I was mentioning the cuban cigar I got the other day at a cigar bar and he said he didn't want "communism in his mouth" and "Cuba could be such a great country for hotels and factories making rum and cigars"
was too fucking real
it seems to be a surprisingly(?) common thought from USians that they want Castro/socialism overthrown in Cuba just so it can be a psuedo-colony of the US. they really think the whole world exists just for them
Cuba used to be a psudo-colony of the US so it's just american coping and trying to relive the glory days
"yeah like in the 1950s, when kids starved on the street and US companies owned all the businesses"
If I didn't have to get along with these people every week I'd use spiffy comebacks like this.
Considering he has a couple degrees in econ I believe he was referring to private ownership
As someone with an econ degree, I can tell you it doesn't mean shit. Some econ programs are good but many of them are just degrees in libertarian political economy.
was originally a talented musician and asked his counselor how to make real money lol
“Cuba could be such a great country for hotels and factories making rum and cigars”
Tell him that while he has good taste in video games, stop playing Tropico so much
Did you say anything back? Not that I would that co-worker sounds like a clinical case.
I keep my politics on the dl for the most part. There's two other leftists there that I'll chat. The one is an anarchist who despises anything ML - though he quotes Marx verbatim - and the other says he's a Marxist-with-no-adjectives but seems to just be a progressive? Both are extremely haughty and the conversations are very one sided.
the only real leftist tendencies are online and less online
yeah my leftism is extremely online. I don't think the Marxist is though cause he never heard of Posadism when I showed him my I Want To Believe book. Anarchist seemed to like Reddit though.
If your anarchist coworker really despises anything ML, then he's probably never organized a day in his life. Definitely a "reddit" anarchist.
he's in an org but I don't think he's reached out to local orgs quite yet. he's been extremely concerned with covid
it's a very strange cohort, the boomers are all Fox news guys and trade facebook posts - including the guy in the OP - one is even a flat earther lol
Cuba is actually an excellent country for hotels right now. Ask any middle class canadian.
I wouldn't mind visiting for the rum and cigars either, not sure if I would be welcomed though lol
Tell him that Cuba is absolutely, proveably more democratic than the US.
Fidel is (sadly) dead. Cuba is communist not because the ghost of Fidel has an iron grip on the country, but because it's the system that the people themselves want.
Yep, I got from the Proles of the Round Table podcast, there's an episode about Cuba, sorry don't recall what # it is exactly but pretty sure Cuba is in the title
