120-foot golden Chairman Mao golem attacked by trolls, taken down

RocketNews24 ^ | January 9, 2016 | Steven Le Blanc and Masami M

[chajin]

With all the information technology around these days, it's getting harder and harder to build a gigantic gold statue in peace.

Many of you may remember the huge 37-meter (120-foot) gold colored statue of modern China's founder Mao Zedong. After all, it's pretty hard to forget the image of him politely sitting on some scaffolding, towering over the middle of nowhere.

Well, it's gone now.

On 9 January reports began to surface that the statue was being demolished by the Chinese authorities. The exact reason for the removal of golden Mao is unclear but there are many possibilities.

Firstly, the project was said to be bankrolled by local businesspeople to the tune of 3 million yuan ($457,000). It's possible that the likeness of China's Communist Party's biggest icon was not authorized… And surely there must have been zoning issues.

This would make sense seeing as it was also erected in an area historically famous as ground-zero for a massive famine that wiped out millions after some of Mao's policies were enacted. It's understandable that the government might want to put some distance between those things.

Then again it could have simply been taken down by either the owners or the government after it became a 120-foot golden chunk of troll-bait online, playfully dubbed "Mega Mao" by certain wags.

And so ended the short life of Golden Golem Mega Mao, but as Kurt Cobain quoting Neil Young quoting Jeff Blackburn quoting Millard Fillmore once said, "It's better to burn out than to fade away. My my, hey hey."

[Therapsid]

Some things bother me about chinese cannibalism....vs..african cannibalism...or Japanese cannibalism...or Islamic cannibalism...............#1 the Scale....with 40-80 million killed during Maos “cultural revolution”..and the government ordering cannibalism “as a method of proving loyalty”....that means a large portion off the chinese pop....has eaten people.....................#2...the fact that it is still an accepted practice ...50 yrs later.......................................#3...The fact that it is practiced without necessity “when noone is starving” .....................................#4 The fact that the same government is still in charge of that country....#5.. .The fact that due to the size of china.......1/3 of the worlds current population has been partially dehumanized through acceptance and or practice of this primal behavior

[digger48]

Can’t wait see the 140 foot statue of Obama on Chicagos south side made entirely of bovine excrement

[heartwood]

If only...

[Oklahoma]

Good one

[Our man in washington]

Instead, how about they put up a memorial wall with the names of all the people killed by Mao? You could make it just like our Vietnam Memorial wall, only 1,000 times as big.

[Husker24]

That’s exactly what I was thinking, where’s the toilet?

[dsrtsage]

“Bill Clinton’s administration almost got schools to accept ebonics as an official (and correct) dialect of English.”

Lesson One: Conjugation
To Be:
I be
You be
He be
We be
They be

[DJ Taylor]

Better yet, di di mao, du me.

[a fool in paradise]

Y’all be trippin’.

[a fool in paradise]

[RightGeek]

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[rawcatslyentist]

Too bad we can’t type in cursive.

[Rockpile]

Mao did not use toilets. He grew up crapping outdoors and still did it in the garden of the imperial palace.

This statue would be complete when they add in a figure of one of the pre-schoolers he enjoyed raping.

[Hot Tabasco]

Is there no one teaching actual proper English grammar these days?

I thought all the grammar cops were laid off?

[PIF]

Good - the largest mass murder in recent history gone again. None too soon.

[scrabblehack]

I would quarrel with the use of the word “golem” unless the thing actually moves, whether by supernatural force or robotics.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/golem?s=t

noun
1. Jewish Folklore. a figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
2. a stupid and clumsy person; blockhead.
3. an automaton.

[GBA]

It’s okay. Not as cool as that big cow made entirely out of butter I saw while sitting at a traffic light in Des Moines years ago, but it’s okay.

[Slings and Arrows]

*snicker*

[Captain Rhino]

I was hoping to read it had been taken down because it was such an amateurish representation of the “Great Leader” especially in a country of sculptors in the Socialist Realism style.

$300k for that?! They was robbed.