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    Image of Btwbfdimho Btwbfdimho
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    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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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    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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    Image of Meiyou Wenti Meiyou Wenti
    10/01/09

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

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    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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    Image of SaritBarlow SaritBarlow
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    Naive people always want to make naive comments on other countries' own affairs
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    Uncle_Billy_Slumming promoted this comment SaritBarlow was starred SaritBarlow was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming 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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    Image of Maya Twocents Maya Twocents
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    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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    Maxichamp promoted this comment Edited by Maya Twocents at 10/01/09 11:04 AM Maya Twocents was starred Maya Twocents was unstarred
    Image of katastic katastic
    10/01/09

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

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    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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    Image of Niko Bellic 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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    Edited by Niko Bellic at 10/01/09 11:14 AM Niko Bellic was starred Niko Bellic was unstarred
    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/01/09

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

    @Smitros:

    Yao-za!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming 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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    Image of Smitros 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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    Image of the lost texan the lost texan
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    That's a lotta women wearing skirts in the 6th pic.

    Nothing wrong about that.
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    Image of Niko Bellic 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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    Edited by Niko Bellic at 10/01/09 11:01 AM Niko Bellic was starred Niko Bellic was unstarred
    Image of the lost texan 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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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/01/09

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


    @Smitros:

    Chicks with gums too!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/01/09

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

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    I cant wait till that first picture shows up at tea bagging protests with Obama photoshopped in for Mao
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    10/01/09

    @jbwan: Already been done.
    [images.google.com]
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    Image of Claire Buoyant Claire Buoyant
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    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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    Edited by Claire Buoyant at 10/01/09 8:54 AM Claire Buoyant was starred Claire Buoyant was unstarred
    Image of CaptainFantastic 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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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/01/09

    @CaptainFantastic:

    Yes!
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    Image of once once
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    The Boston Pops/annual fireworks offer infinitely more variety
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    Image of jubjub jubjub
    10/01/09

    In reply to Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
    Well to be fair. Red, white, blue. Fireworks, flags, singing/howling. Can you say what U.S. celebration that is?
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    10/01/09

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

    In reply to Happy Second Anniversary of the Death of Fidel Castro
    "This Dictatorship Brought To You By Adidas."
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    Image of friend_of_a_friend friend_of_a_friend
    08/24/09

    In reply to Happy Second Anniversary of the Death of Fidel Castro
    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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    Image of Gregoire Gregoire
    08/24/09

    In reply to Happy Second Anniversary of the Death of Fidel Castro
    He's not dead, but that look is.
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    Image of Theimbellis Theimbellis
    08/24/09

    In reply to Happy Second Anniversary of the Death of Fidel Castro
    For your information... Fidel Castro haven't died but yes, he's dying due to a lot of physical problems.
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    Image of dontread 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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    Image of J. Frank Parnell J. Frank Parnell
    08/24/09

    @Theimbellis: There's more than one?

    Oh shit.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    08/24/09

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