Spectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 1 day agoZohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”lemmy.mlimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up193arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up188arrow-down1imageZohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”lemmy.mlSpectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 1 day agomessage-square43fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down2·edit-28 hours agoYou need to read about Cuban democracy. People spend way more of their daily lives in democratic formations, driving the direction of their neighborhoods, villages, cities, and workplaces than an American could even dream of.
minus-squareNauticalNoodle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 hours agopretty sure the U.S. has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba.
minus-squarefreagle@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·16 hours agohttps://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/
You need to read about Cuban democracy. People spend way more of their daily lives in democratic formations, driving the direction of their neighborhoods, villages, cities, and workplaces than an American could even dream of.
Or in prison.
pretty sure the U.S. has a higher per capita incarceration rate than Cuba.
https://www.guernicamag.com/hyatt-bass-lessons-from-cubas-incarceration-model/