Hello, you're listening to Red Minus. I'm Allison, I'm here with my co-host Brett, and

for this month's episode we're doing something that we haven't yet done on a public episode

yet, gonna try to mix things up a little bit. We put out a call for some questions

across various social media platforms to get some questions that you all had for us, and

we're gonna be answering those this month. Normally we do this as sort of one of the things

we do for Patreon, often we'll do Q&As with patrons only, but we decided to kind of broaden

things up a little bit and get some feedback from people, you know, in terms of the questions

that they have prompted either by things that we've talked about on the show or just sort

of ideas generally. So if you like this format and you're interested in this, obviously you

can check out our Patreon where we do this much more frequently and you can go listen

to old episodes there and I'm sure there will be future Patreon Q&As in the future, but

for this month we decided to just do this publicly as a way of interacting more broadly

with our listener base and getting some discussion going about some of these questions.

So with that said, unless you have any other introductory notes Brett, you want to just hop

right into it. Yeah, I think we're good. We have about 12 questions, they're all amazing,

and as always we got even more than that, many like times more than that, and they're

all amazing questions. So it's just always difficult to sort of parse out which ones we

want to tackle and which ones to leave behind for another time. So thank you to everybody

who asked the question, even if yours doesn't get answered in this one, I've read them

and you know, perhaps in the future we'll be able to get to them. But let's go ahead

and start with the first question, which is our thoughts on modern AES translated to

actually existing socialism. And this person asks about Cuba specifically, and they say

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