GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis called Democrat Reps. Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal "anti-American" following their undisclosed trip to the island nation.

I’ve been to Cuba. It’s exactly what you’d expect from the wonders of communism. Extreme poverty everywhere. The leaders are wealthy and everyone else is poor.

  • @[email protected]
    7•9 months ago

    K.

    I didn’t say the economic system wasn’t important; rather, that political representation matters more.

    You’d never know it, but socialism rarely fails on its own (It can and does, though. Don’t intentionally misinterpret me on this point). Matter of fact, isn’t there still a 60+ year embargo against Cuba? And for what? Castro died several years ago.

    • NeuromancerOPM
      -14•9 months ago

      It always fails on it’s own.

      Why does Cuba need America’s capitalist products if capitalism is bad? They don’t.

      The Soviet Union failed, Eastern Europe failed, and every Latin country that switched failed or is in the process of failing.

      Our embargo is a scapegoat since most of the world trades with Cuba. There are modern cars there, they just are not American cars.

      • @[email protected]
        6•9 months ago

        From Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

        Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything, from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European-- or later United States-- capital, and such has accumulated in distant centers of power. Everything: the soil, its fruits and its mineral-rich depths, the people and their capacity to work and to consume, natural resources and human resources. Production methods and class structure have been successively determined from outside for each area by meshing it into the universal gearbox of capitalism.

        That’s the relationship between capitalism and socialism, and has been since its inception.