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[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -5 points 10 hours ago

Westerners continue to be the most brainwashed people on earth.

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

Im a different poster than the last person and generally unfamiliar with the Cuban electoral structure, are they able to run non-communist/non-Marxist candidates? If they cannot legally do so they do not have free elections using the standard definition of "free elections".

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 5 points 9 hours ago

"Free" elections in Cuba would just mean immediate US vassalage. Influencing elections in the Caribbean and Latin America is a practically a US hobby.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Right? It's easy to bloviate about "free, ~~democratic~~ fair elections" when you're the world's superpower. When you live NEXT to the world's superpower, there's no such thing.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 hours ago

Fantastically well said. Cuba's a very democratic country, moreso than the US, so when people accuse it of not being so that can only mean they wish to remove the safeguards preventing US recolonization.

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world -3 points 5 hours ago

We said free and fair which is not the same as free and democratic.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Okay, I fixed it. Now what?

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 0 points 36 minutes ago

Canada and Mexico both live next to the USA and both have freer and more fair elections than the USA so Im not sure your claim even makes sense on the surface.

According to another poster Cuba has non-Marxist candidates who can run. IF Cubans have the ability to completely cast aside the government, regardless of ideology, then they have free elections. If they cannot then they don’t have free elections.