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As it stands right now, FDR was re-elected more times than Xi. Was he also a dictator?

Xi has been re-elected twice because people are happy with the steady improvements in their material conditions.

• Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn’t
• Long-term survey reveals Chinese government satisfaction
• Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
• At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

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If you want to talk about a fake democracy, look no further than the US. Previously:

The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

I don’t understand what you’re talking about and therefore I don’t know what you mean by “dataset” in this context, but I do know that generally speaking in the US, data isn’t copyrightable.

Me seven months ago:

If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.

You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.

Love Me, I’m A Liberal (2021 Palestine Edition)

Incidentally, Kollektivschuld is a real dog’s breakfast. Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World

Voting machine levers not so much. [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

The CCP is known to have agents in western countries that manipulate and pressure ex-pats to return to China.

The seeseepee is “known” to do that if you believe Cold War II bullshit propaganda about “secret police stations.”

They are trying to build soviet type dictatorships

The Soviet Union wasn’t a dictatorship, and whatever it is they’re trying to build, it’s the furthest thing from socialism or democratic centralism.

It means something else to Burgerstanis.

Unfortunately I haven’t answered your original question. I don’t sysadmin lemmy.ml so I’m not in a position to.

🤷 In any case, unless you want to use the “Send notifications to Email” feature, or you’re worried about losing your password, there’s no reason to give your email.

I don’t know what that’s about, but I never gave lemmy.ml my email address because it doesn’t require one, and I would gain nothing by giving it.

That is not a denial of invasion. The term special military operation is Russian domestic legalese to distinguish it from a formal declaration of war, because a formal war declaration would trigger different laws and government actions in Russia. The same is true in the US, which hasn’t formally declared war since WWII, despite having fought dozens since then.

I think a few people have created their own locked (meaning only mods can post) Lemmy communities to use as their own personal blog. It’s worth noting that every Lemmy community has an RSS feed link.

Oh… there are!

Links or it didn’t happen. I’ve never seen anyone online or off claim that Russia did not invade Ukraine in February of 2022.

Independently of one thinks of the invasion (yes invasion!) of Russia in Ukraine

I don’t know why you’d think that this is a point of contention, when literally no one contends against it being an invasion.

It’s not a classic because no one says that. Japan did it for sixty years, until it was made a vassal of the US, which it still is today[1][2].