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Poll finds 51% of Canadians want aid sent to Cuba even if it angers U.S. (torontosun.com)

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[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You live in the worldwide capital of Atlantic trade slavery and you believe China is more racist than you somehow?

Well, typical American, assumes everyone is also American, even literally on Canada@lemmy.ca with a user called CanadaPlus. Black slavery was never a major part of our economy.

Your ilk claims to be anti-American, but somehow you're overwhelmingly American, mostly white and actual third world people think you're goofs. Basically, go home yank, and take your conspiracy theories with you.

GDP in USD is a bad metric, try GDP PPP.

Most of what you wrote needs no debunking, but I will address this for anyone reading. That's based on a goods basket of some kind, and usually meant to represent household spending (although if you've actually been to a poor country, you can see it still misses the mark of actual lifestyles).

For broader economic power, real dollars (or renminbi or pesos or whatever unit you like) is best. Because that's what you actually trade with.

[-] Riverside@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm literally a Spaniard, not a Yank... Oh, sorry, you're from North American Country #2 in genociding native populations, not from #1, my bad!

Great job disregarding the difference between economic sanctions meant to starve people with the explicit purpose of regime change vs. lack of trade in general due to self reliance or response to US sanctions. You're illiterate.

For broader economic power, real dollars (or renminbi or pesos or whatever unit you like) is best

For broader economic power you could measure actual industrial output: tons of iron, amount of ships built, energy consumed, any actual metric and not an arbitrary accounting unit. China's central bank artificially devalues its currency in the international market to boost exports and productive capabilities, if you knew literally anything about economics you'd be aware of how this impacts GDP measurements in dollars.