Over 5 Million Turn Out for May Day in Cuba

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Over 5 Million Turn Out for May Day in Cuba - Lemmy

Lemmy

50% of the population, that’s massive
Yeah too bad they can’t get together like this to turf out their government
At this point, I’d trade Cuba’s government for the United States.
edit: deleted posts, sorry guys it’s just too much to get a flood of people come at me, there’s no time to respond to all of them and quite frankly I try to avoid talking about the US anyway

Most of the issues with Cuba’s poverty stems from sanctions. Those sanctions are in nobody’s interest except a few Cuban expats in Florida. Who at this point are the descendents of people who were kicked out for largely good reasons.

As for human rights abuses, we don’t even need to make the comparison between the US and Cuba on that one.

This sounds awfully simplistic.

“What about the US?” is not a real arguement. We are discussing Cuba, not the US, Botswana or Uruguay.

The Cuban regime is brutal and authoritarian we minimal respect for human rights.

But they still have free healthcare. You can walk off a plane in Cuba and get healthcare. It might be shit healthcare, but poor people in the US have shit healthcare too in Republican states.

So what? There are countries that have free healthcare and also have a democratic political system and aren’t run as a brutal dictatorship.

You keep doing the “but what about the US?”, thing. We are not discussing the US, we are discussing Cuba.

You keep doing the “but what about the US?”, thing. We are not discussing the US, we are discussing Cuba.

I’m not OP, that was my first comment. Also, we can compare Cuba and the US right now because we’re going authoritarian and they’re already authoritarian. It’s interesting that they have some things better than us.

I started this thread with “I might trade the US government for Cuba’s right now”. In that context, it’s completely fair to compare the two.