I have to wonder, last time I checked Canada is a sovereign country, why can trump dictate who we can help and who we can not. My opinion: we should help the Cuban People as much as we can and give the Trumpsters the middle finger salute.
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Please send them solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries. Not fossil fuels!
Unfortunately aircraft still run on fossil fuels, which is a big part of getting goods into the country.
Also ships, but I’m not sure if the blockade is effectively stopping everything, or just oil tankers.
In a somewhat sick kind of way, would be kinda cool if they start using sailing yachts for local trade since they don’t have any fuel.
Ships have run on wind for a lot longer than humans have discovered how to make internal combustion engines..
... which I did mention… but there aren’t a whole lot of sail based cargo ships around anymore.
Longer term yeah, moving away from petroleum is obviously the move. But they need stuff now. And again, air travel is a huge problem right now. It’s hard to send aid there when the planes cant refuel. Not impossible, just more of a logistical problem.
you have no idea how a power grid works.
Cuba already has large solar farms.
Why not just give them cash so they can buy them from China themselves?
Then China can just spin up another coal plant to sustain the extra demand.
One of the best things we can do as a country right now is helpful acts like these.
These actions show the world Canada can be trusted for the leadership role being thrust upon us.
These random acts of kindness in the face of what's going on show Trump and his masters that love beats everything.
They have GOT to get over Cuba.
USA is like some narcissistic stuck up boyfriend that got dumped in high school and just won't let it go.
I always find it frustrating when people say “Washington is doing x” in reference to Washington DC (US capital) and not in reference to Washington (the state). I personally know people who were confused by this and didn’t know that Washington state existed.
If possible, please say the full name of Washington DC, or even just DC.
Oh I get it, it's a bit like how it's super annoying that America is used to refer to the US and American is commonly used to mean Estadounidense. Yea that's frustrating.
People from the US who didn’t know Washington state existed, or elsewhere? It only actually matters if Washington state suddenly goes off the rails, which would be weird. We say “Ottawa” in Canada to refer to the federal government and we all understand what that means because of very obvious context clues.
In general I don’t disagree that being more accurate is a good thing, and “DC” is easier to write, too, but if people need the clarity here then they’re dumb as hell.
Numerous people from the US. It’s not a matter of stupidity, but of education.
LOL, now I'm tempted to be a troll when someone bitches about Ottawa setting payments, and state, "I did not know that municipality had the power to determine how much a province receives." or "Mark Sutcliffe must really hate Alberta."
Canada bullshiting again. What cuba need is fuel.
No. What they need is solar panels and factories for manufacturing batteries, so they never need fuel.
You really shouldn't be getting downvoted on this. Sending $8 million dollars & no fuel is basically just a PR stunt for the politically shallow. It is bullshit.
I expected the downvotes . Lemmy communities about specific country are always over protective of their countries. They can't accept a single criticism like cultists. They looks like fools to me
They should get downvoted for ignorance. You cannot run a grid on solar and a few batteries.
Also, Cuba already has large solar farms. 92 of them near completion.
They need a solution today, not in a few years. Today. The solution today is fuel, either via the blockade being ended or fuel aid being delivered. Canada is neither delivering fuel aid nor even calling out the blockade.
If the US succeeds in overthrowing their government, there's a pretty good chance the electrification effort underway will be going in the bin.
This doesn't say they aren't sending fuel.
It is pretty clear there is no fuel in the aid
https://bsky.app/profile/anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social/post/3mfp52dobxs2e
There is a fuel embargo. You really believe thst Canada would ignore it?
The US has an embargo, we don't.
I would hope that we would continue to send fuel to them.
Trump threatened anybody who does it with tarrifs
The tariffs that were deamed invalid? Or the new tariffs that will also be deamed invalid?
There is a tariff threat to those who would help. It is disgusting in of itself, but everything Canada says/does is met with a tariff threat, and so we should call the bluff. Cuba is a much better place to visit than Florida, and Canadians are lucky to be one of the few who get to go there, and Cuba would be much better off if US lifted its oppression, but its important to not tolerate pure evil.
Pushing back against the US, or even contributing to its collapse, is the only path to respect for Canada. Doug Ford sucking every dick in Washington not only has it gotten him nothing, he had to apologize for daring to say that tariffs hurt everyone. While sound logic, the guys getting their dick sucked aren't complaining, and don't mind that he obeys orders to suck harder.
Good on you guys for having balls. Here in Estonia we can't even move off fucking Microsoft Teams in government services because they're all too busy sucking American cock (I mean the decisionmakers, not regular employees lol), I can't imagine we'd ever do anything to upset Trump at this point.
I mean, apparently they're willing to go against the US on Cuba, per this article. It's not specified which things Cuba needs they'll be sending, but it's something.
Why smart? The goal is to get the oppressive communist regime of cuba to collapse, how is helping them going to get them further towards this goal?
Same with the UK not letting the US use bases against Iran, why are western governments pussy footing around with awful regimes that kill their own citizens?
In short: it is bad to help any regime do collective punishment on a group of people.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
The western governments, I will remind you, are run by nazi pedophiles
western governments
pussy footing around with awful regimes thatkill their own citizens [and are genocidal pedos]
FTFY. I really wouldn’t wanna live in Cuba but don’t tell me the west are the good guys.
Btw "pussy“ as an insult has become kind of weird to me, what makes you use that for something you perceive as "weak“? E.g. being bitch would serve a similar purpose but the meaning of the word seems to actually relate to what you’re trying to express no? Honestly curious.
Btw "pussy“ as an insult
That's not what the term "pussyfoot" means.
Etymology
From pussy (“feline”) + foot; because of the light and careful tread of cats.
western governments kill their own citizens
How many citizens has Canada killed recently? Is it upwards of 30,000?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres
Can you point to me any recent Canadian government massacres?
Btw "pussy“ as an insult has become kind of weird to me
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pussyfooting
Also what makes "dick" mean being rude or "dickhead" meaning acting stupid? who knows
Wasn't this supposed to be about Cuba? Why are you bringing Iran into it?
My comment was
Same with the UK not letting the US use bases against Iran, why are western governments pussy footing around with awful regimes that kill their own citizens?
but hey while we're here:
Political scientists characterize the political system of Cuba as a single-party authoritarian regime where political opposition is not permitted.[12][13][14] There are elections, but they are not considered democratic.[15][16] According to the V-Dem Democracy Indices, Cuba is the second least democratic country in Latin America.[17] Censorship of information (including limits to internet access) is extensive,[18][19][20] and independent journalism is repressed in Cuba;[21] Reporters Without Borders has characterized Cuba as one of the worst countries in the world for press freedom.[22][23]
Friends of yours?
Oh, hell, sorry, I had no idea that the "V-Dem Democracy Index" judged that Cuba was the most evil country on earth. Yes, in that case I hope the nazi pedophile government of the united states completely cuts off all fuel, food, and medical supplies, and drops bombs as necessary, until every last man woman and child on the island has been freed. Then they can build some beautiful casinos over the rubble, like they plan to do with Gaza.
Yes. Cuba is lovely. But you're moving goalposts again. When you decided to weirdly include Iran in all this, you included them due a massacre of 30k people. That's a far cry from your complaints about Cuba. So why are you conflating them as though they were the same place?
Mossad rioters being called peaceful protestors is the warmongering narrative. Israel media proudly boasting about Mossad rioters, and Ted Cruz calling to arm the Mossad rioters more, exposes the pure demonism of the empire. This message was provided in the off chance that you are fooled by demonic agenda, instead of an active promoter of demonism.
Can you cite the oppression? Because I have seen you get free medical school there and they have cancer treatments other countries don't.
The guy support israel no wonder that he love collective punishement of cuban people
Can you cite the oppression?
Why do I have to do all the work
Because I have seen you get free medical school there and they have cancer treatments other countries don’t.
By other countries do you mean America?
We also have access to free education: https://tafeqld.edu.au/courses/apply-and-enrol/subsidised-training/fee-free#courses
We also have universal healthcare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Australia
They also can't afford it
while historical allies such as Russia and China no longer offer unlimited financial support due to the island’s crushing public debt (108.6% of GDP) and deficit (about 17% at its peak), as well as its record of defaults on loan repayments.
Can you cite the oppression?
I did here: https://aussie.zone/post/30024551/21613626
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/americas/central-america-and-the-caribbean/cuba/report-cuba/
Sounds like Cubans have almost made up their mind and voted with their feet:
, one in four Cubans have left in four years
Most Cubans want change. But you cannot lead opposition inside Cuba because the regime jails any potential organiser
Thanks for links, I asked because you came across as knowing more than I.
The Cubans I have met didn't talk very negatively about their homeland, just that the US embargo's cripple their country and so life is harder than what they see in rich countries, and so wanted more.
We have some subsidized enrollment in Canada too, but in a communist system its not about subsidizing a for profit system by application approval, its about providing it to all as a service.
As for cancer treaments mine was head and neck cancer (all free in Canada) but it was old medicine techniques of blast and (hopefully) recover. Cuba with non profit pharmaceutical had come up with a "cure" for it but not available in USA or Canada because of the stupid politics and restrictions.
I'm not purporting they are a utopia, but I think USA media paints a dictator regime propaganda, while doing the exact same thing themselves.
Political scientists characterize the political system of Cuba as a single-party authoritarian regime where political opposition is not permitted.[12][13][14] There are elections, but they are not considered democratic.[15][16] According to the V-Dem Democracy Indices, Cuba is the second least democratic country in Latin America.[17] Censorship of information (including limits to internet access) is extensive,[18][19][20] and independent journalism is repressed in Cuba;[21] Reporters Without Borders has characterized Cuba as one of the worst countries in the world for press freedom.[22][23]
If this is the comment you meant, then its not really a good one, you are describing the current US ADMIN.
If this is the comment you meant, then its not really a good one, you are describing the current US ADMIN.
If you think the US is anything like cuba you guys are far more naive than I thought
USA has election fraud, admin arresting/prosecuting political enemies, censoring media, arresting journalists. Its all the same, US is just in control of their own PR
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index

no wonder you guys love these places so much, press are gagged and can’t say anything bad about the place
In the Iran case, there's a concern about what happens after the US blows stuff up and then leaves.
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