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  • Neither of those things are true.

    According to Wikipedia USA life expectancy is 79.3, Cuba is 78.1

    Ranking higher education is much trickier but pretty much every list I could find puts USA right at the top. American higher education institutions are world class and remains probably America’s biggest competitive advantage (i.e. brain drain).

    Also Cuba probably isn’t the best example to rebut the “why does communism always turn into a dictatorship” question.








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    15 days ago

    It’s not that people don’t care because the victims aren’t white. They don’t care as much because to an american/European audience the deaths are less geopolitically relevant.

    Millions die in Africa? Ok, how does that impact the US at all, apart from immigration? Meanwhile Pol Pot and Mao Zedong are household names because there is a clear geopolitical connection which kept those people in the news and history books.