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.
Pooh is big mad
This is hilarious
Very noticeable that they didn’t specify how he wasn’t a dictator, nor what other label would be more appropriate.
Maybe she should’ve used the chinese word for dictator.
Ah yes, Xi Jinping
*Winnie the Pooh
That’s exactly like his name!
Ah yes, Xi Jinping
“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…
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.
I use a client that can block instances, so I have all of Hexbear blocked. It radically improves the Lemmy experience.
I am using Eternity or Voyager, I will be so happy when instance blocking comes to those.
Connect does instance blocking and I think LiftOff does as well.
I just.tried Liftoff and i did not see that option
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
Whats the client?
Memmy app let’s you do it as well.
Does it? I can’t find that setting
Edit: Nevermind, I read this as Mlem
Kbin allows users to do this (noting kbin isn’t a client it’s a compatible platform).
Sync let’s you do it. Also possibly Connect? I forgot the other one, but i think it might be Connect.
Yes, connect lets you block instances, but it still shows that there was a comment there and lets you show it. It’s handy to see how much you’re blocking.
Tell me your wisdom, duck of the lake.
I use a Violentmonkey script to do so
It’d be funny if he called him “Winnie the pooh” when he meets him to explain himself :)
No that would be racist.
The Internet has used it to indirectly refer to him
I did for a bit too until someone here pointed out the underlying issue. Winnie is yellow in all the images of him Disney made or not. And “yellow” people in Western racism are Asians particularly Chinese people.
It would be really fucked up for Germany to call Xi any variation of that name IMO.
This just in: calling a black person Mickey mouse is racist! Can’t call a white person “Snoopy”, that’s racist too. Likening a Chinese person to a character from the Simpsons? Believe it or not, racist.
I did for a bit too until someone here pointed out the underlying issue. Winnie is yellow
That’s one point off your critical thinking score.
You are aware that they compare him to Winnie due to this image, right?
Calling it out as racism would be an exaggeration.
No it’s definitely racist—see obama is tigger because they’re calling him a….
/s
The meme was created by Chinese bloggers, who used it to mock Xi despite heavy monitoring and censorship. If anything, perpetuating it is a show of support of Chinese dissenters.
You are not a Chinese blogger.
At this point it’s mostly just crackers who refer to him this way.
Well you clearly are an authority on racism, you’ve got years of experience.
You can’t be racist against whitey lol
Did you just assume my ethnicity?
I assumed your nationality - you don’t live in China lol
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Jacobs or Mcvities?
It honestly depends, some VPN companies like to use it to refer him but don’t want to piss off the Ccp so they blocked all their servers.
Techbros are never racist.
Look, I’m sure not every use of the meme is racist - but all racists use the meme. Get it?
Let’s think about as a way to be less obvious when talking about him
Whoever pointed that out is the racist.
I’m Asian. I can bet everything I have that no single Asians would never think so.
Incorrect nice try though
Lol, you guys crack me up.
Winnie so sad lmfao
The german minister of foreign affairs is the women depicted in the post.
I think they were talking about the ambassador (who may also be a woman, idk) not the foreign minister.
Very likely. However that is also a women.
“Dictator” is such an ugly word. I prefer “Tyrant.” It’s much more damning.
Dictator is the better word because it implies a choice by the people. It’s the reason why Octavian is the first Roman emperor but every ruler wants to be a Caesar.
In a way, calling Xi a dictator recognizes his legitimization. I am sure that was not intended.
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Well that just goes to prove her point. Well done, Xi.
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
Overacting insecure jerk what Xi is
Xi: I really resemble that remark!
Another Germany W
Now they have (at least) two W’s on their account
And some say there were two WWs on their account
Neither of which gave them a W though.
Yet somehow it still resulted in W Germany.
Damn, they’re good
Germany is right
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!
hexbears are trolls, they would disagree even if it killed their mother.
Then it must be true
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Yep and other rules
Have you tried not being an authoritarian PoS, Xi?
Aww, somebody hurt Winnie the Pooh’s feelings.
Omfg made my day
West Taiwan -100000 social credit DAE Xinnie? XD
“The remarks made by Germany are extremely absurd, seriously infringe on China’s political dignity, and are an open political provocation,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular news briefing on Monday.
Because everybody thinks this is because she called Xi a Dictator - is there any proof, that this is really the case? I searched everywhere, but I couldn’t find anything. I think the problem is her whole statement and not just calling Xi a dictator. I would be very very happy if anybody can give me a source for this. I would like to read the whole context and not just one sentence with nothing in it.
Don’t downvote me, just give me a source. Thx.
How about you don’t fucking tell me what to do with my votes thanks
-downvoted
Pls don’t upvote me.
Oh yeah? Well, screw you!
-upvoted
When asked about Russia’s war on Ukraine, she said: “If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be for other dictators in the world, like Xi, like the Chinese president?”
Thx, maybe it helps other people to understand that this statement is implying that China would like to invade Taiwan. It implies that China wants to act like russia acted with ukraine. If you are following china’s international politics and diplomacy you should understand that this is the bigger problem. They don’t care about this dictator-shit. If they really care about the word dictator: PLS! PLS! PLS! Give me a source for it.
Yes, China doesn’t want to invade other countries, not at all, that’s not the reason why other countries are mad at the map the Chinese government released recently, it’s just the other countries misrepresenting China and Xi.
!Heaping dose of sarcasm!<
Are you some kind of retarded? I said the problem is that Baerbock was implying it. I did not say anything about, if they want to invade or if they don’t want to. I don’t want to judge about it. If you wanna do it - go for it. But don’t say I made a choice here. Diplomacy is a game, which only works, if you’re playing it good. Baerbock has many opportunities to play games, but what does she do? She goes to this damn News-Channel, who promoted Trump.
ableism is bad
Sorry, you’re right. I am doing wrong to retarded people. Retarded people are more intelligent.
i think this is a good time to remind everyone reading the comments in this comment section that a significant part of them are written by middle schoolers
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