The USA is a corporate fascist state. It is very similar to Italy under Mussolini. Ther is a great book called Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy and Hitlers Germany. Great video by the way. "We must have enemies, they will be become an economic necessity for us" Theodore Roosevelt -1944
Sorry to burst your bubble, because I completely agree with you, but Cuba is not doing so well by being closed off. Sure everyone has food, but not a lot of it, and most Cubans are malnurished. And yes, there is universal healthcare, but there isn't any medicine to use to treat people. And of course, their unemployment rate is low, but nobody does much even while they're at their jobs anyway. I've been to Cuba, and it's not pretty. Regardless, you're right. It's just not a great example.
@SuspiciousPatriot First of all Republic & Democracy are not mutually exclusive. Secondly America's spoken goal in invading Afghanistan and Iraq is to install a democracy & that's what he's talking about. Do your homework.
Do my homework? They are separate words, because they are separate things. It is The Republic of The United States of America, not The Democracy of The United States of America.
I understand - all too well, what he is saying and what America is exporting. That was my point. They are not exporting Republicanism, they are exporting Democracy; where 51% can vote to murder 49%. In a multi-party Parliamentary system, the % required is even less, all because they are 'Democracies".
Finalizing - Most Americans have no idea, have forgotten, that they live in a Republic. It's always spoken about as a Democracy and there is a huge difference. To the point - America is no longer and never referred to as a Republic. To the best of my knowledge it is no longer taught in the schools; as Civics is no longer taught in school. They want us to believe we live in a Democracy, because everyone has been convinced it's so great. When it's a lie. Isn't that the point, here?
Cubans must be even dumber than hillbillies if they're risking their lives by boatloads to escape to the U.S. if all these stats are to be taken at face value.
I have a close friend that grew up in a military regieme political system that agrees that democracy isn't the only answer, but at the same time, you have to look at the desireability of a country by its occupants.
Once Floridians are fleeing to Cuba by the boatload looking for a better life I'll admit you might be onto something.
Good video! I agree with some of the things you said and disagree with others. The time I have only allows me to talk quickly about you unemployment data. Eventhough Cuba may have a much lower rate of unemployment, it is not necessarily better. In communist countries you are assigned a job and you must stay in it. In "free countries" workers can change jobs. This is counted as unemployment. Also, this type of mobility improves the allocation of human capital!
This american is very aware of how little freedom there really is here.
But I would be very wary of statistics coming out of Cuba regarding how nice it is to live there. We have here a "free" country and we find our own government lying about unemployment and inflation statistics every day. How much easier is it for a centralized economy to lie in this way?
Mortgages are out of control due to the Fed pushing interest rates low for 100 years.
"Creating Jobs" is the biggest economic fallacy out there. Think: in your household, do you want to find ways to have more people do kitchen clean up or less? Why?
The entire history of human achievement is people finding better ways to do more work with less effort. The real goal is to maximize the payment-to-work ratio. And ideally, you'd work zero and consume whatever you want.
So why is the focus in "job creation" instead of "median income buying power"?
This is the crazy thing: provided your communities honor their principles, it really doesn’t mean anything, quality-of-living-wise, whether you’re socialist or capitalist. Furthermore, if you take the regulations and labor laws out of capitalism you’re just allowing self-aggrandizement at other’s expense—you’re asking for fiefdoms, enslavement and pillaging (what private central banks create).
Dictators are like coins, sometimes you flip them good, sometimes you flip them bad. In either case it's extreme. If you have a democracy, you will always settle with mediocrity good or bad.
Singapore, a previous dictatorship was a great example. It is extreme, but effective. Cuba just got shafted due to US economic blockades for such a long time it has had no ability to develop properly. Let's hope they get a good dicator. But again, its flipping a coin, with a heavier weight on the evil side.
Any system can fall into oligarchy/fascism. We are a constitutional republic by declaration, Britain called itself a democracy even in the 1700's. Our leaders use the word as if it means something to the rest of the world. It means nothing. A system is what the people make it, or let it become, that's all that matters. You can call it democracy, a republic, or a purple puppy, but it still is what it really is.
The closest grammatically correct term for the US I can find is "Fascist State".
You ask why corporate dictatorship is better then regular dictatorship? For the same reason Fruity Pebbles are far better than the store brand of the same cerial, they advertise and make it prettier and more attractive to make us like and want it. I guess the answer would be a scewed perspective.
@Gradivus375 My parents thought the same, they moved me and my siblings to the US in 95 and now they wish they never left the middle east, we have a ton of different bills and they never stop appearing, mortgage to pay, and the fact everything is stranger here...Planing to move back home in the next couple of years. In the middle east you pay you're rent, the water, and the electricity bill, you never receive anything else, people dont have credit cards.
@elliotcheely america will take asylum seekers, cuba will not. so a poor american w/o medical or who can't afford college can't just show up on cuba's shores. a cuban showing up in miami will find a cuban community and the chance of citizenship or at least an easy place to hide. when castro took over private businesses many started leaving then cuz they lost their businesses. castro prevented what we have in the usa - ceos with million dollar bonuses while shipping jobs away.
The sad thing is, every society fails in one way or another. It seems 'utopia' can't exist. There are too many human traits which fuck up what starts off as idealism.
All that is good about Cuba, but they don't have choices amongst the simplest things like cereal or the type or products that will go in their house or choices of what their homes are made of. Nor do they have choices of the type of free care that they are allowed to get or they type of education that is provided by the Cuban Government. Like I said, its all good about Cuba, but they don't have CHOICES.
A-fuckin'-men. I'm so glad to hear somebody NOT villifying Cuba for a change. It's nice to know that somebody else realizes that the American government loves to meddle in the affairs of other countries, whilst totally ignoring the domestic issues inside the country they run.
I'd ask you is Cuba comes even close to the quality of the US. Why if they are provided for by the cornucopia of Cuba do they float across the sea in makeshift rafts to get here. We don't need to "save" them, we need to let them save themselves. MNC's are pissed though that Cuba isn't open.
This is one of your most thought provoking vids. I LOVE your use of sarcasm in this vid to drive home your point, but from the comments here, I think it has caused many to miss the point or not catch it altogether. You are correct, there is no Utopia, but when I am Queen of the world, I will create one. It is coming soon!! :>
You are being way to truthful for some people. Keep up the good work.
Remember Elian Gonzalez? Right about now he is probably a well-fed, healthy young man with roof over his head and preparing for his free college education.
That was a mistake done out of ignorance not out of greed or evil which much of the unfair laws in America are based off of. The Cuban state has apologized for all of that, and now transsexual operations are free, and the society is opening more up for homosexuals.
It should be pointed out that most modern dictatorships are based on the "Democractic Ideal" as well, meaning that they claim to derive authority from the people.
"Government by the people for the people" was in many ways as applicable for Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR as it is to the US.
Thanks for bringing this up, Protean. I think our brand of *cough* "Democrazy" just has more pomp, circumstance, flash and glamour. Yep, literacy and education rates do matter, too. And, we love our toys...distraction keeps us unaware of what is going on around us. Our learning curve is a bit slow...
Corporatocracy, in social theories that focus on conflicts and opposing interests within society, denotes a system of government that serves the interest of, and may be run by, corporations and involves ties between government and business. Where corporations, conglomerates, and/or government entities with private components, control the direction and governance of a country, including carrying out economic planning notwithstanding the 'free market' label
what is wrong with the united states? i find a red hering knowing that just 1 percent of the population makes 25 percent of all the money in the country. i struggle working 6 days per week trying to keep my head above water while you ritch clean fingernailed well dressed drunks weave youre money grubbing webs over cocktails. join youre local revolution for change.
Some might be interested in "Unqualified Reservations", a blog that plays with some alternatives to Democracy. It's an interesting read, no matter what your stances are.
"We have enslaved the rest of animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." William Ralph Inge (1860-1954, Deacon and Professor of Divinity at Cambridge)
Americans don't have to vote for candidates that are bought and paid for by special interest groups. There are almost always 3rd party candidates to choose.
Interesting points. I cannot deny some elements of truth you speak Pro. I think America is completely under hypnosis over the level of liberty this populous have! This country is not as free as we all think as long as we the people do not have duel citizenship elsewhere outside of the USA.
I also don't think we are free b/c of corporate slavery...anytime your Fed-Gov tells you what level of freedom you have, then you aren't really liberated. Just a thought.
Not to mention the dictatorship of the civil service. However, a single dictator who was the absolute monarch in charge of everything, he would run the nation like a farm, only extracting as much as society would prosper, as it would be impossible to bribe him (as politicians are). However, I would not use Cuba as a good model. I'm pretty certain that these facts are distorted. Also, please stop using anti-consumerist and mercantile phrases.
Screw all humans.All these Youtube rants and your comments for nothing.All it does is open the flood gates for trolls. Nothing more. 2012 or Apophis, I welcome thee.
Thomas Paine inspired the American Revolution with a genuinely democratic vision. Unlike most of the Founders, Paine was working class & envisioned an egalitarian society. The Founders were mostly the wealthy elites of their day & they feared working class populism. The Founders intentionally created a political system where only wealthy white male landowners would have political power. Nonetheless, at the heart of American corporatocracy still exists Paine's radical proposal.
Is anyone really surprised by this? The U.S does NOT care about other countries, and the U.S government certainly does not care about its constituents. The ONLY thing they care about is their pockets and making sure that they are full. Of course, who do you think will fill those pockets? Corporations. So of COURSE the people WE elect to office will fuck us over if they can help out their corporate buddies which in turn means helping themselves. We need to wake up.
the whole thing is a clusterfuck. companies exploit the people, governments protect the corporations, corporations control the government, and the people are generally pretty well fucked. We can't control the corporations, and no corporation will allow someone to get elected into government that might hurt them.
Protean you have a lot of good videos but this one is poorly thought out and I'm disappointed in your poor arguments. Wealth requires the build up capital and nothing creates wealth like capitalism. It's true Cubans are debt free and have health care and education, but it's also true thousands of them are willing to die to get our shores. I won't deny USA has a lot of problems, but at least we can complain about them. Can cubans?
@WKaliberr "nope, you fail big time" -Sounds like someones been eating too many cheese-its, sitting on their fat ass all day, and constructing creative ways to use the word "fail" in all of their statements. Must've seen it on your homework when you decided to drop out of 9th grade to pursue a career in video games and when that did'nt work "fail" was the best idea you ever had.
Whoa! Ok Ed, First off, Cuba has a 2% poverty rating based off of its quality of life statistics, not Americas. Secondly, Cuba has a pathetic GDP, which means everyone in Cuba gets to enjoy a low quality of life and low pay with high taxes to pay for Fidels nice cigars and gold bathtub.Fidel needs to keep his folks alive so he can remain a rich dictator -hence healthcare, but i dont expect the medicine or the education to be that great since they swim to florida to get away from the awesomeness
What do you consider a low quality of life considering that in America we have tent cities?
Do we not have defacto dictators in the private sector who have gold bathtubs and unlike Castro have complete anonymity to manipulate politicians and start PAC's for self interest?
You cannot say that some leave Cuba,therefore Cuba is a bad place because people leave it and have any logic to the argument. (non sequitur).
Cuba having a "pathetic" gdp may have to do with OVER 60 YRS SANCTIONS.
The state is the tool of the ruling class. Liberal democracy is the form of government you have when the bourgeois class owns the state. In ancient Greece, even back then democracy was the result of the rising class of merchants, traders etc in those societies, they legitimize their power not through myths or by kinship, but on the principles of equality and quantity.
And yes, this class is an international oriented class, in contrast to kings, aristocrats and local oligarchs.
What's your basis of comparison? Perfection? That's a great goal, but I don't think it's really fair to compare a dictatorship without freedom of speech, to a country with both freedom of speech and the (technical) ability to choose leaders.. albeit with limited choice for the reasons you mentioned.
Despite the problems with America's system, American leaders couldn't get away with half the stuff dictatorships could. Implying that they're the same is like saying that chicken pox = small pox.
@Exorania There was more than one point but the one I took issue with was the sarcasm about the US not being a dictatorship, implying that it is in some way. I saw the end and I just think the point was a little exaggerated, especially at the beginning. Hence it's like comparing chicken pox and small pox.
I agree with many things you said but in Cuba you wouldn't be able to criticize your government as you do it in this video and much less in YT or internet for that matter..
proteanview is rendering a ratehr simplistic and inaccurate picture. dictatorship is different from the situation n the US . the US is just fucked up, but not a dictatorship or anywhere near to that.
Cuba did all of that all under embargo sanctions put on them by the largest econonic giant for the last 50 years.
It's easier for them, being a small country: but it's the truth, the corporations own and control the government and use it to exploit us. We need to be cognizant of this fact and start talking to one another.
@AndyMH182 There is no way to do that unless their is a mass movement(which is unlikely because of dumb down america like Sarah Palinville) and the brainwashed Ayn Randians, Libertarians, Communists etc. It won't happen. The only change you'll see is when things get tough and all the brainwashed folks start fighting for control. Corporations and people alike. It's sad. There's really no educated forums any more in the media.
@newb2yutube There is no way corporations could extort us to the extent they do if there is no legal authority to them to do so. The libertarians and Randians are not your enemies.
@AndyMH182 I never said they were my enemies. Libertarians, Randians, anarchist like the Alex Jones and all these far right wing groups along with the communists, socialists are all the same. They will fight for their "beliefs" in the system we have called the Price System. Just fighting over rehashed old concepts that are not applicable in our High Technological World.
So what do you want...a rule by the mob of idiots? A rule of corporations and special interest groups? A dictatorship? An oligarchy?They are all bullshit systems built on money, an abstract concept that has no bearing in the physical world. The only thing I can think of that would be sustainable and humanitarian is a rule of the scientific method. Check out technocracy technate design. It divorces us from the political price system method of special interest control with energy accounting.
Public antipathy towards LGBT people is high, reflecting regional norms. This has eased somewhat since the 1990s. Educational campaigns on LGBT issues are currently implemented by the National Center for Sex Education, headed by Mariela Castro.
Cuban citizens can have sex reassignment surgery for free.
Private, non-commercial sexual relations between same-sex consenting adults 16 and over have been legal in Cuba since 1979, although same-sex relationships are not presently recognized by the state as a possible marriage. Despite elements of homophobia in Cuba's history, Havana now has a lively and vibrant gay scene.
I'll throw in these 2 cents about Cuba: Because of the embargo, the Cubans have a reduce, reuse and recycle plan unlike any other in the world. Kudos to them.
Also, I can't confirm this one way or another, but I hear their crime rate is ridiculously low. If it's true, then I don't know if that's because that in a dictatorship criminals just get executed a lot more efficiently, unlike in the US where it takes 5 years to get someone on death row and another 10 to carry out the execution.
OK I admit it, you had me hitting the ceiling until you started talking about that corporatism stuff of which I agree
But the problem is Cuba is under a tyranny and they make it work by just floating their surplus population to America (however many make it) and we bail em out!
The flipside of globalism is the federalist agenda of internationalism and their wag the dog scarecrow the zion occupied government!
See the ZOGgie is the useful idiot of the internationalist that play both sides
there is a huge problem with Organized crime in the Public sector everywhere in the world. there has to be cuts on populations because the public sector crooks thouOUT the world like to live like it's 1999. They have to maintain that cushy cake and paté eating status and go the 3 hour daily luncheons.
Both democracy and dictatorships are horrible. Democracy is just mob rule and it becomes a system that pits groups against each. We have bribery, special interest using government power to keep themselves rich. A dictatorship is evil too, but sometimes a dictator sees his country as his property, and takes pride in his country, sometimes is even motivated to keep conditions sustainable. Where as democratic politicians will loot the countries and pay their buddies because they don't care.
great video. but you have to be careful about being too facicious in the begenning; when you started sayign that the US was a free Democracy I started rolling my eyes, when you said Fidel was a Dictator I ALMOST turned the video off. But luckily I kept watching; It was good that you backed up your evidence with facts - I especially liked the Bolivian facts and CIA provided info.
just to add to your excellent points about that evil socialism in cuba. they did all that while being harassed, sanctioned, and boycotted by the largest economy in the world, 90 miles from their coast.
America has been exploiting their native peoples since the beginning. It continues to drain villages of their people by charging them taxes, fees, and child support which forces people onto the money system, away from their traditional lands and barter systems and into towns where they clog welfare systems and compete for entry-level jobs, delaying the "jobless recovery."
You are so fucking right, it's scary. Corporations have way too much power. The sheeple keep eating the grass that the media gives them... it's really sad.
The only difference between Cuba and the United States concerning dictatorship, is the fact that there isn't really any single person to point at and blame in the U.S., whereas with Cuba, there is. Most people are simple like that when reality is far more complex than they could imagine.
@deathByStupid Even if the surgeon makes less, the main point is that they can both live comfortably, a taxi driver in the United States can't feed a family of four. You write your comment as if democracies haven't had the same mass murder issues. In democratic societies, mass murder is ten times as bad as they are in dictatorships. So whatif they have 70k computers, it just means less facebook pages per thousand citizens.
@ludaXkillz If you can't feed a family of four don't have four kids, this aint rocket science, you just got to pull the rocket out before it launches.
The fact that cubans jam ever expanding families into the same house they lived in for 50 years doesnt constitute "comfortably" it just constitutes "surviving".
The issue is if a dictator is bad you cant vote them out if a government is bad you can.
As for the computers, its about the free exchange of ideas not facebook.
@deathByStupid Correction: Yes, we can vote out bad politicians, but our choices are between a douche bag and an ass hole. Even if it's a choice, democracies run by corporations are and will always be shitty governments.
A government is formed to provide for the people, so the solution isn't to not have any kids if you can't provide for them. It is the duty of the government to be able to help provide for them if a slip up were to happen.
@ludaXkillz The duty of governments is to legislate laws and to enforce existing laws. In addition things like infrastructure are required so that everything keeps moving.
Governments protect childrens rights by removing them from parents who can't provide for them. Should they put everyone in position to look after their family of four? Thats absolutely not their responsibility, any government would prefer if people who couldnt afford their kids, didn't have them.
@ludaXkillz Great. So my money going to people who can't afford to have there own kids so they can pepper the country side with their own genetic stock sounds like the system works.
We kinda went of on a tangent here, the end fact is living in most democracies is more comfortable then living in Cuba. It really is a shitty place to live.
Cuba's health care is superb when it comes to the treatment of serious disease, oddly enough. Solid research centers, and even better emergency treatment centers. Meds cost a few bucks at most.
Here? Shit... we can't get the GOP stiffs to stop chanting "socialism!" or "antichrist!" long enough to CARE about such things for people.
The GOP: All about the BUCK and the GOD whose name appears on it since 1953.
the real reason the Cuba is were is right now is cuz the majority of the world isolated cuba there is no a wide free market with the rest of the world but Cuba is one of the places the u wanna invest some point in time, Cuba will rise n be one of the richest country in Americas n i base the reason cuz Cuba is differen, how u might ask their country is not on DEBT WITH NO BANKS OR COUNTRIES THEY R DEBT FREE N EDUCATED, WITH A HEALTH REFORM PLUS THEY R HARD WORKERS, so Cuba has a lot of future.
I wish states would independently attempt to copy most of cuba's tactics (not the shutting of the borders or completely stopping advertisements; among other things.) But seriously I'm so tired of wondering why we can't have sustainable agriculture, affordable health care and education, and the ability for us all to own our homes without stressing to death in the process
A must-read is the now infamous "Mindwar" psyop paper written by Lt. Col. Acquino, an updated version of which (2003) includes a new foreward by the retired officer that [poorly, imo] repudiates the conspiratorial conclusions that are drawn from its obvious policy implications over the decades since it was written. It is often cited to represent the Pentagon's nascent moral outrage (circa late '60s) over losing the Vietnam war "at home", i.e., their outward rage over homegrown "anti-americanism"
This was dead on! Recent wikileaks tells that U.S government have threatened European countries with some sort of econimic sanctions. If they didnt let Monsanto with their seeds of evil, or opened the water supplies for big companies to exploit more nations, there would be sanctions. Isnt it fascism when govt works with/for corporations?
Fix that country of yours, you´re the most hated country on the globe already.
Yeah, and in the US, we had things like the Indian Removal Act, Concentration Camps for Japanese citizens (notice the word "citizen"), slavery, and we still don't allow gay marriage.
@Mastikator True. Yet at least Castro, that 'evil tyrant', retracted this law and apologized to the people publically for this action. Chimpy couldn't even admit he'd done anything wrong during the Kerry debates, and still to this day thinks he did the "will of God" by invading Iraq.
Give me CASTRO any day over Bush. Any day and twice on Sunday.
@rationalmuscle I'm not saying that Bush and Cheney aren't evil tyrants and war criminals. They are, and deserve no different treatment than Saddam Hussein.
I'll bet you there isn't a child who comes out of Cuban high school without understanding the FACT of evolution.
You make a lot of fine points. My only problem with Castro over the years has been the lack of free speech to criticize the government. Then again, when you understand the unrelenting effort by the CIA and other American intelligence organizations to undermine the Cuban government, you can at least appreciate why. The government fears these "protesters" are American stooges.
I agree with your sarcasm; this false way of seeing the world is the product and nature of state-sponsored propoganda. While Hitler made plenty of quatoable comments about the gullibility of the masses and how he could manipulate them, he didn't have the tools, the "public relations" tools, the IT revolution, cable televi
You heard of the NDAA, right?
Hellu235Sing 2 weeks ago
The USA is a corporate fascist state. It is very similar to Italy under Mussolini. Ther is a great book called Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy and Hitlers Germany. Great video by the way. "We must have enemies, they will be become an economic necessity for us" Theodore Roosevelt -1944
MindofaJedi 7 months ago
There is an illusion of democracy..presidents are selected not elected. Open your eyes bud..
michael616joaquin 8 months ago
i like beating up kids
twankism 10 months ago
we are not a Democracy, we are a Republic. But I know what you meant...
mta415 11 months ago
@mta415 The two are not mutually exclusive. We are a democratic republic.
igotsissues 11 months ago
@igotsissues Constitutional Republic, we have a "democratic" process.
sigmundbalmung 10 months ago
Or succinctly put..... If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass
methuselus 11 months ago
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. - Janis Joplin
methuselus 11 months ago
dammit. I thought my phone went off.
Apocalypse487 11 months ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, because I completely agree with you, but Cuba is not doing so well by being closed off. Sure everyone has food, but not a lot of it, and most Cubans are malnurished. And yes, there is universal healthcare, but there isn't any medicine to use to treat people. And of course, their unemployment rate is low, but nobody does much even while they're at their jobs anyway. I've been to Cuba, and it's not pretty. Regardless, you're right. It's just not a great example.
buda4u 11 months ago
America is not a democracy.
America is a Republic.
...BIG DIFFERENCE
America has forgotten what it is.
America has been "made" to forget what it is.
SuspiciousPatriot 11 months ago
@SuspiciousPatriot First of all Republic & Democracy are not mutually exclusive. Secondly America's spoken goal in invading Afghanistan and Iraq is to install a democracy & that's what he's talking about. Do your homework.
igotsissues 11 months ago
@igotsissues
Do my homework? They are separate words, because they are separate things. It is The Republic of The United States of America, not The Democracy of The United States of America.
I understand - all too well, what he is saying and what America is exporting. That was my point. They are not exporting Republicanism, they are exporting Democracy; where 51% can vote to murder 49%. In a multi-party Parliamentary system, the % required is even less, all because they are 'Democracies".
SuspiciousPatriot 11 months ago
@igotsissues
Finalizing - Most Americans have no idea, have forgotten, that they live in a Republic. It's always spoken about as a Democracy and there is a huge difference. To the point - America is no longer and never referred to as a Republic. To the best of my knowledge it is no longer taught in the schools; as Civics is no longer taught in school. They want us to believe we live in a Democracy, because everyone has been convinced it's so great. When it's a lie. Isn't that the point, here?
SuspiciousPatriot 11 months ago
Cuba is not a great place to live. But it's not nearly as bad as "they" make it seem.
xbyiu97 1 year ago
help speard this arownd
mcdonaldscott24 1 year ago
Cubans must be even dumber than hillbillies if they're risking their lives by boatloads to escape to the U.S. if all these stats are to be taken at face value.
I have a close friend that grew up in a military regieme political system that agrees that democracy isn't the only answer, but at the same time, you have to look at the desireability of a country by its occupants.
Once Floridians are fleeing to Cuba by the boatload looking for a better life I'll admit you might be onto something.
FatalsKiss 1 year ago
It's called Corporatocracy... and it scares the shit out of me.
popecorkyxxiv 1 year ago
Good video! I agree with some of the things you said and disagree with others. The time I have only allows me to talk quickly about you unemployment data. Eventhough Cuba may have a much lower rate of unemployment, it is not necessarily better. In communist countries you are assigned a job and you must stay in it. In "free countries" workers can change jobs. This is counted as unemployment. Also, this type of mobility improves the allocation of human capital!
Sorry for not expanding on this! :D
econopithecus 1 year ago
Welcome to the Corporate States of Amerikkka. Your experience here is directly relative to the amount of money you have and your skin color.
Shadowlit001 1 year ago
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wtf, i didn't subscribe to this channel
Millhouse3671 1 year ago
This american is very aware of how little freedom there really is here.
But I would be very wary of statistics coming out of Cuba regarding how nice it is to live there. We have here a "free" country and we find our own government lying about unemployment and inflation statistics every day. How much easier is it for a centralized economy to lie in this way?
Mortgages are out of control due to the Fed pushing interest rates low for 100 years.
And we shouldn't try to "create jobs" (next)
sdkee 1 year ago
@sdkee
"Creating Jobs" is the biggest economic fallacy out there. Think: in your household, do you want to find ways to have more people do kitchen clean up or less? Why?
The entire history of human achievement is people finding better ways to do more work with less effort. The real goal is to maximize the payment-to-work ratio. And ideally, you'd work zero and consume whatever you want.
So why is the focus in "job creation" instead of "median income buying power"?
sdkee 1 year ago 7
Say thanks to your oil usa corporations for fuck up the world,. your americans are a virus for the planet you consumism is killing our world
gcristianz 1 year ago
Ah, yes proteanview. As always you encourage us to expand just a bit and really look into our beliefs. It's why we come here. Thank you!!!!
Rousecat 1 year ago
There are lazy, greedy, power hungry sides to all of us as well as more co-operative traits. Different systems play out in different ways.
Personally I don't trust capitalism or communism because in their different ways they both fail to address human nature.
Prunesqualer 1 year ago
This is the crazy thing: provided your communities honor their principles, it really doesn’t mean anything, quality-of-living-wise, whether you’re socialist or capitalist. Furthermore, if you take the regulations and labor laws out of capitalism you’re just allowing self-aggrandizement at other’s expense—you’re asking for fiefdoms, enslavement and pillaging (what private central banks create).
freddietz96 1 year ago
No government system is perfect, why? Because humans gonna human.
TheCapn23 1 year ago
Dictators are like coins, sometimes you flip them good, sometimes you flip them bad. In either case it's extreme. If you have a democracy, you will always settle with mediocrity good or bad.
Singapore, a previous dictatorship was a great example. It is extreme, but effective. Cuba just got shafted due to US economic blockades for such a long time it has had no ability to develop properly. Let's hope they get a good dicator. But again, its flipping a coin, with a heavier weight on the evil side.
BrutusAlbion 1 year ago
Any system can fall into oligarchy/fascism. We are a constitutional republic by declaration, Britain called itself a democracy even in the 1700's. Our leaders use the word as if it means something to the rest of the world. It means nothing. A system is what the people make it, or let it become, that's all that matters. You can call it democracy, a republic, or a purple puppy, but it still is what it really is.
The closest grammatically correct term for the US I can find is "Fascist State".
PleaseStayTuned 1 year ago
what do you have to say for those who think democracy is mob rule and that America is a republic?
biguy617 1 year ago
That is why there are people all over the world are fighting to get into Cuba.
Flashbackjacko 1 year ago
Very though-provoking. Cuba is so close by, but of course we hear almost nothing about them, and certainly nothing positive.
Zaunstar 1 year ago
I agree totally, Proteanview like to see you run for office you got my vote :)
NoraDlist 1 year ago
You ask why corporate dictatorship is better then regular dictatorship? For the same reason Fruity Pebbles are far better than the store brand of the same cerial, they advertise and make it prettier and more attractive to make us like and want it. I guess the answer would be a scewed perspective.
Mysticblue1212 1 year ago
Nice analysis
kikila007 1 year ago
True!
yassau 1 year ago
killed it!
imnothear 1 year ago
middle east unrest is no problem but unrest in saudi arabia will be bad for all humans
this is part of the illuminati/freemason script,it is time for the encore.
unrest in m east gives the zionist fake khazzar jews the reason they need to start w w 3.get ready for 2012.
j400wel 1 year ago
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” Thomas Jefferson
IhaveTubes 1 year ago
we will never be free till we stop borrowing money from the federal reserve which is a private bank.
IhaveTubes 1 year ago
@Gradivus375 My parents thought the same, they moved me and my siblings to the US in 95 and now they wish they never left the middle east, we have a ton of different bills and they never stop appearing, mortgage to pay, and the fact everything is stranger here...Planing to move back home in the next couple of years. In the middle east you pay you're rent, the water, and the electricity bill, you never receive anything else, people dont have credit cards.
zazu27604 1 year ago
You could have also used Saddams Iraq and Syria, food and education, healthcare were so abundant...well in Iraq it was until the Sanctions.
zazu27604 1 year ago
America is more of a plutocracy.
JamesJimRaynor 1 year ago
so why are cubans trying to 'illegally' come over here?
elliotcheely 1 year ago
@elliotcheely america will take asylum seekers, cuba will not. so a poor american w/o medical or who can't afford college can't just show up on cuba's shores. a cuban showing up in miami will find a cuban community and the chance of citizenship or at least an easy place to hide. when castro took over private businesses many started leaving then cuz they lost their businesses. castro prevented what we have in the usa - ceos with million dollar bonuses while shipping jobs away.
khemeticone 1 year ago
@elliotcheely
They aren't.
Well, there is of course some migration, but it usualy goes through the correct channels and is all above board.
The "Illeagal" migration to which you refer is usually from mainland countries north of Panama.
Furthermore, illegal migration costs American taxpayers very little when compared to other expenses such as defence and corporate bailouts.
ShiroganeOnJubeiThos 1 year ago
To my opinion when it comes to corporate owners running this country and other countries it just to show that nowhere is free. Even in America.
mike61524334251 1 year ago
America's more of a kleptocracy than a democracy really.
MazorKuziaki 1 year ago
The sad thing is, every society fails in one way or another. It seems 'utopia' can't exist. There are too many human traits which fuck up what starts off as idealism.
alexvegas 1 year ago
All that is good about Cuba, but they don't have choices amongst the simplest things like cereal or the type or products that will go in their house or choices of what their homes are made of. Nor do they have choices of the type of free care that they are allowed to get or they type of education that is provided by the Cuban Government. Like I said, its all good about Cuba, but they don't have CHOICES.
DiScUrNmEnT 1 year ago
you are funny! :)
yucky. corporate dictatorship. very true though.
those stats are incredible too.
a lot of things were deregulated in cuba including public land so anyone could grow food on free space. land is a big step to freedom.
advertising not allowed! that is incredible!
haha! great video.
weeearthlings 1 year ago
A-fuckin'-men. I'm so glad to hear somebody NOT villifying Cuba for a change. It's nice to know that somebody else realizes that the American government loves to meddle in the affairs of other countries, whilst totally ignoring the domestic issues inside the country they run.
M0US3P0T4TO 1 year ago
I'd ask you is Cuba comes even close to the quality of the US. Why if they are provided for by the cornucopia of Cuba do they float across the sea in makeshift rafts to get here. We don't need to "save" them, we need to let them save themselves. MNC's are pissed though that Cuba isn't open.
Da55Moose 1 year ago
This is one of your most thought provoking vids. I LOVE your use of sarcasm in this vid to drive home your point, but from the comments here, I think it has caused many to miss the point or not catch it altogether. You are correct, there is no Utopia, but when I am Queen of the world, I will create one. It is coming soon!! :>
BlakeBarbieDoll 1 year ago
You are being way to truthful for some people. Keep up the good work.
Remember Elian Gonzalez? Right about now he is probably a well-fed, healthy young man with roof over his head and preparing for his free college education.
Ponerology 1 year ago
@Ponerology You are correct. He probably is.
BlakeBarbieDoll 1 year ago
The drawstrings on your hoodie look like nipples...
Once I got that idea in my head I lost track of what you were saying.
oolong2 1 year ago
@FeDe4
That was a mistake done out of ignorance not out of greed or evil which much of the unfair laws in America are based off of. The Cuban state has apologized for all of that, and now transsexual operations are free, and the society is opening more up for homosexuals.
Thats a really bad example you came up with.
MopacMurtaza 1 year ago
It should be pointed out that most modern dictatorships are based on the "Democractic Ideal" as well, meaning that they claim to derive authority from the people.
"Government by the people for the people" was in many ways as applicable for Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR as it is to the US.
Vebinz 1 year ago
@Vebinz Great comment. You are correct.
BlakeBarbieDoll 1 year ago
Thanks for bringing this up, Protean. I think our brand of *cough* "Democrazy" just has more pomp, circumstance, flash and glamour. Yep, literacy and education rates do matter, too. And, we love our toys...distraction keeps us unaware of what is going on around us. Our learning curve is a bit slow...
BTW, love your videos-please keep 'em comin'.
skeletonmom 1 year ago
@FeDe4 He never claimed Cuba was perfect. It's just supposed to make you think.
stevenodd 1 year ago 33
@stevenodd Likely, that person is incapable of such a thing.
Xenthoid 10 months ago
the best heart surgeon in the world is a Cuban.
He's in Florida though.
biozamadotcom 1 year ago
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@biozamadotcom
speaking of ads, they are all over this vid.
biozamadotcom 1 year ago
@FeDe4 And this is applicable to todays situation, or the situation for the past 20 years... how, exactly?
xxhellspawnedxx 1 year ago
i'm really glad you make videos, man. you sew this stuff together intelligently, even elegantly, and i tend to agree with almost every word here.
gothatfunk 1 year ago
Corporatocracy, in social theories that focus on conflicts and opposing interests within society, denotes a system of government that serves the interest of, and may be run by, corporations and involves ties between government and business. Where corporations, conglomerates, and/or government entities with private components, control the direction and governance of a country, including carrying out economic planning notwithstanding the 'free market' label
Denomolise 1 year ago
what is wrong with the united states? i find a red hering knowing that just 1 percent of the population makes 25 percent of all the money in the country. i struggle working 6 days per week trying to keep my head above water while you ritch clean fingernailed well dressed drunks weave youre money grubbing webs over cocktails. join youre local revolution for change.
dreamssofblue 1 year ago
Some might be interested in "Unqualified Reservations", a blog that plays with some alternatives to Democracy. It's an interesting read, no matter what your stances are.
HiAdrian 1 year ago
"We have enslaved the rest of animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." William Ralph Inge (1860-1954, Deacon and Professor of Divinity at Cambridge)
TheAnimalHolocaust 1 year ago
ur tune don't fit ur clothes lol
q7boo6 1 year ago
Americans don't have to vote for candidates that are bought and paid for by special interest groups. There are almost always 3rd party candidates to choose.
bunsh1ch1 1 year ago
the influence is vary credible.
whispers83 1 year ago
excellent video
2deluxe58 1 year ago
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megamarsvin 1 year ago
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get out of America ur unpatriotic!
WKaliberr 1 year ago
well said - the future is collective self governance i think ! : )
FREEGARYMCKINNON 1 year ago
@proteanview your insights rock. i never believed the hype about Castro.
BornwithoutYahweh 1 year ago
Great video, straight up truth.
Too bad most retards in america are so brainwashed
IRONMAN357 1 year ago
Why sell the customer just one car when you can sell them a new model every four years.
That's how a good salesman thinks.
DavidNeanders 1 year ago
Castro is great!
sleepychildkungfu 1 year ago
man, are you from Miami?
LouieArrighi 1 year ago
Interesting points. I cannot deny some elements of truth you speak Pro. I think America is completely under hypnosis over the level of liberty this populous have! This country is not as free as we all think as long as we the people do not have duel citizenship elsewhere outside of the USA.
I also don't think we are free b/c of corporate slavery...anytime your Fed-Gov tells you what level of freedom you have, then you aren't really liberated. Just a thought.
EzraYisrael 1 year ago
Protean View, how can you be so naive - your democracy is an ILLUSION.
fl00ders 1 year ago
@fl00ders you joking right?.... I cant tell if your being sarcastic. Of course he knows that
DocSolomon 1 year ago
Not to mention the dictatorship of the civil service. However, a single dictator who was the absolute monarch in charge of everything, he would run the nation like a farm, only extracting as much as society would prosper, as it would be impossible to bribe him (as politicians are). However, I would not use Cuba as a good model. I'm pretty certain that these facts are distorted. Also, please stop using anti-consumerist and mercantile phrases.
SaviorOfLogic 1 year ago
There is a news documentary group on Youtube called Vanguard, and the living conditions in Cuba don't seem all that great.
tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN 1 year ago
@tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN That has more to do with the illegal American embargo than anything else.
LiamE69 1 year ago
@LiamE69
Implying America is the only country in the world that buys stuff.
tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN 1 year ago
@tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN No. But it does imply the US exerts a lot of pressure over many other countries, which indeed it does.
LiamE69 1 year ago
Screw all humans.All these Youtube rants and your comments for nothing.All it does is open the flood gates for trolls. Nothing more. 2012 or Apophis, I welcome thee.
RealityHurts923 1 year ago
@RealityHurts923
UMAD UMAD UMAD?
tHecOmMeNtErSrEtUrN 1 year ago
Thomas Paine inspired the American Revolution with a genuinely democratic vision. Unlike most of the Founders, Paine was working class & envisioned an egalitarian society. The Founders were mostly the wealthy elites of their day & they feared working class populism. The Founders intentionally created a political system where only wealthy white male landowners would have political power. Nonetheless, at the heart of American corporatocracy still exists Paine's radical proposal.
MarmaladeINFP 1 year ago
Great video. Very insightful. If only more people were aware of just how corrupt "democracy" and "freedom" is in the west,
RockingMrE 1 year ago 33
Is anyone really surprised by this? The U.S does NOT care about other countries, and the U.S government certainly does not care about its constituents. The ONLY thing they care about is their pockets and making sure that they are full. Of course, who do you think will fill those pockets? Corporations. So of COURSE the people WE elect to office will fuck us over if they can help out their corporate buddies which in turn means helping themselves. We need to wake up.
crackerkiller89 1 year ago
Everything is not what it seems
Isaiah6517 1 year ago
the whole thing is a clusterfuck. companies exploit the people, governments protect the corporations, corporations control the government, and the people are generally pretty well fucked. We can't control the corporations, and no corporation will allow someone to get elected into government that might hurt them.
Clusterfuck.
nate556 1 year ago
Protean you have a lot of good videos but this one is poorly thought out and I'm disappointed in your poor arguments. Wealth requires the build up capital and nothing creates wealth like capitalism. It's true Cubans are debt free and have health care and education, but it's also true thousands of them are willing to die to get our shores. I won't deny USA has a lot of problems, but at least we can complain about them. Can cubans?
Solitas777 1 year ago
ALL Socialism in HISTORY has led to dictatorship ALL.
SuperFifthwheel 1 year ago
@SuperFifthwheel nope, you fail big time
WKaliberr 1 year ago
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@WKaliberr "nope, you fail big time" -Sounds like someones been eating too many cheese-its, sitting on their fat ass all day, and constructing creative ways to use the word "fail" in all of their statements. Must've seen it on your homework when you decided to drop out of 9th grade to pursue a career in video games and when that did'nt work "fail" was the best idea you ever had.
SuperFifthwheel 1 year ago
Whoa! Ok Ed, First off, Cuba has a 2% poverty rating based off of its quality of life statistics, not Americas. Secondly, Cuba has a pathetic GDP, which means everyone in Cuba gets to enjoy a low quality of life and low pay with high taxes to pay for Fidels nice cigars and gold bathtub.Fidel needs to keep his folks alive so he can remain a rich dictator -hence healthcare, but i dont expect the medicine or the education to be that great since they swim to florida to get away from the awesomeness
SuperFifthwheel 1 year ago
What do you consider a low quality of life considering that in America we have tent cities?
Do we not have defacto dictators in the private sector who have gold bathtubs and unlike Castro have complete anonymity to manipulate politicians and start PAC's for self interest?
You cannot say that some leave Cuba,therefore Cuba is a bad place because people leave it and have any logic to the argument. (non sequitur).
Cuba having a "pathetic" gdp may have to do with OVER 60 YRS SANCTIONS.
Kool aid!
zoticus1 1 year ago 2
The state is the tool of the ruling class. Liberal democracy is the form of government you have when the bourgeois class owns the state. In ancient Greece, even back then democracy was the result of the rising class of merchants, traders etc in those societies, they legitimize their power not through myths or by kinship, but on the principles of equality and quantity.
And yes, this class is an international oriented class, in contrast to kings, aristocrats and local oligarchs.
Kali23Yuga 1 year ago
Great vid. Very interesting.
stealthyspider 1 year ago
What's your basis of comparison? Perfection? That's a great goal, but I don't think it's really fair to compare a dictatorship without freedom of speech, to a country with both freedom of speech and the (technical) ability to choose leaders.. albeit with limited choice for the reasons you mentioned.
Despite the problems with America's system, American leaders couldn't get away with half the stuff dictatorships could. Implying that they're the same is like saying that chicken pox = small pox.
Flyborg 1 year ago
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Exorania 1 year ago
@Flyborg
Im pretty sure you missed the entire point of the video sir. Maybe rewatch it.... or at least watch the end of it
Exorania 1 year ago
@Exorania There was more than one point but the one I took issue with was the sarcasm about the US not being a dictatorship, implying that it is in some way. I saw the end and I just think the point was a little exaggerated, especially at the beginning. Hence it's like comparing chicken pox and small pox.
Flyborg 1 year ago
I agree with many things you said but in Cuba you wouldn't be able to criticize your government as you do it in this video and much less in YT or internet for that matter..
melquideses 1 year ago 2
proteanview is rendering a ratehr simplistic and inaccurate picture. dictatorship is different from the situation n the US . the US is just fucked up, but not a dictatorship or anywhere near to that.
Meskiagkasher 1 year ago
@Meskiagkasher
Its not a dictatorship but a political duopoly with a foundation in corporatism and ran by oligarchy (new aristocracy).
Left and Right in America are just two wings of the same bird (turkey). Dont be fooled.
There is no good definition except what I term "American Fascism".
zoticus1 1 year ago
@zoticus1 there is no left and right in the US. relative to the rest of the world Democrats and Republicans are *all* on the right.
and if the US american electorate were more educated they would vote different people into public offices.
in a dictatorship votes either don't count at all or elections are rigged.
Meskiagkasher 1 year ago
Lovin' your videos, as always.
devildogmre 1 year ago
Cuba did all of that all under embargo sanctions put on them by the largest econonic giant for the last 50 years.
It's easier for them, being a small country: but it's the truth, the corporations own and control the government and use it to exploit us. We need to be cognizant of this fact and start talking to one another.
AndyMH182 1 year ago
@AndyMH182 There is no way to do that unless their is a mass movement(which is unlikely because of dumb down america like Sarah Palinville) and the brainwashed Ayn Randians, Libertarians, Communists etc. It won't happen. The only change you'll see is when things get tough and all the brainwashed folks start fighting for control. Corporations and people alike. It's sad. There's really no educated forums any more in the media.
newb2yutube 1 year ago
@newb2yutube Correction, there never was one. Still sad though.
newb2yutube 1 year ago
@newb2yutube There is no way corporations could extort us to the extent they do if there is no legal authority to them to do so. The libertarians and Randians are not your enemies.
AndyMH182 1 year ago
@AndyMH182 I never said they were my enemies. Libertarians, Randians, anarchist like the Alex Jones and all these far right wing groups along with the communists, socialists are all the same. They will fight for their "beliefs" in the system we have called the Price System. Just fighting over rehashed old concepts that are not applicable in our High Technological World.
newb2yutube 1 year ago
So what do you want...a rule by the mob of idiots? A rule of corporations and special interest groups? A dictatorship? An oligarchy?They are all bullshit systems built on money, an abstract concept that has no bearing in the physical world. The only thing I can think of that would be sustainable and humanitarian is a rule of the scientific method. Check out technocracy technate design. It divorces us from the political price system method of special interest control with energy accounting.
newb2yutube 1 year ago
i find the color of that hoodie intimidating lol
g1981c 1 year ago
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Meskiagkasher 1 year ago
@g1981c how can a color be intimidating?
Meskiagkasher 1 year ago
@Meskiagkasher red can be very intimidating ... RED RED REEEEEEEEED !!!
greenhell666 1 year ago
@greenhell666 maybe to the weak-minded
Meskiagkasher 1 year ago
@Meskiagkasher it makes me fearful for my assshole !
g1981c 1 year ago
@g1981c there's no need to be fearful about that. you'll remain an assshole as long as you live.
Meskiagkasher 1 year ago
i answered my phone
fhattest 1 year ago
Public antipathy towards LGBT people is high, reflecting regional norms. This has eased somewhat since the 1990s. Educational campaigns on LGBT issues are currently implemented by the National Center for Sex Education, headed by Mariela Castro.
Cuban citizens can have sex reassignment surgery for free.
MilitantPeaceist 1 year ago
Private, non-commercial sexual relations between same-sex consenting adults 16 and over have been legal in Cuba since 1979, although same-sex relationships are not presently recognized by the state as a possible marriage. Despite elements of homophobia in Cuba's history, Havana now has a lively and vibrant gay scene.
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MilitantPeaceist 1 year ago
I'll throw in these 2 cents about Cuba: Because of the embargo, the Cubans have a reduce, reuse and recycle plan unlike any other in the world. Kudos to them.
Also, I can't confirm this one way or another, but I hear their crime rate is ridiculously low. If it's true, then I don't know if that's because that in a dictatorship criminals just get executed a lot more efficiently, unlike in the US where it takes 5 years to get someone on death row and another 10 to carry out the execution.
MuhammadVonRaven 1 year ago
OK I admit it, you had me hitting the ceiling until you started talking about that corporatism stuff of which I agree
But the problem is Cuba is under a tyranny and they make it work by just floating their surplus population to America (however many make it) and we bail em out!
The flipside of globalism is the federalist agenda of internationalism and their wag the dog scarecrow the zion occupied government!
See the ZOGgie is the useful idiot of the internationalist that play both sides
Curas1 1 year ago
we need to free them so we can get a hold of their cigars
exodus21v20 1 year ago
there is a huge problem with Organized crime in the Public sector everywhere in the world. there has to be cuts on populations because the public sector crooks thouOUT the world like to live like it's 1999. They have to maintain that cushy cake and paté eating status and go the 3 hour daily luncheons.
eachtem 1 year ago
Both democracy and dictatorships are horrible. Democracy is just mob rule and it becomes a system that pits groups against each. We have bribery, special interest using government power to keep themselves rich. A dictatorship is evil too, but sometimes a dictator sees his country as his property, and takes pride in his country, sometimes is even motivated to keep conditions sustainable. Where as democratic politicians will loot the countries and pay their buddies because they don't care.
19TEC85 1 year ago
Right on. Great video.
Xoroaster 1 year ago
great video. but you have to be careful about being too facicious in the begenning; when you started sayign that the US was a free Democracy I started rolling my eyes, when you said Fidel was a Dictator I ALMOST turned the video off. But luckily I kept watching; It was good that you backed up your evidence with facts - I especially liked the Bolivian facts and CIA provided info.
goodspelr 1 year ago
just to add to your excellent points about that evil socialism in cuba. they did all that while being harassed, sanctioned, and boycotted by the largest economy in the world, 90 miles from their coast.
all hail bechtel and lockheed martin.
tomitstube 1 year ago
America has been exploiting their native peoples since the beginning. It continues to drain villages of their people by charging them taxes, fees, and child support which forces people onto the money system, away from their traditional lands and barter systems and into towns where they clog welfare systems and compete for entry-level jobs, delaying the "jobless recovery."
themanyone 1 year ago
You are so fucking right, it's scary. Corporations have way too much power. The sheeple keep eating the grass that the media gives them... it's really sad.
The only difference between Cuba and the United States concerning dictatorship, is the fact that there isn't really any single person to point at and blame in the U.S., whereas with Cuba, there is. Most people are simple like that when reality is far more complex than they could imagine.
apocalypseap 1 year ago
tell it like it is!!!!!!!
workingclasssociety 1 year ago
The issue with dictators isn't if they are good, the issues are if they are bad.
How many monarchs in human civilization have been good? Many
How many have been insane tyrants that killed there own people/other people en masse? Many again.
Cuba has 70K PCs in private hands, in the era of technology they will be left behind.
In Cuba a Taxi driver or barman earns 2000% of the income of a surgeon. College is useful huh?
It is an upside down country on the brink of collapse, nice example.
deathByStupid 1 year ago
@deathByStupid Even if the surgeon makes less, the main point is that they can both live comfortably, a taxi driver in the United States can't feed a family of four. You write your comment as if democracies haven't had the same mass murder issues. In democratic societies, mass murder is ten times as bad as they are in dictatorships. So whatif they have 70k computers, it just means less facebook pages per thousand citizens.
ludaXkillz 1 year ago
@ludaXkillz
I love my computer. :P
KSH2006 1 year ago
@ludaXkillz If you can't feed a family of four don't have four kids, this aint rocket science, you just got to pull the rocket out before it launches.
The fact that cubans jam ever expanding families into the same house they lived in for 50 years doesnt constitute "comfortably" it just constitutes "surviving".
The issue is if a dictator is bad you cant vote them out if a government is bad you can.
As for the computers, its about the free exchange of ideas not facebook.
deathByStupid 1 year ago
@deathByStupid Correction: Yes, we can vote out bad politicians, but our choices are between a douche bag and an ass hole. Even if it's a choice, democracies run by corporations are and will always be shitty governments.
A government is formed to provide for the people, so the solution isn't to not have any kids if you can't provide for them. It is the duty of the government to be able to help provide for them if a slip up were to happen.
ludaXkillz 1 year ago
@ludaXkillz The duty of governments is to legislate laws and to enforce existing laws. In addition things like infrastructure are required so that everything keeps moving.
Governments protect childrens rights by removing them from parents who can't provide for them. Should they put everyone in position to look after their family of four? Thats absolutely not their responsibility, any government would prefer if people who couldnt afford their kids, didn't have them.
deathByStupid 11 months ago
@deathByStupid They don't remove children from parents who can't provide, they aid parents who can't provide. Thus, welfare was born
ludaXkillz 11 months ago
@ludaXkillz Great. So my money going to people who can't afford to have there own kids so they can pepper the country side with their own genetic stock sounds like the system works.
We kinda went of on a tangent here, the end fact is living in most democracies is more comfortable then living in Cuba. It really is a shitty place to live.
deathByStupid 11 months ago
Cuba's health care is superb when it comes to the treatment of serious disease, oddly enough. Solid research centers, and even better emergency treatment centers. Meds cost a few bucks at most.
Here? Shit... we can't get the GOP stiffs to stop chanting "socialism!" or "antichrist!" long enough to CARE about such things for people.
The GOP: All about the BUCK and the GOD whose name appears on it since 1953.
rationalmuscle 1 year ago
the real reason the Cuba is were is right now is cuz the majority of the world isolated cuba there is no a wide free market with the rest of the world but Cuba is one of the places the u wanna invest some point in time, Cuba will rise n be one of the richest country in Americas n i base the reason cuz Cuba is differen, how u might ask their country is not on DEBT WITH NO BANKS OR COUNTRIES THEY R DEBT FREE N EDUCATED, WITH A HEALTH REFORM PLUS THEY R HARD WORKERS, so Cuba has a lot of future.
davsoldier7 1 year ago
I wish states would independently attempt to copy most of cuba's tactics (not the shutting of the borders or completely stopping advertisements; among other things.) But seriously I'm so tired of wondering why we can't have sustainable agriculture, affordable health care and education, and the ability for us all to own our homes without stressing to death in the process
MrMagneticPelican 1 year ago
A must-read is the now infamous "Mindwar" psyop paper written by Lt. Col. Acquino, an updated version of which (2003) includes a new foreward by the retired officer that [poorly, imo] repudiates the conspiratorial conclusions that are drawn from its obvious policy implications over the decades since it was written. It is often cited to represent the Pentagon's nascent moral outrage (circa late '60s) over losing the Vietnam war "at home", i.e., their outward rage over homegrown "anti-americanism"
slewofdamascus 1 year ago
Wouldn't be great if everybody could clearly distinguish the differences that you speak of!
RyRyVids 1 year ago
Damn! Nice dreads, my man!
Darkscott626 1 year ago
That's a lot to soak in.
quirkjerks 1 year ago
This was dead on! Recent wikileaks tells that U.S government have threatened European countries with some sort of econimic sanctions. If they didnt let Monsanto with their seeds of evil, or opened the water supplies for big companies to exploit more nations, there would be sanctions. Isnt it fascism when govt works with/for corporations?
Fix that country of yours, you´re the most hated country on the globe already.
pololopo23 1 year ago
Dude you are so right on its not even funny .....
resistance0311 1 year ago
Dude, in Cuba there were consentration camps for homosexual people. :/
Mastikator 1 year ago
@Mastikator
Yeah, and in the US, we had things like the Indian Removal Act, Concentration Camps for Japanese citizens (notice the word "citizen"), slavery, and we still don't allow gay marriage.
abaddon5 1 year ago
@Mastikator True. Yet at least Castro, that 'evil tyrant', retracted this law and apologized to the people publically for this action. Chimpy couldn't even admit he'd done anything wrong during the Kerry debates, and still to this day thinks he did the "will of God" by invading Iraq.
Give me CASTRO any day over Bush. Any day and twice on Sunday.
rationalmuscle 1 year ago
@rationalmuscle I'm not saying that Bush and Cheney aren't evil tyrants and war criminals. They are, and deserve no different treatment than Saddam Hussein.
Mastikator 1 year ago
I'll bet you there isn't a child who comes out of Cuban high school without understanding the FACT of evolution.
You make a lot of fine points. My only problem with Castro over the years has been the lack of free speech to criticize the government. Then again, when you understand the unrelenting effort by the CIA and other American intelligence organizations to undermine the Cuban government, you can at least appreciate why. The government fears these "protesters" are American stooges.
AncientAtheist 1 year ago
I heard this once: In America, we get to elect our own dictators.
Youanden 1 year ago
I agree with your sarcasm; this false way of seeing the world is the product and nature of state-sponsored propoganda. While Hitler made plenty of quatoable comments about the gullibility of the masses and how he could manipulate them, he didn't have the tools, the "public relations" tools, the IT revolution, cable televi