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Btwbfdimho
10/01/09

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Is this really the celebration of the Maoist Revolution or just a response to S. Palin's speech in Hong Kong?
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

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After reading the comments and reflecting on the post:

We do need to ridicule military parades. We do need to call attention to the murderous undertones of Chinese displays of power. We do need to reflect on the fact that the Chinese are so smart that they managed to achieve economically what hundreds of nuclear weapons could never achieve. If this was an honest parade they would have their central bankers piloting the dragon boats.
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Meiyou Wenti
10/01/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: To quote Mao: "Power comes from the barrel of a gun."
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@Meiyou Wenti:

To quote no one: "Power comes from enslaving other nations while pointing a gun at them to distract them"
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Trai_Dep
10/01/09

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China's Tibetan float's diorama was, overall, quite impressive. But the anamatronic soldiers raping Tibetan nuns was just a bit over the top.
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SaritBarlow
10/01/09

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Naive people always want to make naive comments on other countries' own affairs
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@SaritBarlow:

Mazal Tov Sarit! That's the first comment that's ever caused multiple neurons to shrivel audibly. {pok} {pok-pok-pok-pok}
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Maya Twocents
10/01/09

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Wow. The whole tone of this post is just...nasty. Seriously. Big country, lots of people - so they want to celebrate big, so what? And you're just too cool for school aren't you - "Hey, dragons are dumb, dude, and wearing flowers on your head is geigh." I think you were going for some kind of parody of the "red-blooded American" jerk, here, but failed. The jerkiness was, alas, all too real.
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katastic
10/01/09

@Maya Twocents: HINT: IT IS SARCASM. GROW A SENSE OF HUMOR.
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Niko Bellic
10/01/09

@Maya Twocents: Wow. The whole tone of this comment is just...nasty. Seriously. Big blog, lots of readers - so they want to goof off, so what? And you're just too cool for school aren't you - "Hey, ridiculing communism is dumb, dude, and parody is geigh." I think you were going for some kind of a serious criticism, here, but failed. The unintentional comedy was, alas, all too real.
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Smitros
10/01/09

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They may look alike to our (generally) round eyes, but all classical music sounds alike to some people as well.

Lest I be accused of conflating culture and regime, I'll take this opportunity to state, however futilely: Free Tibet!
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Niko Bellic
10/01/09

@Smitros: Free Tibet!

Absolutely, but I always like to add: and the rest of the "China", too.
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Smitros
10/01/09

@Niko Bellic:
Yup. Up to and including the hot chicks with guns. Or especially them.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@Smitros:

My thought was: "You could bounce a 10 yuan coin off of those militarily toned buh-toooooohks."

Certainly more mature than "Those boots were made for wok-ing."
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Smitros
10/01/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming:
They see our Rockettes and raise us a brigade of armed militiawomen of approximately the same height.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@Smitros:

Yao-za!
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@Smitros:

btw... the Dolan person in the recent Rockette-related post might be interested in this bit of information.
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Smitros
10/01/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming:
I missed that, shoot. I think I've heard the Rockettes as an ensemble may be endangered.
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the lost texan
10/01/09

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That's a lotta women wearing skirts in the 6th pic.

Nothing wrong about that.
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Niko Bellic
10/01/09

@the lost texan: Personally, I am just a bit concerned about those automatic guns they are holding. As well as about the fact that as a straight man, I've even noticed that.
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the lost texan
10/01/09

@Niko Bellic: heh. I saw that. I guess I was just hoping they were only night sticks.

Hey, a guy can dream can't he?
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Smitros
10/01/09

@Niko Bellic:
No worries. Chicks with guns are hot.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@Smitros:

Chicks with gums too!
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Smitros
10/01/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming:
Is this like Israeli military fetish stuff?
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@Smitros:

Yeah, I guess it's kinda like sexually ambiguous japanese cartoon porn with a subtext of violence.
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jbwan
10/01/09

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I cant wait till that first picture shows up at tea bagging protests with Obama photoshopped in for Mao
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Claire Buoyant
10/01/09

@jbwan: Already been done.
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Claire Buoyant
10/01/09

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Well Andrew, you're skirting awfully close to asking "why do all the Chinese people look alike?" I'm not saying that you've made a racist remark with the headline, but you may want to be sensitive to how it sounds or may be interpreted. Besides, as others have already noted, from a distance our own celebrations don't offer that much variety either.
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CaptainFantastic
10/01/09

@Claire Buoyant: Also, 30 minutes after I viewed the above photo gallery, I needed to watch it again.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
10/01/09

@CaptainFantastic:

Yes!
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once
10/01/09

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The Boston Pops/annual fireworks offer infinitely more variety
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jubjub
10/01/09

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Well to be fair. Red, white, blue. Fireworks, flags, singing/howling. Can you say what U.S. celebration that is?
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CaptainFantastic
10/01/09

@jubjub: You forgot marching bands and cheerleaders.
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City_Dater
08/24/09

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"This Dictatorship Brought To You By Adidas."
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friend_of_a_friend
08/24/09

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Geez, reading this article would make you think that a great leader with radical ideas has never died and been resurrected before.
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Gregoire
08/24/09

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He's not dead, but that look is.
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Theimbellis
08/24/09

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For your information... Fidel Castro haven't died but yes, he's dying due to a lot of physical problems.
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dontread
08/24/09

@Theimbellis: That's kind of the point behind, "Perez Hilton is still "100%" a clown," is it not?
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J. Frank Parnell
08/24/09

@Theimbellis: There's more than one?

Oh shit.
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snugbug
08/24/09

@J. Frank Parnell: @dontread: You guys had me LOL-ing.
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