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• Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, it’s just pointless to argue with someone so out of touch with reality he believes Cuba is one of the most democratic countries

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  • Arelin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is though? People directly nominate individual candidates in their area, and the ballots are checked in public where anyone can attend.

    This results in a Parliament that evenly and properly represents the entire population. That’s why Cuba has an unusually high percentage of women in the government, 53.22% now (U.S has 29.0%), and better LGBT rights than the U.S. nowadays. The power of a proper democracy

    Being rich as an advantage is also taken away by banning advertising yourself. You need social connections with the people in the area (Socialism) instead.

    Not knowing something is fine, but being ignorant and arrogant about it is unfortunate.

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    • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why is dissent brutally repressed then? Also writing walls of text won’t make you right

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      • Arelin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You mean the 2021 “protests”? Most of it was pro-government/revolution ones against CIA-backed ‘protests’ that were spun up by Fox News to be pro-US; by blurring out signs and the like. And a fake Twitter campaign run by bots.

        Second thought made a great video covering the whole thing; he has sources in the description.

        This is nothing new for the US; the CIA staged a coup in Iran to overthrow the democratically elected Mosaddegh because his policies would benefit Iran instead of US’s oil companies, caused a mass killing in Indonesia in 1965 and a coup in Chile to replace it with a military dictatorship for similar reasons. Great way to justify military actions.

        These aren’t declassified until decades later for obvious reasons.

        Also writing walls of text won’t make you right

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      • Arelin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Downvoting without replying is kinda cringe bro ngl

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