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Another country has called Xi a 'dictator' and China is not happy with that description (edition.cnn.com)
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China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (26 children)

I use a client that can block instances, so I have all of Hexbear blocked. It radically improves the Lemmy experience.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Whats the client?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    I am using Eternity or Voyager, I will be so happy when instance blocking comes to those.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Give Memmy a try. I switched to it so I could block entire instances. It’s made my feed so much better!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Thanks for the recommendation, but I'm on Android, so I can't use it. On spezit I loved, and supported Infinity, the Infinity fork Eternity is very good. I love having my own colour theme, it's great for qol, and all the other nice features it has.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

    Never hear a dissenting opinion. I'll take, what is an echo chamber for $200.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    There's differing opinions and then there's just shittalking. When it comes to differing opinions most of Hexbear interactions deliberately (by the admission of their own users) fall under shittalking. They deliberately antagonize and troll anyone with a different opinion because in their mind anyone who doesn't agree with them should be trolled. You don't get differing opinions from Hexbear, you get a bastardization of a differing opinion. One that is different only on the basis them telling you you're wrong, and in most cases even that has to be intuited.

    Nobody should wade through shit to get a few nuggets of gold which is why most people just block Hexbear.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Have you ever bothered to read the rules of your instance? If I go on there and say anything negative about your cute dictator I'll be banned. However, you can freely go on our greedy capitalist instances and praise your teddy bear as much as you want. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. I guess your mind can't comprehend being free.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Do you mean the rule about not being Sinophobic? Is that really a hard rule for you to follow? I like to look at objective reality instead of just barking the same nonsensical shibboleths when the topic of China arises.

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  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    No capitalist apologia / anti-communism

    You would whine even harder if lemmy.ml had No communist apologia / anti-capitalism in their rules.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Most anti-communism has no basis in reality and often are myths perpetuated by state agencies. All Anti-Capitalist sentiment is rooted in the material realities of our world and life. To deny socialist historical reality is to deny your own history, and ultimately is an admission of your disingenuous support of the truth.

    Historical Materialism is truth seeking in practice. It requires you to have a fact based, objective view of our past and present.

    Also I don't know why I would whine, because I'm not using lemmy.ml. That instance can have whatever rules they want. I wouldn't block or defederate from them because of it either. But if you are not interested in seeking the truth and objectively observing reality, then I guess you can insolate yourself from it and keep your echos.

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