RIP Fidel Castro
RIP Fidel Castro
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- hotroddy0
Niko - Do you know how condescending it sounds to say you've had great experiences when you visited Cuba?
Cuba is not a zoo so that you can 'ooh' and 'awe' of how happy the people are with so little. And how it so delightful to see a population without the corporate nauseam we are burdened with here in west.
These are real people with zero liberties. And deserve a lot more than condescending romantic remarks of it's population.
Communism is a failure. Fidel new it and oppressed it's own people to keep a failed ideology alive.
They'd be way better off without it. Even they are starting to recognize it. Give these people a little more respect than your patronizing remarks.
- fair enough but you're just as condescending claiming to know what's better for them as well. That they'd be happier with our way of life._niko
- They might not have liberties but at least they're smart enough to know it. We on the other hand are dumb enough to believe we're free._niko
- They're living 1984, we're living Brave New World._niko
- Plus my intention isn't to compare the standard of living with the west as a whole but other free democratic latin american countries. apples to apples._niko
- just as corrupt, just as poor, just as little opportunities and just as few liberties._niko
- Yes and communism is a huge failure. Except in a little place called china, the soon to be world's most powerful economy._niko
- maybe freedom means killing each other for black friday deals or maybe this: https://www.youtube.…_niko
- are these people not oppressed? are they not being kept in darkness for monetary and political gain? Feel sorry for them, they're in your own back yard._niko
- ask yourself one question - do you think if would have elected capitalism by now if they had been given an option?hotroddy
- Who are we (or castro) to decide what the people want?hotroddy
- and what brought China out of poverty was capitalism not communism.hotroddy
- China was smart enough to recognize that central planning doesn't work.yuekit
- As Deng Xiaoping say, it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches the mouse.yuekit
- I think neither extreme works well, and that they would vote for some form of socialist system._niko
- niko- capitalism is all about individual choice. Under capitalism If I want to play golf - I can play golf.hotroddy
- Under communism - they won't let me bc it's a bourgeois sport and the land should be better utilized. Under islam it goes against the teachings of allah.hotroddy
- Don't mean to sound like I'm defending Castro, I think he's shit, I think all governments are shit, let's not hold one on a higher pedestal than others._niko
- capitalism = freedom and choice.hotroddy
- I can give a million examples. golf is just onehotroddy
- yeah but if I'm black they might not let me play golf either. Or if i'm not rich enough or have the right friends._niko
- I agree 50 years ago. But today is different. Tiger Woods, Colin Kapernich. Capitalism does not identify with race. Only money.hotroddy
- Communism is very devisive- it identifies with race and class strugglehotroddy
- Communism according to Karl Max was some kind of utopian world where we had evolved past capitalism to have total abundance.yuekit
- right, but just like communism not living up to its promise neither has capitalism. No race or other issues in the American Utopia?_niko
- correct. but which has proven to be more effective in reducing poverty?hotroddy
- not only reducing poverty but creating wealth.hotroddy
- creating wealth for who? there are billions of people all over the "free" world way, way poorer than Cubans._niko
- way, way unhealthier, and way way more uneducated._niko
- cuba is a resource rich country. should be way more wealthier than it is.hotroddy