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tintory@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD

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tintory@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD – DW – 08/11/2023
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The far-right populist Alternative for Germany party rejects a values-based foreign policy, just as much as it rejects NATO and the US. That approach has attracted the attention of Beijing.
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    White people in Apartheid-South Africa believed Apartheid-South Africa was a democracy, too.

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      The difference is that everyone in China can vote.

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        Vote for whom?

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          Their government.

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          Any citizen with at least two endorsements from other citizens.

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            Gee… if the Tiananmen Square protestors only knew that, eh?

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              They did.

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              Yes, they did. Until some alphabet agency agent co opt the protest, when it’s about inflation and economic crisis. Many Chinese peoples still piss at them till this days, at least learn about the country first before spouting shite

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                Riiiight… the country that the CIA had famously failed to penetrate - right until it became convenient for tankies to pretend they actually did, eh?

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          For their peer, they vote for the most competent to run the govt, not some snake oil sales man or senile old man that rely on pr popularity to run the damn country. Look at Nigeria, a drug lord successfully make peoples vote for him and now they’re in the brink of war even though peoples don’t like it,

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            For their peer,

            Riiiight… I’m pretty sure Xi Jinping hangs with the over-worked factory people every night and does his share of the sewing.

            Tell me another fairy tale, tankie.

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      I have never looked it up but for them it probably was. That isn’t the reason people were upset about the situation.

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      Nice, very tasteful comparison

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      Turning a dial labeled racism because it makes weak leftists angry for some reason.

      (Cowards)

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