Former President Donald Trump heaped praise on authoritarian Chinese President Xi Jinping during a lengthy interview Friday with the podcaster Joe Rogan.

“We’re dealing with the smartest people,” Trump said, referring to the leaders of U.S. adversaries, about an hour and a half into their conversation.

“They hate when I say, you know, when the press — when I called President Xi, [the press] said, ‘Well, he called President Xi brilliant.’ Well, he’s a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. I mean, he’s a brilliant guy, whether you like it or not. And they go crazy.”

  • Nougat
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    This has been up for two hours, I wonder where the propagandists hollering about genocide are.

    Edit, four hours now: It must be acceptable to genocide Uyghurs, I guess.

    • @barsquid
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      We all knew that. Just like it is acceptable to jail citizens for writing mean things about the government on the internet.

    • @Myxomatosis
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      I suspect that most of them don’t really care about genocide or the welfare of others in general. It’s a self-righteous bandwagon for them to jump on.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        At this point, I’m just posting this graphic

        Anytime I run into the “Don’t Vote Harris, that will stop Genocide!” camp

        • Funderpants
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          And the democrats are at least working towards a cease fire. Trump would let Bibi turn his enemies lands to glass because Trump only cares about Trump.

    • @seaQueue
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      Those are in the Kamala threads doing what they’re paid to do

      • ArxCyberwolf
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        They don’t need to be paid to be ignorant. A lot of people don’t understand nuance or how the American political system works and it shows in those threads.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m honestly still skeptical of that, It seems to me like Lemmy would be too small to be an efficient use of a paid shill’s time, vs having them go to a mainstream social media platform. I think they’re either genuine in intent but have twisted themselves into a completely counterproductive idea of what to do out of anger at how things in the world have gone, or in some cases are people trolling for a position they don’t support, but who are doing it for free to advance their own position rather than for a paycheck.