Posadist Chris Pratt would be an interesting timeline
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Cults are great at recruitment. A number specifically target celebrities for clout.
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God now I'm imagining if he got into Falun Gong It's the only way my mom would end up being able to recognize an MCU actor
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I think we’d be less surprised if he’s gone Scientologist or Jehovah Witness. But it’s worth noting that non-Jews in general are Ignorant As Fuck about Judaism so they wouldn’t even clock the J4J is a Christian Cult. Especially in our prosperity gospel, charismatic preacher era.
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Replying to @BeccaTheWitz @arthur_affect
Tbh, I didn’t even know Falun Gong was a cult until my friend mentioned it when we were passing an ad for one of their performances. My ignorant ass thought it was a performance group.
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Replying to @BeccaTheWitz @arthur_affect
Me: oh that looks interesting Friend: it’s a cult Me: Ok, never mind!
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I've actually seen the show, it seems normal for most of it and then they hit you with the one dance number about how the Chinese Communist government is a totalitarian dictatorship bent on keeping the world from knowing the truth of Falun Gong
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BeccaTheWitz
And then on your way out they try to get you take a pamphlet, which is incomprehensible
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BeccaTheWitz
I used to think they were a harmless joke but they actually own a lot of local Chinese-language media in big cities, like the Epoch Times newspaper and the New Tang Dynasty TV network And they're trying really hard to get Chinese-Americans to vote for Trump
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BeccaTheWitz
Foreign Correspondent did a series on them recently that was unique in English language media. It’s the alliance of convenience between Falun Gong and Trumpism that freaks me out the most.https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-21/inside-falun-gong-master-li-hongzhi-the-mountain-dragon-springs/12442518?nw=0&pfmredir=sm …
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Yes I don't even care about the weird shit about energy healing and whatever I care that this is turning all my mom and dad's friends into Trumpbots
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I dunno: in my experience, there's a strong correlation between believing in energy healing and believing in dangerous bullshit.
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I've definitely seen a thread not too long ago (might have been from
@gwensnyderPHL) about the link between general New Age mysticism and fascism. The link between the various Neo-Pagan circles and the same is well-documented at this point, too, and obv. a lot of overlap there.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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