Well they aren’t.
Both countries have elections. (unlike ukraine BTW that without the excuse of war banned almost every party and put political opponents in jail)
It’s a ridiculous cartoon villain propaganda name.
Like every country the west doesn’t like needs to be called a regime.
Annoying
Comment on Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 days ago.ml and hexbear are the tankie community.
They used to have a lot of popular communities on there, but they have driven most of them off their space into other instances by now.
If you imply that Putin or Xi are dictators you will get banned from those spaces.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 days ago
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Did you hear what happened to Alexei Navalny? How anyone can think that Russia is not a kleptocratic dictatorship is beyond me.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The racist and fascist criminal, filmed with an MI6 agent talking about causing triouble?
The one that made videos of him shooting “vermin” muslims, organised fascist marches and other awful stuff?
Yes, he was poisoned by his Brit handler on the plane, I know.
Not as funny as the the Skripal joke. OC it has to be novishok, LOL
I’m not sure you really know what happened to all these people
Did you hear what happened to Epstein, Gary Webb, Assange or the plenty whistleblowers?
Where in Russia is Guantanamo?db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Ok so even assuming all this is true, (which is a big assumption, but whatever), does that deserve a summarily death sentence?
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So when does someone besides Putin or Xi get “elected”?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 days ago
when people choose to.
When does someone from outside the D/R uniparty get elected in the US?
They have been in charge for literal centuries.
But that’s normal for the banana republic apparently.SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Wow your whataboutism really proved that China has a free society.
Good job.
Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Putin and Xi are dictators in the same way that Trump is trying to be. They consolidated power under their office, removing term limits and checks, and manipulate the democratic process in their favor (often with blatant ballot stuffing and crushing opposition, in the case of Putin).
The US political system, as corrupt as it is, isn’t quite to that point yet.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m sure you have proof of your fantasy tales.
I’ll wait for it (and never hear from you again)Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I started to make a long effort post detailing Putin’s rise to - and subsequent consolidation of - power, but then I came to my senses and realized it would be pointless. If I went through with it, you would just do what you’ve been doing already, dismiss all sources I provide as false and biased propaganda while engaging in ridiculous whataboutism. I decided it would be a poor use of my time, is this really how you want to be spending yours?
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lol. Lmao, even
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
i don’t want to encourage bothering people in other instances, but getting banned from hexbear feels kind of like getting banned from thedonald. Not quite the badge of honor you’d hope. Like, cool and all but what were you doing there in the first place.