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[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He’s a dictator in the sense that he’s a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that is based on a form of government totally different from ours

yeonmi-park In the authoritarian U.S. regime, they change the meaning of words like “dictator” to mean democratically elected president.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 1 year ago

Dictatorship is when you don’t copy our great form of government. Because it’s totally democratic when the most powerful man in the world is elected by un-proportional electors that we’re not themselves elected.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

he’s a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that is based on a form of government totally different from ours

Now can the ultras shut up once and for all now that they get the confirmation about China being communist from their most trusted source?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 1 year ago
[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago

As we all know, different things are bad. This logic brought it you by infants and old people.

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess he didn't get what he wanted.

[–] Fissionami@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Very plausible

[–] jlyws123@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 1 year ago

They don't even know the organizational structure of their biggest competitors.America is doomed

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol biden is such a clown, must fucking suck for Xi having to meet these 80yo children.

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had this whole witty comment about Dictators being people who don't have to listen to the majority of their voters, but I don't believe Joe Biden is a dictator. I just think the entire system is rotten.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be more precise, US has a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie while China has a dictatorship of the proletariat.

[–] fuckmyphonefuckingsu@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Idk if I'd call socialism with chinese characteristics a dictatorship of the proletariat in the hermenudical marxist sense, buts its a fuckin start. It's sure as shit 10x better than what we get in the US.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Oh it's not perfect by any means, but definitely a huge improvement on the horrors of western "democracies".

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And it's that way because of the US. Just look at what happened to the USSR and other socialist nations, they got absolutely slammed.

At least this way they get to build up power while the cracker industrial complex continues to crumble under its own abuse and neglect.

"Authoritarianism is when the government is different and the more differenter it is the more authoritarian it is and if its really different, then its totalitarian!"

-Joedolf Bidler the Genocider

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Throwing that publicly right after a meeting wasn't even especially polite. Going by the normal diplomacy standard it was actually very rude.