> So you’re saying that Cuba doesn’t restrict free speech?

No, they do. I just think that's an acceptable thing to do. Sure, free speech is nice but housing, education, and healthcare are more important. In an ideal world we'd have both, but a hungry and homeless man doesn't care for free speech.

> You don’t lose your job for speaking out against the government?

No, you don't. You are legally and constitutionally guaranteed a job in Cuba.

> Tell me, Why is he in Sweden if Cuba is so great and full of opportunities?

Cuba is a third world country and has difficulties due to the 50 year long embargo that prevents them from trading with virtually any western country that's allied with the US.

> News and media aren’t censored?

No, they are.

> Is it not true that owning a business isn’t heavily restricted to the point where most of your income goes to the government?

Lol. "Economic freedom". You're talking to a communist, why would I care about letting people own businesses? Cuba has worker co-operatives and public enterprise. Capitalism is inherently exploitative. Cuba not having private enterprise is a good thing.

> The president not having legislative power? Bunk.
> Taxi drivers don’t make more than doctors? Bunk.

If you want sources, here are sources.

A Comparative Analysis of US and Cuban Democracy
Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion by Arnold August.
DemocracyInTheUS.com.
Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet.
All in This Together: Cuba's Participatory Democracy.
The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba's Municipal Elections by Arnold August.
Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba by Linda Fuller.
How do Elections Work in Cuba?
How is the President elected in Cuba?
Cuba: A Revolution in Motion by Isaac Saney.
Cuban Constitution.

> Racism and homophobia are super common

Black Lives Matter in Cuba
5 Ways Fidel Castro and Cuba Inspired US Black Radicals
Black America and the Passing of Fidel Castro
Cuba Says 'No' to Transphobia and Homophobia
Looking at Cuba's LGBTQ Revolution Through an Objective Lens
Cuba Celebrates LGBTI Inclusion at 10th Annual March Versus Transphobia, Homophobia
Cuba Observes 11th Annual Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia
LGBTQI March to Support Labor and Marriage Rights in Havana

As for the whole LGBT thing... (again)

SRS and HRT are provided free of charge. This is more than can be said for a lot of countries.

CENESEX is a government-funded body in Cuba, best known for advocating tolerance of LGBT issues on the island. CENESEX stresses acceptance of sexual diversity and has attracted international attention in recent years for its campaigns for the rights of transgender persons, including the recognition of an individual’s gender identity, regardless of birth sex, and provision of state-funded sexual reassignment surgery.

Cuba also has an Assembly Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which last year launched a week dedicated to stamping out homophobia and transphobia, spearheaded by Mariela Castro.

All this said, yes Cuba still has a way to go. Cuba, despite being a socialist state, is very catholic, and so they can be conservative in some ways. But Cuba has improved over the years.
Same-sex sexual activity was made legal in 1979, 24 years before the United States.
Cuba has given the right to change legal gender since 2008, which the US still doesn't.
Cuba has an equal age of consent, which the US still doesn't.
Cuba has anti-discrimination laws in employment, which the US still doesn't.
Cuba lets MSM donate blood, which the US still doesn't.

Yes, laws in the US vary from state to state, but on a national level the US is behind Cuba in many ways. And not only the US, but progressive countries like Sweden (where I'm from) are also behind in some respects.

The imprisonment of gay people 60 years ago was obviously horrible, and Cuba recognises that what they did was both morally wrong and unconstitutional.

In his autobiography My Life, Fidel Castro criticized the machismo culture of Cuba and urged for the acceptance of homosexuality. He made several speeches to the public regarding discrimination against homosexuals.

In a 2010 interview with Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Fidel Castro called the persecution of homosexuals while he was in power "a great injustice, great injustice!" Taking responsibility for the persecution, he said, "If anyone is responsible, it's me. We had so many and such terrible problems, problems of life or death. In those moments, I was not able to deal with that matter [of homosexuals]. I found myself immersed, principally, in the Crisis of October, in the war, in policy questions." Castro personally said that the negative treatment of gays in Cuba arose out of the country's pre-revolutionary attitudes toward homosexuality.

> I’m just saying It’s pretty clear that you won’t go to Cuba and record yourself talking to random people for obvious reasons. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Prove me wrong though. Go ahead.

A one-way flight from Gothenburg to Havana is $1,128. Buy me a ticket and I'll do what you ask.

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>I was hoping you could give me a link to what success in combating homelessness looks like in Cuba. The reason I mentioned economic homogeneity is that "eradicating homelessness" is easy if the bar is set pretty low to begin with.

Sure:

https://fresnoalliance.com/homeless-in-cuba-not-likely/

https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/cuba_statistics.html

This book is good if you can buy it

Cuba has advanced leaps and bounds under the Castro's most notably in indicators of quality of life like healthcare, education/literacy, sanitation, etc. It has a mortality rate lower than the US and its medical system is lauded even by capitalist NGOs as exemplary.

>Note that my issue with your claim about Cuba is separate from what you said about NY, which to me sounds more success from a statistics standpoint than combating the actual underlying issues.

You're right that NY doesn't do so well at treating the underlying issues, but IMO ensuring there are beds for every homeless person in the city is great compared to what a lot of cities do.

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But he's not even close to being a communist, neither is anyone on the alt-right. Communism is basically the polar opposite of the alt-right.

You might want to be a little more informed- So here we go :D

SECTION 1: THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: THE SOVIET UNION MANUFACTURED A FAMINE IN UKRAINE

RESOURCE 1: Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle
RESOURCE 2: The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
RESOURCE 3: Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933 by Mark Tauger
RESOURCE 4: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft
RESOURCE 5: Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union by Mario Sousa

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE SOVIET UNION REPRESSED AND KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
RESOURCE 1: The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy
RESOURCE 2: Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Syzmanski
RESOURCE 3: Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens
RESOURCE 4: Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives by Getty and Manning
RESOURCE 5: Origins of the Great Purges by J. Arch Getty
RESOURCE 10: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
RESOURCE 11: Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder's 'Bloodlands' Is False by Grover Furr

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 3: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE EASTERN BLOC HAD NO DEMOCRACY
RESOURCE 1: Soviet Communism: A New Civilization by Sydney and Beatrice Webb
RESOURCE 2: Is the Red Flag Flying? by Albert Syzmanski
RESOURCE 3: Socialism Betrayed by Keeran and Kenny
RESOURCE 4: Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934–1941 by Robert Thurston

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 4: SOCIALISM IS AN ECONOMIC FAILURE
RESOURCE 1: Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work? by Stephen Gowans
RESOURCE 2: From Farm to Factory by Robert Allen
RESOURCE 3: The Rise of Socialism by William Foster
RESOURCE 4: We Lived Better Then by Stephen Gowans
RESOURCE 5: The Need for Planning by Joseph Ball

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 5: EVERYBODY HATED SOCIALISM
RESOURCE 1: Homesick for a Dictatorship
RESOURCE 2: 60% of Russians Want Communism Back
RESOURCE 3: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup
RESOURCE 4: Russians say Aug 1991 events are tragedy, not triumph of democracy
RESOURCE 5: Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism
RESOURCE 6: Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength
RESOURCE 7: Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 6: LIFE UNDER SOCIALISM WAS TERRIBLE
RESOURCE 1: An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now by F.S.
RESOURCE 2: Growing Up Under Communism Was The Happiest Time Of My Life by Zsuzsanna Clark

SECTION 2: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: MAO KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
RESOURCE 1:Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? by Joseph Ball
RESOURCE 2:Monster or Liberator? by Carlos Martinez
RESOURCE 3: The Battle for China's Past by Mobo Gao

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CHINA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
RESOURCE 1: The Rise of the Chinese People's Communes by Anna Louise Strong
RESOURCE 2: The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of the Cultural Revolution by E. L. Wheelwright
RESOURCE 3: Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton

SECTION 3: CUBA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: CHE WAS A BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHER
RESOURCE 1: Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
RESOURCE 2: Debunking the 'Che Guevara Was Racist!' Lie by Cuervo Rojo

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CUBA HAS NO DEMOCRACY AND IS A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE
RESOURCE 1: 20 Reasons to Support Cuba
RESOURCE 2: Cuba: A Revolution in Motion by Isaac Saney
RESOURCE 3: Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion by Arnold August + http://www.democracyintheus.com/
RESOURCE 4: Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet
RESOURCE 5: All in This Together: Cuba's Participatory Democracy

SECTION 4: THE DPRK

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: NORTH KOREANS BELIEVE IN UNICORNS AND THEY THINK KIM JONG-UN IS IMMORTAL
RESOURCE 1: Western DPRK Propaganda: The Worst, Occasionally Hilarious, and Often Racist, Lies by Alyx Mayer
RESOURCE 2: Anti-DPRK Propaganda War – a Cavalcade of Comedy by Red Youth
RESOURCE 3: Tourist who took camera inside North Korea shocked by 'ordinary' lives of citizens
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE DPRK IS A FASCIST MONARCHY
RESOURCE 1: Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea by Vince Sherman
RESOURCE 2: How to Think about Socialism in Korea
RESOURCE 3: Understanding North Korea by Stephen Gowans

SECTION 5: THE PEOPLE'S (SOCIALIST) REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: ALBANIA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
RESOURCE 1: Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People by William Ash
RESOURCE 2: Insights into Socialist Albania from 'Pickaxe and Rifle'

tl;dr: bash the fash

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SECTION 1: THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: THE SOVIET UNION MANUFACTURED A FAMINE IN UKRAINE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE SOVIET UNION REPRESSED AND KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 3: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE EASTERN BLOC HAD NO DEMOCRACY

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 4: SOCIALISM IS AN ECONOMIC FAILURE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 5: EVERYBODY HATED SOCIALISM

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 6: LIFE UNDER SOCIALISM WAS TERRIBLE

SECTION 2: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: MAO KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CHINA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP

SECTION 3: CUBA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: CHE WAS A BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHER

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CUBA HAS NO DEMOCRACY AND IS A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE

SECTION 4: THE DPRK

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: NORTH KOREANS BELIEVE IN UNICORNS AND THEY THINK KIM JONG-UN IS IMMORTAL

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE DPRK IS A FASCIST MONARCHY

SECTION 5: THE PEOPLE'S (SOCIALIST) REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA

ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: ALBANIA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP

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