China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

    • OR3X@lemm.ee
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      Gee, I wonder which group of users would do something like that…

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        Probably the antiracists. You should wonder if you’re on the right side when you are promoting and supporting racism.

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          LMAO! Racist? I didn’t know “dictator” was a race! Please, enlighten me.

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            The Winnie the Pooh meme about Xi is just racism. I don’t care if you think he’s a dictator.

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      It’s definitely part communists, but I think mostly special interest groups, maybe even from China itself.

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        You really want to feel special enough to think the Chinese government would even care about this internet backwater? Get real.

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    He’s not just a dictator, he’s also a dick.

    What’s he going to do? Fling his pooh?

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    I disagree with some of Scholz’s policies, but he is kind of a breath of fresh air. Merkel was a great leader, but she played it far too safe.

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    If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, there’s a high probability it is a duck.

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    Most dictators haven’t gone by that term, preferring instead some other executive role like chairman, supreme leader, or president. If Xi doesn’t want to be called a dictator, maybe China should start holding open elections, see how popular the CCP really is.

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      The CCP has higher approval rates than western governments and the vast majority of Chinese believe they are living in a democracy. This is confirmed by western studies; latest one I’ve seen was from Harvard.

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        Yeah, our elections suck. They should be more open and should be ranked choice. Likewise, the Electoral College is complete bullshit. Even still, Xi is a dictator and China is not a democracy. Multiple things can be true.

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          China is a democracy, the USA isn’t. Xi is the democratically elected leader of his country and enjoys massive popular support. Your past two presidents are hated by the peasantry. You have no understanding of the world because you live in what you think North Korea is like.

          Your press is censored, your internet is censored, you have a one party state with no democracy and people die from preventable diseases daily. Homelessness and poverty are rampant. Child slavery and child poverty have skyrocketed under the current regime. America is a shithole, circling the drain and your pathetic racist shit in this thread just exemplifies how little you have to come back with.

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            Xi is the democratically elected leader of his country

            How many people voted for him? How many votes did his opponent get?

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              No idea. I couldn’t even tell you that about my own country or the USA, you know that place that’s totally a democracy where they don’t count all the votes and keep the black people from voting with dirty tricks.

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      She’s not exactly known for being a smart person in Germany. Whoever thought she had what it takes to be a diplomat was clearly deluded. She only got the job as foreign minister because of proportional representation.

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    Xi said that he’d start executing German tourists if they didn’t take it back

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      The only empire is the US empire and the way they talk about themselves as an empire, they’re proud of it too. Yell one-word feel-good slogans at them like “CHANGE”, “FREEDOM”, or “DEMOCRACY” and all the citizens shout and cheer because that’s what they’ve always been told to do.

      Try sitting during the pledge, the singing of the national anthem, or insulting the military. The US empire will have none of that. Truly the land of the free.

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    Do they know healthy communication can gain a better impression and often less problematic, another boundaries and relationship course, thanks