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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

      eigenrobot Retweeted China Xinhua News

      so the thing I was made to understand about this stuff is that the target audience is typically the boss or commissar of whoever makes it. "what is my political overseer mad about" seems like the contents of this cartoon are quite compatible with that modelhttps://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1392315897985912832 …

      eigenrobot added,

      China Xinhua NewsVerified account @XHNews
      "Mirror, mirror on the wall, does the U.S. 'rule-based order' dominate the world?" Well, if you have the same question, just take a look at this episode of Xinhua Cartoon and try to find out how many mirrors have been broken in the end pic.twitter.com/1Nr1qFTB8L
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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

      reminiscent of that wolf in sheep's clothing thing apparently Chinese students will often get a set of somewhat stale western fairy tales and fables and so maybe the idea is that these are deeply resonant for extremely online westerners in 2021pic.twitter.com/l2zbVwl8ll

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

      also the Aesop tweet has VERY STRONG Thomas Friedman energy to it

      4 replies 1 retweet 54 likes
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    4. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      [cw suicide] have actually seen an anti-Falun Gong book published in the early 2000s by the Chinese state. The content is absolutely wild. They had ~ 8 pages of COLOUR PLATES depicting the corpses of ppl who killed themselves under Falun Gong's evil teachings

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    5. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
      Replying to @edwardW2 @eigenrobot

      CW: gore they showed a man with his entrails spilling out of his body with the caption that this man disembowels himself to see if falun gong had beneficially altered his insides. Another showed a man who hanged himself, face all black and tongue lolling out, before...

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    6. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
      Replying to @edwardW2 @eigenrobot

      ... a picture of the founder, for by doing so he felt he was doing a supreme offering. The propaganda is so hideously caricatured it could not really hope to convince anyone, but when you look at it from this perspective as "consensus-building documents" it fits perfectly

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    7. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
      Replying to @edwardW2 @eigenrobot

      if you really want a wild ride, you can actually go further into falun gong. the story is WILD. basically there is this guy that reforms the traditional spagyrical exercise called qigong into something he claims is simpler and more efficient, but...

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    8. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
      Replying to @edwardW2 @eigenrobot

      ... proceeds to also create a grand unified theory of chinese occultism; there are also some kinds of weird cult-of-personality elements added in too. he gains a immense following in china. The government cracks down (cf. Taiping rebellion) and the movement...

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    9. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
      Replying to @edwardW2 @eigenrobot

      ... is now generally in the west. One of the newspapers they run- the Epoch Times- has become notorious for being extremely supportive of Trump, and some suspect that they were a CIA front all along. One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the fact...

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    10. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
      Replying to @edwardW2 @eigenrobot

      ... that the movement managed to survive for so long in the west, given how culturally specific qigong, and indeed, most of the falun gong materials are to China.

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11
      Replying to @edwardW2

      it feels kinda white lotus to me, is that ballpark or am I way off?

      9:42 PM - 11 May 2021
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        2. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          In a social sense of "underground religuous movement that has potential to topple the state", yes. As for beliefs-- not really. The Falun Gong's main claim to fame was that doing their exercises would make you healthy, extend your life, and possibly acquire supernatural power...

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        3. Edward W.‏ @edwardW2 May 11
          Replying to @edwardW2 @eigenrobot

          Not the same thing as "believing Materya would come next year and we must immanentize the eschaton" but from a state perspective just as dangerous.

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