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[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

noun a government, especially an authoritarian one

The Liberal regime froze the bank accounts of the trucker convoy protesters.

Authoritarian is subjective not objective.

It's solely a matter if reference.

You don't know Curtis Yarvin (ally of VP Vance) where he rightly points out that tech companies run like dictatorships not democracies. Yet we don't opose them. Why?

Again a matter of preference.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

nobody seriously is calling canadas government an authoritarian regime, please stop 😂

secondly because private companies are private? if you want to run a company like a democracy you can, nobody is stopping you but why would you quote a fuckstick like jd vance or his friends anyway?

Actually why are you quoting truckers and random people aligned with trump anyway? why are you so intent on making words meaningless?

what is it about cuba that you love so much? you’re canadian apparently? what is it you’re so envious of, is it the one state party you cannot criticise publicly? no freedom of the press? the crumbling infrastructure? is it the lack of a future? are you wishing you were working a job delivering pizzas just so you could earn enough money to leave?

you’re like it’s all wordplay! but this is silly, when opposition is so futile people just leave (and millions of them have) it’s obviously not just wordplay

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

It is all wordplay. Furthermore, there's nothing stopping Cubans from leaving, plenty have left already. Why do they complain? Why do you want to stop a country choosing it's style of government but not how companies are run? Why interfere in an another country's internal affairs but keep private power sacrosanct? If private companies are private, other countries are other countries.

You and I both vote. The more time spent on this, the less time sent on actual issues.

Cuba has always been used as a bad faith argument against public services. I want public services. That is my position. What is your position? Privatisation? Same thing with healthcare. Public healthcare is tyranny but private healthcare is freedom. Public transit is tyranny and private cars is freedom. Public education is tyrannical brain washing but private education is school choice freedom.

This has always been an ideological debate, never serious.

What is it about "freedom" that you love so much? The signing of nom-competes, NDAs, Terms and Coditions, rentierism to rent forever? Physical infrastructure here is at least better here than the US (if I was in the US or UK, it's literally crumbling) but our public services are going down the drain, do you like that? There is no future due the cost of living crisis and cost of housing, do you want to never own a home and always have increasing costs of life? Do you want a high-paying tech job (because a pizza job is not enough) to just leave the country? (https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=leaving+canada)

Oh, well look at that. The same thing. Again, just preferences.

The truckers who left for Mexico and Miami are just as serious as the Cubans who left to Miami.