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[-] propter_hog@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 11 months ago

Damn, there's some butthurt libs around these parts

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

☑️ I’m not in this photo and I don’t like it.

[-] propter_hog@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Fucking right? I'd drop everything and move to China in a heartbeat if I could convince my partner to.

[-] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Is there any other kind of lib?

[-] LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago
[-] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Believing Western capitalist Cold War propaganda that China is a dictatorship is cringe.

[-] LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

People who are president for life are called dictators.

You are part of why people don't like .ml

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Good thing China doesn't have a president for life then, you orientalist fuck.

[-] LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

So when does he leave office?

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

His current term ends in 2028

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

When he resigns, loses an election, or dies, obviously.

I know it’s hard for people who live in capitalist bourgeois democracies to imagine that a president could sustain popularity over a long period of time. They’re used to getting fucked over, election cycle after election cycle, because their governments don’t work for the majority, they work for the capitalist class. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

[-] LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When he* dies, obviously.

FTFY since he will never resign and never allow someone to dethrone him.

When people have total control for life that's called a dictatorship

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

All you’re doing is repeating your assertion without adding anything, and the assertion you’re repeating is the the one you received from a lifetime of Western capitalist Cold War propaganda, and I don’t think it’s ever occurred to you to question it.

[-] LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nobody in this thread can explain to me how somebody who has complete control for life is not a dictator.

And no, him manipulating elections and suppressing opposition doesn't count as the people making a choice.

Yes i understand the US has flawed elections, we all need to do better.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nobody in this thread can explain to me how somebody who has complete control for life is not a dictator.

That’s because, by baselessly & repeatedly claiming that Xi dictator for life, you are begging the question. Despite the evidence I presented that:

  1. People in China, unlike those in the US, believe they have a democratic system. I also provided evidence that the US doesn’t.
  2. Chinese people have many material reasons to be happy with their improving lots in life over the past several decades, while the lives of people in Western capitalists states have been deteriorating over the last ~40 years of grinding neoliberalism. So it’s no surprise that people in China might want more of the same.

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[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Nobody in this thread can explain to me how somebody who has complete control for life is not a dictator.

Yeah, because Xi isn't that.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago
[-] LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Does Putin keep getting elected because the Russian people keep liking the results?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Putin gets elected in roughly the same way that US presidents do. [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

Putin actually is popular. Russians have good reason to like him: he kicked the Western capitalist neoliberal shock therapy plunderers out of the country. It’s still a capitalist shithole, but at least it’s their shithole and not a neocolonized state anymore.

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Desperately changing the topic there.

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