Best case scenario at this point is that both China and the US are successful in neutering each other’s foreign power.

A man can dream, right?

The average American thinks the USA is the greatest nation on the planet and that Americans are the most fortunate people on the planet.

Recognizing that being impoverished in a prosperous and developed country is better than being impoverished in an economically struggling country is not propaganda. America is not the best place to be poor, but it isn’t the worst, and the self-pitying idea that being poor in the US is as bad as or worse than being poor in any country is some utterly ignorant shite.

A poor person in a socialist country still has all their needs met.

Do you really know nothing about living standards in Cuba?

You’re living in a fantasy.

How ironic.

They’re not mutually exclusive.

but have you tried being poor in America?

… have you?

Jesus Christ.

I live well-under the poverty line. It’s bad. I also know it’s nowhere near as bad as an average existence in Cuba.

Read up. Read personal accounts. Check economic statistics.

Just by living in the US, we are immensely fucking privileged.