• CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    10 days ago

    You really cannot be taking swings at Cuba, there is simply no reasonable way to look at this tiny country under total siege by the most powerful empire of all time, see how much better their people live than any other nation at the same level of income, and declare that it’s a bad thing. Even a cursory investigation shows how much power the people have to change policy, it’s probably the most democratic country in the world, maybe ever. Here’s a short primer

    Democracy in Cuba

    I mean, just read that section on mass organizations and tell me that isn’t exactly what you profess to want. And this is from 2015, way before the 2022 Family Code referendum which made marriage equality a constitutional right (among various other highly progressive things) and was probably the most democratically-shaped document of all time, having been discussed in 133,000 public meetings across the nation, with 783,000 proposals for changes made by literally just regular people, in a process that took three and a half years and ended on the 25th revision, which was then adopted in a referendum by 87% of voters.

    Meanwhile, at the moment, this is you