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I think Saudi Arabia is the perfect example of why even that model isn't even enough. I mean sure they are a monarchy and quite self-focused but not really in a nationalistic way. To be fair I don't know much about their domestic politics. To put them into the same corner as Russia, eh dunno.
I couldn't ask for clearer evidence than not accepting Saudi Arabia as authoritarian to demonstrate that "free vs authoritarian" are just propaganda terms and that how "free" a country allegedly is is really just a function of how aligned it is with the US.
In what universe is Saudi Arabia more free than Cuba?
I think some aspects of freedom are to some extent objectively observable, eg, is freedom of speech or religion observed? These can exist independently of US alignment - there are many countries in the global south that can qualify as free or partially free.
Mhm. I wonder, which objective metrics led you to list the US as more free than Cuba?
Cuba's family code is one of the most progressive pieces of legislation in the world concerning LGBT rights and gender equality, meanwhile, there are parts of the US where you can get arrested for using the bathroom, or for merely failing to rat out trans kids to the cops. The US performs mass surveillance on all citizens and has the most sophisticated spy network in the world, it has used extrajudicial, indefinite detention without trial (in addition to having the highest incarceration rate in the world), along with torture (ironically, on illegally occupied Cuban soil). The US has kangaroo courts where children as young as six have to represent themselves in court with no right to an attorney, against threat of deportation. The police are equipped with military-grade equipment designed to fight insurgents, with the police budgets of individual cities exceeding that of the militaries of many countries: Cuba's military spending is several times less than the police budget of Phoenix, AZ.
Does any of that factor into your analysis?
Cuba lacks basic freedom of speech or freedom of the press, to say the absolute least. Typical tankie whatabout-ism. In fact, you’re proving the point of the person I originally replied to in this thread!
https://freedomhouse.org/country/cuba
What did I say that's whataboutism? You claimed that Cuba was authoritarian and the US is free, therefore it's perfectly valid for me to compare the two against each other. It would only not be valid if you had placed them both in the same category.
Freedom House is literally funded by the US State department lmao. Nice objective and unbiased source you've got there!
The only "freedom" that Freedom House cares about is how free the bourgeoisie are to infiltrate the government and capture regulatory agencies. By that metric, Cuba is much less "free" than the US, sure.
Authoritarianism doesn't necessarily require nationalism or vice versa, though they're often linked, that doesn't necessarily have to be the case. The USA is pretty flag waving, nationalist brained but individual freedom exists. Versus a country like Saudi as you mention is not particularly nationalist, but repression is widespread.
They are quite different than Russia, but looking only at individual freedom, the two are similar in that freedom of speech is not respected and leaders are not fairly elected.