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No, you don't know, I know perfectly well. As far as fanboying, that's pretty ridiculous, I've condemned Cuba repeatedly in this very thread. I just also acknowledge that people I disagree with aren't completely incapable gimps. I find it hilarious that you're accusing me of backtracking now...

Oh this is just embarrassing to see on our boards. Let's take a look: MeNZB: Outer membrane vesicles extracted from a strain of Neisseria meningitidis B VA-MENGOC-BC: Synthetic Outer membrane vesicles replicating those of Neisseria meningitidis B MeNZB is VA-MENGOC-BC. They just couldn't...

Oh my god, are you seriously so uninformed on this issue that you think the cancer treatment is the only medicine they have? Even when I mentioned others? Here, have some more. First country to devise a means to prevent HIV from passing from mother to child in the womb. First, and so far...

China's had a spy base on Cuba for years, though the Biden Administration only admitted to it very recently. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/politics/china-spy-base-cuba.html Currently there's talks about a joint training facility, which would mean stationing troops and that has some...

Well, at least we've got you admitting how wrong you were at the start now. We've gone from "All of Cuba's medical advancements are commie propaganda" to "Well on the planetary level Cuba isn't as big as the third largest economy on the planet." Not bad progress. Of course Cuba isn't...

What's that have to do with the price of tea in China? All those things are totally irrelevant. You used a source that's complete shit. That's indisputable. And now, you're so bereft of sources you had to link to the same Reason.Com site twice to try to pad your list and make it look like...

Oh, fact checked by Snopes, that's convincing. Do you also endorse the multiple pages of anti-Trump fact checks they're legendary for? Or the fact that Snopes is so eager to fact-check anything conservative they've repeatedly fact-checked the freakin' Babylon Bee? That Snopes? That's what...

Not "at this point." Abdala was in clinical trials in 2020 and had a widescale deployment in 2021. But if you're not impressed with their COVID vaccines, perhaps you'd be more impressed that due to superior health care, Cuba's life expectancy is several years longer than the US? Or that they...

In addition to what Cherico said, Cuba's biotech industry is poised to explode. In 1970, an outbreak of Dengue Fever nearly wiped the island out. Castro sent every halfway decent medic he had to Moscow's universities to learn then-cutting-edge medical tech, then threw tons of money and his...

Nobody's impressed by you pretending* you can't parse basic English. Your inability to read a sentence and get the context from it doesn't reflect poorly on me for not spoon-feeding you everything, it reflect poorly on you for not being able to understand simple concepts without being spoonfed...

The ratio of retirees to working people is only a single minor part of the main issue. Firstly as I've pointed out, China's economy is only barely holding on now, and only that by scamming people, refusing to let them draw their own savings from the bank, and abusing COVID lockdowns...

Mostly that he was misusing his terms and being a goofball using a source that said the opposite of what he was claiming it said. As far as actual collapse, I think 10 years is too optimistic but I also think we're seeing obvious signs of financial woes right now. China entered a series...

So in dealing with demographics, in relation to an aging population, where only percentages matter, and where I was answering your statements which used percentages, you arbitrarily decided I must have been using absolute numbers and those are more important than percentages. Either you're...

I gave me like half a dozen different news articles discussion the recent events. What more can you possibly need? No, because as expected, I'm the one who's right here (expected because I'm the one presenting links) and your facts are being sourced from your backside...

Old age dependency is derived from demographics, in the same sense that orange juice is derived from orange trees. Using it as you are is equivalent to claiming that you can determine the number of orange trees in the world by counting bottles of juice. Everybody who isn't you is counting...

That's a heck of a goalpost move from what we were discussing, namely the silly tweet you were using as evidence and it's contradicting your claims. Zeihan's reliability is another discussion, one I'm inclined to agree with as I think he's a touch overhyped. However, your claim is still...

He's also using data that was just released, not stuff from 2020. Literally, in the first minute, he points out that previously believed false information's been proven wrong now and his new figures are compensating for it.

Is it just me or is that tweet comparing 2020 Japan to a projection of what they think the US might look like in 2070? Also, the projection shows that China is poised to have a much older population than the US shortly so it's actually supporting @Cherico's claim instead of yours.

For the longest time, Globalism preached that nuclear power and self-sufficiency were bad, because international trade would bring peace. As long as nations were financially and infrastructually dependent on each other, the theory went, they couldn't go to war without wrecking themselves so...

No, the super-wealthy do not have giant money bins of cash to swim in. They keep a majority their assets in things that are immune to inflation, like stocks and real estate holdings. Poor people tend to actually have a much larger percentage of their total wealth tied up in cash than rich...