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    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.

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      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.

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    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?

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

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

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    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.

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        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.

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          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.

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    “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

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

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    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.