Frikis, Cuba, HIV- level of desperation.
Meet some of the last surviving members of Los Frikis, members of Cuba's punk movement who purposefully infected themselves with HIV.
Everyone who says these people are retarded can go fuck themselves, honestly. You will never know the level of poverty and deprivation the people of Cuba experienced during that time, none of us will. What did they have to lose? Between dying of hunger in the street labeled an "undesirable", and living out the rest of your short life being able to eat, sleep in a bed, and surrounded by people who accepted you, I can understand why they did what they did. Instead of calling these people stupid, people should be pissed that poverty does this to people and should attack the governments and institutions that push people to these types of situations.You don't know what you would've done in that situation. It could've easily been you.
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Everyone who says these people are retarded can go fuck themselves, honestly. You will never know the level of poverty and deprivation the people of Cuba experienced during that time, none of us will. What did they have to lose? Between dying of hunger in the street labeled an "undesirable", and living out the rest of your short life being able to eat, sleep in a bed, and surrounded by people who accepted you, I can understand why they did what they did. Instead of calling these people stupid, people should be pissed that poverty does this to people and should attack the governments and institutions that push people to these types of situations.You don't know what you would've done in that situation. It could've easily been you.
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In Cuba you don't BUY much. You get 20 cuc a month. Enough to buy rice and beans and maybe if they save enough can get some chicken, if you find someone to save with...They don't have a "housing market", so if you roof collapses, the "government" will help you out and put you in a overflowing relief center where you'd sit for 50 years waiting your turn to inherit someone else's house.
The interent is owned by the military. You must use the WiFi supplied by the government, mostly local parks next to the big hotels. The WiFi cards are hustled like crack. The typical park scene with groups men standing around..
In order for them to make extra money beyond the 20 cuc a month, they go buy all the WiFi cards and flip them out of parks.
You're in a taxi, ask for WiFi cards, you pull up, he signals, one fellow runs up and flips a sachet out of his pants and looks around and throws us 4 hrs of WiFi for 15$ while looking around for police.
They have the choice to eat or buy Internet minutes to follow our trend of recreational Internet usage or starve. Information and the access to it is heavily restricted in general, so getting smarter outside of the government is not allowed.
When going scuba diving outside of havana, I saw men on the side of the road trying to sell their catch or finds....just like many other places I traveled I was curious and actually wanted to buy some. I asked the taxi driver to stop at the next person selling their catch since my whole time there I did not see one* effing supermarket.
So the next guy we were approaching was selling bananas and a police officer was escorting him to the pice car to be detained FOR SELLING BANANAS HE FOUND.
Bc the government wants total control.
My scuba diver was a god damn marine scientist who gets paid more..illegally... doing small scuba tours for visitors.
The taxi drivers sometimes opt out of being doctors and etc...Bc they can't survive on that wage, and make more money driving a taxi, so why even TRY TO BE the best that you can. There's no fucking point for them to try harder or want to do the harder, "honest" work.
Most people have NO IDEA OR EVEN HAVE THE IMAGINATION FOR SUCH A SYSTEMATIC SUFFRAGE LIKE THEIRS.
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Maybe these people took a gamble with the hopes that there would be a cure? Idk. I don't pretend to understand what goes through other humans minds durning points if duress. What I do know is every human experience is different and when we decided to be each others judge, jury, and executioner based on a fucking vice article we really only end up stunting ourselves and our own world view.
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In other words, you're saying it's okay to give up?
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No, it was desperation. I definitely don't think people giving other people the virus intentionally is a good thing, but I come from a third world and am lucky enough to escape it, you don't know the true horror these places would turn into. You don't know how it is not to have access to clean water and not be able to go to school and not comprehend the world like we all do.
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My family is Cuban and went through the horrors of Cuba during this time. None of you will understand the desperation that these people felt. People killed themselves all the time and were killed by the government itself. So fuck off calling these people in the video stupid. Enjoy the privilege you have, many people in the world will never experience it.
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I've been there... it's fucking horrible, depressing, and insane..people that cheer on socialism can go there and find out for themselves
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