As much as I hate all the Epoch Times ads I have to watch because I don't allow targeted ads. I will miss Veggie Heaven in Austin forever, and they were Falun Gong run, up too 2014 or so. Not remotely the only vegetarian restaurant I liked that I later learned was run by weird right-wingers. . .
We can't escape Shen Yun. Billboards, commercials, flyers of anorexic pretzel people. We've had a flyer stuck in our screen door for three years and counting. We can't get it out without disassembling the damn thing.
I remember when Falun Gong was new and Americans kind of uncritically accepted them, like "Oh this group is anti-PRC, they must be cool". This was just a few years after Tiananmen Square, and the entire world saw that. Then the internet became more widespread and people started finding out more about them, and it was a real "oh... oh no" moment.
To have the true Epoch Times experience, you must read the online comments section. There I learned before the fact of planning for J6. But that represented the more rational (and coherent) of the commenters.
Trump is literally Jesus. When I quoted red-letter Gospel (without attribution or other context) in the ET comments, the most predictable reaction was "You are a communist" and "You will die first." So it was clear what would happen if the real Jesus mistimed His return and impinged on Trump's reign.
This POS publication is in almost every independent coffee shop in my town. It recently turned up in my community clubhouse. I'm going to stick post-its or a note on the periodical table about its provenance.
Ignore anything that describes a sentence as "up to" something. There's a whole system of points and charts. A maximum sentence would have to involve a long criminal history and many aggravating factors.
I'm very glad someone is seriously going after these people. I work at an urban university campus, where almost every corner has a Epoch Times newspaper vending box, and every other lamppost has a glossy poster for Shen Yun.
Robyn, I don’t mean to be critical, but I strongly believe that any Falun Gong story is required to note the rotating swastikas in the believers’ stomachs, installed by the Master.
Falun Gong used to demonstrate in Water Street in front of Goldman Sachs and my (former) famous law firm. They would enact tortures inflicted on them by the Chinese government. After a few months of that I was on team Chinese government. I wanted to yell at them: “No wonder…!”
That's ok, I almost got into Amway once. Luckily I proved to be too skeptical to be inducted into a cult. That, and the speaker of honor at the major function was Doug Wead, who they proclaimed to be BFFs with The Shrub. I noped right out, but at least got a few days in Florida.
As much as I hate all the Epoch Times ads I have to watch because I don't allow targeted ads. I will miss Veggie Heaven in Austin forever, and they were Falun Gong run, up too 2014 or so. Not remotely the only vegetarian restaurant I liked that I later learned was run by weird right-wingers. . .
We can't escape Shen Yun. Billboards, commercials, flyers of anorexic pretzel people. We've had a flyer stuck in our screen door for three years and counting. We can't get it out without disassembling the damn thing.
I remember when Falun Gong was new and Americans kind of uncritically accepted them, like "Oh this group is anti-PRC, they must be cool". This was just a few years after Tiananmen Square, and the entire world saw that. Then the internet became more widespread and people started finding out more about them, and it was a real "oh... oh no" moment.
To have the true Epoch Times experience, you must read the online comments section. There I learned before the fact of planning for J6. But that represented the more rational (and coherent) of the commenters.
Trump is literally Jesus. When I quoted red-letter Gospel (without attribution or other context) in the ET comments, the most predictable reaction was "You are a communist" and "You will die first." So it was clear what would happen if the real Jesus mistimed His return and impinged on Trump's reign.
Are there any wealthy right wingers that AREN'T criminals?
Behind every fortune is a CRIME.
This POS publication is in almost every independent coffee shop in my town. It recently turned up in my community clubhouse. I'm going to stick post-its or a note on the periodical table about its provenance.
Of course I mean the table where the newspapers and periodicals reside... not the periodical table of elements. (Queue up Tom Lehrer again...)
The Biden administration, HARD ON CRIME.
Ta, Robyn. Of course, of course.
Quick, someone notify Mike Johnson. The legal system in this country is out of control!!!!
"also known as Bill Guan". In that case I'll be referring to him as "Willy Guano".
Ignore anything that describes a sentence as "up to" something. There's a whole system of points and charts. A maximum sentence would have to involve a long criminal history and many aggravating factors.
Corporate America loves that too. As in "will last up to 6 months". Usually means lasts two months.
“Discounts up to 50%” for the items no one wants to buy.
CorpAm also often confuses the words "months" and "minutes".
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Why, it's almost like everyone who LOOOVES THEM SOME TRUMP is a crook. At some point the cops are gonna wise up...
I think they're in on it, Jake.
But then some of them might have to arrest themselves.
Lock him up.
I'm very glad someone is seriously going after these people. I work at an urban university campus, where almost every corner has a Epoch Times newspaper vending box, and every other lamppost has a glossy poster for Shen Yun.
As if the Twelve Tribes folk weren't enough.
Robyn, I don’t mean to be critical, but I strongly believe that any Falun Gong story is required to note the rotating swastikas in the believers’ stomachs, installed by the Master.
Falun Gong used to demonstrate in Water Street in front of Goldman Sachs and my (former) famous law firm. They would enact tortures inflicted on them by the Chinese government. After a few months of that I was on team Chinese government. I wanted to yell at them: “No wonder…!”
I actually spent a couple of months in 2010 studying falun gong, the movement meditation. It appealed to me. I had no idea.... at the time...
What's up with that? Are they all culty?
I didn't go any further than paying attention to the exercises.
That's ok, I almost got into Amway once. Luckily I proved to be too skeptical to be inducted into a cult. That, and the speaker of honor at the major function was Doug Wead, who they proclaimed to be BFFs with The Shrub. I noped right out, but at least got a few days in Florida.
They haaate skeptics.
I am so tired of being harassed by people who want me to be COMPLIANT for "being skeptical".