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.

  • @LarkinDePark
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    -238 months ago

    You got to choose between Hoe Biden and Donald Trump last time. Get back in your box.

    • TheSaneWriter
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      178 months ago

      Yeah, our elections suck. They should be more open and should be ranked choice. Likewise, the Electoral College is complete bullshit. Even still, Xi is a dictator and China is not a democracy. Multiple things can be true.

        • ahornsirup
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          Nazi Germany had elections. North Korea has elections. As long as there’s no actual opposition on the ballot, just having elections means nothing.

      • @LarkinDePark
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        China is a democracy, the USA isn’t. Xi is the democratically elected leader of his country and enjoys massive popular support. Your past two presidents are hated by the peasantry. You have no understanding of the world because you live in what you think North Korea is like.

        Your press is censored, your internet is censored, you have a one party state with no democracy and people die from preventable diseases daily. Homelessness and poverty are rampant. Child slavery and child poverty have skyrocketed under the current regime. America is a shithole, circling the drain and your pathetic racist shit in this thread just exemplifies how little you have to come back with.

        • SeaJ
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          58 months ago

          Xi is the democratically elected leader of his country

          How many people voted for him? How many votes did his opponent get?

          • @LarkinDePark
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            No idea. I couldn’t even tell you that about my own country or the USA, you know that place that’s totally a democracy where they don’t count all the votes and keep the black people from voting with dirty tricks.

                • ahornsirup
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                  So you claim that China is a democracy based on… having absolutely no knowledge of Chinese politics?

                  • @LarkinDePark
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                    Based on knowing the fact that China is a democracy.

                  • @LarkinDePark
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                    How does anyone know anywhere had a democratic election? I read it in the news. Who told you China was not a democracy?

            • SeaJ
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              The general population does not vote for the presidency in China, the electors chosen by the CCP do. That is significantly less democratic than the US which is also not a very democratic country when it comes to the presidency.

              • @Faresh@lemmy.ml
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                Neither do americans get to vote for their president nor the germans for their chancellor.

              • @ghost_of_faso2
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                no one tell this guy how bernie got the popular vote but didnt get to run