Trump Praises Communist Chinese Dictator: "He’s a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist."
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for context, this is entirely incorrect.
I mean you say that but Hong Kong got it pretty hard.
HK is still being invaded, and everything I wrote above is still correct.
HK citizens are still resisting, they have almost daily protests and resistance actions; xi is in no way ruling with an iron fist.
he is actively losing his grip.
can you elaborate on "daily protests"? i feel like things are pretty calm now after national security law passed.
"can you elaborate on "daily protests"?"
sure, i can even give you the relevant quote from the comment you're referencing.
"...almost daily protests and resistance actions..."
"...almost daily..." means something happening almost every day.
so if you were eating spaghetti Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you'd be eating spaghetti every day.
but if you ate spaghetti Monday, Tuesday, skipped Wednesday, and then ate spaghetti Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you'd be eating spaghetti almost every day.
now replace spaghetti with protests and resistance actions.
"protests" are public demonstrations of resistance against a policy (holding a sign, chanting, sitting on the roadway)
resistance actions don't necessarily imply a public aspect (graffiti, coordinating a protest, wearing a mask)
relax dude. i'm not trying to debate you "daily" or "almost daily", i'm just curious what current situation is like.
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Thats the thing about ruling with an iron fist. It works for a short time, but the ones oppressed are just looking for any reason to create your downfall. And there are a lot of oppressed people right now.
Once again saying the quiet part out loud
How many times does he have to say "the quiet part" before it's not quiet? He called himself a "day one dictator" and promised that this will be the last vote his supporters will need to do. There is no subtle dog whistles anymore, just a campgain strategy of promising to end democracy.
Yea but the Democrats are gonna destroy democracy and America. He's just going to destroy democracy but save america and make it great again (whichever time period before civil rights that is)
I truly think this rhetoric from Trump is what's emboldening DPRK and PRC and Russia and Israel to escalate the way they have been. Because if Trump becomes president they can just do whatever the fuck they want to.
I still remember when Xi made himself president for life and Trump said at a rally, "maybe we oughtta try that some day."
Lol Xi is just uncomfortable and looking to be away from him ASAP.
I never thought I'd miss Deng Xiaoping
Once again, I'll wait here patiently while literally nobody shows up here to rail against Trump for supporting genocide.
what are you talking about?
The first comment is condemning him and the second comment explicitly mentions that he shouldn't be supporting genocide.
both comments happen before yours