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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Let's wish both of them a very pleasant people's revolution in the future

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Cuba already had a people's revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat is as firm as ever there.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Right, let’s ignore things like frequent blackouts (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/cuba-turns-off-some-public-lighting-energy-crisis-worsens-2024-03-05/) and the fact that if you protest any decisions by the government you risk being locked up indefinitely (https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/cuba)

Surely signs of a stable government

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

US has the highest incarceration per capita in the world, and it's far higher than Cuba. Meanwhile, the blockade of Cuba certainly does make things difficult for a small island. The fact that people of Cuba enjoy higher quality of life than Americans in many ways, shows how communism can persevere even under harshest conditions. Not the own you seem to think it is.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m not a fan of meme-level infographics of unsourced data.

US unemployment figures virtually never include those who have given up on looking for work, which is a drastic undercounting. Biden’s Misleading Unemployment Statistic

Who knows where the Cuban unemployment figure came from, or how it was calculated or the quality of the data.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Some brief searching of my own tells me that, while the unemployment numbers are roughly correct, the actual pay for those jobs are so low that they have a rough time actually being able to afford anything. Like, minimum wage is 2100 Cuban Pesos per month, but one set of clothing costs about 9700 on average.

https://horizontecubano.law.columbia.edu/news/calculating-cost-living-Cuba

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mind posting the actual links to the sources?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I don't have all the links on hand, but it's easily googlable if you just put the numbers in

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The malnutrition stat is completely made up

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

You're right, it's actually higher in USA now

Results: Between 1999 and 2020, 93,244 older adults died from malnutrition. Malnutrition AAMR increased from 10.7 per 100,000 in 1999 to 25.0 per 100,000 in 2020.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37936140/

Meanwhile, Cuba is at 0.3 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/malnutrition-death-rates

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Vietnam won

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Last item omits Cuban interventions in Africa, ie Angola.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, really doing Cuba dirty by ignoring their military contributions to ending apartheid!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And all the hands in South America, including the Venezuelan takeover.

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