Anyone who disagrees with this along the lines of "Oh but Trump/Obama/Xi/Trudeau/Macron/Stalin/Hitler is really loved!" then you should put get off the Internet until you grow a bit.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Xi has a far higher approval rate than western politicians, though, so it does have relevance.

[–] Devconsole@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The approval rate of the politician does not enter into the fact that any photo that looks like that is marketing and involves some level of staging or artifice

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

I already said as much.