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Canada plans to assist Cuba as Washington squeezes the island (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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smart move imo

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[–] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Don't you know? When I kill citizens, it's called freedom. When someone else kills citizens, it's called tyranny.

Governments I like are called governments, governments someone else likes is called regimes.

Don't you want to support freedom? Why are western governments so against freedom? Why is Canada playing pussyfoot with oppressive tyrannical communist regimes?

The person who thinks this post is legit doesn't deserve an /s.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    I mean, I'm just listening to Cubans themselves, they call it a regime.

    One of Cuba’s most prominent former political prisoners, José Daniel Ferrer García, the founder of the opposition group Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), went into exile in Miami in October after decades of activism and multiple imprisonments.

    “Most Cubans, inside and outside, want change,” he says. “But you cannot lead opposition inside Cuba because the regime jails any potential organiser immediately.”

    Another exiled political dissident, Luis Leonel León, Miami-based director of the Cuban Studies Institute, argues that forced exile has always been the regime’s fix – sending generations abroad and giving rise to what he calls the “empty island”. For many, he says, hope is so diminished that even rebelling seems pointless; the best option is to leave rather than fight.

    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/10/cuba-regime-polycrisis-collapse-exodus-economy-migration-us-sanctions-trump

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    The COVID trucker convoy labeled the Liberal government as a regime. They also say the liberal government suppresses dissent and the freezing of bank accounts as totalitarian. They also say most Canadians oppose the Liberal regime and that Trudeau got fewer votes then the Conservatives.

    Many such people emigrated to Mexico saying leaving is better than fighting.

    Are you going to say the Liberal government is a regime?

    I bet there is at least one Cuban who labels the government as the government.

    "Cubans" don't view their government as a regime. You do, then found a Cuban that agrees with you and then put their quote in bold.

    You just proved my point. Government I like is called a government, government someone else likes is called regine.

    If you are consistent with "regime" you'd call all governments as regimes.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    noun a government, especially an authoritarian one.

    https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=regime&addon=opensearch

    Political scientists characterize the political system of Cuba as a single-party authoritarian regime where political opposition is not permitted.[12][13][14

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Cuba

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    noun a government, especially an authoritarian one

    The Liberal regime froze the bank accounts of the trucker convoy protesters.

    Authoritarian is subjective not objective.

    It's solely a matter if reference.

    You don't know Curtis Yarvin (ally of VP Vance) where he rightly points out that tech companies run like dictatorships not democracies. Yet we don't opose them. Why?

    Again a matter of preference.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    nobody seriously is calling canadas government an authoritarian regime, please stop 😂

    secondly because private companies are private? if you want to run a company like a democracy you can, nobody is stopping you but why would you quote a fuckstick like jd vance or his friends anyway?

    Actually why are you quoting truckers and random people aligned with trump anyway? why are you so intent on making words meaningless?

    what is it about cuba that you love so much? you’re canadian apparently? what is it you’re so envious of, is it the one state party you cannot criticise publicly? no freedom of the press? the crumbling infrastructure? is it the lack of a future? are you wishing you were working a job delivering pizzas just so you could earn enough money to leave?

    you’re like it’s all wordplay! but this is silly, when opposition is so futile people just leave (and millions of them have) it’s obviously not just wordplay

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    It is all wordplay. Furthermore, there's nothing stopping Cubans from leaving, plenty have left already. Why do they complain? Why do you want to stop a country choosing it's style of government but not how companies are run? Why interfere in an another country's internal affairs but keep private power sacrosanct? If private companies are private, other countries are other countries.

    You and I both vote. The more time spent on this, the less time sent on actual issues.

    Cuba has always been used as a bad faith argument against public services. I want public services. That is my position. What is your position? Privatisation? Same thing with healthcare. Public healthcare is tyranny but private healthcare is freedom. Public transit is tyranny and private cars is freedom. Public education is tyrannical brain washing but private education is school choice freedom.

    This has always been an ideological debate, never serious.

    What is it about "freedom" that you love so much? The signing of nom-competes, NDAs, Terms and Coditions, rentierism to rent forever? Physical infrastructure here is at least better here than the US (if I was in the US or UK, it's literally crumbling) but our public services are going down the drain, do you like that? There is no future due the cost of living crisis and cost of housing, do you want to never own a home and always have increasing costs of life? Do you want a high-paying tech job (because a pizza job is not enough) to just leave the country? (https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=leaving+canada)

    Oh, well look at that. The same thing. Again, just preferences.

    The truckers who left for Mexico and Miami are just as serious as the Cubans who left to Miami.

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