Lmao
Yeah Felon Gong have been called out by even western media outlets for their misinformation campaigns on social media. NBC’s expose literally revealed they were the biggest source of anti-vax information on Facebook
The fact that a group that even exists like that is bizarre and it’s even more ridiculous that anything they say is given any sort of credence. Redditors will jerk themselves off about how dumb Scientologists, Qanoners, MAGAS and anti-vaxxers are but when there’s a group that intersects all four, they’ll believe them because China bad
That cult puts on a ballet every year (or the years when there weren't pandemics) and literally nowhere is it advertised it's run by a weird cult. It's advertised as a celebration of "traditional Chinese culture" except the one my friend went to had moments where a screen had stuff projected on it like "Darwin was a liar" and "Atheism is a disease." One year they apparently had a little scene of presumably pre-revolution China represented by dancers in a meadow, then the sky slowly turns red and Karl Marx's face appears and all the dancers then run in fear. It's absolutely wild and they keep doing it every year with the same advertising slogans and absolutely no one around here has yet caught on that it's weird propaganda by a weird cult.
All around the USA as far as I know. They have a website. Cruising around the website now and they actually do mention Falun Gong stuff in the FAQ in no less than reverent terms.
https://www.shenyunperformingarts.org/
dude, falun gong cultists literally believe that trump was sent by god to destroy communism! i'm not shitting you, search it up! they actually believe that shit!
Are you telling me those Falun Going have some wacky idears!?
How did this Nalvany guy even get people in the streets?
As far as I can tell, this dude is less relevant to Russian politics than Buttigig is to American politics, as Buttigig won his mayoral election, Nalvany lost by 40 points.
I'm quite seriously just guessing here, but with how prevalent the concept of "lesser evils" is, i'd wager a guess and say a big portion consider him slightly less evil. I mean Putin has been around for awhile no doubt, and I'm sure people in Russia are fed up in one way or another and just kinda want "change." idk how much western media is consumed in russia but if it is, I'd imagine that also probably plays something of a factor.
i’d wager a guess and say a big portion consider him slightly less evil
I remember, some twenty or thirty years ago, when Yeltsin was considered the "lesser evil". Yeltsin's protege was a young mayor from St. Petersburg named Vladmir Putin.
This isn't a more/less evil situation. It's a "my asshole" or "your asshole" situation. Putin isn't toeing the American line like he promised, when he and Bush Jr broke bread at the turn of the 21st century. So now Americans think he's got to go.
I’m sure people in Russia are fed up in one way or another and just kinda want “change.”
Putin's done a good job of keeping his opposition fractured and at each others' throats. But he's also shamelessly pandered to a sizable base of Russian nationalists who like him for the same reason Americans like Biden. They don't want change. They want stability and growth, minus the threat of scary foreigners. Putin brings that in spades. For all the shit people like to fling around about neoliberalism being when the US does an imperialism, Putin is the model of a Russian neoliberal and popular for that very reason. He's just not allied with Americans in his neoliberalism, and so we try to replace him with a stooge just like we tried to replace Gorbachev.
He's big on the russian internet and social media as a anti-Putin guy. Makes slick videos with american NGO money, that sort of thing. People were surprised he was allowed to run for mayor at all, even though he ate shit, so that's where he got is 'activist cred.' He's not really that popular though outside of the internet, but now he's basically the face of the "illegal opposition" in Russia (I use that very losely, it's not really a organized group just hardcore anti putin people). He's more of a focal point for most protesters than a leader or anything. Most russians probably think he's stupid for working with the Americans.
I mean you answered your own question lmao. Look at how vapid and empty and manufactured Buttigieg was. Look at how popular and how far he got with that totally blank and robotic performance. The media jerking you off nonstop can get you faaarrrrr in life
Look at how vapid and empty and manufactured Buttigieg was. Look at how popular and how far he got with that totally blank and robotic performance.
That's my point, could you imagine someone fighting the cops and burning shit down for Pete Buttigieg?
Navalny has cleaned up his image quite well in the last few years (ofc he privately is most definitely still a nazi) and mostly runs as a liberal, which appeals to young ppl in the big cities. Plus he kinda puts his money where his mouth is, at least from a certain point of view. He made these very slick investigations exposing government corruption and whatnot. In a political landscape as desolate as Russia's, how can you expect ppl not to be drawn to somebody who is voicing your concerns and doing it in a format sutied to the internet age?
Buttigig won his mayoral election, Nalvany lost by 40 points
He lost by about 30 points, but its actually what he expected and that is actually a better result than a non-United Russia candidate had gotten up to that point. Plus turnout was pretty low, like 30%. Most of his supporters didnt show up, plus it was 2013, he didnt rly have the base he has now.
Breaking: Group of people who support Israel don't actually care about Muslims. More at 9.
Putin created a system where someone like Navalny could rise to the top. Putin made Navalny
Navalny: if you don’t give into my demands, I’ll starve myself to death!
Hottest take I've seen since "Iran is responsible for European Islamaphobia."
Nalvany who has actually advocated for Muslim genocide
Do you have a good source for this I can send people?
All I'm seeing rn is posturing over how he can't get a Quran in prison
He said something like they were cockroaches and should be exterminated like roaches. Along with just also having terrible xenophobic policies and marching with russian white nationalists.
Any rough translation of what he's saying? YouTube's autotranslate sucks
basically, "what do you do if you have a cockroach? image of cockroach you kill it with a swatter or a slipper! But what if the roach is too big? A person in a burka runs toward Navalny and we hear a gunshot Then in this case I recommend a gun!
Do you know where I could find an article with that quote? Thank you.
well yeah, the libs are on a steady diet of cnn and msnbc, so they don't know that navalny is a nationalist, let alone an islamphobe. they also have no idea what's up with radio free asia and what not. they thing "wow, the radio in asia should be free, of course!" adrian zenz isn't presented with the constant reminder that he works for the anti-communist terrorism thinktank. he's just presented as "the guy that knows about xinjiang." so this to them is natural.
