Leo Gura

Kotkin is an ace!

Yeah, but nowadays it's all about profit maximization. The corruption of late Stage Orange has set in. Remember, each stage only goes so far, after which point it becomes dysfunctional and sclerotic. Orange is turning into a rotting putrid corpse. Orange was healthy 200 years ago.

Right-wingers are incapable of genuine moral behavior because that requires consciousness and higher stages of development. Stage Blue morality has always been a sham. And Stage Orange only values money, so you can't have morality there either.

Yeah, it's in the right direction. Don't worry, that's just the tip.

Of course not. When politics is so corrupt as it is today, a surveillence state will be in the hands of devils.

Corruption always fails because it isn't true. The only thing that survives in the long term is truth.

Don't worry, that too will fail.

How dare you!

Cuba was propped up by the USSR. Once the Soviet Union collapsed Cuba was screwed. Hurricaines devistate the island too. Developing high civilization on a tropical island is tough.

It only gets worse and worse.

Don't worry, MAGAism will fail.

Of course I know that. They mean capital. Marxism demonizes and seeks to abolish capital.

@Emerald Of course right-wingers are more violent. But we only know that by keeping a scorecard.

It has everything to do with corruption, which is at the core of right-wing populism and MAGA. American democracy is insanely corrupt and MAGA is corrupting it more each day because they are corrupt truthless morons. As they corrupt democracy more each day more and more violence will happen. It could not be otherwise. There must be a cost for a monster like Trump wielding power. MAGA are such fools they don't understand that.

Watch actual Cuba:

China was a failure until it rejected Marxist economics and went with capitalist economics but kept its one party dicatorship. The economy of China is NOT what Marxists wanted nor predicted. Marxism was about eliminating free markets and private property. That did not happen because it cannot happen because that is a fantasy. What China proves is that capitalist economics works very well to make a nation rich.

But there is. If some conservative guy killed AOC, you would count that against conservatives. So don't pretend you are too enlightened to keep a scoreboard. You count acts of political violence against your political opponents as proof of their depravity and inferiority to your side. Leftists want to say that the right is more violent and dangerous than the left. Well, that requires keeping a scorecard if you want to be fair and scientific about it. How do you know the right is more dangerous than the left unless you make that an empirical matter? Who kills more humans, right or left? You can't assume the answer, you must empirically test it. So here we are.

Patajali said, Vote MAGA!

Look at how Cuba actually is, not leftist talking points: They live like dogs. They have 6hrs of electricity per day, no medicine, no eggs, black markets, everything is run down, no jobs, no future. Don't forget that communist education is an indoctrination camp. They are brainwashed from day one with communist dogma.

This is what Cuba's schools are like: Skip to 26:34

I don't know of such a book. It's hard to trust economists.

No. Cuban doctors are poor relative to other Cuban professions. You can literally earn more money as a delivery boy in Cuba than as a doctor. A Cuban doctor cannot afford to buy a single carton of eggs. There is nothing positive about Cuba's style of government. The medical system in Cuba is miserable. Healthcare should be expensive because: 1) health is worth a lot, 2) doctors invest a lot in their education and work a lot, 3) mistakes in this field are deadly and costly. Doctors who cannot afford a carton of eggs is nothing to be proud of.