• davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 hours ago

    When he resigns, loses an election, or dies, obviously.

    I know it’s hard for people who live in capitalist bourgeois democracies to imagine that a president could sustain popularity over a long period of time. They’re used to getting fucked over, election cycle after election cycle, because their governments don’t work for the majority, they work for the capitalist class. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.

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      5 hours ago

      When he* dies, obviously.

      FTFY since he will never resign and never allow someone to dethrone him.

      When people have total control for life that’s called a dictatorship

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
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        4 hours ago

        All you’re doing is repeating your assertion without adding anything, and the assertion you’re repeating is the the one you received from a lifetime of Western capitalist Cold War propaganda, and I don’t think it’s ever occurred to you to question it.

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          44 minutes ago

          Nobody in this thread can explain to me how somebody who has complete control for life is not a dictator.

          And no, him manipulating elections and suppressing opposition doesn’t count as the people making a choice.

          Yes i understand the US has flawed elections, we all need to do better.

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            19 minutes ago

            Nobody in this thread can explain to me how somebody who has complete control for life is not a dictator.

            Yeah, because Xi isn’t that.

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            7 minutes ago

            Nobody in this thread can explain to me how somebody who has complete control for life is not a dictator.

            That’s because, by baselessly & repeatedly claiming that Xi dictator for life, you are begging the question. Despite the evidence I presented that:

            1. People in China, unlike those in the US, believe they have a democratic system. I also provided evidence that the US doesn’t.
            2. Chinese people have many material reasons to be happy with their improving lots in life over the past several decades, while the lives of people in Western capitalists states have been deteriorating over the last ~40 years of grinding neoliberalism. So it’s no surprise that people in China might want more of the same.

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