• mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 months ago

          The initial meme included basically all communist countries

          This meme is against the initial meme.

          Also which communist countries had dictators again?

          China, North Korea

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              10 months ago

              When?

              Always has been. Government taking control of every action of citizens is dictatorship. Theese people have total power of the country

              …Ergo…

              What??

              • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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                10 months ago

                Always has been. Government taking control of every action of citizens is dictatorship. Theese people have total power of the country

                The DPRK and China both don’t have parties that are in any way capable of controlling every action of their citizenry. They both have massive grassroots democratic institutions. Hell, look up whole process peoples democracy and the taean work system.

                what

                The initial meme made fun of being against those countries as a socialist. This meme is against that idea. Ergo… the meme is against all those socialist countries.

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      10 months ago

      Cuba is an interesting one.

      The problems with Cuba are political prisoners and their handling of AIDS. And a huge chunk of issues intertwined with the trade embargo.

      As with all nations, it could be better, but it’s far from the worst nation in the world.

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          Each year around a 100,000 Cubans are willing to risk their lives for a chance to live in the US.

          The US is far from perfect, but people don’t get on rafts hoping to make it to Cuba.

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              10 months ago

              Notice how when confronted with facts the hexbear has no real argument but assumes being obnoxious is the same as making a coherent argument.

              Cuban refugees carry a higher level of risk than other countries, and yet they still come. Ignoring facts doesn’t make a country better. You wouldn’t let a fact like that slide from the US. Hexbears lack intellectual honesty.

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                  10 months ago

                  No, it’s that saying one place is worse doesn’t make it so.

                  Human development index and quality of life studies put the US ahead of Cuba. Cuba isn’t a hellhole that many people make it out to be, but that doesn’t automatically make it better than the US.

                  Cuba has better healthcare and lower cost of living, but Americans aren’t on rafts to Cuba.

                  One of the problems with enacting good and lasting change in the western world is that life is pretty darn good on the whole. It could be a lot better, but just shouting that the US is bad is mindless propagada. Be better than that.

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      10 months ago

      You know, that actually makes sense. 14-year-olds. It would explain a lot about hexbears.