> basic Cuban freedoms (like supporting parties other than the one in power)
To be fair in the US there are also attacks for supporting political parties. Yes it's a different degree of extremism entirely.
For example the terrorist/riot/civil activist group (whatever you want to call them) By Any Means Necessary violently attacked white nationalist parties (they claim they're not white nationalists, but media says they are, I don't know anything about them beyond that) at rallies without legal consequence. No I'm not defending white nationalists, I'm defending right to assembly. What I'm saying is that if that's your argument for why Cuba is terrible then it's not consistent unless you are making the same argument about America as well. If you just happen to agree that they're a "bad party," so you it's OK here, not there, that's exactly what authoritarian government is.
Claiming Cuba and the US are comparable in the respect is absurd. Castro killed thousands of his own civilians to stay in power. Here in the US, you can literally disavow the president (c.f. #NotMyPresident) without any consequence.
>To be fair in the US there are also attacks for supporting political parties.
There is a HUGE difference between your government killing you for your political beliefs and a member of the opposing political party "attacking" you for your political beliefs. People break the law all the time. It's a whole other level of unfair when the government murders you.
I would never trade the freedoms I have in the US for the "freedoms" seen in Cuba.
I agree with you, but if your argument for why Cuba is bad is based on a principle that you can be oppressed for political views, then you should still be consistent about it and not selectively apply that principle to only Cuba.
Even if it's only a minority that is being oppressed, and even if both you and I don't agree with their awful politics, it doesn't make it any less wrong to attack them.
To be fair in the US there are also attacks for supporting political parties. Yes it's a different degree of extremism entirely.
For example the terrorist/riot/civil activist group (whatever you want to call them) By Any Means Necessary violently attacked white nationalist parties (they claim they're not white nationalists, but media says they are, I don't know anything about them beyond that) at rallies without legal consequence. No I'm not defending white nationalists, I'm defending right to assembly. What I'm saying is that if that's your argument for why Cuba is terrible then it's not consistent unless you are making the same argument about America as well. If you just happen to agree that they're a "bad party," so you it's OK here, not there, that's exactly what authoritarian government is.