Peter LinkOver 5 Million Turn Out for May Day in Cuba
expatriado50% of the population, that’s massive
iktThat’s because they don’t want to.
We like to think life in America is so much better than that in Cuba, but have you tried being poor in America?
PugJesusbut have you tried being poor in America?
… have you?
Jesus Christ.
I live well-under the poverty line. It’s bad. I also know it’s nowhere near as bad as an average existence in Cuba.
Read up. Read personal accounts. Check economic statistics.
Just by living in the US, we are immensely fucking privileged.
Jerkface (any/all)Just by living in the US, we are immensely fucking exploited
The average American thinks the USA is the greatest nation on the planet and that Americans are the most fortunate people on the planet. You’re expressing internalized propaganda. Living in poverty in the USA is not better than living in poverty anywhere else, and is in fact a lot worse due to lack of infrastructure, crushing wealth disparity of historic magnitude, and the absolute abandonment of socialism. A poor person in a socialist country still has all their needs met. A poor person in the USA is an object lesson who is made to suffer hunger, homelessness, and lack of medical care to keep the rest of the workers in line.
You’re living in a fantasy.
The average American thinks the USA is the greatest nation on the planet and that Americans are the most fortunate people on the planet.
Recognizing that being impoverished in a prosperous and developed country is better than being impoverished in an economically struggling country is not propaganda. America is not the best place to be poor, but it isn’t the worst, and the self-pitying idea that being poor in the US is as bad as or worse than being poor in any country is some utterly ignorant shite.
A poor person in a socialist country still has all their needs met.
Do you really know nothing about living standards in Cuba?
You’re living in a fantasy.
How ironic.