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.

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When you change the rules so you can hold office longer than permitted in an authoritarian country that is an appropriate label for the dictator.

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hexbear disagrees

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Nobody gives a single fuck though because it’s hex bear

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that bunch of larping teens?

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The very same!

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Then it must be true

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hexbears are trolls, they would disagree even if it killed their mother.

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Yep and other rules

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Very noticeable that they didn’t specify how he wasn’t a dictator, nor what other label would be more appropriate.

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“I am not a dictator! Anyone who says I am will get jailed!” - Grand Poohbear of China, 2023

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Hexbear users incoming in 3.2.1…

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I use a client that can block instances, so I have all of Hexbear blocked. It radically improves the Lemmy experience.

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Tell me your wisdom, duck of the lake.

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Whats the client?

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I am using Eternity or Voyager, I will be so happy when instance blocking comes to those.

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Never hear a dissenting opinion. I’ll take, what is an echo chamber for $200.

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Thankfully, OP is from an instance that has not federated with Hexbear. Hexbear users won’t be able to see this post.

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But they have posted to .ml which is federated with hexbear. So the poster’s instance needs to be federated no the instance of the community where the post is?

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Maybe she should’ve used the chinese word for dictator.

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Ah yes, Xi Jinping

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That’s exactly like his name!

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*Winnie the Pooh

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Because he was democratically elected in a transparent election. Unlike the current American demented imbecile.

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What are you talking about? He doesn’t hold elected office. Here’s the last time he was re-appointed to his appointed position.

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from your link:

“I was reelected as the general secretary of the CPC central committee,” Xi said in opening remarks, before presenting the six other members: Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi.

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Even your link to the fucking guardian says he was elected fair and square. Unlike Jim Crow Joe.

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Whatcha gonna do, China? That’s right, nothing. Stay mad forever 😂

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He’s gonna cope…and seethe.

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Mald? What’s that?

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lucky your not a German ambassador! they would summon you for a “dressing down”

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Haha, racism! I love that one!

Whatcha gonna do, China? That’s right, nothing.

What is there to do when you are already the one winning?

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Mocking a single individual is not racism.

It may be bullying, but that is about it.

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I’m an American so I can answer this question sincerely. When you are already the one winning, you work as hard as ever to keep winning. You innovate more. This is the American way. It’s why we’re the most advanced country on the planet, and it’s how we maintain that lead. Building off of the work of previous generations who made and did amazing things. That’s our approach and it works fucking awesome.

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Jesus, just open KKK on here. Americans are truly the scum of the earth.

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Famously, one of the worst atrocities of the KKK was posting memes of a chinese dictator

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your fee fees get hurt?

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Xi is so fat he is his own race 🤣😂

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Is this com full of pre-teens?

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Well you can fuck right off! The same person *supposedly upset about the KKK just discriminated against 330,000,000 people from every country on Earth in the very next breath. You’re worse than racist.

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Yeah I’m bigoted against genocidal psychopaths. Fuck me right?

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He talked about Americans, not people.

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We know a thing or two, because we’ve seen a thing or two

  • Germany, probably
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Hitler obviously wasn’t a dictator as he was democratically elected by a majority (after competing parties were banned) and then -just out of situational necessity of course- got a lot of extra powers to ignore laws and constitution.

Yeah, I see how that Chinese definition works.

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Hexbear would be seething… if they could read.

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Hitler obviously wasn’t a dictator as he was democratically elected by a majority (after competing parties were banned) and then -just out of situational necessity of course- got a lot of extra powers to ignore laws and constitution.

wow, just like zelensky!

history sure is wacky sometimes…

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What extra powers did Zelensky give himself then that his predecessor did not have?

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I love how every single comment making fun Xi the pooh here is getting downvoted lol

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Here’s a little something for the dictator simps:

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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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You have to be joking.

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Pooh lover

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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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Never heard of propaganda? It is like sand.

It is course and rough, and it gets everywhere.

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Altering public opinion is definitely on their agenda. I’m not the type of person that screams China bad on everything, but this simply wouldn’t surprise me. Also, nobody is trying to feel special here, except for you.

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What a goddamned loser. Go sell your ignorant cultist bullshit somewhere else. Nobody here is buying it other than mindless idiots

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