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Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

Martman posted:

Steven Soderbergh's new Netflix movie The Laundromat has a pretty unexpected aside about China kidnapping and harvesting organs from Falun Gong members (among other groups of course). I thought it was just gonna be about Meryl Streep being a nice old lady who stands up to scammy companies!

See it’s just a movie, lol are u triggered by my edginess??!
:madmax:

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Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

holy loving poo poo dude lol.

Did you just accuse a random goon of being part of the CIA? You are a loving moron my man.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
That's just a mutation of the powerful ok boomer strain of own.

Trash Ops
Jun 19, 2012

im having fun, isnt everyone else?

still better than the other guy's red text lmao

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Trash Ops posted:

still better than the other guy's red text lmao

Lmfao. Think twice before you talk about Shen Yun motherfucker!!

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
More like poo poo Yun

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
im looking for some sailors

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Trash Ops posted:

still better than the other guy's red text lmao

idk I prefer everyone knowing that I'm an idiot over everyone knowing that you're a holocaust denier

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Fojar38 posted:

idk I prefer everyone knowing that I'm an idiot over everyone knowing that you're a holocaust denier

This guy has TEN BUCKS for any motherfucker brave enough to say Shen Yun sucks balls. Do you think you're tough little man? Think you're ready to post about Karl Marx oceanic waves? That's what I thought.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Arrhythmia posted:

This guy has TEN BUCKS for any motherfucker brave enough to say Shen Yun sucks balls. Do you think you're tough little man? Think you're ready to post about Karl Marx oceanic waves? That's what I thought.

I don't buy custom titles otherwise I'd have changed mine a while ago. Also Shen Yun does in fact suck balls but that is irrelevant to trash ops denying ongoing crimes against humanity

Brother Tadger
Feb 15, 2012

I'm accidentally a suicide bomber!


Why do you feel it necessary to argue that someone is wrong about something of which you have no personal knowledge? Is it your job to defend the communist party or som— oh.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

isn't shen yun the dragon that grants wishes

Aoi
Sep 12, 2017

Perpetually a Pain.

Away all Goats posted:

isn't shen yun the dragon that grants wishes

I thought shen yun was the one you had to defeat to stand a chance

Dely Apple
Apr 22, 2006

Sing me Spanish Techno


They just put a giant Shen Yun billboard up on my arterial road. I blame this thread.

Splash Attack
Mar 23, 2008

Yeahhh!
I am GHOS!!
Haaaaaa Ha Ha Ha!!




lmao my uncle was and still is super deep into falun gong. he ended up mc-ing a few shen yun performances and i went to several performances with my parents. i don't know if i didn't notice it or they just weren't doing it at the time because it was when Shen Yun was starting out way back when i was in high school, but i didn't notice any propaganda for falun gong or anything against the chinese government.

though when i got to college they started putting in these bits about falun gong members being killed by the evil CCP except then the chinese gods came down to smite them while taking the falun gong people to heaven. even my dumb rear end could recognize this as propaganda and i decided i didn't want to see it anymore. neither did my parents because the tickets were getting more and more expensive lmao.

it's definitely a cult and my uncle can't ever go to china again because the last time he went, he got deported for protesting against the chinese government and they won't give him a visa. it sucked a lot because it meant he couldn't attend his dad's funeral when he died. on the other hand, falun gong is definitely against homosexuality and mixed race people and gently caress that. he got into falun gong when i was really young because it would apparently help with his health because he was really sick and they couldn't figure it out. i guess daily meditation and eating better/cutting out sugar out of your diet would work, which is what he did but he attributes it all to falun gong. he also told me he could levitate while meditating so i'd always sneak in to check on him even though i wasn't supposed to do that to see it for myself, but he was always sitting on the ground.

he also sent his daughter to a shen yun boarding school when she was little where she learned traditional chinese dancing and wanted to join the shen yun troop and she was honestly really good. she actually placed first in some US dancing nationals in high school but she didn't meet the height requirements for joining the troupe and so she got rejected. my cousin is doing fine, she just graduated a few weeks ago from college and she's actually glad she didn't join shen yun now because she's embarrassed at how much of a meme it is now - someone else had the shen yun dancer glued to their cap at her graduation. she still wishes she could dance professionally (she studied communications for her major) and doesn't regret learning classical chinese dancing, but she wishes she'd decided to focus on ballet since she would had have more options on where to go for college versus the only one she had for the other.

anyways for christmas my uncle gave everyone either a trump coin or something from the shen yun store which comes in boxes that literally have 'shen yun is good' printed on the outside and inside.

Splash Attack fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Dec 28, 2019

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011
Lmfao

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
falun gong is a whackdoodle cult and shen yun is garbage but they aren't currently in position to commit genocide like the CCP so imma gonna go ahead and say they're the less bad ones

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

falun gong is a whackdoodle cult and shen yun is garbage but they aren't currently in position to commit genocide like the CCP so imma gonna go ahead and say they're the less bad ones

But have you considered that maybe this one time it's okay, since the victims are a weird religious minority, and thus it's fine to make an exception for the pagans jews catholics Mohammedans falun gong?

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost
yeah but i had to pay more than $100 to have weirdo cultists from new york tell me some celestial emperor is going to fly down from the moon and smite me for being gay through the medium of dance so maybe im owed a kidney or two for the trouble

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Splash Attack posted:

lmao my uncle was and still is super deep into falun gong.

it's definitely a cult and my uncle can't ever go to china again because the last time he went, he got deported for protesting against the chinese government and they won't give him a visa. it sucked a lot because it meant he couldn't attend his dad's funeral when he died. on the other hand, falun gong is definitely against homosexuality and mixed race people and gently caress that. he got into falun gong when i was really young because it would apparently help with his health because he was really sick and they couldn't figure it out. i guess daily meditation and eating better/cutting out sugar out of your diet would work, which is what he did but he attributes it all to falun gong. he also told me he could levitate while meditating so i'd always sneak in to check on him even though i wasn't supposed to do that to see it for myself, but he was always sitting on the ground.



anyways for christmas my uncle gave everyone either a trump coin or something from the shen yun store which comes in boxes that literally have 'shen yun is good' printed on the outside and inside.

It isn't often one sees an uncle this dumb in both halves of their brain.

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

evilmiera posted:

It isn't often one sees an uncle this dumb in both halves of their brain.

Trump don't like CCP, Falun Gong don't like CCP. Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Alien Sex Manual
Dec 14, 2010

is not a sandwich

evilmiera posted:

It isn't often one sees an uncle this dumb in both halves of their brain.

Are we sure the uncle isn’t also looking for a Republican Goddess?

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
Let's all calm down by thinking of something soothing like kids in cages on the border, but instead it's kids who annoy you on long plane trips.

BigBadSteve
Apr 29, 2009

Shun Yen.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
If you're sure. I don't really follow the currency markets.

Kazak
Jan 10, 2012

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I feel cheated because this absolutely didn't happen when I saw them.

Maybe you just didn't recognize Karl's face in the tsunami

Brooks Cracktackle
Oct 17, 2008

Like 5 years ago I got tickets to Shen Yun from work not knowing what it was beyond "chinese dance company" and it was alright

You know, right up until the part where it gets extremely weird and overtly anti-communist and starts peddling straight up falun gong propaganda

That was about the moment that I realized that I worked for a cult, lol (I probably can never go to mainland china now)

Also they literally made us watch a movie about falun gong organ harvesting at work

DeadFatDuckFat
Oct 29, 2012

This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.


Lol Shen Yun is a 501(c) nonprofit

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Arrhythmia posted:

This guy has TEN BUCKS for any motherfucker brave enough to say Shen Yun sucks balls. Do you think you're tough little man? Think you're ready to post about Karl Marx oceanic waves? That's what I thought.

what the gently caress is this post lmfao

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

what the gently caress is this post lmfao

I'm jumping in to defend a genocide denier, pay attention.

WeedlordGoku69
Feb 12, 2015

by Cyrano4747

Arrhythmia posted:

I'm jumping in to defend a genocide denier, pay attention.

how much mercury did you eat before you did that

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

bob dobbs is dead posted:

It's a homophobic cult funded by the CIA to try to replicate the Catholics' role in whacking the Soviets op

It went pretty good until the crackdown

Ah yes, the major influence the Catholic church has in Russia.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
Solidarnosc, a thoroughly atheist movement

The Soviets, entirely composed of Russia only and not a whole sphere of influence at all

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

bob dobbs is dead posted:

Solidarnosc, a thoroughly atheist movement

The Soviets, entirely composed of Russia only and not a whole sphere of influence at all

Adding the rest of the Soviet Union other than Russia nets you one tiny Catholic area, Lithuania. The rest is Orthodox as gently caress, with a bunch of Muslims on the south edges.
Adding the rest of the East Bloc gets you a bunch of Catholics, but only Poland had the big thing going on with that and funny but Poland trends much more religiously conservative than most of Catholic Europe.
As in, whether the CIA through some funbucks their way or not, its something that existed in that society and came up from that same society.

Falun Gong is some dumb crap from nowhere.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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Nap Ghost
China, famously known for hating Qigong and having nothing to do with it

Grape
Nov 16, 2017

Happily shilling for China!

bob dobbs is dead posted:

China, famously known for hating Qigong and having nothing to do with it

If some nutter started a cult that uses pushups as a ritual, attached to a bunch of cosmic nonsense, you wouldn't point to pushups as the tradition from which it arose lol.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
A lot of the cosmic nonsense was old Taoist cosmic nonsense repurposed to gently caress with the party after the big crackdown

It's like weird new cult thing with political fuckery #15 in China's history. Yellow Turbans, Taiping, Boxers....

Slugnoid
Jun 23, 2006

Nap Ghost
if failin dongs so good why dont the inmates at the organ prisons just levitate over the walls and fly away

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
We are all getting our collective poo poo pushed in for dissing the great SHEN YUN

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Atopian
Sep 23, 2014

I need a security perimeter with Venetian blinds.
I'm unironically betting they add something about a virus to the show within a year of this whole thing being resolved.

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