• beejboytyson@lemmy.world
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    Cuba has more doctors per sq. inch than another country in NA. Everybody in Cuba is highly educated despite it being a place where not the smartest people vacation to. Only reason Cuba is not an economic power house is because of the embargo that’s been going on for 50 years.

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      “How many left countries do I need to destroy to show you that it does not work?” - Every US intelligence agency, probably

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      indeed. the biggest reason socialism fails is because capitalists keep kneecaping it, not because its a flawed system.

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        The narrative that socialism has always failed is also wrong, too. Cuba is doing far better than they would have for its people had it remained a sugar colony. China is quickly advancing to the top of the world stage. Socialism does work, despite siege, even if it would do better without it.

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              Their scientists also developed a very potent cure for Alzheimers disease named NeuralCIM.

              Not exactly, NeuralCIM does appear to slow Alzheimers progression, only measuring cognitive scores but it is far from a “cure”.

              It’s being tested at Phase 2 in Canada, with plans for a large phase 3, this time using brain imaging.

              How CIM can make this drug for $2.50 a dose is another question for capitalism, because by the time it gets approved in North America, it will cost thousands.

              Ironic that the country under siege by the USA has the one drug the US president needs.

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            Right now the genocidal blockade is preventing vital cancer-treating medicine from entering Cuba, so while Cuba does have numerous advantages over the US even with its imperialism, right now the people are being starved and cut off of vital necessities.

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      Ok, but Guevara got kicked out of Cuba because all he wanted was war. He was also a bastard to his own troops.

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        No, he left (and abdicated all of his own titles and citizenship) to go fight against imperialism in the Congo.

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          Not actual history, but believe what you want. You don’t always want military revolutionaries running a country after revolution. See Stalin.