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DGuller

#10500
January 06, 2021, 11:42:57 AM
Just a reminder that sometimes people are opposed to oppression not out of principle, but because that oppression is aimed against them.  Myanmar was a very sad example of that.  Same goes for many Soviet Jewish immigrants, who embraced virulent racism and everything that goes with it almost as soon as they left USSR.

Razgovory

#10501
January 06, 2021, 01:05:57 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 06, 2021, 11:37:09 AM
It's a weird twist that a Falun Gong newspaper decided to be a Trump mouthpiece.

I guess there is just something about weird East Asian cults that drives them in to conservative causes.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi

#10502
January 06, 2021, 01:11:52 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 06, 2021, 01:05:57 PM
I guess there is just something about weird East Asian cults that drives them in to conservative causes.

Aum Shinrikyo never started a conservative newspaper. :nerd:

Josquius

#10503
January 06, 2021, 01:27:33 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 06, 2021, 11:37:09 AM
It's a weird twist that a Falun Gong newspaper decided to be a Trump mouthpiece.

I've noticed that from "China uncovered" on YouTube. They used to be interesting. Now they're just so... Nutty. They've a channel called America uncovered too which gets very trumpy.
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Admiral Yi

#10504
January 06, 2021, 01:32:59 PM
Quote from: Tyr on January 06, 2021, 01:27:33 PM
I've noticed that from "China uncovered" on YouTube. They used to be interesting. Now they're just so... Nutty. They've a channel called America uncovered too which gets very trumpy.

Do you mean the paper or the cult used to be interesting?  Because the cult has always been nutty.

Valmy

#10505
January 06, 2021, 01:37:05 PM
He is talking about a Youtube channel. I don't know how connected it is to Falun Gong if at all.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Josquius

#10506
January 06, 2021, 02:23:02 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 06, 2021, 01:37:05 PM
He is talking about a Youtube channel. I don't know how connected it is to Falun Gong if at all.
They run it.

And yeah. The channel used to be interesting.

The group being nutty.... Meh. No more than any other religious group.
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Jacob

#10507
January 07, 2021, 02:15:39 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 06, 2021, 11:37:09 AM
It's a weird twist that a Falun Gong newspaper decided to be a Trump mouthpiece.

Two reasons for that:

1) Anti-CCP Chinese are easily taken in by Trump's rhetoric. They think he's the one who's going to take a hard line with Xi and China and they don't really care about or understand internal US politics.

2) IIRC, when the Falun Gong folks tried to improve the Epoch Times' operations and reach the people they hired where US right wing political operatives of a flavour that went hard for Trump when he showed up. Quite possibly for reasons related to #1 (anti-CCP Chinese folks tend to take Republican chicken-hawk posturing at face value).

DGuller

#10508
January 07, 2021, 02:48:18 AM
You're alive?!?

Syt

#10509
January 07, 2021, 02:50:06 AM
Quote from: Jacob on January 07, 2021, 02:15:39 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 06, 2021, 11:37:09 AM
It's a weird twist that a Falun Gong newspaper decided to be a Trump mouthpiece.

Two reasons for that:

1) Anti-CCP Chinese are easily taken in by Trump's rhetoric. They think he's the one who's going to take a hard line with Xi and China and they don't really care about or understand internal US politics.

2) IIRC, when the Falun Gong folks tried to improve the Epoch Times' operations and reach the people they hired where US right wing political operatives of a flavour that went hard for Trump when he showed up. Quite possibly for reasons related to #1 (anti-CCP Chinese folks tend to take Republican chicken-hawk posturing at face value).

Jake! :o :hug:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Josquius

#10511
January 07, 2021, 03:54:24 AM
:o :w00t:
Finally something good in this awful awful year.
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Valmy

#10512
January 07, 2021, 04:11:06 AM
It is really good to see you Jake :hug:
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Brain

#10513
January 07, 2021, 04:26:03 AM
Hi Jake! :)
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Jacob

#10514
January 07, 2021, 10:37:27 AM
:cheers:

It's been a while, eh? I started a thread to catch up :)
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