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Dely Apple posted:The CCP really hate them The lecher Rene Chang no longer has any opinions, as he is dead. As I do not know whether his lechery was considered good or bad, I cannot comment on which place he went to.
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I had to go to one of the chinese circus performances as a kid when I was 10 or so, which people were only going to because it featured pandas. But then the pandas weren't feeling good and we never got to see them. My strongest memory from that period though is that's when I felt my lifelong depression kick in. Not from the missing pandas, but I was super excited to go, and then about an hour before we were set to go to it, my excitement faded and I was just filled with nothingness. No desire to go, no desire to see friends. So I guess china somehow caused my depression. Thanks China!
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bob dobbs is dead posted:We do know that China has remarkably low organ donation rates and remarkably high organ transplantation rates. They have wait times routinely 1/50th that of Western countries. It probably does mean that organs are being taken somewhere, but it doesn't necessarily mean that Falun Gong organs are being taken I mean, statistically, at least some of those harvested organs were from Falun Gong types. Along with all the other prisoners, political dissident and otherwise. The vast majority is certainly Uighurs these days, though.
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I'm glad I've never gone to Shen Yun after reading this thread. There's a tour through my city every year and I've been mildly interested because the TV ads and posters are pretty. But tickets were like $80+ or something absurd, so gently caress that. Now I'll never bother because I don't want to sit through cult indoctrination.
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http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun posted:I felt my forehead. The dances continued, sleeves swirling, skirts rippling. A man came onstage to sing a song in Chinese, which was translated on the screen behind him. “We follow Dafa, the Great Way,” he began, singing about a Creator who saved mankind and made the world anew. “Atheism and evolution are deadly ideas. Modern trends destroy what makes us human,” he sang. At the end of the song, the row of older white people sitting behind me clapped fervently. In the final dance number, a group of Falun Dafa followers, who wore blue and yellow and clutched books of religious teachings, battled for space in a public square with corrupt youth. (Their corruption was evident because they were wearing black, looking at their cell phones, and, in the case of two men, holding hands.) Chairman Mao appeared, and the sky turned black; the city in the digital backdrop was obliterated by an earthquake, then finished off by a Communist tsunami. A red hammer and sickle glowed in the center of the wave. Dazed, I rubbed my eyes and saw a huge, bearded face disappearing in the water.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I had to go to one of the chinese circus performances as a kid when I was 10 or so, which people were only going to because it featured pandas. But then the pandas weren't feeling good and we never got to see them. That owns.
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Bip Roberts posted:That owns. https://twitter.com/Papapishu/status/746803108949409793?s=19
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:I'm glad I've never gone to Shen Yun after reading this thread. There's a tour through my city every year and I've been mildly interested because the TV ads and posters are pretty. But tickets were like $80+ or something absurd, so gently caress that. Now I'll never bother because I don't want to sit through cult indoctrination. pretty much this all over
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Waltzing Along posted:It loving sucks. Most metal lyrics I've ever heard were at Shen Yun. Something like "The Eternal Dragon rises, burning all who oppose. Live in peace or else roast" pop fly to McGillicutty fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Dec 26, 2019 |
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Slugnoid posted:it did, and it was worse than you're imagining I don’t know how it could possibly be worse than what I’m imagining. Ugggh Chinese opera is the worst.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:You don't live in a significant media market do you Does this mean Kansas City is a "significant media market"? Hooray!
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I hope people go and interrupt the performance to protest Hong Kong
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Slugnoid posted:They market themselves as being some kind of authentic Chinese dance company, then you find out from one of the announcers that they're all just a bunch of upstate new yorkers, and i'm pretty sure a bunch of the people on stage were white dudes. I bet if that was in the advertising more people would go
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Slugnoid posted:It was just dancing with almost no acrobatic skill whatsoever. Half the time the dancers would just jump behind a curtain and the actual dance was just some pre-recorded thing projected onto a giant screen at the back of an empty stage. Holy poo poo, lol. That surprises me, even more than the Chinese cult songs. Judging by the advertisements, I would have assumed that everything was live. quote:They market themselves as being some kind of authentic Chinese dance company, then you find out from one of the announcers that they're all just a bunch of upstate new yorkers, and i'm pretty sure a bunch of the people on stage were white dudes. What a disappointment.
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I kinda want to see a tsunami with the face of Karl Marx crashing into some cult tbh
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Falun Gong practitioners in China are imprisoned for the purpose of involuntary organ harvesting plus what if I got Giovanni Ribisi's kidney and that would be an amazing conversation starter
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physeter posted:plus what if I got Giovanni Ribisi's kidney you become operating thetan level 3
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Slugnoid posted:you become operating thetan level 3 Dang did they nerf that in the last balance patch?
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You can't expect anything better from pay2win publishers.
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:I'm glad I've never gone to Shen Yun after reading this thread. There's a tour through my city every year and I've been mildly interested because the TV ads and posters are pretty. But tickets were like $80+ or something absurd, so gently caress that. Now I'll never bother because I don't want to sit through cult indoctrination. I’m fine with cult indoctrination but not $80 a ticket when they’re not even professional dancers.
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Falun Gong practitioners are supposed to be able to levitate and if they’re not even levitating in the show then I don’t know where they get off charging $80.
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physeter posted:I do think about that, and I think it is definitely happening, and then I think about how I'd feel if America started harvesting organs from scientologists, and I'm just kinda ehh Sometimes I think about lovely things that happen to people who don't deserve it, but happening to people I don't like instead. That makes the original objectively bad thing okay.
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I understand you're upset but otherwise it seems like a waste of perfectly good organs? on the other hand, I admire a group of people who have been trying to challenge Communist China to an international dance-off for the last 20 years so I'm torn
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Trash Ops posted:imagine thinking organ harvesting is happening I'm imagining thinking that. Ha ha, whoa, crazy.
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Falun Gong practitioners are supposed to be able to levitate and if they’re not even levitating in the show then I don’t know where they get off charging $80. those claims of levitation must be bullshit, then, because if I learned how to levitate you’d better believe my feet would never touch the fuckin ground again, no matter how dumb my fat rear end would look floating in the air
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Their founder says Falun Gong don’t levitate in front of people in order to save our brains from exploding from the shock of seeing something so incredible.
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Their founder says Falun Gong don’t levitate in front of people in order to save our brains from exploding from the shock of seeing something so incredible. so basically the same reason I give for never cleaning the kitchen or bathroom I respect the laziness at work, but nevertheless I remain unimpressed
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Trixie Hardcore posted:Their founder says Falun Gong don’t levitate in front of people in order to save our brains from exploding from the shock of seeing something so incredible. I’d fuckin poo poo my pants if I saw one of those dudes levitating
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Every forced organ donation is just another experiment to find out if that bit is the anti-gravity gland.
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goatface posted:Every forced organ donation is just another experiment to find out if that bit is the anti-gravity gland. It's all a secret plot. One day those cultist dudes are going to concentrate really hard, and a dozen old Party leaders are going to lift off, to be picked up days later by tracking satellites, frozen in orbit.
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physeter posted:I do think about that, and I think it is definitely happening, and then I think about how I'd feel if America started harvesting organs from scientologists, and I'm just kinda ehh Trash Ops posted:imagine thinking organ harvesting is happening hot takes here, get yer hot takes here, fresh off the grill hot takes
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Trash Ops posted:imagine thinking organ harvesting is happening imagine not thinking organ harvesting is happening https://twitter.com/mprobertson/status/1195151387585216512
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EimiYoshikawa posted:imagine not thinking organ harvesting is happening  China studies fellow @vocommunism
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