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You mean the democratic socialist, an inherently anti-authoritarian party, is calling out authoritarians?
Is it going to be news when he condems Xixing Ping and Putin and Netanyahu, and the Iranian Shah, and Saudi Royal family, and well you get the picture.
Fuck authority that doesn't earn it.
Chiching Ping isnt his name, but that is hilarious
Its Xi Jinping
I don't actually remember how to spell it because whenever I call him Winnie the Pooh it summons the CCP bot army calling that racist and I forget. Maybe this will be the time.
Yeah I just call this Asian leader yellow so often that when I'm not calling him yellow I call him mr removed, I'm not racist btw
Man you guys really need to try new things. You damn well know it wasn't because Winnie the Pooh is yellow. And you damn well know it was started in the real China anyway.
Yeah you're really the best person to prove that this isn't a racist thing, considering how extremely not racist you come across when you aren't calling him a yellow cartoon character
They dont say it because hes yellow, they say it because his face is the same shape as winnies, but you know that.
What I know is that this is a bunch of bullshit made up to cover for overt racism
No it wasnt, it was a meme made in china by chinese people about their chinese leader, if you take offense to the meme take it up with China.
Except it was intended to be racist because the meme was about Xi being Pooh and Obama being Tigger.
I knew that part, but why was Tigger racist for Obama?
Seriously? Think about what rhymes with Tigger. I'm starting to think you aren't the best arbiter of what is or isn't racist.
Only a foreign propaganda bot could think I am being racist!
Yeah but he's yellow and built like a bear.
No, I'm not a reactionary. Why do you ask?
No, that's just the hexbear part.
No other instance seems to do it.
Chichong Ping is objectively worse
I thought it was a cash register sound with the ping left over for how much he personally benefits from his position.
Are you confusing Xi with Deng/Hu?
To be fair, I spelled it Xi jingping.
I don't understand how we got Chichong Ping from my missspelling but here we are
To be fair, that is how @ToastedRavioli@midwest.social responded to your comment and I assumed it was the same mispelling.
That's my bad for not checking, sorry.
It is racist, you are racist
Why would he condemn a regime that hasn't existed for 46 years?
Because the Ayatollah is the Shah lol
"Shah of Iran" redirects to that page.
You know, sometimes it's ok for you to be wrong. I know hexbear is a community where everything is literal, but in this case, an Iranian Monarch and Iranian Supreme Leader are just different titles for two different authoritarian Regimes.
Just like Xi Jingping is the Authoritarian Ruler of China, like Mao was.
This is just aggressive ignorance. It's not a matter of opinion or dependent on ideology. It's basic history and terminology.
Precisely. They are different words which refer to different regimes (separated by a revolution). If you use them interchangeably you will confuse people.
Show me literally anyone else who refers to the Ayatollah as the Shah. Do an image search for "Shah of Iran" and look at the results.
Xi and Mao are/were leaders of the same regime (The PRC), so that comparison actually makes sense. What you're doing is the equivalent of saying the emperor of China is the same as the president of the People's Republic of China.
Both are authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.
They are identical.
Authoritarianism isn't a very good measure of government, when a monopoly on violence is one of the defining characteristics of a state. The difference is often more perception than it is reality, and even then tyrants can be vastly different from each other. Abraham Lincoln had Northern dissenters killed, and suppressed peoples rights, yet he was still a peak president.
Richard Nixon is the Shah. Saddam Hussein is the Shah. Modern Spain had death squads killing political opponents in my lifetime. Where isn't lead by the Shah?
Genghis Khan and Hitler were both authoritarians that had people killed over dissent.
Therefore, Genghis Khan invaded Poland in 1939 and put European Jews in concentration camps. They are identical.
I'm not talking about moral equivalence! You used the wrong term for the current head of state of Iran. Just learn and move forward, and stop acting like an arrogant ass when corrected.
I'm sorry if I sounded smug when I called out your initial error.
Yeah and they are identical too. I wasn't referring to the head of state, I was insulting how the Iranian revolution replaced its tyrant with another tyrant.
All tyrants are the same. Their title is bullshit.
Goddamn you're dumb
The people Mao killed outside of the 4 Pests Campaign deserved it, tbh.
Also insert quote from Engles "On Authority."
Nuclear hot take, but there's no way to fit the required nuance here.
I do not have the time nor energy to explain the entire Chinese Civil War, the White Terror, and the Century of Humiliation to people who think Winny the Pooh memes aren't racist.
The fuck man, you just came out and said it lmfao wow
They're right, killing evil people is good, fucking duh
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