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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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[–] [email protected] 235 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

that bunch of larping teens?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

The very same!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Then it must be true

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[–] [email protected] 170 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 85 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Hexbear users incoming in 3.2.1...

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (17 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 143 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's gonna cope...and seethe.

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

  • Germany, probably
[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago

Here's a little something for the dictator simps:

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well that just goes to prove her point. Well done, Xi.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Overacting insecure jerk what Xi is

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago

When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago

Easy fix: don't be a dictator.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

Germany is right

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

Oh-oh here Xi comes

Watch out boy, Xi'll chew you up

Oh-oh here Xi comes

Xi's a man eater

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

Dictators were never good at hearing the truth.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

If any country knows what a dictator is, it's Germany.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Quit being a dictator. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Obviously he's not a "dictator", and that foreign minister should be sacked. Because Xi is a "supreme almighty emperor whose words are worth to be enforced or else..." A bit of background knowledge is never a bad thing.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Dictator" is such an ugly word. I prefer "Tyrant." It's much more damning.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Have you tried not being an authoritarian PoS, Xi?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

The same government that presented another deal so good you couldn't refuse!

Trade offer meme on the Meng Wenzhou incident

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well, China can go fuck itself, and take Russia and the US with it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Plenty of people would raise their eyebrows on you for mentioning the US, but you would not exactly be wrong. China and Russia are authoritarian. However, the US is a highly flawed democracy with extremely flawed and abusive foreign policy. Putin's invasion of Ukraine has had recent precedence, with US invading Iraq out of trumped up charges. In Putin's mind, he must have thought "if the Americans did it, why can't I"? This is why I believe in a multipolar world.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Pooh is big mad

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (30 children)

It'd be funny if he called him "Winnie the pooh" when he meets him to explain himself :)

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