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

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago

😁

[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

I guess he didn't get what he wanted.

[–] Fissionami@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

Very plausible

[–] jlyws123@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 10 months ago

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

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

P o l i t e

F a s c i s t

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 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 10 months ago

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[+] TWeaK@lemm.ee -43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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 10 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 10 months ago (1 children)

you do understand they vote and elect people in China right

[+] TWeaK@lemm.ee -40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes sure, but as I stated it's possible to successfully run a disinformation campaign to cover an occassional vote. It's also hard to run an opposition against an incumbent candidate when they will literally have you removed from congress on a whim.

[–] ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have any evidence of disinformation campaigns being directed by Xi towards political opponents internally within China or are you talking out of your ass

[–] Leninismydad@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 10 months ago

The sheer amount of voting that takes place in China would make you shit your pants.

[–] qwename@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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