Well there are things developing in the US, such as mass poverty, fascism, balkanization and so on.
Seriously. People are like "Communism has never succeeded anywhere" and I'm like motherfucker Cuba is right there and it has a better life expectancy than the USA!!!
Evil Luis Diaz Canel FORCING the poor people of Cuba to live longer under COMMUNISM :diaz-canel-troll:
America: "Lolz! Cuba hasn't imported a new car in 70 years."
Cubans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocarriles_de_Cuba#Recent_developments
"Well then we will say America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you. Then if you wish we can stop and say: Please follow up. Plainly speaking, if you want capitalism you can live that way. That is your own affair and doesn't concern us. We can still feel sorry for you but since you don't understand us -- live as you do understand."
:khrushchev-fist: The quote isn't originally about Cuba, but the idea is the same.
Du Bois traced the high rates of poverty, crime and illiteracy prevalent in Philadelphia’s Black community to discrimination, divestment and residential segregation – not to Black people’s degree of ambition or talent
There's also the fact that people who lack "ambition or talent" (two vaguely defined and subjective things) don't deserve to suffer as fucking second-class citizens
Capitalism creates a system where a disgusting pedophile can be wealthy and live a life of royalty but a kind and generous person can suffer all their lives if they're poor.
don’t deserve to suffer as fucking second-class citizens
Calvinism and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Chuds read this and unironically think we should go back to papal indulgences.
Tradcaths are a favorite punching bag of the left, but Mel Gibson and the Little Caesar's owner are just two guys with zero pull. There are dozens of prosperity gospel televangelists that are much more influential in chud circles.
this is so fucking false, the U.S. is not a "developing country," for it to be "developing" it would have to be improving in some capacity
It's the End of History, so they don't actually have "shit's getting worse" anywhere in the manual.
Pretty unfair to include obvious losers like life expectancy and relative poverty in this calculation but make no reference to the crucial areas in which America excels like how many soft drink brands now have a range of energy drink versions
Even the term "developing country" implies that all it needs is the IMF or some other neoliberal vampires invited in to "develop" it.
Interesting how this particular case highlights this. The US is not developing, it's regressing, but I guess since we reached the end of history it will all be back to normal soon so we're just "developing" back to normal!
It implies we're going to build things other than highways, banks, and prisons.
At the rate we're de-industrializing, I think "developing" is the absolute wrong word.
The rich becoming richer at the poor's expense has lasting systemic consequences :surprised-pika:
I really hope it all comes crumbling down. It would be so inexpressibly horrible if Capitalism just keeps finding some way to keep adapting like some horrific fucking virus right until the biosphere collapses and we all suffocate.
Even worse would be if :my-hero: and :lord-bezos-amused: somehow bumblefuck their way into bringing capitalism into space so an entire solar system could be pulverized to indulge their insatiable craving for more.
Never in the history of academics has somebody been so consistently and so dangerously wrong about absolutely everything as Francis Fukuyama.
I found out who Paul Krugman was after I made the mistake of casually striking up a conversation with this dude at a bar telling him how I'm a communist as I was sitting there watching one of the Democratic primary debates back in February 2020 (this was a mistake because in response the dude told me that he was a libertarian). He ask me if I read Krugman and recommended that I check out some ghoul's economics book called Contra Krugman saying that it debunked his leftist views or some shit. Looking up Krugman on my phone after the dude walked away and seeing that he's an NYT columnist made me genuinely lol
If someone IRL comes at me with anything anticommunist, I don't wait, I just start laughing and dunking.
Paul Krugman famous communist
but also I was mainly referring to how he said "the internet will only be as important as the fax machine" in 1998
I really hope people call him up every day to tell him what a shit ass he is. I wonder how hard it is to get a hold of his phone number.
Probably wont. I just sent a 1 sentence message that said "lol how does it feel to be so wrong all the time?"
And to think all of those neolib think tanks cook the books heavily to make western countries seem better than they are.
I love the juxtaposition between the jingoist viewpoint that "America is the greatest country in the world because of the ineffable qualities of the American people" and the actual fact of America as the most powerful empire in the world, perhaps in all history, despite the wretched lives of the its people.
