It’s amazing. It’s such a fantastic system, and they manage it with so little funding comparatively. After seeing how bad it is in America, and also how good it was in the UK at the time the documentary came out, all I could think of was what’s to come.
Capitalists want nothing more than the end of Cuba, and it’s miraculous socialist healthcare, and the UK is quickly eroding away at the NHS. I seriously may have to consider learning Spanish and getting out of here if this place keeps getting worse and worse.
Seeing the happiness on the faces of these Americans being treated in Cuba for pennies, the gentle way the doctors acted towards these people as humans rather than as meatbags of profit.
I’m not an emotional guy, but it really nearly had me for a second. What a fucking stupid world.
also the fact that US embargos make it really expensive to get complex high end medical equipment in cuba as it has to be shipped from China really shows Cuban perseverance in the face of outright malicious opposition. Like really we’re embargoing the cancer treatment of Cuban children wtf guys
I was thinking about watching Bowling For Columbine the other day to see how it aged, but I’m afraid I will emerge on the other side wearing a red velvet suit and permanent clown face paint.
It’s mostly Moore jumping from NRA headquarters to Walmart to Clint Eastwood’s house, waving a bloody shirt and telling them to stop killing children.
Its very Lib Brained, tbh. Not what I’d call radicalizing. You can see his style aped by a lot of modern right wing click bait journalists, today.
I’ve been meaning to rewatch Fahrenheit 9/11, it’s been so long that all I remember about the movie was everyone in our lib-ass neighborhood saying it was the silver bullet that was going to end Bush.
In the community I grew up in, saying his name in anything other than an explicitly derogatory way was verboten
We really need a smarty-pants leftist to go back and examine Columbine, the shooters being neo-nazis, the general zeitgeist of late 90’s neoliberalism, and how it all ties in together today with this boater style fascism we got going on today. Too many people miss the forest through the trees on just saying it was guns and blaming the NRA.
I’d actually like to hear if anyone here has some takes or pointers on that, cos it’s a pretty interesting concept.
Come on my hexbears, I want to see some attempts, however misguided or lizard brained.
I’m not like Matt and smart enough to tie all this together but there’s something there and it’s most likely due to neoliberalism.
Moore seems like he’s functionally a lib, though there are some things in his movies (especially in Capitalism: A Love Story) that make me wonder if he’s more left than he lets on. In general, though, he’s amazing at creating emotionally impactful propaganda and I feel like it’s not the worst idea for people on the left to look to his work for inspiration in terms of how to frame a particular message to influence the widest possible audience.
(edit: clarity)
There is also that other movie where he goes to Sweden or something and that didn’t work out much better either in the grand scheme.
