Seems like an op? Just blatant anti-communist propaganda used in their advertising? Some one who knows pls explain :puzzled:

  • Abstraction [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It is run by the Falun Gong cult who, among many other things, believe that race mixing is a plot by evil aliens to destroy souls. I hear that one of their shows features a city being destroyed by a big wave with Karl Marx's face on it, very subtle.

  • booty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Falun Gong. Probably one of the widest reaching completely wacko cults in the world. The Shen Yun shows are everywhere. They have a newspaper called The Epoch Times too.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Epoch Times is so reactionary it makes CNN look like Crimethinc

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Falun Gong/Epoch Times actually has a lot of little subsidiary media outlets that few would know about. Off the top of my head, the YouTube channels Strictly Dumpling and Generation Tech have associations with FLG even though they're a food channel and a Star Wars lore channel respectively.

      Strictly dumpling in particular makes more sense when you know they're FLG related because they review Chinese food everywhere EXCEPT CHINA.

      • booty [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yup, I knew they had a whole lot of branches. But I'm still very surprised to hear about those specific examples. That's fucking wild. We're gonna have some fascinating documentaries about them in the year 2050 or whatever

      • ToastGhost [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        fuck generation tech, cringelord that goes 'humannity first its not racist' despite the setting hes discussing having many nonhuman people. fuck aliens and droids i guess.

    • spring_rabbit [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      They also make the Vision Times/看中国/Kanzhongguo that has boxes all over town here and it seems... Maybe less awful? I remember seeing a lot of front page stuff celebrating Eileen Gu and seemingly being not openly anti-China. It was weird. Could be completely wrong though. Epoch Times would never fly in this city, maybe this is their "softer" newspaper.

      Shen Yun billboards and flyers everywhere though ofc.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's such a competitive environment, but the Epoch Times might just be the most insane right wing rag.

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    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      They are really really into organ harvesting. My first exposure to Falun Gong was a few people who were often holding a few beat up conspiracy signs about alleged organ harvesting. They just hung out in a couple different tourist spots in Boston

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    They have a big billboard on a highway in Wyoming. I want to go there and see what kind of Guy goes to an anti-communist Chinese traditional ballet in Wyoming.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      I wanna see what kind of guy sees a billboard in Wyoming , as far as I'm aware no one lives there

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        A guy who lives in Colorado but has to go to Cheyenne sometimes. It would just be us at Shen Yun.

  • Spike [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    A play about how life was better when China had a life expectancy of 35

  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    International Reactionary Religious movements often have CIA ties, especially given their fervent anti communism, id be surprised if the CIA didn’t get involved at some point

  • HoChiMaxh [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Falun Gong apparatus in North America has the most spooked up vibes for an org with no established, identifiable ties to the deep state. But like, c’mon where do they get all this money

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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    2 years ago

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun

    Lib-compatible piece on why they are completely whacko bonkers

  • neera_tanden [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Is everything an op? Jfc

    Edit: this probably comes across as harsh and for that I apologize. But at some point conspiracy bros think everything is an op. From Hillary Clinton to JFK to the United Nations

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The usual reactionary woo: "Once upon a time things were good and perfect. That is no longer the case. Things should become good and perfect again, which can happen after lots of cruelty and murder." :grillman:

    • Kuori [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      we have to ban miscegenation and bring back foot binding, otherwise civilization will collapse!

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is a great explainer, made by an outright anti-communist who still acknowledges that the Falun Gong is bad and bullshit.

  • ToastGhost [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    reactionary terrorist cult from china, believes in aliens and racially segregated afterlife, funded by the west of course