’s only 5 millions people so I don’t understand how come there’s so much poverty,the country is rich with all kind of minerals, the land is fertile,everything you grow there is sweet> Equatorial Guinea has barely a million people with one of the highest GDP's per capita in Africa yet 75% of the population is poor. Smaller population and natural resources =/= prosperity for citizens.
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  681. Enabled by tax-the-rich policies from abroad.
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  682. No. How about a better idea? Why don't employees pool their money together and start their own business? <"Job Creators" You mean like Amazon? Jeff Bezos' strategy of capitalizing on under paid, over worked employees.> The same underpaid overworked employees who filled out a job application/submitted their resumes and accepted the job by choice?
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  683. Compassion is overrated and has done nothing but exacerbate the problem by removing personal agency and accountability from people due to their own personal choices.
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  684. <.to help everyone to live comfortably...at least> Only to make them soft and degenerate with time.
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  685. Namely equality in poverty while making the government rich and powerful which is why socialism is not a viable solution to the real and perceived problems of capitalism.
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  686. Especially if you insist on living in the city.
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  687. How so?
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  688. But illegal immigrant Italians woefully pale in comparison to Mexicans in the US and the British in Australia.
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  689. Access to EU money and resources while barely doing anything to make themselves productive like Greece.
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  690.  Fight authority  Socialism stifles and bankrupts.
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  691. Germany is a White country.
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  692. As admitted by even Marx.
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  693.  @mikeseal3053  <More homeless in the US then the rest of the world> Only because the US has a bigger population, but per capita, the US is nowhere near the worst. Among developed countries, New Zealand takes the cake.
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  694. Pretty much.
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  695. <He worked in a job that make a good wage and still did not save enough. Who's fault is that?> It's certainly not the government's or the rich. That's on him.
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  696. Yes it does. You just didn't meet eligibility requirements to qualify.
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  697. Remove the command economy first.
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  698. And community organizers.
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  699.  @mistersquare7327  <Praying is nice…encouraging people to vote for Politicians with Socialist polices that helps the people is even better.> That's if you don't mind shortages and decades-long waiting lists eventually making affordable housing unaffordable.
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  700. Especially Black men.
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  701.  @keyurpatel1982  Exactly.
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  702. And what's stopping you from becoming a shareholder or CEO?
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  703. As supposedly bad the DR and Jamaica maybe, at least their citizens are not starving and are free to grow their own food without fear of arrest and getting their harvest seized by the government. <Imagine if Cuba didn’t have the Blockade.> Like it didn't when Batista ran it and Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas?
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  704.  Arya Stark  No. This is what happens when other people's money in the form of imperialist Soviet/Russian aid runs out and you have no local industry to support yourself with because socialism nationalized them to ruin.
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  705. <Times are changing and the safety net doesn't really exist anymore> Due to too many freeloaders and not enough contributors.
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  706.  @richardmossy5540  Who knew that social democracy for all of its good intentions is actually destructive? It figures when social democracy was a communist idea in origin.
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  707. And turn the whole country into a run-down ghetto.
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  708. Pretty much.
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  709. Neither has the Muslim world as its track record with Africans of the past and migrant workers of the present leave a lot to be desired.
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  710.  @coopsnz1  Social democracy = communism rebranded.
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  711. Marxism did Africa in.
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  712. Not in Germany as the state owns most of the housing and only 44% of German citizens own their homes.
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  713. Legal marriage = extortion for men. I don't blame men for dealing with prostitutes.
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  714.  @xdaydreamerx  Or their wives and girlfriends could a better of satisfying them.
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  715. <Not enough building.> Due to zoning restrictions and rent controls by the city government.
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  716. Yeah! How dare men have standards for women? And yet it's perfectly for women to have standards for men.
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  717.  @roskillboyz8880  You mean power OVER the people as socialism empowers governments.
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  718.  @a.m.4289  Mugabe ran the country into the ground. It was only fitting that he spent his final days in a foreign hospital as he hardly bothered to establish a decent healthcare system at home during the 37 years he ruled.
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  719.  @TheInsaneTruth  Post-Barre Somalia had such a society.
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  720. Tell that to the elderly there forced to beg in the streets because the CCP stole their pensions to line their own pockets.
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  721. By high taxes, inflation and regulations thanks to the government.
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  722.  @trinleywangmo  They had the same privilege as everyone else. They wasted theirs while others made good use. <but reality is far from this ideal.> Actually it is close. Failing to plan is just planning to fail.
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  723. Communism/socialism never worked even in countries that weren't under US sanctions such as Albania, Tanzania or Mongolia.
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  724. Better than the "joys" socialism have to offer in the form of crumbling buildings with barely any functioning utilities. Never mind the fact you have to toe the government line just for the privilege to live in them.
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  725. Like North Korea? Or every other communist regime that ever existed?
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  726. Exactly.
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  727. Yeah. But do it at your own expense.
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  728. They're not legally allowed to.
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  729.  @soniaess28  By choice.
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  730. No. Money and power-hungry governments do.
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  731. So are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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  732. Raise minimum wages = raise operating costs, prices, automation, unemployment, etc.
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  733.  @mhenlopotter1612  Actually they have plenty to do with this. Many of them are part of that elitist upper class.
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  734. With the government owning most of the housing.
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  735. No. That would be London, UK.
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  736. Exactly.
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  737.  @satan4518  Capitalism and the free market are perfectly fine. The real issue here is the women in the video trying to blame others for why their social media venture to exploit desperate and lonely men failed.
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  738.  @qjtvaddict  What's wrong with being Murican?
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  739. Not really. Some places are really under-populated.
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  740.  Ali Farhadi  And socialism doesn't?
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  741. Germany is 85-plus % White
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  742.  @coopsnz1  Plus there's no such thing as a socialist country with a middle class. Socialists throughout history taxed and regulated them out of existence when they haven't jailed, killed or exiled them first.
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  743. Just like the average person. <They have no desire to help the homeless and impoverished.> Neither does the average person.
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  744. No. Greedy, power-hungry governments are the true pandemic.
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  745. Coupled with the working people's own ignorance and stupidity.
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  746. Better than socialism or should I say slavery to the government.
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  747. Agreed. Socialists are just power-mongers using the poor to advance their selfish cause.
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  748. Scotland was a failed colonizer.
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  749. You can have savings while paying the rent. Learn to live within your means. The man in the video by his own admission had a good-paying job but chose to party and BS instead of save for his future.
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  750.  @coopsnz1  And they're usually run by leftists who swear they care about the poor.
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  751. At who's expense?
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  752. And George W's grandfather.
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  753.  @Lubanzi-f3r  Sanctions did not and can not cause a country to lose its ability to feed itself. Mugabe taking land from those who knew how to farm and giving it to political friends and random people who couldn't did having to import just to survive.
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  754. Exactly.
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  755. With most of them being African-American.
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  756. Very much.
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  757.  @melocomanTV  Actually no. They usually have low (business) taxes.
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  758. But have no problem being dictated to by the state.
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  759. LOL. Its comrade Venezuela did that to not-so-flattering results.
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  760.  @DragoonO777  Yes they do. Denmark is #1. The US is #19.
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  761. How's this the US's problem?
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  762. Not really.
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  763. Have you learned anything from Eastern Europe and their experiment with socialism? Even that had rich and poor, namely the government and everyone else.
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  764.  @kevinbeckenham3872  So? What's wrong with that?
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  765. Complacency and entitlement.
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  766. One oil-rich. The other 2 tax havens.
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  767. And what's stopping YOU from helping the homeless?
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  768. Pretty much.
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  769. @New Moon The same Sweden that had to privatize a lot of its industries after socialism bankrupted it in the 70's?
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  770. The US is not the worst place to be homeless nor does it have the highest homelessness rate among developed countries. That goes to the UK and France.
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  771. Faroese women have been tainted by feminism. And Filipina women, like Asian women in general, are still seen as submissive and feminine.
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  772.  @tell-it-like-it-is8305  In North America, most of the old money elite are descendants of robber barons and slave-owners.
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  773. Exactly.
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  774. The Catholic Church has no presence in Kenya.
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  775. And poor decision-making.
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  776. I thought those things were the government's job as Germany is supposedly socialist.
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  777. Votes. Left-wing votes so the left can stay in power and have a majority government in which they can pass any law they want without that pesky opposition to stand in the way.
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  778. The US is anything but war-torn.
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  779. The few revered billionaires in third-world countries are namely politicians and their well-connected bootlickers.
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  780. Exactly.
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  781.  @gregorymuir1985  How so? Because he doesn't kiss Democrat ass?
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  782. No. Social democracy must be. Who knew that taxing the rich actually hurts the poor?
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  783. Yet the US isn't even top 10 among developed countries in per capita homelessness. Australia is #3.
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  784. Or anywhere in the Arab Gulf.
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  785. Equality doesn't exist. And poor people are more than capable of being greedy and selfish on their own. Ever visited a ghetto?
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  786.  @nordicpandi  LOL.
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  787. Some of the "real" civilians got what they voted for.
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  788. <Somalia next door functioned better without Government for 30 years, than 58 years existence of kenya Government.> Somali refugees who would like a word with you on that. And isn't that the "true communist" society that communists always advocated? Post-Barre Somalia was exactly that.
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  789. And aside from the American Revolution, every other revolution resulted in regimes even more crueler and corrupt than the ones they replaced.
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  790. Very much.
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  791. It's very expensive because that's where most people want to live and some are willing to pay a premium for the privilege of living there.
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  792. Japan is not in the same boat. They weren't stupid enough to adopt mass immigration.
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  793.  @trinleywangmo  How is the poster privileged?
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  794. Not really.
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  795. He reduced to to being a Soviet sugar-baby.
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  796.  @TheIchimaru  The gov needs that foreign investment.
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  797. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for ineptitude.
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  798. Yet somehow Iran isn't suffering like Cuba.
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  799. That's because no one respects a deadbeat.
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  800. <where a majority of shops only accept cash,> Which is a good thing.
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  801. Most of the good in this world is due to them as well. So it's a wash.
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  802. Left-wing mismanagement and corruption invite it.
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  803. She needs to take that issue up with her employer, the government.
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  804. So is Iran. Yet no one in Iran is starving.
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  805.  @johnlinnon2629  Sweden is a capitalist welfare state. Sweden hasn't been socialist since the 70's.
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  806. In the US, look no further than "the hood."
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  807. Minimum-wage earners are not exactly average people.
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  808. Not necessarily, but it sure beats whatever they were doing back in their native Eastern Bloc.
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  809. Like many of her ilk, she came from money and her only claim to the working class is visiting relatives in the Bronx.
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  810. Enabled and supported by those women preferring the easy way out of hardship. In this case, prostitution.
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  811.  @thecucufate  Exactly.
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  812. Isn't this the secular humanist God-less religion-free world humanity advocated?
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  813. LOL. The villages have no jobs and are ground zero for wildfires.
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  814.  @UmQasaann  According to the Beria propagandists of the imperialist East.
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  815. Maybe because your politicians are real-estate owners.
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  816. No. Society will crumble. And where's the money going to come from for repairs and maintenance? Or even re-building if the property is no longer suitable for inhabitation? <The world would alot more cleaner.> Like Detroit?
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  817. 8% = almost all? <If people gave up their superstition there would be much greater chance for living peacefully and with most of the reason for hating each other.> LOL. No there wouldn't.
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  818. Local Hawaiians are just being priced out by mainland US citizens. And Hawaii is a US state.
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  819. We barely have free markets anymore.
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  820. So much for socialism being equal.
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  821. Nationwide.
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  822. But billionaires are not the reason why Nigeria is a mess. It's the government and the culture.
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  823. <Scotland did not vote Conservative > But Scotland's population wasn't big enough to affect anything.
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  824. No it won't. The so-called needy are every bit as greedy.
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  825.  @vickimarlene4905  Not really due to high permit and real estate costs.
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  826. LOL Socialism creates equality with everyone except the ruling class being equal in poverty. Socialism kills the middle class literally and figuratively speaking.
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  827. The Cuban government is even more malicious and crazy. Decimate local industry and any ability to support itself depending on outside aid for basic survival.
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  828. So does socialism. Government-sponsored.
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  829.  @27hazardous  According to who?
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  830.  @someusername4129  Resources that were stolen or borrowed from the successful and productive of society via high taxes. Welfare does not alleviate but exacerbate poverty.
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  831.  @coopsnz1  Who knew that taxing the rich would actually hurt the poor in the end?
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  832. That's why France and Germany exist.
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  833. The same people who voted for Maduro?
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  834. Does that include the evil of other African natives?
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  835. Cardi B is an ex-stripper.
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  836. It's the Godless secular humanist society many in the West so clamored for.
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  837. But England and the US have far higher home-ownership rates than Germany.
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  838. LOL.
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  839.  @deborahcurtis1385  Because it's all for PR.
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  840. Jobs, opportunities and amenities.
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  841.  @patrickjohnson4656  <All kinds of options could be explored. I really do think the bottomline is that most people just love the cities.> So do governments as cities generate the most revenue for their coffers.
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  842. <STUPID laws in place, that make these establishments throw food away as it MAY be contaminated. Utter BS!> Not really. These establishments don't want to be on the legal hook if someone eats said food, get sick from it and possible die.
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  843. LOL. Nigeria has the world's highest homelessness rate. <Us in Africa live communally> Capping much?
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  844. Namely for Filipina women.
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  845. Yet happily played host to terrorists.
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  846.  @_acidbath5077  Deserving of what? Respect is earned, not owed.
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  847. Not really. Landlord's property, landlord's rules. Plus he has health and sanitation rules to follow. And pets are a liability.
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  848. Boyfriend.
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  849. Exactly.
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  850. <Want equality for everybody - change the whole political system.> Into what North Korea and Cuba have. The very 1% and 99% capitalism is accused of.
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  851. Exactly.
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  852. The Chinese Communist Party is full of billionaires including Winnie The Pooh himself.
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  853. And it actually was under Batista.
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  854. No additional costs or upkeep. Not everyone wants the responsibility that comes with home ownership.
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  855. @Michael Cera And also North Korea.
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  856. Trump is not in charge.
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  857. Only to end up right back in poverty due to their own inability to manage and make good use of what they have. Free stuff just enables poverty through dependency and nurtured helplessness.
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  858. The same philanthropists who made their money off of exploitation?
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  859. <But system of russia china india made us to understand everyone has right to food and shelter and medical treatment> Yet struggle to provide any of that in an adequate let alone sustainable manner. Hence squalid living conditions and shortages.
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  860. While the poor don't do themselves any favors by living beyond their means.
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  861. Fragile humans who by choice wanted the easy way out of hardship.
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  862.  @jnicholls21  That's just life.
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  863. And it still won't work, because it inevitably makes the rich out of whoever's put in charge of re-distributing the wealth. There's a reason why whatever success socialism/communism ever achieved was short-lived, eventually running out of other people's money (c) Margaret Thatcher.
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  864.  @khaleelal-saeed8762  No they don't.
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  865.  @naomiz9850  Prostitutes coming through when the wives and girlfriends fail them.
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  866. Namely business tycoons with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
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  867. No. Germany and its rich are not responsible for the bad economic policies and governance of half the rest of the world.
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  868. Homelessness = being without a fixed address.
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  869. Germany already did socialism with Hitler and the GDR.
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  870.  @Rishabh_Sharma_2001  Provide services to men their wives and girlfriends can't or won't.
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  871. Not according to one of the girls in the video who voluntarily chose to work as a prostitute even against her mother's wishes.
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  872. Not Big Pharma. Not Amazon.
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  873. But Europe and the US still have 100's of 1000's of people willing to risk homelessness and death just to live there. Apparently being homeless in a prosperous country beats whatever they had in their own countries.
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  874. So women are not humans but property?
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  875. Better than a culture of collectivists and lazy and envious people.
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  876. Exactly.
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  877. And how did this cashless society work out for Cambodia when Pol Pot ran it?
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  878. Easy votes.
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  879. Karl Marx came from wealth and privilege, though.
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  880.  @definitlynotbenlente7671  If communism is so great, why does Cuba need US trade to sustain itself? Isn't it self-reliant and can do everything on its own?
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  881.  @69Banjelaz  Follow your own advice. And by the way, Sankara was yet another example of revolutions eating their own.
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  882. LOL. Lay off the CCP propaganda.
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  883. Exactly.
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  884.  @ericscottstevens  In need of social assistance but with less people to tax to fund said social assistance.
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  885. They already have and yet prostitution still goes on anyway.
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  886. The people in the video are not locals. And the locals who can't afford to live in Luxembourg live across the border just like the people of Monaco.
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  887. Socialism is every bit as useless. It promotes envy and entitlement.
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  888. I doubt it.
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  889. Forced how?
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  890. The embargo was a non-issue when the Venezuela and Russia fka the USSR were around to offer foreign aid make up for an economy in tatters due to Castro's nationalizations and repression.
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  891. Including poor people who think the world owes them something just because they exist at all.
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  892. Yeah! And while they're at it, they can bring back the Berlin Wall.
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  893. Making the government the pimp and exploiter.
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  894.  Fight authority  Because the majority of citizens including politicians are property-owners.
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  895. LOL. As if communist countries have any resources worth pillaging as they most likely mismanaged them to near non-existence.
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  896. That's because much of the US population live in the city with near-unrestricted access to modern technology and consider farming and fishing beneath them.
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  897. Kleptocracy = the end result of socialism/communism.
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  898. <developing country while development also centralized some places are just so poor and no opportunities it's sad.> With all the resources devoted to the capital city and tourist hotspot.
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  899. Modern-speak for ex-pat.
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  900. <provided social assistance> And that's despite being legally forced to pay into it.
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  901. Should have never joined the EU or voted for leftists.
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  902. Exactly.
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  903.  @freddie5687  ,< it reflects the extremely individualistic mindset most people have thanks to years of neoliberal indoctrination.> Yet Germany, well namely the Eastern half of it, is a post-communist wasteland and some of the people in the video are trying to move from the neo-Marxist indoctrination that condemned the area to collectivist stagnation and mediocrity.
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  904. Poverty will still exist regardless, because the poor don't know how to manage money.
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  905.  @ACRus19  <but Fidel got corrupted and also the US embargo happened.> Like every other revolutionary. Fidel became exactly what he fought against. The US embargo was due to Fidel seizing all the US-built and financed businesses. <So Cuba is not entirely a systematic failure because of Communism.> Yes it is. Communism is the reason why Cuba had to rely on foreign aid just to support itself as Castro destroyed local industry and economy.
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  906. Cuba doesn't have homelessness.
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  907.  @michaelbassett5990  The average Cuban doesn't live in tents or tin roofs but decrepit abandoned buildings.
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  908.  @evangelesong6319  The poster is no less correct. Some are indeed unmotivated and lazy. Welfare states have a way of doing that.
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  909.  @evangelesong6319  You mean Toronto and Vancouver. Nowhere else in Canada have rents that high including where I live, Montreal.
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  910. Not nearly as much as Cuba relied on other people's money for so long while letting their local economy collapse.
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  911.  @potterylady44  <Someone owns them.> The team owner. They're not wealthy. They're just well-paid employees.
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  912.  @bzzi  Most locals or really just most locals who work in the hospitality industry?
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  913. Yet it's even more ironic a lot of Cubans much rather risk their lives to be homeless in Florida than have a (crumbling) roof over their heads back home.
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  914. Exactly.
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  915. AH YES! Socialism/communism where the state is the 1% and anyone not fortunate enough to be relatives of a high-ranking official is the 99%.
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  916. Exactly.
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  917. But Ghana ended up being better off for it in the long run. Nkrumah set a negative precedent for post-independence Africa with bad leadership and even worse economic policies.
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  918. Exactly.
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  919. Because the embargo didn't affect Cuba nearly as badly as the loss of outside aid to compensate for the lack of domestic industry due to the Cuban government's interventionist economic policies.
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  920. How so? Landlords put up their own money to buy the land and have houses built on it to rent out.
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  921. Much of it due to their own poor choices.
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  922. Not any more than the women who allow themselves to get exploited because their desire for easy living supercedes dignity and self-respect in the face of hardship.
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  923. Exactly.
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  924. Germany's problem is the people being overtaxed, not the rich allegedly cheating on taxes.
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  925. Why?
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  926. Also, Putin was part of the old Soviet guard.
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  927. Exactly.
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  928. <drugs should be legal so they can work and not have to dedicate all their time to finding cash or stealing for drugs.> How can they work when on drugs? In order for them to be able to work, they have to be sober and aware. And what company allows its workers to be intoxicated threatening the safety of themselves and others?
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  929. Racists how? Germany is a White-majority country and has every right to be racist.
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  930. Poverty is not a valid excuse. Plenty of women live in poverty but don't resort to prostitution to make ends meet.
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  931.  @user-xg6zz8qs3q  A high-quality life is earned not owed.
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  932.  @user-xg6zz8qs3q  So? Why didn't your parents leave behind something for you?
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  933. Where everyone can be prostitutes servicing government officials if not getting pimped by them. Okay! LOL
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  934. Venezuela had that with Hugo Chavez.
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  935. <Eastern Europe was considered developed because they lied about their figures (as communists always do) and did not allow them to be verified.> Also most of them were Soviet vassal states.
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  936. LOL.
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  937. Yet somehow the average Iranian has no problem eating despite the blockade. You need a better excuse.
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  938.  @alexadam353  The blockade is not a valid excuse. How come it was only after Russia and Venezuela cut off the aid Cuba started suffering?
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  939. LOL. California and New York are run by Liberal left-wing governments. And the homelessness far exceeds even the poorest of states run by Conservatives.
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  940. Yes. But they're struggling to support themselves and the last they need is another burden.
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  941. Of their own doing in the case of some in the video.
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  942. But rent control doesn't solve the problem by limiting supply as developers won't bother building and rent increases on the existing places.
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  943. <Housing should is a necessity and should be a human right and be free.> No it shouldn't. Housing is not a right just like living in NYC isn't. You want the benefits, perks and privileges of living there? Pay up or move out!
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  944. No. It means they can write it off on their tax return as a non-refundable tax credit which helps them pay less tax or get a refund.
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  945. With the greedy capitalists being the Ghanaian government and the Chinese Communist Party-owned corporations.
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  946.  @AQuietNight  Exactly.
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  947. @Saint Scanderbeg Like in modern-day South Africa and Venezuela?
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  948. Exactly.
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  949. The consequences of feminism and welfare.
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  950. The downside of being a welfare state social democracy.
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  951. Only because everyone except the ruling class is poor.
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  952. Exactly.
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  953. Not really. Most politicians are money and power-hungry and have little problem doing anything for them. Maduro of Venezuela is not beholden to any corporation.
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  954. They're not legally allowed to farm for themselves as they run the risk of getting jailed and their produce confiscated.
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  955. But the rich didn't pay those rates as they had more loopholes.
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  956. They have have.
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  957. And also the needy. <decent people dont make millions do they> Like common thieves?
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  958. Exactly.
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  959. The homeless were jailed or banished to the countryside where they couldn't embarrass the regime.
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  960. Didn't save for his own retirement or think he was going to live to be 60+ while naively assuming the government will take care of him.
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  961. The caviar gauche.
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  962. Except America actually taxes the rich. Europe taxes any attempt at getting rich which protects the old-money elites among them.
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  963. Since when was a military about the people? The military is about the government they're employed by.
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  964. Including the current ruling Liberal Party.
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  965. But they don't out of fear of being labeled xenophobic and far-right nationalist.
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  966. That wasn't an issue when Cuba lived off of Soviet and Venezuelan aid for most of that time.
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  967.  @seawolfinblue4389  Not really. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for mismanagement and repression. Iran is under the same sanctions, yet it isn't struggling like that.
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  968. Because women are far more affected by it then men. Stop being naive.
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  969. And of the how many billionaires China have, how many of them are ordinary people as opposed to government lackeys and their well-connected relatives and friends?
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  970.  @mzee5533  Or The MPLA in Angola. It was also Soviet and Cuban-backed.
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  971. At who's expense?
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  972.  @jpakos6701  Translation: taxpayers' expense.
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  973. Aren't women in India strong and independent and can provide their own safety?
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  974. And most recently Barbados.
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  975. Because the restrictions on Cuba is by the Cuban government.
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  976.  @johnottosen3740  Kim Jong-Il? You mean Kim Jong-Un, because Jong-Il died 3 years ago.
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  977. Exactly.
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  978. <not the prostitutes who are victims in these situations.> Not really. For there to be a willing buyer, there has to be a willing seller.
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  979. A by-product of zoning restrictions and rent controls that made rental units too costly and not worth owning for landlords opting for condos instead.
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  980. Tankie, please!
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  981. And replace gentrification with what? Decay and blight?
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  982. This is a by-product of a command economy that does not allow the people to make an honest living for themselves and their families.
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  983. <And yet neither the rich or foreign companies pay taxes - no real revenue to collect to fund the cities.> Actually, yes they do.
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  984. Germany is run by liberal/left government.
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  985. Yet Cuba gets food aid and remittances from the US.
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  986. Cuba and Latin America are products of White Supremacy.
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  987. Only for that free housing to get trashed in a month and fall apart due to lack of maintenance.
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  988.  @hannaherr1107  LOL. Inequality will still be around as most of the poor will just squander the money.
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  989.  @walden6272  China is still communist. Most of the so-called private businesses are owned by government lackeys and those with political ties.
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  990. Where the communists are the oligarchs and everyone else are SOL?
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  991.  @dickhamilton3517  Oh yes it is. VZ seized the private businesses forcing the merchants to sell their goods at rock-bottom prices rendering them unable to make enough money to cover their operating costs on its own volition. No outside help needed except maybe the Cuban military. The it has the nerve to complain about shortages and empty store shelves.
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  992. This is the God and religion-free secular humanist society your grandparents voted for.
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  993.  @nilsm.9210  <Taxing the crap out of our top entrepreneurs would not do any good> It sure didn't for France when it lost a good porting of its best and brightest on top of not generating the revenue it thought it would.
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  994. You mean Europe's bleeding hearts and elites.
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  995.  @wilroscampos6853  And Bolivia.
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  996. Don't be naive. Most millionaires are modest only for PR.
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  997.  @wilmeralbert2908  And the Rockefellers.
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  998. Nope. Social democracy where helping the poor ironically hurts the poor in the long run.
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  999. Revolutionaries who were little more than oligarchs in waiting.
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  1000. <That is wrong women and children are forced into slavery> And so are men.
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  1001. And where's the money going to come from to pay for teachers, upkeep, supplies, etc.?
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  1002. Or modern-day Venezuela.
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  1003. Modern-day Germany = Weimar Republic 2.0.
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  1004. Except, its Trump-haters who run NY.
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  1005. Bleeding hearts and humanitarians = traitors.
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  1006. Goes to show how far Cuba has fallen since 1959.
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  1007.  @trinleywangmo  Who's the rich? Anyone doing the slightest bit better than you?
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  1008.  Ryan Nil  Exactly. They rather ** or marry for wealth than work for it.
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  1009.  @helene420  According to bitter socialists.
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  1010. And replace it with what? What the USSR had?
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  1011.  @zdzisawk5198  LOL. You'll get something human, but nothing godly as humans are hopelessly corrupt. Be it politicians or homeless crackheads.
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  1012.  @yanalevina7531  But it often is.
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  1013. No. Cuba destroyed itself and ran out of the USSR's money to prop up its long-decimated economy.
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  1014. No it isn't as most places in the world don't have a social safety net.
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  1015. Socialists hate capitalism, but they sure have no problem reaping its benefits for themselves.
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  1016. Madagascar = another socialist failure.
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  1017. <older towns with no activity are not a great thing.> They regress and eventually become ghost towns.
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  1018. But what has socialism done except make everyone slaves to the government?
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  1019.  @nevadataylor  <If you have ever read Marx, fundamentally Communism/Socialism is to be ... 1) NO government 2) NO monetary system 3) the method of production being owned and operated by the collective> Like post-socialist Somalia? Well, it had no government. No real monetary system. And the method of production was owned and operated by the collective. Namely pirates and warlords. <We dont need government, nor 'representational' anything. We should all be voting directly on the issues. Secondly, ridding of the monetary system, extinguishes the classes, and therefore the rich elite along with it. NO MASTERS PLS!> And establish a society that has no structure or direction with some of us breaking off to form a whole new class-based society. And the cycle continues.
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  1020. What capitalism? Europe barely even has that. This is your tax-the-rich philosophy at work stifling any attempt by the poor to improve their financial situations while protecting and further enriching the elite and privileged at the expense of the middle class.
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  1021. <it's the middle class that's being decimated and turned into poor people.> Thanks to government meddling in the form of high taxes and inflation.
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  1022. Because they don't have to.
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  1023. Social democracy is an expensive thing to maintain especially when there's too many people depending on the government to feed, clothe and shelter them.
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  1024.  @padredemishijos12  LOL. No it didn't. Socialism just threw money at the poor to make its poverty levels look good until it had no more money to keep up the facade stolen from the wealth-producing "bourgeoisie" and letting its oil infrastructure crumble and rot.
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  1025.  @rexx9496  But not everyone has the foresight or sense to save and invest for their futures and offspring.
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  1026. What religion? The women in the video got trafficked from countries that did away with religion during their communist days.
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  1027. Then you can say HI to a future of rotting in retirement home subject to abuse and neglect if not on the street when there's no new generation to fund your pension.
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  1028. 70 million out of 330 million = the majority?
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  1029. Equality doesn't exist. And equality = equal poverty worldwide as most people will just simply squander what they have and drag down those who put what they have to good use.
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  1030.  @sstarklite2181  Equality doesn't exist. What part of that do you not understand?
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  1031.  @sstarklite2181  Equal wealth doesn't and can't exist as some will save and invest and others will just simply squander it bringing the world right back to square one.
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  1032. What do you mean should? The rich owe them nothing.
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  1033. That's the fault of local governments and their lack of expertise, foresight, savvy, etc.
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  1034. <I do feel for the older people who are just struggling financially after a lifetime of paying their dues.> But didn't save or invest during that time of paying their dues and are now paying the price.
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  1035. But housing is a still a privilege as no one is owed housing and no one is obligated to provide housing. And if someone is, then he has the right to dictate the terms and conditions under which housing will be provided.
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  1036. But better that than the more impoverished the country bigger the squalor and destitution.
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  1037. No.
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  1038. They're not legally allowed to as the Cuban government owns the land.
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  1039. True.
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  1040.  @8ofwands300  Some poor people earned their judgement.
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  1041. Namely that of the Democratic Party.
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  1042. Poor comparison. Immigrants in the US voluntarily chose to live in New York.
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  1043. Health and sanitation reasons. Nothing ridiculous.
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  1044. If that's the case, how did the Soviet Union manage to lose it and collapse?
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  1045. Um. No. Most men don't follow Ronaldo for that reason.
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  1046.  @brianmacpherson4913  <The housing market here, like many other places around the world is being manipulated by wealthy owners and investment groups> Not really. The government is the one doing the manipulating.
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  1047.  @harukrentz435  Most of the population just want to live in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
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  1048. Actually, the Bronx is majority-Latino with Blacks being the next biggest demographic.
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  1049.  @obadaodeh1625  America was founded by White men for the benefit of White men.
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  1050. With yesterday's revolutionaries and freedom-fighters becoming tomorrow's oligarchs and tyrants.
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  1051. All they do is produce a population of soft, entitled, complacent co-dependents.
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  1052. Exactly.
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  1053. Too bad socialism didn't do Ghana much favors as Nkrumah's forced collective farming and price control ideas chased the farmers out and crippled the country.
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  1054. Per capita-wise in the developed world is not among the top 10 in homelessness. Yet Germany is.
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  1055. And watch it all crumble due to a lack of funds and maintenance. LOL
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  1056.  @nevinronald5518  <if you think reducing population is the way to go then we could maybe start with cutting off pension plans from old farts like yourself> Agreed.
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  1057. Because it's not their problem. And why should the millionaires help them? This is a homegrown problem.
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  1058.  @qi1gl  The US will drop the sanctions when Nicaragua drop the Sandinista rule.
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  1059. Too bad that all came at the expense of the Jews. And that experiment didn't last very long.
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  1060. Not really. Clients are not responsible for some prostitute's faulty life decisions.
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  1061. You can thank Lyndon Baines Johnson and welfare for displacing the black father.
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  1062.  @trinleywangmo  But the poor in Germany still have better access to food than most.
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  1063. Don't hold your breath.
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  1064. Exactly.
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  1065. Germany already does that.
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  1066. LOL.
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  1067. LOL. No more money-hungry than the the government and utility companies they collect rent to pay off the utility bills and property taxes to. <Every time I watch something like this I’m so grateful to be born and raised in Canada.> Privileged much? And if you're from Vancouver, you're the last who should be talking.
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  1068. Affordable housing does exist. Just in less-desirable parts of town.
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  1069. <THEY have solutions to affordable housing but they don’t want to assume ANY financial responsibility, even though THEY created the problems.> They created nothing. The government created the problem with its bureaucracy and high taxes/fees/restrictions.
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  1070. Subsistence farming does not feed nations.
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  1071. Exactly.
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  1072. <permanent homeless shelters.> That will be trashed in a couple of months because many of the homeless are irresponsible and destructive.
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  1073. And entitled.
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  1074.  @iyiolaabosede9500  Actually Guyana has the world's highest suicide rate.
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  1075. Not exactly when Amsterdam is a desirable locale people are willing to pay a premium to live in as only so may can live there at once.
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  1076.  @dirremoire  Which is?
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  1077. Atheism is every bit a religion. Yet the only theocracies that ever existed and still exist are run by Muslims and Atheists via socialists.
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  1078. Wrong. Germany's low home-ownership rates are due to government policy of high taxes and restrictions. The German government controls most of the housing.
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  1079.  @AjitMD  <I have a few Germans and they seem to favor spending on travel, car, etc. Instead of penny pinching and buying an apartment, even if it is a tinny one... that will house them in old age.> Exactly.
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  1080. <homelessness is non-existent.> That's because the homeless are disappeared so they cannot make the regime look bad.
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  1081. And North Korea.
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  1082. Castro and the ruling PCC have done a far better job at making the Cuban people suffer for the past 60-plus years.
    1
  1083. You get out what you put in. And in Ulli's case, he got out exactly what he put in. Nothing!
    1
  1084. Enabled and encouraged by White liberals.
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  1085. Exactly!
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  1086. LOL. You got it all backwards. The US existed long before the EU. And the EU was created to keep up with the US.
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  1087. So much for solidarity with the workers.
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  1088. Madagascar was done in by socialism, not France.
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  1089. So are the poor. Ignorant, envious and entitled.
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  1090. Communism is even more of a sham.
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  1091. Not in North Korea.
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  1092. And either have to pay higher prices for the vegetables that do exist or import them from other countries.
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  1093. Um. No.
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  1094. But account for 70% of all taxes paid compared to barely 3% for the bottom half of Americans.
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  1095. Just like rental increases don't keep up with property tax, mortgage, insurance, repair and maintenance, interest, etc. increases.
    1
  1096. Governmental greed is even more so.
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  1097.  @DeathSpellXVI  Meh. Many of the 3rd-world countries are poor due to the socialism they adopted wholesale once they got their independence which did nothing except set them back decades and made the government the bourgeoisie at the expense of the otherwise under-educated and skilled populace.
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  1098.  @Gnashercide  He won't. Like most socialists, he's too lazy, envious and incompetent to bother.
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  1099. Cubans are not legally allowed to fish.
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  1100.  @Seasonalharvest0  I thought it was the pimps. Nice blame-shifting!
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  1101. Exactly.
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  1102.  @UmQasaann  Diaz-Canela is not of the proletariat. Neither were the Castros or Guevara.
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  1103. You better not complain about the welfare office scrutinizing your life and threatening to cut you off for any trivial reason they can come up with.
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  1104. Yesterday's liberators = today's oppressors proving Robespierre right as to why most revolutions fail.
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  1105. LOL. You misspelled Joe Biden.
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  1106. Kanye is not that rich. Try Jay-Z.
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  1107.  @MiSt3300  Germany is at the mercy of the EU.
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  1108.  @casualgambit674  Fascism is an offspring of socialism.
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  1109. Pretty much.
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  1110. Ignorance and desire for that easy life.
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  1111. No. Just greedy governments. It's the high taxes and punitive regulations that drive up business costs. Coupled with greedy people who vote for them thinking they're going get something for free if not subsidized with money stolen from their well-off neighbors only to end up paying for it on the back end.
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  1112. And where is the money going to come from to pay for it?
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  1113. The difference is Jesus was from the working class. Most wealthy-haters are ironically wealthy themselves.
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  1114. And they privatized everything, because they mismanaged them into insolvency.
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  1115. Yes they are as they're the reason the country has a tax base.
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  1116. Starting with you.
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  1117.  @jilianemorales2074  Well, the US was the reason for Cuba's independence from Spain in the first place.
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  1118.  @svansy  Plus they forfeited family and future for career and lifestyle.
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  1119.  @WandererOfWorlds0  Lower COL means little if the pay is trash which is why few people consider living in a smaller town on top of the general lack of jobs/opportunities.
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  1120. The Magalasy are not their people.
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  1121.  @anniefraser  <America has lots of crime especially mass shootings. > Yet America barely misses the top 50 while Jamaica has the 12th highest crime rate in the world.
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  1122. She's from a family who had it good in the GDR days.
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  1123. And who should be forced against his/her will to provide it?
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  1124.  @橡皮圖騰  A fundamental need is not a right. Let me ask you again: Who should be forced against his/her will to provide this flat you think you have the right to?
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  1125. Agreed.
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  1126.  @msp5138  Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas under Batista.
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  1127. And Robespierre being once again vindicated. Revolutions inevitably eat their own. Liberators and revolutionaries becoming the very oppressors and oligarchs they ousted with the countries ending up worse off.
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  1128. And neither do governments.
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  1129.  @Comrade134  Where progressives run the show.
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  1130. That's why there's no such as absolute freedom.
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  1131. Cuba once hosted Soviet nukes. It's easy to be peaceful in a dictatorship.
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  1132. The only inhuman sanctions going on is by the Cuban government as the Cuban people are hardly allowed to make an honest living.
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  1133. Exactly.
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  1134. Agreed.
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  1135.  @l.ga.1061  So is Nicaragua.
    1
  1136. But you keep electing bleeding hearts and leftists.
    1
  1137. Or Mayor De Blasio.
    1
  1138. And they don't trust each other.
    1
  1139. Because your forefathers were complicit.
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  1140.  @option7  Not really. India adopting free market reforms albeit under the threat of losing the foreign aid is why the sanctions got lifted. Before that, India was yet another socialist basket-case.
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  1141.  @Nameofuser555  The Dutch were very much in the colonizing business. Indonesia, Suriname, South Africa, etc.
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  1142. But they foolishly gave them up to Chavez.
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  1143. @Dera Kioandria Williams Should have done your own rebuilding.
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  1144. Yet Russia has the 3rd-highest suicide rate in the world and its life expectancy is on par with Jamaica. <Hollywood and media than listen to their parents.. incredible…> Their parents didn't know anything except whatever the regime told them.
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  1145. The loss of Soviet aid did far more damage to Cuba than the US sanctions.
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  1146.  @Murmilone  Europe hasn't fully let go of fascism and communism.
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  1147.  @henresearch  You misspelled socialism. Socialism's droughts are often due to incompetence, inefficiency, malice and all-round mismanagement.
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  1148. New York is a top 5 financial capital in the world.
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  1149. Namely in the Northeast and West Coast where Trump-haters are in charge.
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  1150. <It's time to come up with new system of governance> And watch it devolve into a failure in a decade or two once humanity rears it ugly head.
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  1151.  @prembikram1652  He was against Apartheid only because himself and his South Asian friends bore the brunt of it, but happily supported it against black South Africans.
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  1152. Only one problem, though. Bernie Sanders is a rich privileged bastard himself.
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  1153. Communism is every bit as hierarchical and destructive. How are you going to eliminate a hierarchy with a hierarchy? <Anarchist communism or Barbarism .> Like what Somalia had after its socialism and Siad Barre's rule came to an end?
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  1154. In the case of the man in the video, personal greed. He even said it himself. He cared more about living for the moment than his future
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  1155. To feed the egos of the Cuban government in charge. Namely Fidel Castro.
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  1156.  @DeathSpellXVI  According to who? You?
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  1157. To the administrators and bureaucrats that run the country. Where else?
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  1158. <as Russia was as innovative as the west in its days> At the expense of the treasury and every other industry besides oil and the military.
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  1159. We are seldom coddled like women are.
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  1160. So? They don't owe other races anything.
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  1161. The latter.
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  1162.  @Obi_boy  LOL. Why governments and not the people themselves who will be the ones most affected by what was voted for and approved?
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  1163.  @michaelhanson1542  Because they were not nearly as crippling as the loss of Russian and Venezuelan aid to cover for the local economy Castro and the PCC nationalized and destroyed.
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  1164. <and they act as if these women/ and young girls are doing this by choice> By and large they are. It's not the client's fault those women and young girls much rather put out for money than work a normal job in the name of easy living. Dignity and self-respect be damned!
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  1165. Germany barely has any immigrants.
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  1166. No. We need to continue it as not everyone has the same interests. And collectivism is down-right repressive and regressive.
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  1167. But few ever do.
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  1168.  @EarlGreyLattex  Because ultimately, he doesn't owe anyone a thing.
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  1169. The Chavistas?
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  1170. He led Germany to ruin.
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  1171.  @Dneidbdjrj  Whatever, apologist!
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  1172. And are now living single and bitter with plenty of cats for company.
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  1173. There's barely anything capitalist about Germany and Karl was an upper-class deadbeat.
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  1174. Because major cities have the most amenities, resources, opportunities, etc. and people are willing to pay that high price just to have relatively easy access to them. Plus for every region and country, they're revenue-generators.
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  1175. In this case, other Europeans.
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  1176. You just love that poverty porn, right?
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  1177. I thought it was the Netherlands.
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  1178. Maybe, but that female soul doesn't do herself any favors taking it up just because she's unable or unwilling to do honest work.
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  1179. But Scotland was a colonizer.
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  1180. Why can't they help themselves?
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  1181. Better than government-imposed equality.
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  1182.  @trevorwills3356  But they scrapped it in 2017 and now are trying to get the population numbers back up.
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  1183. No. Cuba is yet another example of socialism running out of other people's money to sustain them.
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  1184. Exactly. Anyone can be rich, but not everyone is wealthy.
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  1185.  @Paulo-ko7mc  Ditto for Japan.
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  1186. Hard-workers who foolishly drank the leftist Kool-Aid.
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  1187. There actually is rent control.
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  1188. Who? West Africa hardly had any White people let alone farmers to chase off. You mean Southern Africa.with Mugabe and the post-Mandela ANC.
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  1189.  @chihirostargazer6573  <This is why western women fought so hard for their independence...many learned the hard way that you can't depend on men to do the right thing. > And now the Western world has become degenerate.
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  1190.  @Max-ns8lc  Having a smaller population will not make matters any better. For example, Equatorial Guinea barely has a million people, is oil-rich, but the people are struggling while the Nguema regime is living in luxury.
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  1191. Actually it is as it's a major step-up from the countries they're fleeing.
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  1192. Exactly.
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  1193.  @coopsnz1  This what the left mean by socialism having to be a democracy. So they can take advantage of the people's ignorance and gullibility.
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  1194. Pride.
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  1195. And how many of those 800 million were ordinary Chinese people as opposed to family and friends of CCP elites?
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  1196.  @gurufabbes1  Women exploit men for money, resources and protection every bit as much as men exploit women for sex.
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  1197. @Someguy Withalastname Because NGO's and charities would be out of business without poverty.
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  1198.  @dganguli2852  Yeah! And let it fall into disrepair due to neglect and lack of maintenance. What about the tenants? How about forcing them to do something productive and manage their money better so they don't fall behind on rent so much?
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  1199. The Soviets brought down themselves.
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  1200. <Such great afflictions they suffer.> Some of which are self-inflicted.
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  1201.  @Kim_Jong_Un84  The only embargo going on in Cuba is that by the Cuban government. The US didn't stop Venezuela from trading "free" oil with them.
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  1202. Cuba could at least be another Vietnam, another communist country that liberalized its economy and is now better off.
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  1203. Not really.
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  1204. Social democracy. Stifling any attempt by the poor to improve their financial situations with high taxes and punitive regulations while the rich prosper and are protected by the government.
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  1205. Or the pleasure squad from North Korea have been exported to Europe.
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  1206. Meh. Marx was an upper-class malcontent who lived most of his life as a vagabond.
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  1207. < But a small population leads to more prosperity and prosperity> LOL. No it doesn't. Ever heard of Equatorial Guinea? Or Nicaragua? Or Moldova?
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  1208.  @voicecommunities4810  It's a Cold War phrase 1st world = aligned with USA 2nd world = aligned with USSR 3rd world = non-aligned though many were communist regimes independent of the USSR.
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  1209.  @kokobokobg  No it's not. Castro destroyed whatever economic productivity Cuba had en route to depending on the USSR for aid.
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  1210.  @kokobokobg  But Venezuelan oil and Canadian tourism has until Venezuela hit rock-bottom and COVID put the Canuck clientele under lockdown.
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  1211. Vote for socialism and watch society become skid row with the government being the mega rich.
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  1212. Exactly. But that would mean a major about-face on women's rights they don't have the stomach to do.
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  1213.  @malignm1857  Exactly.
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  1214. Not really. The poor don't do themselves any favors with their lack of fiscal responsibility.
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  1215. Better than the failures of socialism which anyone who wasn't part of the political elite was poor.
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  1216.  @coopsnz1  And New Zealand has the most homeless people per capita among developed countries. It's also a social democracy.
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  1217. Not really. For some in the video, it was a personal issue as they squandered their working years not saving or investing for their retirements and now are paying the price for it. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have any children due to all the living it up and beyond their means.
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  1218. Too much socialism in the market.
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  1219. Same in North Korea.
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  1220.  @onlikeline  Just like you lack sense. That's also a choice.
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  1221. Please do take the young self-made guy as an example. It's about working smarter, not just harder.
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  1222. To protect the likes of Taiwan, South Korea, the Arab Gulf countries, Costa Rica, etc.
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  1223. Equality never existed.
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  1224. Maybe so, but most of those women are in it by choice.
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  1225.  @1966johnnywayne  And Seth would have been denounced as a Nazi for even suggesting it.
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  1226. Drugs?
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  1227. As if socialism/neo-Marxism is any better where he would have got euthanized for being too much of a burden.
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  1228. And let the government use it as a personal piggy-bank for themselves like Equatorial Guinea.
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  1229.  @paulodasilva7701  South Africa is also run by commies. The only reason it hasn't collapsed yet is due to the whites and coloreds still around to establish businesses and pay taxes.
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  1230. Faroese men looking for nannies. Filipina women looking for a meal ticket out of the dump that is their native Philippines.
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  1231. And teach women to respect men and not see them as walking ATM's.
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  1232. What are Brazil's laws concerning sexual consent?
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  1233. Since when were Australian politicians mommy and daddy?
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  1234. Because before Chavez and Maduro, Venezuela was the most prosperous country in South America.
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  1235. No. Inequality is a natural consequence of freedom. And all a revolution is going to do is replace one regime with another sometimes even worse.
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  1236. Also Africa. Socialism has done more to put it in its current dismal state than colonialism ever did.
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  1237. Because they save and invest while the poor send all they have on BS.
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  1238. No. If Cuba and Venezuela ditched socialism, they would thrive like they did before Castro and Chavez. <"commies" didn't storm the Capitol or shoot school kids. still, we spent the last 60 years looking for reds under the bed.> Yeah! And? <we are in far more jeopardy of falling into extreme right wing totalitarianism than we were ever in danger of becoming communists.> Which is yet another brand of socialism.
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  1239.  @reagan_pereira_  And Jamaican migrants.
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  1240. 1:17:13 "It's better to be a beggar in Morocco than to be a hair-stylist in Nigeria." Why is that?
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  1241. LOL. Most likely.
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  1242. Like when being strong and independent goes wrong.
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  1243.  @1966johnnywayne  LMAO
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  1244.  @NataschaO  Like in the US? Except that prostitutes are also prosecuted.
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  1245.  @NataschaO  That even the Swedish police admits doesn't work?
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  1246.  @roserevancroix2308  Exactly.
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  1247.  @coopsnz1  I thought it was California. It does have the highest homeless rat in the country.
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  1248. <That's why in history the communists comes and take away private properties. > While condemning the people to squalor and housing falls into disrepair.
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  1249.  @pppLT19  You mean to tell me that Hungary, an ex-communist country, does not provide welfare? LOL
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  1250.  @gunnerbob1855  How are developers greedy when government restrictions and high building costs make building affordable housing a non-viable option?
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  1251. Yet many migrants would much rather be homeless in a capitalist society than live in squalor and tyranny in the socialist societies they fled.
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  1252. And if you had the money, you'd be the first to move out.
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  1253.  @christinechandler1662  Some had a falling out with their families.
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  1254.  @coopsnz1  Socialism ironically helps the rich while screwing over the very same poor worker it claims solidarity with.
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  1255. Tell that to the people of Afghanistan, Mongolia, North Korea, the Baltics and Eastern Europe.
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  1256.  @matheusvillela9150  Only because much of the younger population fled leaving the elderly behind.
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  1257.  @jose131991  Down due to the Cuban government's own mismanagement.
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  1258. <But "developers" are a powerful bunch with a massive lobby (the expenses for which are deductable of course) why they gain ground (literally) in every urban area.> Where high building and land costs and bureaucracy abound making affordable housing unfeasible.
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  1259. Not in the case of the video where the women are trafficked by their own countrymen.
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  1260. And watch those homeless turn the homes into Detroit 2.0.
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  1261.  @rstevewarmorycom  Nice anecdote.
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  1262. The rich are not responsible for some people not having the sense to save and invest for their retirement during their working years.
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  1263. LOL. Removing religion from life is exactly why these crimes are allowed to exist. There's no longer any shame, remorse, guilt or any fear of consequences as the ends justify the means no matter how unlawful or immoral those means are. And the women in the video are from countries that did exactly what you advocate. Remove religion from life. These are the results. Useless corrupt leadership and an ignorant desperate populace.
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  1264. Or Cuba, Laos, Vietnam or even Venezuela.
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  1265. Politics.
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  1266. <but no government willing to wash out the worst enemy of our world 'PROVERTY> Because governments benefit from it in the form of social control.
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  1267.  @sexysilversurfer  And neither do the poor themselves care about the poor.
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  1268.  @leahflower9924  So basically what you're saying is that women are weak-willed and have no agency in their lives?
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  1269. Isn't this the same Germany where the government can force women to take up prostitution to fulfill their workfare obligations?
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  1270.  J Y  No more than you are trying to paint women as victims of what they voluntarily chose to engage in.
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  1271. Hierarchy is natural. And there are hardly any successful non-hierarchical societies.
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  1272. Yet somehow the US is only 6th highest among developed countries in homelessness rate. <There's no public transportation. > Unless you live in New York or Chicago.
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  1273. The UN doesn't run Kenya. The Kenyan government does. And no! The government should not be in the business of playing mommy and daddy.
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  1274.  @jenniferbloomfield3656  God does exist. It's not his problem that you rejected him thinking you had all the answers. And these are the results.
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  1275. Exactly.
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  1276. Self-loathing much?
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  1277. Here's one of the reasons why socialism is destructive.
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  1278. Especially when the government is in charge.
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  1279. Until it gets them into trouble.
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  1280. What about the greedy banks that the landlords owe mortgage to?
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  1281. It's not the West's fault that African leaders are short-sighted and only care about temporary gains.
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  1282. <do-nothing government> What do-nothing government? Rent control, tenants' rights among other forms of government meddling enabled short-term renting, renoviction and corporate investment.
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  1283. That law is expiring. And it doesn't look like Biden is going to extend it.
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  1284. No it isn't. Quit blaming others for your own inability to manage your finances and prosper in life.
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  1285. So can women.
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  1286. No more so than the banks, utility companies and the government they owe money to.
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  1287. Here's another thing socialism is synonymous with: Hyperinflation.
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  1288. Exactly.
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  1289. No. The Cuban government destroyed Cuba.
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  1290.  @moustik31  I'm from the hood, stupid?what type of facts are those? If you grew up with holes in your zapatos You'd celebrate the minute you was having dough (c) Jay-Z
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  1291. <Capitalist system decides to exploit the weak and informally enslave the middle class.> While socialism/communism does the same and exterminates the middle class. After all, the middle class = bourgeoisie.
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  1292. Well, in all fairness, you are not promised tomorrow.
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  1293. While most of the migrants are fleeing the socialist system and the symptoms associated with it.
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  1294. 56% of Germans are renters.
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  1295. No. They can't afford anything because they don't produce anything that could help them afford something thanks to the Cuban government's vice-grip control of the economy.
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  1296. Much of the rich are Democrat-voters themselves.
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  1297. Which is a consequence of embracing feminism, welfare and Marxism.
    1
  1298. At least the average Iranian isn't starving or begging in the streets.
    1
  1299. He was the mastermind behind the 1994 Crime Bill that sent millions of Black men to jail.
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  1300. <Native tribes never had to deal with this bull shit , seems like they where the true civilized human beings.> LOL. I guess you must have forgotten about the ritual rapes and women being spoils of war.
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  1301. Unless they get 38 states to agree to it.
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  1302. But they do because of greedy governments with their high property taxes .
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  1303. No more than Latin Americans have, especially Central Americans.
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  1304. LOL. Ever been to Thailand or Cambodia?
    1
  1305. <I don't understand why people choose to live in cities, when the cost of living is so much cheaper in smaller communities.> Cities are where the jobs, amenities and support at. Smaller communities have none on top of being remote.
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  1306.  @burntearth85  <that's what cars are for,> Which all but completely negate the financial benefits of living in a smaller community.
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  1307.  @burntearth85  And maintenance.
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  1308. Rich in natural resources but poor in human development, know-how and expertise to turn said resources into something of value.
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  1309. A lot of oligarchs are anything but conservative.
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  1310.  @itsv1p3r  Socialism = the gospel of envy (c) Winston Churchill.
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  1311. So is socialism which is inherently incapable of understanding the concepts of "earn your keep" and "you are owed nothing."
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  1312. Super high taxation ironically protects the super rich and wealthy by stifling any attempt by the poor and middle class to improve their financial situations.
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  1313. And Mayor De Blasio sure isn't helping matters much.
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  1314. LOL. Sure, buddy!
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  1315. Fascism is a communist idea.
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  1316. And the only affordable housing found in the cities are usually run-down, plagued with crime and underachievement.
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  1317. Because they're unprofitable. And most affordable housing become slums and ghettoes known for decay and crime.
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  1318. Too much peace and prosperity made the West soft.
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  1319. Like the Chinese, Indians tend to be successful everywhere except India itself.
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  1320. It wouldn't. There's a reason why they had to rely on Soviet aid.
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  1321. What's North Korea's excuse? Despite all the handouts from China, it's still one of the poorest countries in the world.
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  1322. Kids = social safety net.
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  1323.  @1966johnnywayne  <Believe all women..> Unless you're a Democrat like Andrew Cuomo.
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  1324. Namely crackheads.
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  1325. Many of whom are Democrats like Big Tech, Hollywood, Amazon, etc.
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  1326.  @ivansedlar9186  The government.
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  1327. Really?
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  1328. But NYC generates the most money for the state which is why resources are devoted to it.
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  1329. The prostitutes themselves as not all of them work for a pimp.
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  1330.  @Dneidbdjrj  By their own leadership.
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  1331. No. Thank Fidel Castro and the Cuba government for that.
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  1332. Mostly biological.
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  1333. You mean the privilege to own property that was either built or bought by their husbands courtesy of Family Court.
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  1334.  @crimsonwolf9099  But in Cuba, the government = God.
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  1335. Living in the big city you can't afford is a PRIVILEGE, not a basic human right.
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  1336. <I'm from Africa Angola...> Home to failed communism.
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  1337. And so is a man. He's not disposable.
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  1338. Enabled by government social programs.
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  1339.  @janfleming5635  In a way, yes. They voted for it.
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  1340. Which is why they risk their lives to live there.
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  1341.  @Antiauthoritarianmindset  LOL. Russia's best years were under Khrushchev. Stagnated under Brezhnev. And collapsed under Gorbachev.
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  1342. Agreed.
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  1343. By and large it still is.
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  1344. <Rents are way beyond reach especially when the landlords raise the rent by $400-$600 a month in one year so they can live off the money they receive while their tenants are working 3 jobs to pay the rent.> In response to the raising of insurance, maintenance and repairs, mortgages and interest rates, land values and property taxes. <Homelessness is in every country.> Not Cuba, North Korea or any oil-rich Gulf state.
    1
  1345. Go see city housing for that.
    1
  1346. No. Most public housing are mismanaged neglected dumps.
    1
  1347.  @SalvadorCiaro  As in government bureaucrat's ownership of the means of production.
    1
  1348.  @Shackattack85  Or the government owning and running the company.
    1
  1349. But he's right. <Goverments keep taxing the poor but they dont tax the rich, their enourmous incomes and luxury items.> Governments do tax the rich. It's just that anyone who's a step above homeless is "the rich."
    1
  1350. And then who's going to pay the utility bill and property tax?
    1
  1351. And how exactly did that work out for Venezuela?
    1
  1352. I thought it was Luxembourg and Switzerland.
    1
  1353.  @lydiabell6218  But that does not excuse his own lack of foresight.
    1
  1354. True. He's a spineless simp who enabled them.
    1
  1355. When the people are every bit as corrupt as the leadership they elect.
    1
  1356. Which province do you live in? I'm in Quebec.
    1
  1357. What does the UN have to do with this?
    1
  1358.  @LegendNinja41  Yet many Cubans much rather be homeless illegal immigrants in those countries than have their needs met in a regressive repressive dictatorship that is Cuba.
    1
  1359. Along with trying to live it up and taking their futures way too lightly thinking the government will always be around to bail them out.
    1
  1360. Because remember. Nothing is ever the woman's fault.
    1
  1361. Or the East Germans who wanted out.
    1
  1362.  Toob247 Toob247  LOL. Is that why he let the oil infrastructure crumble and rot, chasing out all the skilled personnel in favor of political stooges, and blew all the oil revenue on buying votes from the poor?
    1
  1363. You mean social democracy as it's running out of "rich" people to tax.
    1
  1364.  @robertgworek2497  But that only applies to those who made the grade. Those who didn't were relegated to trade school, social assistance or low-wage work.
    1
  1365.  @coopsnz1  Same with China as the elderly there have to beg in the streets, because the government stole their pensions.
    1
  1366. And poverty is a symptom of ignorance and bad economics.
    1
  1367.  @gurufabbes1  Exactly. And a lot of women chose prostitution precisely because of that.
    1
  1368. And also the Kennedys.
    1
  1369. Sweden is among the top 10 in per capita homelessness among developed countries.
    1
  1370. Isn't she offspring of the old GDR elite? I wouldn't be surprised.
    1
  1371. What about high taxes and regulations?
    1
  1372. Exactly.
    1
  1373. That's because you outsource your women to other countries as nannies and maids as remittances are what's keeping the Philippines afloat.
    1
  1374. And water is so wet.
    1
  1375.  @robsmith8131  Because it's not their problem and a lot of women don't do themselves any favors wanting to take the easy way out and then play the victim when it doesn't pan out.
    1
  1376. You know the government is part of the problem, right? How are they going to solve a problem that they have a hand creating, enabling and facilitating?
    1
  1377. Especially when you cede family care to the government or some private institution.
    1
  1378. How so?
    1
  1379. Jobs, (social and financial) opportunities, amenities, etc.
    1
  1380. Exactly.
    1
  1381. Germany is not an immigrant country. It's 89.7% White
    1
  1382.  @puchy110  Pyongyang is an elite city.
    1
  1383. Exactly.
    1
  1384. Yet the migrants in the video fled post-communist kleptocratic Hungary.
    1
  1385. No. This is a Western problem. Social democracy is coming undone.
    1
  1386. Eh. No.
    1
  1387. Inequality is natural.
    1
  1388.  @fuckfannyfiddlefart  Yes it is unlike socialism.
    1
  1389. Moral of the story: Save and invest for your own retirement. Do not rely on government.
    1
  1390. Who needs that when local women and men are choosing career and lifestyle over family and future anyway?
    1
  1391. Or the doctors Cuba rents out to other countries while keeping 90% of their earnings.
    1
  1392. Because the Cuban government destroyed local industry.
    1
  1393. But capitalism's failures still pale in comparison to socialism's failures.
    1
  1394. Bulgaria already had feminism during its communist days.
    1
  1395.  @martymontano7493  But China's GDP per capita is just barely greater than India's.
    1
  1396. @lati long At this juncture, better that than the Cuban government.
    1
  1397. America actually taxes the rich. "Socialist" states like Sweden taxes any attempt at getting rich which protects the old-money elites from competition.
    1
  1398.  @n3493  May the females who allow others to exploit their bodies just stop looking for the easy way out in life.
    1
  1399. This is Germany, not Nigeria.
    1
  1400.  @Nato4a  Exactly.
    1
  1401. And most of them are CCP elites and affiliates.
    1
  1402. Ditto for China.
    1
  1403. And a government that much rather let people suffer than swallow their pride and adopt free-market reforms.
    1
  1404. Exactly.
    1
  1405. <The culture of marriage needs to change to benefit women so this won't happen to them.> It already did. What do you think no-fault divorce is? And family court laws are lopsided in favor of women which is why men are finally wising up.
    1
  1406. No one who work for what they have likes to share.
    1
  1407. And most people can't manage money for squat anyway even if they work a real job that pays.
    1
  1408. And how is socialism working out for Zimbabwe and Angola again?
    1
  1409. But nowhere near the same extent.
    1
  1410. The former. It's the leadership and its bad economic policies that are holding Africa back.
    1
  1411. Which includes governments as they're very much in the real-estate business.
    1
  1412. And didn't save for your retirement.
    1
  1413.  @ellebelle8515  At least he was man enough to admit he was the reason for his situation.
    1
  1414. Not nearly as much as socialism. And by the way, Marx was an upper-class malcontent and Engels was a business-owning capitalist.
    1
  1415. <Wealth needs to be taxed at the same rate as income if anything is to change.> That's all fine and dandy until it's your own wealth getting taxed.
    1
  1416.  @jose131991  But socialism is still the worst of them all.
    1
  1417. Not exactly as you were not forced to work for them much less fill out a job application at their company.
    1
  1418.  @TheSocratease  When Castro legalized prostitution and established the tourism industry to make up for the loss of Soviet aid.
    1
  1419. How are those landlords pathetic? You know that if the landlords don't pay their dues, the utilities will get shut off and the property will be seized resulting in the tenants getting evicted anyway, right?
    1
  1420. The US funds the UN. How is that going to happen?
    1
  1421.  @harrifongostudios  <they would prefer to look the other way.> And spread those cheeks before their "heroes" for "free" stuff.
    1
  1422. Because real estate is lucrative. <while waiting for money they did not earn to come flowing in> According to envious renters who weren't smart enough to invest their money and do the same.
    1
  1423. It's only fitting as it was created on brute force.
    1
  1424. And regular people don't care about regular people either.
    1
  1425.  @sinetteiversen9978  Not Spain.
    1
  1426. Uplift humanity or really uplift themselves at humanity's expense?
    1
  1427. Not really. In Germany's case, it taxes any attempt to get rich which in turn protects the already rich i.e: old-money elites.
    1
  1428. The latter.
    1
  1429. But Cuba prospered under Batista.
    1
  1430. To make up for all the kids local didn't make.
    1
  1431. LOL @ the world being innocent.
    1
  1432. All in the name of easy living.
    1
  1433. No it's not. Even social housing is not a human right as the government is free to deny whoever they want.
    1
  1434. Madagascar = another socialist "success" story.
    1
  1435.  buga  You first.
    1
  1436.  @user-yf3jh5tn8w  But I'm sure you're not.
    1
  1437.  @AAAAAA-mz9he  Are you?
    1
  1438.  @sun-dji5600  And the prostitutes too since they're all too willing to supply said demand.
    1
  1439. <I mean, if their own inhabitants can't afford to live in them it even seems we're all being forced into a system where we must literally pay with our lives to enrich these corporations and billionaires.> Also governments and politicians.
    1
  1440. No. This is what happens when women try to take the easy way out of hardship.
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  1441.  @PAMELAPORTER-ci7mr  No. In the US, it's the government. Corporations don't do money-printing.
    1
  1442. No they shouldn't. And some poor people need to get their financial stuff together.
    1
  1443.  @definitlynotbenlente7671  But now after Castro, Cuba is just Haiti without the instability.
    1
  1444. Pretty much.
    1
  1445. 1. Only to lead to shortages due to developers not wanting to build anything and landlords "renovicting" tenants if they're not leaving the rental market for the condo one. 5. And let the area turn into a ghetto where decay and blight reign supreme.
    1
  1446. LOL. The right wing doesn't need an agenda to discredit socialism. Socialism earned its discrediting by its 100-plus-year track record of tyranny, starvation, genocide, economic ruin, persecution, etc. on its own. Socialism is a failure even in countries that actually got US/Western or were left alone support like Guyana, Romania and Yugoslavia.
    1
  1447. Pretty much.
    1
  1448. No. Build your own or buy your own.
    1
  1449. But decay and blight are even more inhumane.
    1
  1450. LOL. No. Most government officials own real estate themselves. <The US has forced all countries stop building municipality homes and to start fashion of buying home on credit and this has resulted in crisis.> LOL.
    1
  1451. Home-owners make up the vast majority of the population.
    1
  1452.  @miamimartin2195  Keep showing your gullibility.
    1
  1453. No.
    1
  1454.  @FLAC2023  Define fair share as they account for in between 64 and 80% of all taxes paid.
    1
  1455. Of course you won't, because it isn't coming from the PCC or Western academia.
    1
  1456.  @bjoardar  Yeah. Where degeneracy and debauchery reign supreme like in the West or total tyranny like in China and North Korea.
    1
  1457. LOL. Sure, comrade! Like it did for Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
    1
  1458. Unless you're part of the ruling class.
    1
  1459. What does Germany have to do with the Middle East?
    1
  1460. So? Germany has every right to be racist. And that so-called racist system immigrants are being kept low by happens the the very same system immigrants risked their lives to participate in as it sure beats the system they had in their native countries.
    1
  1461. Not really. This is a government-created problem with over-regulation causing supply shortages.
    1
  1462.  @freddie5687  Just like your comment shows how good neo-Marxist propaganda works.
    1
  1463.  @scorpion07070  Except the government ?
    1
  1464. No . Cuban communism and the lack of outside aid do this.
    1
  1465. Socialism destroyed Africa.
    1
  1466. But he had no problem praising the likes of Daniel Ortega.
    1
  1467. Communism is a manifestation of socialism.
    1
  1468. LOL. <If you want to control capitalism you need a one world government ...> With the government being the rich you want to tax.
    1
  1469. It's a social democracy as leftists would call it.
    1
  1470.  @coopsnz1  The money has to come from somewhere to pay for all those social benefits and the salaries of those in charge of administering them.
    1
  1471. Yet the places with the most homeless people are run by Democrat Mayors and Governors.
    1
  1472. No. It is proof that some people are lazy and expect others to provide them a living. It's not wealthy Luxembourg's job to provide a meal and a roof for those just looking for a handout.
    1
  1473. Neither is a "happy" poor man. I rather be miserable in a mansion than happy in a tent underneath a highway.
    1
  1474. But the poor are every bit as greedy and they'll eventually eat each other just like every other revolution.
    1
  1475. Better than socialism greediness. The poor think the world owes them something.
    1
  1476. Only to have it seized by the government.
    1
  1477.  @wanglei91  No. Thanks to Venezuela being dumb enough to adopt socialism.
    1
  1478. Exactly.
    1
  1479.  @DinamoDeet101  None of the Nordic states have a minimum wage. Nor does Switzerland.
    1
  1480. No. That's socialism at work as the middle class = bourgeoisie that must be destroyed.
    1
  1481. New York City is Liberal central.
    1
  1482.  @junglesuperstar9270  More often than not.
    1
  1483. Feminism enabled this mess via the Sexual Revolution.
    1
  1484. LOL
    1
  1485. Agreed. It's just an excuse not to take any responsibility for the bad decisions they made that led to their own predicament.
    1
  1486.  @fightingtosurvive6527  Liberals are compassionate and empathetic alright. Only when it comes to foreigners and someone else's money.
    1
  1487. And the country that brought us Adolf Hitler and Nazi-ism.
    1
  1488. LOL. Especially if most of the immigrants are men. Just ask Sweden and Germany.
    1
  1489. How so? Gorbachev did what needed to be done and that was put it out of its misery as the USSR was just plain no longer sustainable.
    1
  1490. Until you're no longer able to because you have only so much resources to ever a forever-growing demand with.
    1
  1491. You mean thank Obama and Hillary for that matter.
    1
  1492.  @MirzaAhmed89  He's a disgruntled Hillary-voter.
    1
  1493. <earlier people lived in villages,well fed and lived a happy life,> Until war, disease and scarcity came around. Never mind the inbreeding, ritual rapes and killings that made up part of daily life there.
    1
  1494. While in socialism, there is no middle class as it's taxed and regulated to non-existence if not jailed, killed, or exiled.
    1
  1495. LOL. No. Cuba was too dependent on imperialist USSR aid to ever be prosperous just like every other Soviet vassal state of the day.
    1
  1496. Not really as there's a strict eligibility criteria they to meet.
    1
  1497. But We the people can't govern either. Hence, the reason why governments, hierarchies and police exist.
    1
  1498. How so? They never really had a social contract to begin with.
    1
  1499.  @KSmall109CAB  You have only Deng Xiaoping to thank for getting China out of the gutter.
    1
  1500.  @alexgrazie93  And take some initiative.
    1
  1501. And also good for local consumers as it keeps the prices for goods low.
    1
  1502.  @lucienwestermeyer4315  Follow your own advice. He's right. The far left are just using the poor to enrich and empower themselves. The only equality they care about is everyone else equally at their mercy.
    1
  1503. They did, but some of them never bothered to save during that time and found themselves in a bad spot once they reached retirement age.
    1
  1504.  @JW-uy2on  Like the Uyghurs? Or Hong Kongers?
    1
  1505.  @JW-uy2on  LOL
    1
  1506. But Africans don't have the expertise to do anything with said resources. Plus, most of the infrastructure to extract and refine the resources into something of value were built and financed by foreigners
    1
  1507. What about Nancy Pelosi?
    1
  1508. Their freedom.
    1
  1509.  @Seriousbomb54  Just like how women in marriage see men as little more than walking ATM's and sperm banks.
    1
  1510. <And yes, of course the sex buyers should be shamed more than sellers.> Because nothing is ever the woman's fault. Is that right?
    1
  1511. When people are allowed to vote themselves access to the treasury via politicians who'll happily promise free stuff and the good life (with borrowed and stolen money, that is, from foreigners and their fellow countrymen).
    1
  1512. The regime became the rich.
    1
  1513. Is Finland a mass immigration magnet?
    1
  1514.  @YouYou-sm8tf  China scrapped the 1-child policy in 2017.
    1
  1515.  @jf9979  Puerto Rico: bankrupted by far-left politics.
    1
  1516. Socialism birthed communism.
    1
  1517.  @ziyamalllikkk4557  Because women are babies and not adults, right?
    1
  1518.  @ziyamalllikkk4557  Not everyone got trafficked.
    1
  1519. Most likely just living off of their fathers, husbands or boyfriends.
    1
  1520. Greediness of the migrants themselves thinking the host-nation's government owes them something.
    1
  1521. Stop looking for a handout and get your own wealth.
    1
  1522. Exactly.
    1
  1523. Maybe they need to close the borders, get out of the EU and make more babies.
    1
  1524. The government is not curbing anything as they are among the ultra-rich.
    1
  1525. A lot of Cubans disagree. The real root of the problem is the Cuban government. Plus, DW is a German state media outlet.
    1
  1526. Only for bureaucrats.
    1
  1527. Living off the land isn't all that sustainable. There's a reason why people used to move around a lot.
    1
  1528. Not it's not. And there never was a time when everyone was equal.
    1
  1529. Like what exactly? It's only so long one can blame outside sanctions for inside mismanagement and corruption.
    1
  1530. Apparently.
    1
  1531. But in the US, at least living off-grid would be a viable option and he wouldn't freeze to death.
    1
  1532. Compassionate or really just virtue-signaling?
    1
  1533. Exactly.
    1
  1534. With a national IQ on par with the Dominican Republic.
    1
  1535. Yet Trump had Benjamin Carson as part of his administration.
    1
  1536. End the death grip Cuban central planning.
    1
  1537. Exactly.
    1
  1538. I don't know. Why don't you ask the corrupt despots and henchmen who run Africa?
    1
  1539. God doesn't support laziness and ignorance.
    1
  1540. Corruption is not going anywhere as all humans including you and me are corrupt to varying degrees.
    1
  1541. So is under-population.
    1
  1542. American ruthless policy is not responsible for Cuban tyranny, incompetence and mismanagement inevitably requiring foreign aid just to feed itself.
    1
  1543. Because they live and do business in Germany. And German is for all intents and purposes is the main language there.
    1
  1544. Germany is not an immigrant country. Let the White Germans enjoy their lily-White utopia in peace.
    1
  1545.  @criwel7949  With that oligarchy being the descendants, beneficiaries and ex-members of the old Kremlin guard.
    1
  1546. No they did not.
    1
  1547. It really wouldn't be like this if the Cuban government allowed free markets and the people ,to earn an honest living, equality be damned!
    1
  1548.  @coopsnz1  It's reverting back to its GDR days.
    1
  1549. That's what broke people always say.
    1
  1550.  @emrefifty5281  Just like France did under Hollande only to scrap it when it didn't generate the revenue he thought it would and the best and brightest fled.
    1
  1551.  @johnmanole4779  No they're not. Because at the end of the day, those women still have the final word as to who gets access and who doesn't.
    1
  1552. And also prideful.
    1
  1553. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house. He who does not work shall not eat.
    1
  1554.  @zaneshark  The poor have no right to be jealous. Thou shall not covet what belongs to thy neighbor.
    1
  1555.  @joaqva9397  They love it as long as they don't have to live under it like the average Latin American.
    1
  1556. Equality doesn't exist. And even those who claim to want equality don't really see themselves as equals but wannabe superiors.
    1
  1557. But no wealth either having to rely on Soviet subsidies just to support itself.
    1
  1558. Exactly.
    1
  1559.  @woodpenguin954  There's nothing awful about the US's immigration system. Some people just don't meet the requirements. And who exactly is forced to go to the Gulf?
    1
  1560. Because their country's economy is restricted if not centrally planned.
    1
  1561. Austerity programs are a result of government fiscal mismanagement and irresponsibility.
    1
  1562. And has to work a side-job just to make ends meet as the supposed free housing and monthly rations are just plain inadequate.
    1
  1563. Except one problem it's already happening with Democrats in charge.
    1
  1564. <Government should give them fat pay checks.> They already do. And yet the reservations are still a mess.
    1
  1565.  @nemospence2724  No they shouldn't.
    1
  1566.  @vijayasfitnessmantra6810  Only to unravel with shortages due to socialism being inefficient.
    1
  1567. But most women want nothing to do with a lesser guy.
    1
  1568. With Atheism leading the way.
    1
  1569. But unfortunately in 2021, few people would buy it.
    1
  1570. They got what they voted for with Justin Trudeau.
    1
  1571. They ceded it to the state.
    1
  1572.  @spartanwarrior1  Very much.
    1
  1573. No. Try the UK or France. Most per capita homelessness in the OECD.
    1
  1574. Maybe because that didn't affect Cuba much as it lived off of Soviet and Venezuelan largesse until they collapsed?
    1
  1575. Ghana, Angola, Benin, Nigeria and Senegal.
    1
  1576. <I don’t mean to be unsympathetic but if you are healthy but poor in Europe, is it not your fault to some degree?> It is. Some people are just plain complacent and entitled.
    1
  1577. So does Russia. And?
    1
  1578.  @nenmaster5218  No. Cuban communism.
    1
  1579. Agreed.
    1
  1580. Via land redistribution.
    1
  1581. Yes it is fair. As they say, you get out what you put in.
    1
  1582. And it's only very recently that anyone other than government officials and well-connected family and friends can get rich.
    1
  1583. And Barack Obama who was a son of a high-ranking Kenyan government official and inherited his wealth from his White maternal grandmother.
    1
  1584.  Man of the West  By your own countrymen.
    1
  1585.  @dietdoubledew8986  The eastern half used to be, though.
    1
  1586. First, you have to delete the technology that enables it.
    1
  1587. <Forgetting other parts of the world where it has always been the case> Thanks to socialism and political instability/tyranny.
    1
  1588.  Falconetti TheScare  The US is for go-getters, not for lazy people.
    1
  1589.  @WearthH  Due to import bans and high tariffs.
    1
  1590. Named after a wife-abuser and deadbeat father?
    1
  1591. Economically, politically, socially, culturally and spiritually.
    1
  1592. Maybe, but the Cuban government is still the main culprit behind the country's slow and quiet death.
    1
  1593. No. They're denied due to zoning restrictions by the city government.
    1
  1594. Housing is not a right just like living in a trendy city you cannot afford isn't.
    1
  1595. Pretty much.
    1
  1596. It didn't fail me.
    1
  1597.  @xxxxxx-kk7mh  That's if you enjoy living on handouts from the state.
    1
  1598. <There are solutions - higher taxes on wealth and more intervention by government> Resulting in higher costs, more scarcity, lower productivity and a nation stuck in a rut.
    1
  1599. The government is part of the elite.
    1
  1600. Pretty much.
    1
  1601. He was part of the regime.
    1
  1602. No. They need to devote their lives to God if they want to see heaven. Generosity and a heart for the needy alone are just not going to cut it as anybody can be that. Case in point: every other robber baron capitalist turned philanthropist.
    1
  1603. <But people keep trying to make it work.> Namely those who think they're above the human condition.
    1
  1604.  @cnnnpc4351  Or socialism like like in Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela. Sorry, commie, but you already had your chance.
    1
  1605. Namely that of the Cuban government against its own people.
    1
  1606. The global South already did that.
    1
  1607. But Toronto is a prime immigration destination.
    1
  1608. He's worried, because if doesn't pay the mortgage or property tax, either the bank or the government will seize the land and the tenants will end up on the street anyway.
    1
  1609. Germany is a lily-White country.
    1
  1610.  @smallscaleminingsupplies9670  What capitalism? Much of Africa was wrecked by socialism and tribalism.
    1
  1611. Exactly.
    1
  1612. The main problem is power-hungry governments.
    1
  1613. That's the consequence of being ignorant and impressionable. If they truly had respect, they wouldn't have allowed themselves to get suckered.
    1
  1614. Exactly.
    1
  1615. Sanctions are not a valid excuse for the Cuban government's wholesale decimation of local industry and subsequent dependence on other countries just to feed itself.
    1
  1616. LOL. So you're saying women are really that helpless?
    1
  1617. The model only worked when the USSR and Venezuela bankrolled it to compensate for all the local industry Castro destroyed with nationalization and price control.
    1
  1618. Which in turn excuses and absolves them of their own misdeeds.
    1
  1619. Not before Cuba pays reparations for all the US-built and funded businesses Castro seized.
    1
  1620. Now you know how the average Angolan and Equatorial Guinean feel.
    1
  1621. Capitalism is not responsible for the zoning restrictions and rent controls that caused the housing shortages.
    1
  1622. While the guy in the video fled the socialism he preferred all because the leadership won't give him social assistance.
    1
  1623. Or that woman Chancellor is a madam?
    1
  1624. And definitely there is no prostitution without prostitutes themselves.
    1
  1625. But South Africa has high crime.
    1
  1626. But mayors don't want to relax the zoning restrictions.
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  1627. <I have been refused work; refused benefits; refused full time status and paid fractions of what the men were paid for the same/similar work-> Women don't work as much or share the same workload as men. <it is simply this: if society deems to pay men most of the money, hoping that they will take care of the women, you will have homeless women--period.> Men still make up the vast majority of the homeless. Society pays men the most money, because men are the most productive and skilled willing to work longer hours and take more risks to get the job done.
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  1628. Except Somalia.
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  1629. And many Marxists including Marx himself came from the very bourgeoisie they love to denounce.
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  1630. DW is a German state-funded media outlet.
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  1631. Namely to themselves using and exploiting the poor in the process.
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  1632. Free stuff. Personal benefits.
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  1633. The same rich corporations that can afford the high ownership costs as ordinary owners are priced and regulated out of the market.
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  1634. Anything to say about the Cuban import bans and high tariffs?
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  1635. Hardly. Cuba gets food aid and remittances from the very same US.
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  1636. Your governments only care about themselves and their regime loyalists. The people are expendable.
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  1637. Something only broke people say to feel better about their failed lives.
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  1638. Not really as socialism's inefficiency undermines those other things it does well.
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  1639. All the supposedly successful communist countries only became successful once they toned down the communism in favor of capitalism.
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  1640. Germany is 88% White.
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  1641. The only whites in Cuba are those with relatives in the US and the government.
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  1642.  @pm2886  The consequences of feminism and Marxism bearing fruit.
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  1643. Plus, there is no social safety net. You may not be homeless, but you'll be living destitute.
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  1644. Exactly.
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  1645. Community gardens are not adequate and the people are not legally allowed to farm for themselves.
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  1646. But neo-Marxism has done nothing except set countries back.
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  1647. Much of the poor are every bit as corrupt on top of being ignorant.
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  1648. So is Switzerland. But Switzerland doesn't need a dictatorship stripping everyone of their freedom to achieve that.
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  1649. <falling for a bad guy and then sold into sex work.> That's on the women themselves as they by choice fell for that bad guy. <These are human beings.> Yeah! And?
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  1650. What capitalism? Doesn't a socialist run the show there?
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  1651. Just like communist countries love to blame the US for their largely self-inflicted failures and have been doing so since 1922.
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  1652. Thatcher and Reagan came to being to clean up mess left behind by Wilson, Callaghan and Carter's disastrous economic policies.
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  1653. And watch it become Cuba. Living off of handouts from other countries.
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  1654. But NYC's living costs are high, though.
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  1655. But they have far fewer amenities and are poorer and undesirable.
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  1656. Who's the rich?
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  1657. Like Albania, Romania and Cambodia?
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  1658.  @coopsnz1  Bernie Sanders is a property-owning millionaire. He preached TAX THE RICH until he became the rich.
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  1659. They don't know how to save because they naively assume the government will always be around to bail them out.
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  1660.  @trinleywangmo  Just a way for the government to have and keep you at their mercy.
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  1661. Madagascar is not a capitalist country.
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  1662.  @Ṽïkiṇḡ--ṝ-w  North Korea is socialist. And like every other socialist, as in actually socialist not that capitalist welfare state passed off as such, it literally has the 1% and the 99%. The 1% being the ruling class and the well-connected and the 99% being everyone else. And as usual, the 99% are SOL.
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  1663. The OG champagne socialist? Nah. Let him stay dead.
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  1664. Which is in line with Marx's calling for the wholesale suppression of the individual to make this "new breed of man."
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  1665. Some people brought it upon themselves.
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  1666.  @suokkos  Most likely into a government official's bank account.
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  1667. With barely functioning basic utilities and frequent blackouts.
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  1668. High taxes is a form of protectionism to shut down any attempt to get rich by ordinary people.
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  1669. Thanks to excess breeding complacency.
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  1670.  @lydiabell6218  In Germany, high taxes and restrictions prevent people from buying property.
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  1671.  @colleenpeck6347  NGO's = enablers and saboteurs.
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  1672. They rich pay more tax than most working-class people earn in a year.
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  1673.  @Fluffyolphert  But Black men especially.
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  1674. Livable wages? Get some better job skills. Or be ready to pay higher prices for your goods to support it.
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  1675.  @nzbidzel  You have high taxes to thank for that.
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  1676. Take that issue up with the corrupt politicians that run their countries.
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  1677.  @trinleywangmo  The poster had a choice. The poster had agency.
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  1678. Socialism is not the answer either.
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  1679.  @alicekranyk4173  That's the price to pay for having a pimp.
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  1680. Most of the land is uninhabitable.
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  1681.  @MbisonBalrog  But people only want to live in the cities where they have to compete with both well-to-do locals and outsiders alike for housing.
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  1682. Because the German government taxed them to death.
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  1683. Not really. Some poor people don't do themselves any favors.
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  1684. Especially when they age out and even the most thirstiest of men wouldn't want to be caught seen with them?
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  1685.  @MegakillerFortnight  And if you get out of line, the government can seize your home.
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  1686. Germany hardly has any minorities.
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  1687.  @MrTaxiRob  <education is free,> But worthless as there are no jobs let alone a thriving economy.
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  1688. Midwest = fly-over territory aside from Chicago.
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  1689.  @navinshah3863  <It's socialism not communism. It is the only system which makes country fairer and livable.> Like Venezuela? Where Maduro and his PSUV gang live good while the people have to eat zoo animals to survive when they're not fleeing to Colombia to prostitute themselves for something to eat?
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  1690.  @RazPerignon  Not according to the WEF, bleeding-heart far-left politicians or NGO heads.
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  1691.  @robsta1980  In practice.
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  1692. And the citizens took their futures for granted.
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  1693. Me neither.
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  1694.  @trinleywangmo  No. Eat the rich and you'll just starve in a month.
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  1695.  @AKawalski  You're the one that has it all wrong.
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  1696.  @AKawalski  Yet Cuba wasn't affected much when the Soviet and Venezuelan aid rolled in.
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  1697.  @AKawalski  LOL. You only know what your state-appointed guide told you.
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  1698.  @AKawalski  If the sanctions were as devastating as it's said it was, how come Cuba only started running into problems when the USSR and Venezuela collapsed no longer able to provide aid? And how is the US Cuba's top 5 trading partner?
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  1699. It sure beats socialism/communism, where the government determines your worth.
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  1700. (Long-term) charity doesn't work as it inevitably makes a person lazy, entitled and dependent.
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  1701. Same for politicians.
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  1702. But those places are beneath them and are populated/ran by icky conservatives. LOL
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  1703.  @cr8zystar282  To change the voting demographics in the Democrats' favor. Look how Trump lost Georgia.
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  1704. Good. This pursuit for the easy way out is the reason why people end up suffering in the long run.
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  1705. According to state propaganda.
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  1706. Exactly.
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  1707.  @grancito2  In the name of foreign investment.
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  1708.  @Finja13  You mean a political way to redistribute wealth without inevitably making the ruling class out of whoever gets the wealth to redistribute.
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  1709.  @kiknav  Nope. Germany is a rather homogeneous country.
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  1710. Exactly.
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  1711. Mostly by locals who came back home from making their money abroad.
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  1712. While socialism works for no one expect family and friends of the government.
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  1713.  @ts109  A by-product of socialism.
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  1714. <These developers are only out to make money.> Like any self-respecting business. How dare they?
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  1715. And that's saying something.
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  1716. Including personal greed.
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  1717. Mainly the greed of migrants who just moved in thinking they're entitled to help.
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  1718. The fallout of their socialist experiments.
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  1719.  @junglesuperstar9270  Or be problematic.
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  1720. LOL. Simp, please! <whereas Elke claws her way out of depressive episodes and is even politically active in hopes to improve her fellow citizens life.> By calling on the government to jack up the taxes and further rob her fellow citizens who had the decency to work for a living just so she can remain on social assistance until the grim reaper comes.
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  1721. So, you prefer socialism where the government is the winner and everyone else is the loser?
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  1722.  @guypierson5754  Maybe not, but socialism still is not a viable let alone a sustainable answer to humanity's woes. And its 103-plus year track record is proof. Socialism has more than its own fair share of dirty laundry with its wealth made off of the very same workers it claims to have solidarity with via forced labor not to mention the wealth and property violently stolen from the ordinary people who had the audacity to work for and own it rightfully calling them class enemies worthy of death all in the name of social justice/fairness/equality/etc.
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  1723. No. They just don't bother using them.
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  1724. Like it was when Batista ran it.
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  1725. The flat tax is the only fair tax.
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  1726.  @annexcendent8511  LOL.
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  1727.  @davisholman8149  Exactly.
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  1728. And how's equality working out for humanity in Venezuela?
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  1729. America was the reason Cuba got its independence from Spain. And Cuba's most prosperous years were under the leadership of a US puppet.
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  1730. How can landlords keep rent affordable in the face of rising land costs, insurance costs, mortgage and interest costs, repair/maintenance/renovation costs, utility costs and property taxes?
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  1731. China reduced nothing.
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  1732.  @amazeus1980  Hard work =/= efficiency
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  1733. Said no one ever.
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  1734. Thou shall not covet what belongs to thy neighbor.
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  1735.  @silky2204  God helps those who help themselves.
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  1736. <Stripping me off my current nationality.> Makes sense. Iran does not recognize dual citizenship.
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  1737. Soulja Boy's Crank Dat is a classic!
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  1738. LOL. The US isn't top 10 in homelessness per capita among developed countries. But Australia is #3.
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  1739.  @alexstar5182  No she isn't. And she isn't responsible for the poor life decisions other people make being partly the reason for their poverty in the first place. And inequality is natural as not everyone has what it takes to succeed in life.
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  1740. Don't you just love currency exchanges?
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  1741. But the GDR was a dystopia that 100 000's risked death and homelessness to flee.
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  1742. The leadership is the problem. Colonialism is minor.
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  1743. <good meaning country> Cuba is anything but good-meaning and it was destroyed from in the inside with Castro seizing and running private enterprise and local production into the ground in favor of Soviet aid.
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  1744. LOL. North Korea can hardly feed itself and depends on China for food.
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  1745.  @dlewis8405  With most of whatever food they manage to produce going to the military while the people can eat grass, tree bark, their own feces, etc for all they care.
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  1746.  @trinleywangmo  And then eat each other.
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  1747. And also looking back in history, many revolutions resulted in regimes even more crueler and repressive than the one that got replaced with the poor masses being hardly any better off and the heroes becoming the new tyrants.
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  1748. The rich Russians are either mafia bosses or have political ties.
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  1749.  @rexx9496  Because Nigeria is an uber-kleptocracy. The only rich people there are those with ties to the government.
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  1750.  @cozycomfy589  What 90%? Only 11.4% of Americans are poor.
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  1751. Or Miami.
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  1752.  @cgreen777  Prosperity made Europeans complacent.
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  1753.  @hujambokorodani3448  Especially leftists for easy votes as Europeans have all but completely feminized, homosexualized and multiculturalized themselves into minority status if not out of existence.
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  1754. How about a better idea? Why don't the world learn how to feed themselves?
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  1755.  @waleed8530  Exactly.
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  1756. Namely entertainers and athletes.
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  1757. Really? The only current African leader I know that is a Western puppet is Kagame. A lot of the rest are too busy selling their countries out to China like the Caribbean leaders.
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  1758. I'm surprised no Cardi B.
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  1759. No. The Berlin Wall was keeping the citizens prisoner as the guns were pointed inward.
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  1760.  @davisoneill  Fox News doesn't live in Canada. Try again, tankie!
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  1761. What "good" guys?
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  1762.  @davisoneill  Yeah! Good for nothing.
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  1763.  @davisoneill  Poor Davis. Mad because he lost his privileges being a government bootlicker.
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  1764. Why? While socialism is embedded with envy and greed. You mean larger evil as mankind is sinful.
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  1765. I thought it was New Zealand as Australia is 3rd.
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  1766. Kids = social safety net and extra help.
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  1767. There's no such thing as free. Resources have to come to come from somewhere to make that possible.
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  1768. Germany is barely capitalist.
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  1769.  @vojtechnovak3147  Driven by envy and refuse to improve their own situations due to laziness and ignorance.
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  1770. No. Try politics.
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  1771. No we don't. Nationalization = government mismanagement inevitably leading to privatization.
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  1772. The Democrat Party have long effectively destroyed the Black family with no-man-in-the-house welfare and mass incarceration rendering the Black father irrelevant.
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  1773. Germany barely has any capitalism at all.
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  1774. Exactly.
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  1775. <We need more leaders that are visionaries, like Fidel Castro> Who reduced Cuba from 5th wealthiest country in the Americas to beggar state relying on foreign aid.
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  1776. No. They coddled the poor for far too long rendering them useless once faced with a situation which they have to do something for themselves.
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  1777. Why is it even the government's job to help the homeless?
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  1778. But seniors don't have the right to demand special accommodation for their pets, public health and sanitation be damned!
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  1779. Stop letting the left and Belgium dictate immigration policy.
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  1780.  @UmQasaann  <Capitalism is an evil seed that spreads poverty, famine and war.> Socialism is even more so. And every country that adopted socialism had at least 2 of the 3.
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  1781. And so is envy.
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  1782.  @e_artz1625  Like Chavez?
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  1783.  @carsonc29  But big cities still have all the amenities and opportunities which is why most people flock to them.
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  1784. This is the tax-the-rich policy the people called for. One problem though, the rich they want taxed end up being anyone who happens to work and produce for a living even if they're just barely getting by.
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  1785.  @Nanniesaqua  It is true. Isn't it? Sanctions are not a valid excuse for economic repression and mismanagement.
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  1786. Poverty is not responsible for one's lack of moral integrity
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  1787. <A roof over our heads is a human right.> Says who?
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  1788. <the world is overpopulated.> No it's not. And much of the developed world is suffering a population decline.
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  1789. Like it was for African women during the Arab slave trade?
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  1790. Some people are poor for a reason. And it has nothing to do with the rich.
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  1791. Venezuela still has free elections. Romania under Ceausescu never had such a thing.
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  1792. <Ask yourself, would your have been happier if you were born and lived as your ancestors did 500 years ago?> When they barely stayed in one place, sustained themselves with inbreeding, lived on average to be no more than 40, etc? LOL
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  1793. Ask Cuba to ditch the central planning.
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  1794.  @uzairkhoso2507  But no food let alone that of passable quality.
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  1795.  @muurisoras5878  No. It all comes comes down to lazy and envious people wanting the easy life thinking the government is the almighty God that can solve all of their problems.
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  1796. LOL. The government is the reason for this.
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  1797. How about end the greed of governments first? Lower property taxes and abolish income tax.
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  1798. Yet 100 000's of people risked death and homelessness just to live in West Germany.
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  1799. Yet ironically, most socialists come from wealth and privilege.
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  1800. How about lower property taxes and mortgages?
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  1801. Namely Eastern Canadians. Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes.
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  1802. The latter.
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