Ehh, I dunno, we'd have to add a second star to all the flags and it's nice and even right now and do we really want to go to all that trouble
fidel castro's admission that he was he had secretly been a Marxist-Leninist
Uhh what
"contingent on political and economic liberty for the Cuban people"
it's funny how RIGHT after this he says Cuba should become a political and economic vassal of the empire
and once you're free to consume and to use, you will service us with everything you produce
take it or leave it, but know this one truth: we market this Freedom™ for you
live free or die :obama-drone:
Among the replies:
Someone replying:
Why would Cuba wanna f*** up what they have in favor of a corporate oligarchy that sucks the populace dry to satiate the greed of a few?
And someone replying to that:
That’s what they have now. People are starving don’t have the basic necessities. While the heads of the communist party are millionaires.
Oh the irony, oh the unbelievable irony.
I love how communists are always just capitalists to these people.
Duh it's because the entire combined sovereign wealth and GDP of the Soviet Union was counted as his personal treasury. take that gold redistributionist guy
But they're not starving. Like my first post here way back pointed out that the average Cuban caloric intake is on par with like Spain and Japan (not as high as the US, but that's a good thing frankly). Their diet breakdown seemed healthier than the US too (at least in the opinion of this vegan). People were starving before the revolution but the communists have addressed that.
And Cuba literally has open, competitive, and transparent elections. Literally the only barrier to running for office in Cuba is that you need people in the place you're running to support you, which is also a prerequisite to getting people to vote for you in the first place, unless you're a presidential candidate in the US and people only vote for you out of opposition to your opponent and every politician is widely hated by everyone.
Also they literally just ratified a new constitution via public referendum a few years ago which reaffirmed the popular support for the socialist system.
spoiler
When they talk free and fair it means newspapers and tv channels can be run by special interest groups
Well yeah, like with the USSR when Gorbachev started liberalization it didn't mean freedom of press, it meant the state media and publishers were put into the hands of a rabid anticommunist to run anticommunist propaganda pieces and censor the left wing opposition, and when they held elections the Communist party was barred from campaigning or helping local Communist parties while the opposition received institutional support from the state media and from the organized crime rings that were the primary beneficiaries of the early waves of privatization. Similarly, in the politburo itself Gorbachev's liberalization didn't mean political freedom, it meant that liberal ideas (well, socdem ideas to be exact - not that there's a real difference in effect given what we know happened - wrapped in marxist language) were the only accepted ones and anyone who so much as supported them too softly was subject to censure and attack as a "Stalinist".
I paid for this election and it's a damn liberty that I have to stand in it
I think it means that organizing by fascists is legally protected but leftwing organizing will get you killed by the police.
"Free and fair election" is just liberal-speak for "'they' vote for capitalism one way or another". Look at how the US asserted itself during the collapse of the USSR and patted itself on the back for bringing "democracy" to Russia.
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If Cuba were the 51st state, it would make the remaining 50 look terrible with infant mortality stats
no need to become a state to continue making the states look bad
I'm sure Cuba's infant mortality rate would soon match the rest of America's
Cuba is already objectively more democratic than the US. They just passed a new constitution that had like 92% support of the people because the government did the work of putting together a real constitution that addressed broad concerns that everyone presently alive had. It wasn't based on the whims of the 0.001% wealthiest people 200 years ago who also made it impossible to change.
Edit: Also, Bill, have you ever talked to someone living in Cuba and not some gusano who left 50 years ago? Because pretty much no one there wants to be part of the US. They want sanctions lifted because they are cruel but they sure as hell don't want to be a part of this failed state.
Is it less? As an official enemy Cuba was able to still have a Covid response. If they were a state that probably would've been illegal.
Not to mention they would have to gut their excellent healthcare system.
They can barely get a US colony to want to become a US state how tf do they think cuba, a completely independent country, would ever want to become a state?
