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"most of the world is capitalist, and most of the world is poor."
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2026
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I dream of a great war which reduces the United States to ash
Hey, I was pretty close
love how "big finance buildling" is the marker for success in a nation; says nothing for quality of life, access to medical care, ability to start a family, freedom from the boot of capital stepping on your neck etc
i wonder what japan would look like if it was smaller and cut off from international trade by a significant military power ~150km off its coast
And not given money from said country.
Okay now do China after 77 years of communism
But its state capitalism!!! Except when they do something I dont like, then they're evil seeseepee commies.
I fucking hate these comparisons. Why don't they compare like with like? How's Cuba doing compared to other Caribbean island countries like Jamaica ~~or Haiti~~ or Dominican Republic? Before the recent escalation of the siege + oil crisis, it sure seems like they were doing a lot better for the essential life things. And that's in spite of a blockade by the biggest trading partner in the region.
Haiti
Haiti’s been under even harsher oppression from colonial powers than Cuba.
Okay, fair, that's not a good comparison. I knew they had it bad but I didn't know it was worse than the embargo on Cuba.
Did you know Haiti was forced into debt for 122 years to pay reparations to France?
I knew they were forced into debt but I didn't know it was that long, jeez. Fuck France. 
Hell, let's see how Cuba looks compared to Youngstown Ohio, or Camden New Jersey, or Gary Indiana. Hell, let's keep it regional and see how Cuba looks compared to Gulf states like Port Arthur/Beaumont or Galveston Texas, Jackson Mississippi or Mobile Alabama
Alongside the obvious, Japan also had nearly a century of Western-assisted industrialisation prior to WW2, while Cuba was either a Spanish colony or US-backed banana republic during that time
Quaranteed there are 100s of places in Japan that look like the bottom photo
Photos of like, "depressing eastern bloc commie blocks" are funny for the same reason, those places just look like our house w worse upkeep
Japan has both the extremely old / run-down multi generational housing (just look at most of the victims of the New Year’s Day earthquake 2/3 years ago) and plenty of “commieblocks” that frequently contain built-in green spaces and daycares etc. The former will be shown for it’s traditional aesthetic and the latter won’t be seen at all.
Old/run-down houses 😡
Old/run-down houses, Japan 😍
Tokyo's unhoused population are mostly coerced to stay out of sight but if you know where to look...
this is a common flaw in their moral philosophy: only the maximum level of money in a vague all-of-society-in-one-gdp-statistic way makes for a valid society. in reality the cubans aren't and were never suffering from a lack of skyscrapers. if their preferred mode of existence is low rise then so what?
preference aside, skyscrapers on a hurricane-prone island just sounds bad and wasteful
Missing the real headline: U.S. Vassal State versus U.S. Enemy State
how many south american countries do we have to coup and embargo before you learn that socialism just naturally fails on its own?
Looks at Cuba: "Wow, these people with our military's boots on their necks for generations still have beautiful architecture and better healthcare than us"
Looks at Japan: 
and 
and lots of boring developer-driven corporate-architecture crap and salarymen with no social lives who want to kill themselves
Japan has like 10x the population shut up
i don't even like skyscrapers? who actually does?
sure, it was impressive and artistic for maybe a decade just to flex on gravity, but we've had these things for a century and no real-life utility has been found. office towers are ridiculous hubris that coasted on structural inertia decades after the 'conveinience' of having these offices so close together was outdated. the vaunted "space-efficiency" is grains to the heap of overall city density, cut the towers and add one floor to the surrounding couple sq km. same deal.
fuck towers 
but without towers where will we dock the airships?
I'll be hope that it's bad joke...