Biden again calls Xi a ‘dictator’ after critical summit 🤡 : us

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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 7 months 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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 7 months ago

😁

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 44 points 7 months ago

I guess he didn't get what he wanted.

[-] Fissionami@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Very plausible

[-] jlyws123@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 7 months ago

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

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 7 months ago

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 7 months ago

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

[-] fuckmyphonefuckingsu@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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 7 months 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months 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.

[-] IronicallyInTheWest@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 7 months ago

"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 7 months ago

P o l i t e

F a s c i s t

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago

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

[+] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 months ago

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[+] TWeaK@lemm.ee -43 points 7 months ago

A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a small clique.

By that definition you could call the US, or various other countries, dictatorships. However I don't see how Xi Jinping could not be objectively labelled a dictator.

Direct democracy FTW. Let people vote on any- and every-thing, for better or worse. People will learn and adapt, and if they get a chance to review policy this will be significant. Meanwhile, you cannot sustain any disinformation campaign indefinitely, even if they might be successful for the occassional vote.

[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 7 months ago

there is no such thing as a one-person dictatorship at a large scale; aside from minuscule "countries" like Vatican City, it's practically impossible for a country to be controlled by a single person, and to imply that China could be ruled by a dictator is laughable

[-] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 7 months ago

you do understand they vote and elect people in China right

[-] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If I'm not mistaken, the US does not have direct democracy for presidential elections (https://www.usa.gov/electoral-college) nor the lawmaking process (https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-are-made). Unless you're referring other forms of direct democracy in the US (https://ballotpedia.org/Forms_of_direct_democracy_in_the_American_states) or elsewhere in the world like Russian presidential elections.

As for how China's president is elected, these two videos basically sum it up:

How deputies are elected to people's congresses https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-02-24/How-deputies-are-elected-to-China-s-people-s-congresses-1hGaCLluMtW/index.html
How are Chinese leaders elected? https://news.cgtn.com/news/3267444d7a6b7a6333566d54/index.html

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