ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace

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Cake day: December 21st, 2025

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  • Of course the Cuban government isn’t perfect. But Cuba’s most important problems aren’t due to their authoritarianism. Their biggest problem is trade. They’re unable to get the resources they need mostly because of the sanctions, greatly reducing their standard of living.

    And honestly, I could excuse the authoritarianism due to the simple fact that US imperialism still poses a huge threat to them, being the only communist country in all the Americas. They don’t really have a choice to have a hard stance to protect what they have. Or else it wouldn’t be long before they get completely exploited the way they have been before the revolution.











  • I got singled out at an LCBO by a cashier who refused to allow me to purchase anything. Her excuse was that my partner didn’t have her ID. I was purchasing it for myself, but somehow because she helped me carry the bottles she had to be carded as well. When just in front of me, a man and his son had just done the same. And when I left I received a rude comment about being a francophone, even though I speak prefect English. The cashier had heard us talking to each other beforehand.

    I also heard some not so nice comments about francophones in general around me wherever I went. Some nasty generalizations and stereotypes.

    In Montréal it was mostly “why don’t you speak English? Canada is a bilingual country yknow” type of comments from people who were born and raised here but gained so much disdain from French that they outright refused to learn the language. Which is pathetic when they themselves only speak English.

    And finally there’s the Gazette newspaper and CJAD talk radio that shit on francophones every chance they get. Pitting the English speaking population against the francophones.