• volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    That’s not data, that’s a newspaper article. Come back with serious sources.

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          5 months ago

          He literally countered a baseless claim, which would have the burden of proof and could have been dismissed, and you still want more?

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            5 months ago

            The article is the classic example of concern-trolling.

            Instead of showing statistics or actual data, it talks about this “economic crisis” of Cuba, it interviews a particular person to make people feel pity, shows a few pictures of people selling produce on the streets (normal in Cuba since the 1990s’ periodo especial)… The writers don’t know about Cuba, and don’t care about Cubans. It’s just a wannabe hit-piece to create concerns in the West about the conditions of Cubans. That’s why I’m dismissing it. The claim “there’s hunger in Cuba” requires statistical evidence supporting it.

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              5 months ago

              Perfect, so why not say this directly? And why not provide evidence for the other side?

              Only focusing on what we do not believe is a big part of how we got to the shitty situation we are in today. Such a bias really hurts us and we must constantly remind ourselves that the other side is just like us.