On another note, if you say "Yeah the Shen Yun thing is anti-Chinese government propaganda" or something, nobody is gonna give a fuck, but if you ever talk to a lib about it, you can hammer on the anti-environmentalist and homophobic themes that are in the performance which would be more effective
Every single year I tell my coworkers the ballet is weird and they shouldn't see it. Every year they go anyway and come back with tales of like the actors on stage saying homosexuality is a disease and going to the doctor makes you evil. One year they did a production where there were dancers in pre-revolutionary China dancing in a field and Marx's head came out of the sky and everything turned red and then everyone died.
Somehow it keeps going and somehow most people are unaware it's run by a weird cult doing anti-communist propaganda.
tales of like the actors on stage saying homosexuality is a disease
Liberals keep being surprised that anti-communists are bigots, you'd think they'd learn to recognize patterns after a while
I know the emoji, I just prefer text version sometimes
Fash does not recognize other fash, instead they just see normal people like them
There’s an MSNBC article taking them down too. Don’t forget they’re the biggest spreaders of pre-Covid anti-vax propaganda and hate interracial couples. Lots of ways to tame the libs with their own issues
They also have ties to pro trump stuff. That hits them right in their feelers
What's the conversation though when I see the flyers posted in a window of some pizza shop or whatever? Do the businesses get a kickback? Do they just say "oh a Chinese dance performance? neat! yeah I'll put a flyer up, sure", are they just put up without asking?
Probably just asking the management if they can put up a sign. I was at a restaurant once and asked a manager if she knew the sign out front was advertising a cult. She said she thought it was like some kind of refugee charity. The sign said something about how 1 out of 3 deaths are caused by communism.
I doubt there's a kickback, probably some combination of permission and not. businesses are constantly getting asked to put up flyers
I see these in a lot of Chinese restaurants, nail salons, and my Asian market. This begs the question: are most of the Chinese immigrants who come to America to open businesses reactionary, or do they not know what this actually is? It seems surprising that they would have no idea especially since this season's posters actually say "China before Communism" on the top.
i don't claim to have any insider information, but my guess would be the vast majority aren't dedicated communists (like, why would they be lol), and falun gong will pay to put up a lot of ads. don't think there's a deeper explanation.
Yeah some are multigenerational who don't really know or care, and some are gusanos (e.g. "Mao took my grandpa's egg monopoly"). Weird how they never show the China before communism when warlords were ripping the country apart while Westerners were carried on palanquins by indentured servants and Japanese imperialists were bayonetting babies.
Whenever I drive to Wyoming, I see one of these billboards on the way to Cheyenne. There's the billboard advertising illegal interstate fireworks, the one advertising a cowboy festival, and then the one advertising traditional Chinese ballet to people who are essentially the town from Blazing Saddles.
If not for the plague I'd absolutely go to it just to see who goes to it.
They also made up the whole China organ harvesting thing. Literally the only sources were them interviewing themselves but now that it's a mainstream talking point you can just cite news outlets in a circle.
The other two responses nailed it but for a bit more context, if you live in a city or even near one that is hosting this, the advertisements are EXTREME. Like they are everywhere, on billboards, busses, benches, posters, leaflets. Like it's nuts how hard they advertise lol
Wait the weird ballet posters I see are for some weird Chinese psy op? Is it connected with a specific church or something? Where can I get more info on this
falun gong, or falun dafa, is a reactionary new age cult. like a lot of reactionary groups they claim to follow in the footsteps of "tradition." they're homophobic, racist, anti-abortion, anti-medical science generally, and of course incredibly anticommunist. before uighurs, they were one of the group western imperialists would mention as targets of CCP human rights abuses, the rumor being that the chinese government was forcibly harvesting their organs.
oh also if you or your chud uncle have ever gotten ads for a newspaper called the Epoch Times, that's owned by them.
Is their anywhere I can learn more about Falun Gong’s bullshit? Any good reads/watches as to exactly why the suck besides just reading epoch times
I got a flyer in the fucking mail about this. "CHINA BEFORE COMMUNISM" and there's pictures of people in elaborate dresses dancing in front of picturesque scenes of what I assume are monuments from Imperial China.
Like, even if most of the capitalist or ultra propaganda is true and China is a bourgeois imperialist state, conditions are still better for the people today than in Imperial China. It should be obvious even to libs that whatever parts of imperial Chinese culture that might seem aesthetically beautiful or otherwise pleasing were available only to a tiny segment of the population: the ruling class. The vast majority of the people were peasants who lived horrific lives, even by the standards of peasants who still remain today because back then famines happened regularly.
But have you considered that the flag in China is now red? This does more damage to the lives of everyday people than any unimportant bullshit like landlords or working conditions sweaty
Someone I know posted this on their finsta and now I'm trying to figure out if they're here or not
