https://twitter.com/jenniferzeng97/status/1614811569724035072
The founder of Falun Gong also says he has telekinetic abilities, and no, he will not show you
modern medicine is evil alien juice, the only safe thing is ancient Chinese exercises
But that is only cause whenever he does so he has to pay royalties to Tom Cruise and the other Scientology cult leaders :kombucha-disgust:
The Chinese communist party is so powerful they can cover up a third of the country dying and only a weird homophobic cult noticed.
They are saying in 3 years covid took out 25-30% of China's population and no one noticed.
I really can't stress how stupidly big the number they throw out is. Like obviously its stupid. But look at this as an example:
2 x WW2 - 150,000,000
6 x Reported American covid deaths - 6,600,000
5 x Holocaust - 30,000,000
1200 x 9/11s -3,600,000
3 x Deaths contributed to European colonization of the Americas - 168,000,000
4,180 x "Alleged" Tiananmen square deaths
< 400m
Imagine all those people ... disappearing within a 3-4 year period. ..
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Dont check my math.
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edit: I screwed it up Americas covid deaths 2x . :dont-laugh:
So as you can tell by this tweet the CCP can easily cover up a total of 600 million deaths without a trace. The only reason any of you have even heard of Tianmen square is that 700 million people died there.
I mean this is just proof that communism works. Can you imagine capitalism trying to cover up that many deaths?
The entire population of China has died 3 times, but the tyrant Xi won't let them stay dead and uses juche necromancy to keep resurrecting them. Still think China is "cool"?
I lived in Wuhan during SARS, it was fucking eerie. A city of 6 million suddenly seemed empty, there was no quarantine that I know of people just stayed home, everyone who went out wore a mask. People were legit scared but it only lasted like that for about six weeks I think. Obviously COVID is a different beast still just the absolute difference in response between the US and China during the early days just by the general public, without any government intervention, has always really stood out to me.
Interesting side note, The doctors at the campus my family was living had us drink like half a pint of some herbal remedy every day that tasted like fucking patchouli but we never got sick. Not sure if that was the reason or not but I ended up taking a number of herbal remedies while I lived there and quite a few of them definitively helped. There's still a couple things I pick up ever time I get to visit a decent china town. People who clown on herbal and eastern medicine are morons.
Interesting side note, The doctors at the campus my family was living had us drink like half a pint of some herbal remedy every day that tasted like fucking patchouli but we never got sick. Not sure if that was the reason or not but I ended up taking a number of herbal remedies while I lived there and quite a few of them definitively helped. There’s still a couple things I pick up ever time I get to visit a decent china town. People how clown on herbal and eastern medicine are morons.
I think the reason so many in the west oppose herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine is because we have no history or traditional medicine of our own since it was destroyed by the Catholic church during their persecution of paganism and witchcraft
Because of that what passes for "alternative medicine" here in the west is a bunch of snake oil scam artist bullshit with no regulations whatsoever that you're even getting the snake oil they promised you
we have no history or traditional medicine of our own since it was destroyed by the Catholic church during their persecution of paganism and witchcraft
Exactly that, and now people are conflating herbal medicine with crystal healers and homeopathy so things aren't really getting better. Which sucks cause there are some really useful plants out there.
Traditional medicine that works becomes modern medicine.
so many in the west oppose herbal medicine and traditional Chinese medicine
I oppose it because it usually doesn't bear results when its clinically trialled.
If it works, it should stand up to the scientific method.
the lore can't be totally gone, where can we get in contact with an anthropologist who might know more?
please explain in your own words what you think a placebo is so I or somebody else who beats me to it can correct your misunderstanding.
had us drink like half a pint of some herbal remedy every day that tasted like fucking patchouli but we never got sick.
Yeah same with my family, I grew up eating or drinking odd shit like bee Royal jelly, liquefied elk horns mixed with tree mushroom extract and root plant puree, and teas made from lichen that look like white worms, moss that look more like rocks, and what tastes like a pinch of sand. And as someone diagnosed with severe asthma when I was younger my asthma's practically nonexistent even when I exercise heavily or during pollen season or work in contaminated environments. The only I ever really still experience it is when I'm interacting with animals I'm allergic to and I can work off my wheezing and sneezing with fresh air and breathing exercises.
I straight up have no idea what thing helped me out and I still generally am apprehensive towards the field of Chinese and Korean traditional medicine but I would rather have it as supplemental medical treatment on top of modern medicine over literal snake oil selling American 'homeopaths'
For minor colds, headaches and the like I'll try herbal medicine first, if they don't work I have no problem reaching for the pills. For real problems I'm always going modern medicine, I have found for a couple chronic conditions herbal stuff makes good supplements. I'm also not just taking some old guys word something works, a lot of plants have years of history in both the west and east as well as some scientific research into them so I try to look that info up too.
It's kind of hard for some of them like the ingredients for the tea I drink in the rare times my allergies flare up.
It's called Tiantian Baicao and it's made with Glycyrrhiza glabra L . var . glandulifera, Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat., Hydrangea Tea, Thamnolia Vermicularis (Ach) Asa-hina, Saussurea in volucrate, Arenaria Kansuensis Maxim, Crocus sativus L .
The thamnolia and the arenaria have been particularly hard for me to learn about other than they look wicked
The one stand by I always try to keep around for headaches and muscle pain is white lotus oil, not really sure whats in it but definitely some mint and eucalyptus and I assume lotus.
Huff and temples for headaches rub for muscles, kind like icyhot but way more potent.
Oooo that sounds kind of nice actually. Kind of like tiger balm but with lotus
People who clown on herbal and eastern medicine are morons.
no u.
if herbal shit has an active ingredient how the fuck do you control your dose? and if it doesn't have an active ingredient, then it's not the substance that's helping.
The same way you control the dose when you smoke weed or eat an edible?
cool, I don't have a med card so it's recreational and that means i don't have a very good idea of how much i'm taking or how much i need to be taking for it to do what i want it to do for me.
you see how this is a problem for medicine right? medical weed helps people and would probably help me but the way that shit all went down in the US was legal gamesmanship and it's still not particularly scientific and i'd clown just the same on somebody saying weed was doing something that weed doesn't do.
i don't know where you live but around here the federal agency that's in charge of enforcing the accuracy of that kind of labelling doesn't regulate "supplements" or fake bullshit.
White lotus oil, some sort of tea powder which is like ginseng cinnamon and black tea ( can basically get that any where now though), there's a couple other things which I only know when I see them. One of them works really well for a cough suppressant and I can't think of what it was at all at the moment.
:rat-salute: lemme know if you remember, I think that stuff is super interesting
Damn, that’s wild.
Googles “founder of Falun Gong
DAMN, THAT’S WILDDDD.
What's particularly wild is reading the wikipedia page for Falun Gong. We're talking about a fucking cult - complete with a guarded compound (in NY no less), belief their leader is an alien, all that shit - but like 90% of the article shows them in a neutral or positive light with like 70% dedicated to "persecution" against the cult.
Jeez, I wonder why :cap-think:
At this rate Falun Gong could go all Aum Shinrikyo and do a sarin gas attack in a chinese subway and wikipedia and CNN would be like "Falun Gong is now facing persecution for their heroic actions by the evil CCP."
If I have it my way they'll be persecuted out of NY too
this tweet sponsored by Shen Yun
Chairman Mao appeared, and the sky turned black; the city in the digital backdrop was obliterated by an earthquake, then finished off by a Communist tsunami. A red hammer and sickle glowed in the center of the wave. Dazed, I rubbed my eyes and saw a huge, bearded face disappearing in the water.
“Was that . . . ?” I said to my brother, wondering if I needed to go to the hospital.
“Karl Marx?” he said. “Yeah, I think that was a tsunami with the face of Karl Marx.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun
The main reason one of us needs to get into that show is to take some high quality pictures and video so that we can get emojis of the Karl Marx tsunami, that shit sounds like it goes hard as fuck
I'm actually kinda curious what the organ harvesting dance number looks like too
Yeah my fiance's in Shanghai right now, her son and daughter-in-law have been there for the whole pandemic, I have colleagues all over that country, I know at least two other US-based Chinese nationals with a lot of family in mainland China... From all of these connections I know of one elderly individual who died with COVID-19 in June.
To be fair I don't have any personal connections to any families in the US with a COVID-19 death but it's a much smaller country.
Bad news folks, the voices in my head are telling me that the CCP has begun placing every Chinese person on a massive conveyor belt into a garbage incinerator like in Toy Story
I like to think of it being more like the star belly maker machine and the star belly removal machine.
And I would have got away with it too if it weren’t for you meddling dweebs
i haven't seen chinese staircases but i can't imagine any place has good enough stairs by our standards
