smart move imo

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    Don’t you know? When I kill citizens, it’s called freedom. When someone else kills citizens, it’s called tyranny.

    Governments I like are called governments, governments someone else likes is called regimes.

    Don’t you want to support freedom? Why are western governments so against freedom? Why is Canada playing pussyfoot with oppressive tyrannical communist regimes?

    The person who thinks this post is legit doesn’t deserve an /s.

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      I mean, I’m just listening to Cubans themselves, they call it a regime.

      One of Cuba’s most prominent former political prisoners, José Daniel Ferrer García, the founder of the opposition group Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), went into exile in Miami in October after decades of activism and multiple imprisonments.

      “Most Cubans, inside and outside, want change,” he says. “But you cannot lead opposition inside Cuba because the regime jails any potential organiser immediately.”

      Another exiled political dissident, Luis Leonel León, Miami-based director of the Cuban Studies Institute, argues that forced exile has always been the regime’s fix – sending generations abroad and giving rise to what he calls the “empty island”. For many, he says, hope is so diminished that even rebelling seems pointless; the best option is to leave rather than fight.

      https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/10/cuba-regime-polycrisis-collapse-exodus-economy-migration-us-sanctions-trump

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        The COVID trucker convoy labeled the Liberal government as a regime. They also say the liberal government suppresses dissent and the freezing of bank accounts as totalitarian. They also say most Canadians oppose the Liberal regime and that Trudeau got fewer votes then the Conservatives.

        Many such people emigrated to Mexico saying leaving is better than fighting.

        Are you going to say the Liberal government is a regime?

        I bet there is at least one Cuban who labels the government as the government.

        “Cubans” don’t view their government as a regime. You do, then found a Cuban that agrees with you and then put their quote in bold.

        You just proved my point. Government I like is called a government, government someone else likes is called regine.

        If you are consistent with “regime” you’d call all governments as regimes.