“Utopia” is a high bar but “doing your best to help your citizens rather than corporate shareholders” is not. Despite the continuing embargo against them, Cuba houses, feeds, educates, and provides healthcare to all of their citizens. Recently Cubans democratically drafted their country’s new gay and trans-inclusive family code in over 80,000 citizen councils around the island, an exercise in direct democracy that would be almost unthinkable in America. Gender-affirming surgery and hormones have been free since 2008. Cuba obviously doesn't deserve the embargo or the ongoing regime change operations, but America is able to continue with both because so many Americans still believe all socialist nations are evil 1984 hellscapes.

[–] Gorilladrums 1 points 10 months ago

Reading this is giving me brain damage. Not only do you not know what communism is, but you actually tried to use fucking Cuba of all places to try and justify Marxism... How retarded do you have to get to reach this point? Cuba is quite literally the most authoritarian country in the entirety of the northern hemisphere. It is the polar opposite of democracy, it is the polar opposite of prosperity, it is, in fact, the closest thing to a 1984 hellscape in the the America's. You, like all Marxists, can cry, lie, and deny all day long but the reality is that Cuba is shit because of Marxism and nothing else. Want proof? Look at all the other Marxist states in history. They all found themselves in the same exact position regardless of external influence. There's a reason why millions of Cubans fled the country and why millions more despise the current regime.