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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1601 year ago

    Very noticeable that they didn’t specify how he wasn’t a dictator, nor what other label would be more appropriate.

    • I Cast Fist
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      661 year ago

      “I am not a dictator! Anyone who says I am will get jailed!” - Grand Poohbear of China, 2023

      • @[email protected]
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        261 year ago

        I use a client that can block instances, so I have all of Hexbear blocked. It radically improves the Lemmy experience.

          • Buelldozer
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            11 year ago

            Connect does instance blocking and I think LiftOff does as well.

          • @[email protected]
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            -11 year ago

            Give Memmy a try. I switched to it so I could block entire instances. It’s made my feed so much better!

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              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.

        • Red Wizard 🪄
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          1 year ago

          Never hear a dissenting opinion. I’ll take, what is an echo chamber for $200.

          • @[email protected]
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            71 year ago

            There’s differing opinions and then there’s just shittalking. When it comes to differing opinions most of Hexbear interactions deliberately (by the admission of their own users) fall under shittalking. They deliberately antagonize and troll anyone with a different opinion because in their mind anyone who doesn’t agree with them should be trolled. You don’t get differing opinions from Hexbear, you get a bastardization of a differing opinion. One that is different only on the basis them telling you you’re wrong, and in most cases even that has to be intuited.

            Nobody should wade through shit to get a few nuggets of gold which is why most people just block Hexbear.

          • @[email protected]
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            -31 year ago

            Just because they blocked Hexbear doesn’t mean they block all the opinions they dislike.

            Hexbear is just full of radicals and trolls.

          • @[email protected]
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            -51 year ago

            Have you ever bothered to read the rules of your instance? If I go on there and say anything negative about your cute dictator I’ll be banned. However, you can freely go on our greedy capitalist instances and praise your teddy bear as much as you want. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. I guess your mind can’t comprehend being free.

            • Red Wizard 🪄
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              21 year ago

              Do you mean the rule about not being Sinophobic? Is that really a hard rule for you to follow? I like to look at objective reality instead of just barking the same nonsensical shibboleths when the topic of China arises.

              • @[email protected]
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                -51 year ago

                No capitalist apologia / anti-communism

                You would whine even harder if lemmy.ml had No communist apologia / anti-capitalism in their rules.

                • Red Wizard 🪄
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                  01 year ago

                  Most anti-communism has no basis in reality and often are myths perpetuated by state agencies. All Anti-Capitalist sentiment is rooted in the material realities of our world and life. To deny socialist historical reality is to deny your own history, and ultimately is an admission of your disingenuous support of the truth.

                  Historical Materialism is truth seeking in practice. It requires you to have a fact based, objective view of our past and present.

                  Also I don’t know why I would whine, because I’m not using lemmy.ml. That instance can have whatever rules they want. I wouldn’t block or defederate from them because of it either. But if you are not interested in seeking the truth and objectively observing reality, then I guess you can insolate yourself from it and keep your echos.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        Thankfully, OP is from an instance that has not federated with Hexbear. Hexbear users won’t be able to see this post.

        • spez
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          11 year ago

          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?

          • @[email protected]
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            81 year ago

            You need both. For a comment you even need the community instance, the poster instance, and the commenter instance to all be federated

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                Basically, everybody needs to agree before access is granted.

                It is the best way to block spammers and trolls.

    • @[email protected]
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      -301 year ago

      Because he was democratically elected in a transparent election. Unlike the current American demented imbecile.