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It seems the convergent evolution of government is authoritarianism. All governments seem to eventually move towards it.
It takes efforts to have a democracy
If you can keep it
"Keep your democracy. I saw democracy failing somewhere and being displaced by authoritarianism so I'm just opting for going straight to authoritarianism. I am smort but, also, do not trust me with the ability to influence my own society. I also don't see the irony of expressing here how my society should be run (even though I'm anti-democracy)."
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Cuba is overall liberalising, just have a look at the gazillion of reforms after Castro. OTOH authoritarian habits die hard especially in places such as courts backing up the "thin blue line".
I think you're one step too high...
Humans seem to thrive being controlled by authoritarian figures. If you look across the planet these people are getting voted in by someone.
The first one was God.
A third take: Authoritarian groups have been historically successful in wiping out (usually by force) less authoritarian groups and their methods of organizing.
Exactly. The only language violence respects or listens to is violence.
It's the tolerance paradox - and why it's a death sentence to tolerate groups or people who won't reciprocate tolerance.
I guess Cuba and America aren't so different after all...
Oh no! You caught us doing something that makes us look bad!
Straight to jail.
Winds of Change by Scorpions played on a kazoo
We've still got our torture camp open there, so there's more crossover than one might think
How could Joe Biden allow this to happen?
That's satire, right? Cuba is a completely different country
That should be obvious.
It should be, but you know Poe's law. People blame POTUS for ridiculous stuff.
It just hit the tankies too close to home.
The president has had over three years to cure cancer and he has done nothing. I'm planning to write in 'Cancer' this November because at least it has a proven track record.
*/s
Back up off me with that
That's a heavy sentence. I am curious if she is the most sympathetic case or what are the situations with those other 12 who appear to have received lesser sentences?
The court also announced sentences of between four and 14 years for 12 other participants in the demonstration for the same crimes.
Seems a bit excessive
seems like the blockade is working as intended
At least I get to live in the US where the right to protest is protected. /s
is this irony?
don't forget our great first rate healthcare, best and most innovative in the world
I swear people on here think the right to protest is some magical talisman that protects you from the consequences of your actions.
If you break other laws the right to protest doesn't somehow stop that being illegal - you cant just wear a free Palestine shirt and go shop lifting or break into someone's house.
It is about not making protesting illegal in the absence of other crimes - like for example it is in Cuba where this person didn't commit other crimes but is arrested simply for documenting.
I see you've been relying on the mainstream news narrative. There was nothing illegal about the protests until after the police started cracking down.
Then there was UCLA where pro-Israel counter protesters were dragging protesters out and beating them with sticks while an army of cops half a block away stood around with their thumbs up their asses.
It's the neoliberal way to keep protesting legal while making it all but impossible to actually do so without breaking some minor law. Then the police come in huge numbers with riot gear, rubber bullets, and chemical agents that aren't even legal in a warzone. Suddenly it's a "violent" protest.
Neoliberals are always on the side of the protesters starting about 10 years after the protests are over. Until then they always wring their hands and whine about how the protest was done. This is all the exact shit they said about every protest of the civil rights movement.
Sure, yet even with your very biased telling of events it's still nothing like the situation in Cuba
Also, if you have any evidence of an actual crime happening before police crackdowns start, I'd live to see it. (Not something lame like loitering). If you think I'm biased, then show me I'm wrong.
First of all, I never said it was. Second, the results are not that far off, it just looks different. Don't forget that there are states where it's now explicitly legal to drive over protesters, and I already mentioned protesters getting beaten with sticks while the police stood by and watched. The US has just privatized much of the oppression.
Screw this.
Maybe they deserve the embargo.
Don't you have a flag to wave over a razed hospital somewhere?
🥱
What the heck Bros? Le based communist utopia Cuba that is only being held back teh Embargo is authoritarian?
Autocracies gonna autocrat. I'm not even going to read this because it's not really news.
Most countries in the world do this stuff.
This is one of the reasons Havana is safe af and San Juan is high crime zone
safe but tolerates 0 dissent or unsafe and protests in the highway chased the governor off the island (and it's still high crime and fucked)
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