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Prove it? Sure. It's a system where the singular ruling party controls elections and all candidates must be approved by them. If that's not a dictatorship then I've never heard of one.
You can argue it provides utility or stability or something if you want, but arguing it isn't a dictatorship shows how ignorant you are. Of course it's exactly what I'd expect though.
I don't know how the west doing anything bad is relevant to this conversation. It was never part of the discussion and is purely a red-herring to distract from your bad faith argument.
Also, once again, the Pooh Bear thing is from China. It isn't racist. It has nothing to do with race. It's making fun of him being fat and the way he presents himself as clean and kind. Prove it is, since you're asking for proof of basic stuff we all know.
A single party system is not inherently undemocratic, we communists believe in democratic centralism. The CPC is the dominant party in China, but there are multiple other parties in the country.
No, it shows how ignorant YOU are, since you clearly don't even understand how different political systems can be democratic. Your vision of democracy is limited and is easily dismantled by showing how in the US, for example, you have basically a two-party system that at the end of the day serves the same purpose, to continue to impose the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie upon the working class, or how you libs call it, "western democracy". Your lack of class analysis in China's system fails to account for how the CPC represents the proletariat instead of the bourgeoisie and how that completely changes the inner functions of said country and society.
You can't be serious, right? You can't simply point fingers at a country with a bunch of false claims and not expect a direct comparison with how the rest of the world does stuff to dismantle the argument. The implication in this discussion is that China and the CPC is a bad evil dictatorship that oppresses people and curbs their freedom of speech. By pointing out how the west does things I'm providing a counter argument of the false claims. You can't simply claim a bunch of stuff in a vacuum without directly comparing with how the it in the rest of the world, it's disingenuous. Do you not understand how arguments work?
Oh stop playing dumb. You know very well that it is racist to associate a Chinese person with a yellow character. Also, it doesn't matter where it comes from. Pepe and the Ok sign didn't start as hate symbols, both were turned into one. If you can't see how westerners constantly calling and depicting Xi Jinping as Pooh isn't racist, then you're the racist.
Oh so according to you it's not racist, it's just fatphobic AND racist since by saying he "presents clean and kind" you're implying he is neither of those things. Definitely not racist to imply that a Chinese person is unclean and unkind. Fuck off.
It was the fucking people in China making the comparison! Come on. You keep ignoring this in order to just say westerners are evil. That's why bringing up western stuff doesn't matter because the conversation isn't about any of that. It's about the comparison of President Xi to Pooh Bear. You just keep swerving around trying to hit a different target because the actual conversation doesn't work in your favor.
Clean, meaning morally, no he isn't. Kind, not so much. He presents as if he's a perfect story book character, like Pooh Bear (hence the comparison), but he wouldn't still be in power if this were the case. The people in China recognize this, which is why they started the comparison. It spread to the west because of the outsized response to it. It's the Streisand Effect. It was funny how insulted he was by this that it started being banned, so it spread because his fragile ego couldn't handle it.
Is it fat-phobic? Probably. Is it racist? Hell no. It's just making fun of someone with a fragile ego with someone he's made public that he's insulted by. Implying it's racist because Pooh Bear is yellow is just trying to shut it up by making shit up. It has nothing to do with that. It's just what the Chinese picked to make fun of him with.
Ignoring? I literally addressed that in my previous comment. I'm not gonna repeat myself. And I'm not saying westerners are evil. As much as I hate using these moral terms like good, bad and evil, if I were to use it it would be to say that the west is evil, not the westerners.
Yeah yeah, keep changing the meaning of words to only fit how you see it on your head. And really? He's still in power because he presents himself as "clean and kind"? Like, really? First you say he's a dictator, now he's only still in power because se presents himself well. Which one is it? And that aside, do you really believe he's only in power because he presents himself well? Like, really?
A single meme is not representative of the will of the Chinese people. By this logic I can say the USians are nazi because of how much Pepe exploded in popularity. It's beyond silly.
First of all, Winnie the Pooh was never banned in China, it is still a very popular character there.
Second of all, you lack understanding of how Chinese society works. China, and some other asian countries do not simply speak ill of their leaders and representatives. It's a cultural thing. Which is not to say that they don't criticize them, they do, but it is completely different than the rest of the world.
And finally third, if people started representing Obama with the image of a gorilla, let's say, from Tarzan. Wouldn't that be racist? Wouldn't that be censored and ban worth in most places? So stop with the double standard bullshit. Just realize you're racist against asians and do some introspection.
For everything else you said I already have replied previously.
You're incredibly unserious and I'm not losing my time engaging with you any further.
I'm done. You keep changing my words.