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.
When you change the rules so you can hold office longer than permitted in an authoritarian country that is an appropriate label for the dictator.
hexbear disagrees
Nobody gives a single fuck though because it’s hex bear
that bunch of larping teens?
The very same!
Then it must be true
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hexbears are trolls, they would disagree even if it killed their mother.
Yep and other rules
Very noticeable that they didn’t specify how he wasn’t a dictator, nor what other label would be more appropriate.
“I am not a dictator! Anyone who says I am will get jailed!” - Grand Poohbear of China, 2023
Hexbear users incoming in 3.2.1…
I use a client that can block instances, so I have all of Hexbear blocked. It radically improves the Lemmy experience.
Tell me your wisdom, duck of the lake.
I use a Violentmonkey script to do so
Whats the client?
Kbin allows users to do this (noting kbin isn’t a client it’s a compatible platform).
Memmy app let’s you do it as well.
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I am using Eternity or Voyager, I will be so happy when instance blocking comes to those.
Give Memmy a try. I switched to it so I could block entire instances. It’s made my feed so much better!
Thanks for the recommendation, but I’m on Android, so I can’t use it. On spezit I loved, and supported Infinity, the Infinity fork Eternity is very good. I love having my own colour theme, it’s great for qol, and all the other nice features it has.
Sync is an outstanding Lemmy client for Android.
Apologies! I should have mentioned it was for iOS.
No worries at all
Thankfully, OP is from an instance that has not federated with Hexbear. Hexbear users won’t be able to see this post.
But they have posted to .ml which is federated with hexbear. So the poster’s instance needs to be federated no the instance of the community where the post is?
You need both. For a comment you even need the community instance, the poster instance, and the commenter instance to all be federated
That’s confusing.
Basically, everybody needs to agree before access is granted.
It is the best way to block spammers and trolls.
Maybe she should’ve used the chinese word for dictator.
Ah yes, Xi Jinping
That’s exactly like his name!
Ah yes, Xi Jinping
*Winnie the Pooh
Whatcha gonna do, China? That’s right, nothing. Stay mad forever 😂
lucky your not a German ambassador! they would summon you for a “dressing down”
We know a thing or two, because we’ve seen a thing or two
- Germany, probably
Hitler obviously wasn’t a dictator as he was democratically elected by a majority (after competing parties were banned) and then -just out of situational necessity of course- got a lot of extra powers to ignore laws and constitution.
Yeah, I see how that Chinese definition works.
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Hexbear would be seething… if they could read.
I love how every single comment making fun Xi the pooh here is getting downvoted lol
Here’s a little something for the dictator simps:
Gee, I wonder which group of users would do something like that…
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It’s definitely part communists, but I think mostly special interest groups, maybe even from China itself.
Well that just goes to prove her point. Well done, Xi.
Overacting insecure jerk what Xi is
I don’t think any country would like their head of state be called a dictator.
And yet normal, functioning countries don’t lash out like this.
Except maybe Rome
When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.
Oh-oh here Xi comes
Watch out boy, Xi’ll chew you up
Oh-oh here Xi comes
Xi’s a man eater
Germany is right
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Quit being a dictator. 🤷
Obviously he’s not a “dictator”, and that foreign minister should be sacked. Because Xi is a “supreme almighty emperor whose words are worth to be enforced or else…” A bit of background knowledge is never a bad thing.
That’s actually worse
If any country knows what a dictator is, it’s Germany.
Dictators were never good at hearing the truth.
Have you tried not being an authoritarian PoS, Xi?