Episode 81 - Cuban Solidarity With Calla And Shaquille

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  • @will35x
    @will35x ปีที่แล้ว +434

    As a Cuban, in Miami, you guys make me feel so much better. I feel like I'm surrounded by the Third Reich.

    • @jonirischx8925
      @jonirischx8925 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      That sounds like hell on earth. Have you considered becoming a reactionary liar? You'd lose all your backbone but would feel better in your surroundings...

    • @will35x
      @will35x ปีที่แล้ว +147

      @@jonirischx8925 I was one for many years. I then lost my mother( because she was overworked for years) and I started to study more and I was incredibly angry at the fact I was lied into betraying my homeland. I'd rather die than betray Cuba.

    • @jonirischx8925
      @jonirischx8925 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      @@will35x I mean I was joking, but thank you for sharing your story. I'm glad that people like you exist. Viva la revolucion!

    • @manuellanthaler2001
      @manuellanthaler2001 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@will35x I like you

    • @bodacious12
      @bodacious12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Have you ever visited or considered moving there? I'm pretty sure Cuban-Americans are allowed

  • @thatponybro6940
    @thatponybro6940 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    absolute solidarity with our Cuban comrades, long live the revolution

    • @DefAbSent
      @DefAbSent ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yo soy fidel

  • @josemaria8177
    @josemaria8177 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Hakim should One day write his ER stories. I'd love to read about it.

    • @mookinbabysealfurmittens
      @mookinbabysealfurmittens ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Seconded!

    • @Zeekemanifest
      @Zeekemanifest ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have a morbid curiosity and a polite interest in the medical field. My mother having been a nurse will do that- I say Hakim should absolutely share!

    • @Yatagurusu
      @Yatagurusu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You know, as a med student, most doctors have some socialist leanings in my experience. If he wrote his experience with a communist slant that might do well

  • @Hsalf904
    @Hsalf904 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    I’m going to Cuba on a solidarity and learning trip this summer with a partner org of NNOC really looking forward to it. My research supervisor publishes lots about Cuban medical internationalism and he’s Canadian but he once had covert CIA agent befriend him over 5 years just to try to make him perform a transaction between Cuba and the US to arrest him

    • @tonttu7979
      @tonttu7979 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Goddamn, thats pretty wild to hear

    • @Hsalf904
      @Hsalf904 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@tonttu7979 Yeah! So much effort put in just because he was publishing positive things about their medical internationalism

    • @Zeekemanifest
      @Zeekemanifest ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A solidarity trip? That sounds rather exciting actually! Could you tell me more about these trips in a DM possibly?
      As for your research supervisor, how are they doing nowadays? And how did they avoid getting booked by the CIA, holy!

    • @MOCHERlK
      @MOCHERlK 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How'd it go?

    • @Hsalf904
      @Hsalf904 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@MOCHERlK It was great! They’re definitely in a tough spot economically now since the pandemic though. Trump’s latest sanction measures + COVID’s affect on tourism + issues with currency reform haven’t been great for the country. But still so much dignity in the people there. No homelessness, very clean, crazy support for culture and the arts, very educated and friendly people too, very little police presence

  • @kapatidtomas
    @kapatidtomas ปีที่แล้ว +44

    As a Filipino Marxist, I stand with my fellow Cuban comrades. It's a shame that we Filipinos don't have much of a deep connection with Cubans (our flag was literally inspired by the cuban flag, too btw) on when we have so much history with each other, because we had a fascist dictatorship that had very close ties with the US. And I must admit, the Philippines being a neoliberal capitalist society, does not help the human social values or the culture of community in here at all. In fact, because of capitalism, I see that culture slowly fading away as well, and it is right that capitalism will fade human social values. May socialism bring us all hope.
    Love from the Philippines 🇵🇭❤🇨🇺
    Viva Cuba! Mabuhay ang Cuba!
    Viva Filipinas! Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!
    Down with Imperialism, Imperyalismo Ibagsak!

    • @yungkunk6287
      @yungkunk6287 ปีที่แล้ว

      thoughts on the maoists in the Philippines?

  • @Shad0w_Cha0s3m3ralds
    @Shad0w_Cha0s3m3ralds ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My full solidarity will always be with our Cuban comrades

  • @RedYellowBird6889
    @RedYellowBird6889 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Let's goooo The Cuba episode is here.

  • @apoofness
    @apoofness ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I've actually never heard of NNOC and now I'm even happier I listen to this podcast. I have family through out Cuba and would love to get involved.

  • @deptusmechanikus7362
    @deptusmechanikus7362 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    So it's canon now that Lobster Peterson is one of Hakim's many patients

    • @mookinbabysealfurmittens
      @mookinbabysealfurmittens ปีที่แล้ว +3

      HAH
      🦞 ⃠

    • @FeiFongWang
      @FeiFongWang ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like how you wrote canon like it's a dnd campaign lol

    • @MarxistMogger
      @MarxistMogger 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Critical support for comrade peterson

  • @MorbidMindedManiac
    @MorbidMindedManiac ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I love putting this on in the background doing gamedev just to zone back into it right as Hakim talks about someone getting smacked with shit and JT saying Australia isn’t real

  • @X_TheHuntsman_X
    @X_TheHuntsman_X ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Well, in our cities we are disconnected from our food source, lived it myself, couldn't stay, mental health reasons. I have a little plot of 3.4 acres and some blueberry bushes (among other things) that I made pancakes and blueberry syrup out of this morning. They are definitely correct though, it is so damn rewarding to eat your own cultivated food. If you can start a community garden or have access to a little bit of dirt, I fully recommend growing food sources.

  • @lotoreo
    @lotoreo ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Wow, super impressed with what these two guests have already been able to achieve, very inspiring and humbling

  • @ericbencusmagnusfabricius3499
    @ericbencusmagnusfabricius3499 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Its good to see more and more ppl opening their eyes. I even heard Bill Burr defended Cuba on his podcast ranting about imperialism for 10minutes... it was golden xddd

  • @georgeabreu6392
    @georgeabreu6392 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful episode, glad I watched this one. Viva Cuba!

  • @mrittikmukherjee9324
    @mrittikmukherjee9324 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    One of the best episodes!

  • @nura.divergent
    @nura.divergent ปีที่แล้ว +4

    First time watching a video with 2 guests and I've learned SOOOOOO much! Thank you guys!

  • @Cycrum
    @Cycrum ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Solidarity with our Cuban comrades! Let's hope they can help us make a revolution happen here without any nukes being dropped

  • @blessedandbiwithahintofmagic
    @blessedandbiwithahintofmagic ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I opened up this broadcast while eating lunch - lovely topics to open to with this ♡ ^&^

  • @comradeinternet467
    @comradeinternet467 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Business cards promoting this podcast were left around Anime North this year.

    • @YaBoiHakim
      @YaBoiHakim ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Damn really? Give us some more info haha

    • @DjangoVich
      @DjangoVich ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Anime cons…the womb of the revolution indeed haha

    • @comradeinternet467
      @comradeinternet467 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@YaBoiHakim I had some cards printed off and would leave them around the convention for people to find. Also gave a few out.

  • @KekusMagnus
    @KekusMagnus ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Holy crap she is 18? I did some shit at that age too and I thought I was too young. Gives me hope in zoomers

    • @FeiFongWang
      @FeiFongWang ปีที่แล้ว

      The issues we're facing are becoming increasingly harder to ignore. Zoomers are just the first post-Trump generation.

  • @comradelarry2558
    @comradelarry2558 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Fantastic episode! VIVA CUBA!

  • @4ugust0xD
    @4ugust0xD ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome, really inspiring

  • @Ajente02
    @Ajente02 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Speaking of Cuban democracy, I was just watching the composition of the 10th National Assembly of Cuba (the legislative branch of the Cuban government) recently elected in April 2023. And it's quite amazing: there are a LOT of deputies who are simple peasants, industrial workers, physicians, teachers, athletes, journalists, or even university studients (even though the huge majority are either directors of state enterprises, or presidents of provincial/local assemblies or Party organizations); also, at least 3% of deputies (14 of 470) aren't members of neither the Communist Party nor the Youth Communists' Union (how many Communists or Independents are there in the US Congress, or in any state or local legislative body in the US, in contrast?). And they were even more in the previous 9th National Assembly (6.94%, 42 of 605). There are even 3 deputies who are from the small private sector!!!
    It's quite awesome the results in terms of ethnic and gender equality: 55.74% of deputies (262 of 470) are women, and in the Council of State (the permanent comission of the National Assembly between meetings) 52.38% of deputies (11 of 21 memners) are women. Cuba is the second country with the highest femenine representation in their legislative chambers in the entire world (only surpassed by Rwanda, and closely followed by Bolivia, Nicaragua, Mexico, New Zealand, Iceland, and Sweden), and they don't even have to force it though gender quotas in law. Also in terms of ethnic representation, 35.67% of deputies are from African ancestry or mixed. And in therms of local representation, from the 470 deputies of the X National Assembly for 2023-2028, 97 of them (20.64%) came from local institutions, 113 (24.04%) from municipal assemblies, 115 (24.45%) from provincial assemblies, and 145 (30.85%) from national institutions.
    Now, there are two main "criticisms" to Cuban democracy, both of which could (or could not) carry a certain validity:
    • First, the relatively worrying increases in absentism during the last elections. In the parliamentary elections in April the abstention levels raised over 25% for the first time in almost 60 years (something nonetheless quite common in most countries, but extremely rare in Cuban socialist democracy). Since 1993, the abstention has increased in each election (being only of 1.3% in 1993, 1.6% in 1998, 2.4% in 2003, 3.1% in 2008, 9.1% in 2013, 14.3% in 2018, and arriving at 24.08% in this year), including the referenda for the Constituent Assembly in 2019 (15.59% of abstention) and in the Family Code in 2021 (25,78% of abstention, even when it was of the highest participations in a referendum around the world, and the highest turnout vote in favour of LGBT marriage in history). This could reflect a certain disatisfaction from the younger voters (or even an increase in the force of the private sector), which could (or could not) get worse in the next years.
    • Second, the observed "overrepresentation" of the Communist Party in the National Assembly through all its history, which has a lot to do with non-electoral political dynamics of the party. Being the leading force through the 1959 Revolution, it's quite obvious the Party enjoys a lot of respect and praise as an intitution; hence, being a Party member implies to be held in high esteem in your community (furthermore to older generations who directly took part in the Revolution), as well as counting with attitudes of social responsability and selflessness. Adding to that is the political education a Party member receives, something random citizens who are not members of the Communist Party perhaps don't get quite frequently. All of this has as consequence that most of the proposed candidates for local assemblies by the citizens get to be, for the most part, by pure logic, Communist party members. They're the more politically prepared, they have higher respect inside their communities, they're the most politically active members of their local communities, they have the best relations with national authorities to guarantee the solution to the problems in their local communities, etc. Later on, by cooptation, when the simple majority of municipal assemblies get to be Communist, the selected delegates sent to the National Assemby would also be, for the most part, Communists too (obviously they wouldn't send a non-Party deputy as a representation of their assembly in the national level - though it could occur and it occurs, when/if the non-Party deputy is very prepared). And the higher level of election it gets, the fewer the number of non-Communists being elected (being quite rare to see a non-Communist in the Council of State or Council of Ministers). But it has nothing to do with legal restrictions, nor the election system per se, neither with any supposed legal privilege by the Partido.

    • @quinnrothwell9239
      @quinnrothwell9239 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Could I get sources on the data used in this comment? I'd love to use this in an argument I'm having about Cuba!

  • @Turdfergusen382
    @Turdfergusen382 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great hosting on this one boys

  • @Blessed_V0id
    @Blessed_V0id ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Long live Cuba. How I long to see such a beautiful, noble, literate and socialist nation.
    They are mistreated. I am proud of Cuba and Cubans, and see them as noble proletariat

  • @hallajkom
    @hallajkom ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This genuinely makes my day

  • @kongspeaks4778
    @kongspeaks4778 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have now added your theme song to my workout playlist

  • @binnahgondwe5158
    @binnahgondwe5158 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool. Restoring acceptance and implementation of int'l solidarity.

  • @jansecj9472
    @jansecj9472 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    fantastic ep

  • @acanadianknight7269
    @acanadianknight7269 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck yeah! Good shit as always boys

  • @friedhelmvandal1960
    @friedhelmvandal1960 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My best friend from high school was an American-born Cuban and he tried in vein for years to convince me of Socialism but i dismissed him for a long time. Eventually that seed he planted helped to draw me to Communism

    • @BeanerMoney
      @BeanerMoney ปีที่แล้ว

      So retardation is spreadable?

  • @yonyi7132
    @yonyi7132 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Needed this dose of the podcast

  • @windrook1046
    @windrook1046 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great episode!

  • @XykonOverlord
    @XykonOverlord ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Damn, as an 18-year-old I gotta step it up.

  • @nopasaran191
    @nopasaran191 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I used to go to the dentist on heroin regularly. Same with the hospital. And the drs office. I would basically go everywhere on heroin when I was on it actually. That’s said I would never be a dick to the people that work there because I respect people that work in the medical field immensely. There was a couple times where they treated me like a piece of shit and subhuman though and I kind of got out of hand once or twice but that was one or twice out of 1000 other times. I stopped going to the dentist on heroin even while I was still on it though because I would fall alseep in the chair while they were drilling my teeth and it didn’t turn out well. It was also probably mad annoying too. Wait why the fuck are my still talking about this on the comments section of the deprogram?

  • @victormonroy3002
    @victormonroy3002 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    By far my favorite podcast. Will you interviewing PSL Members too?

  • @maurossauro8088
    @maurossauro8088 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I hope sometime in the future you guys get to animate the guests on the background too :)

  • @colingallagher1648
    @colingallagher1648 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    ''modern haircut'',he had the Iraqi mawhawk

  • @ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45
    @ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Did you know, Hakim is actually a doctor? Shocking, I know.

  • @lucasoares2995
    @lucasoares2995 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Why is Shaquille not on the thumbnail? 😔

  • @ryanshields2195
    @ryanshields2195 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great guests, nice ep

  • @Venulus545
    @Venulus545 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice DSA shoutout

  • @billyhendry8369
    @billyhendry8369 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One time, with the help of a lot of cannabis, booze and tabacco (in joints) I believe I bested the projectile vomit limit of any baby, even adjusted to size etc. Didn't get a drop of it on me, just a Jetstream reaching 2-3m ahead. Was one of those once and done ones with relief so good try/submission overal

  • @pest174
    @pest174 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm proud of these two. I'm hoping when my daughter hits their age, I can get her involved.

  • @thoughtteaanna6052
    @thoughtteaanna6052 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wonderful episode! Not that all the episodes aren't poggie woggies :p

  • @starsh1nachan252
    @starsh1nachan252 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was thinking, that becoming a doctor might be good for proletarian revolution. Now I'm 100% sure I must do it and go to socialist countries to help comrades.

    • @manuellanthaler2001
      @manuellanthaler2001 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I thought about something like that aswell. Study something for free in my rich asf western european capitalist country and then move to cuba to not live in capitalism

    • @alexeysblancodiaz4361
      @alexeysblancodiaz4361 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes you should definitely go live in Cuba and try socialism for yourself. I think every socialist American should go to Cuba for good and never come back to America.

  • @nanashi420
    @nanashi420 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    As a direct care staff, i can resonate with shit in my mouth on occasion.

  • @acanadianknight7269
    @acanadianknight7269 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I need this top up on commie propaganda

  • @TheLeftySwordsman
    @TheLeftySwordsman ปีที่แล้ว +1

    OH NO I'M CAUGHT UP

  • @RomanticDrip69
    @RomanticDrip69 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Is the CPUSA worth joining? I’ve heard it’s nothing but liberals and state department agents. Genuinely asking and curious of anyone else’s experiences

    • @XykonOverlord
      @XykonOverlord ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I’m pretty sure JT is part of CPUSA if that helps at all.

    • @corpseparty8868
      @corpseparty8868 ปีที่แล้ว

      No

    • @SecondThought
      @SecondThought ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I’d say so. In the same way that joining any org is worth it - each organization is only as good as its membership. I’d definitely encourage everyone to join something!

    • @KekusMagnus
      @KekusMagnus ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Certainly better than not joining any org, you will meet like-minded comrades which is always a plus

    • @ttbr7687
      @ttbr7687 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If you're not a fed you should join and try to fish out the feds.

  • @TheBdawg40
    @TheBdawg40 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yugos 🤝 Cubans

  • @ivangoran4461
    @ivangoran4461 ปีที่แล้ว

    Have you heard of Sean Gervasi, a former economic adviser in the Kennedy Administration who resigned in protest of US invasion of Cuba in 1961.?

  • @manuellanthaler2001
    @manuellanthaler2001 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello why is no new episode? It should be on friday shouldnt it?

  • @kpisti680
    @kpisti680 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could someone help me how could I join the international mayday bridage in Hungary?

  • @Sankara22
    @Sankara22 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    bring bad empanada or the karvernacle

  • @jll66666
    @jll66666 ปีที่แล้ว

    Iam from Germany and would like to join the NNOC does anyone knows how to

  • @advisorywarning
    @advisorywarning ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you guys have a discord? I can’t find a link anywhere

    • @CraigKeidel
      @CraigKeidel ปีที่แล้ว

      The link is provided to donors through their patreon IIRC

  • @woanselmo
    @woanselmo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got a Prager U ad on this targeted at Miami Cuban right wingers lol

  • @Isvakk
    @Isvakk ปีที่แล้ว

    What's the story of the "the deprogram" name?

  • @wayg2195
    @wayg2195 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Blake CrouchHelmut KraussDavid NathanVincent FallowShikasta

  • @m337_
    @m337_ ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What does “organizing” mean?

    • @randomchild8420
      @randomchild8420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like they said, participating in organizations. Specific examples would be like joining a union, participating in mutual aid, protesting, advertising campaigns, community gardens, and just generally participating in communities to help the cause.

    • @wallstreetotaku750
      @wallstreetotaku750 ปีที่แล้ว

      they mean they will sit in their rooms and tweet about the revolution

  • @colonel__klink7548
    @colonel__klink7548 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm sorry, but the founder of Cuba ruled for life, then his brother ruled until he was physically unable to continue. That doesn't sound very rule of the working class to me.... The new guy seems like me miiiiight be a push in that direction considering his parents were working class... but remember he was an appointee by the very same people who were happy for a single family to rule Cuba for 60 years... so it's sort of like claiming the US is "rule of the workers" just because it elected Abraham Lincoln

    • @disappointedmess209
      @disappointedmess209 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah it is just not the democracy promised by actual socialism. The police serve as a repressive tool of the state and the state serves to oppress the workers. I dont understand how people that call themselves socialists can support one party dictatorships that actively oppresses and robs the people they should represent. The fact so many cubans try to migrate should hint at the fact everything is not as it seems.

    • @disappointedmess209
      @disappointedmess209 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Although correction: fidel ruled until 2008, he died in 2016

    • @colonel__klink7548
      @colonel__klink7548 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@disappointedmess209 I mean it was only for 55 years total right?

    • @franciszekdo
      @franciszekdo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like, Dianne Fienstien has been been a sentaor for 30 without doing 1% of the good. Cubans have a lot of genuine affection for the leaders and heroes of the Cuban revolution that threw over a dictator and unshackled Cuba from American empire.

    • @colonel__klink7548
      @colonel__klink7548 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@franciszekdo yknow that one felt like a very solid point at first.. then I realized... she's been a politician for thirty years. Not the absolute ruler of a country for thirty years who past their title to their sibling when they were unable to continue living. Feinstein's influence and power has waxed and waned in her years of being a politician. Fidel was in charge for all those years and didn't even think about letting anyone other than a Castro touch power even as he had to retire due to failing health.
      Its not even comparable. One was a ruling monarch, the other is a career politician.

  • @Jared_Albert
    @Jared_Albert 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    calla did the crime, will do the time

  • @alexeysblancodiaz4361
    @alexeysblancodiaz4361 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a Cuban who has been in the States for a little over a year, coming from living 39 years in Cuba, I gotta say that listening to Calla Walsh and other communist and socialist Americans, make me puke

    • @MarxistMogger
      @MarxistMogger 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      what is so bad about cuba? Besides the country being much poorer they seem to be doing way better than similar neighbouring countries in central and south america.

    • @Cnichal
      @Cnichal 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hopefully you have good health insurance✌🏾

    • @alexeysblancodiaz4361
      @alexeysblancodiaz4361 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Cnichal Indeed, I do. However, I know a lot of ordinary people, working people, who don't have insurance but can afford some medical bills. Today, my hometown is crying over the death of a 16 yo boy, who died of a curable desease, the hospital had sent him home, bc they lacked a laboratory reagent. Many have died in Cuba bc the gvt don't have medical supplies. You american socialists don't know what you're aking for. I Came looking for freedom. If socialism gets here, I will have to exile in another country or give my life to defend freedom and human rights. Whenever the chanel owner wants, you can send me an invitation to discuss about socialism. I am open for debate.

  • @tomgu2285
    @tomgu2285 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I would like that you talk with the kavernacle

  • @gwynbleidd1917
    @gwynbleidd1917 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I wish i could move to cuba

    • @gwynbleidd1917
      @gwynbleidd1917 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ​@Porky i mean, I live in near abject poverty now, in the US, I cant afford medical care, and I'm ideologically aligned with Cuba, so I'd rather be in a socialist state that's not rich, but cares about its people than a wealthy capitalist imperialist state that doesn't give a shit if I die, but wants me to pay up to live.

    • @ShinigamiInuyasha777
      @ShinigamiInuyasha777 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@nihilismful yeah thats the thing i noticed a lot. I heard stories of people who lived in former socialist countries narrating their URSS experiences and honestly cringe me. Like their ideas of "poverty" is nothing like mine. And im not poor because poor for me it means just be only eating a meal a day not being unable to buy a car

    • @gwynbleidd1917
      @gwynbleidd1917 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Porky yeah I'm not expecting it to be a paradise, and I'm sure it's got plenty of its own unique problems, but I've had to choose between eating and paying rent countless times as an adult. If it was actually possible, I'd rather live in an AES, where I hopefully wouldn't be absolutely disgusted by the country I live in and the way it treats its people, and by its general ideological leanings. But I'll probably never be able to afford to move there or any other AES, and it's definitely just a dream I have. I am active in working towards socialism here, and would rather die trying to bring about socialism in my home than just do nothing. Doesn't feel attainable in my lifetime but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

    • @disappointedmess209
      @disappointedmess209 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trust me you dont, as a cuban it's a fucking shitshow down here
      (Havana if you wondering where)

    • @tomgu2285
      @tomgu2285 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​​@Porky didn't the soviet union had high living standards? So I kinda don't get it but well.